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The Southington Citizen — Friday, July 26, 2013
Library expansion on back burner By Farrah Duffany Special to The Citizen
Southington Library Director Sue Smayda has been working with architects for the past year on remodeling and expansion plans. She’d hoped to get permission from the Town Council to apply for $1 million in state Public Library Construction Grants, but the council decided not to pursue the money this year because other projects took precedence. Although Smayda didn’t get the go-ahead, she still hopes to continue to work on plans with architects, in order to be ready to apply in the future. “We will continue to move
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“I’m hoping he will be a full 100 pounds next year,” Dion said. “He’s been this good for a long time. People just don’t know it because he gives up so much weight. For him to still place at LLs last year was a great accomplishment.” Murillo said he will weigh 100 pounds for the high school season. Murillo said
forward and hope that, maybe next year, we can,” Smayda said. “The money from the state is available next year. We won’t abandon our plans, but I’m disappointed it won’t go through this year.” At a Town Council meeting last week, Library Board Chairwoman Mary Ellen D’Angelo read a letter from Smayda asking the council to add the library’s request for a grant to the agenda for the next meeting. Council Chairman John Dobbins said Monday that it was “unlikely” that the library’s request would make it to next week’s agenda. He said many large infrastructure projects are underway
he will also be out to Fargo again next year wrestling at an older age group. “Next year I’ll move on from the cadet to the junior division. It’s going to be a lot tougher, but I will be ready for the challenge,” Murillo said. “It’s a jaw-dropping experience. There are 23 mats in a football stadium. Last year I was awestruck. It’s unbelievable competition out there. They are all studs. I loved it.”
Smayda said, and would eliminate only a few parking spaces. Because the bookshelves are too close together, the library is not compliant with the Americans With Disabilities Act, Smayda said, another reason it needs to be updated. “This is what the community has come to me saying we need,” Smayda said. “We’re acting on that and do need a bigger, better library. We are a great library with wonderful staff and receive terrific comments, but the potential could be much greater.” For the past five years, the grant from the state library has only been awarded to distressed municipalities, so Southington was unable to apply. This year the grant is available to all towns. The grant process is competitive, Tom Newman, the construction grants admin-
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Continued from page 20 “I think that we can all learn just because there is a glitch in your life, if you persevere, you can come out better in the end,” Blau said. “He’s such an inspiration.” The event is called “Honor
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in town, including $11 million in road improvements and $89.7 million in middle school renovations. The timing of those, and an upcoming project upgrading the sewer system, would make the library work a “difficult and challenging thing to do.” “It’s an unfortunate thing and all these projects are good and worthy, but again it’s priorities,” Dobbins said. Last year, the library was awarded $30,000 to hire architects to come up with potential designs. Smayda has been working closely with Tai Soo Kim Partners, of Hartford. The plans include expanding the children’s library and creating three meeting rooms for presentations, community use and private organizations. One room would hold about 100 people, the others 30 to 40. Expansions would extend into the library’s smaller parking lot,
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