The Southington
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Volume 7, Number 38
Southington’s Only Hometown Newspaper
Stint in AmeriCorps brings new life skills while serving others By Jessica Plaskett, Special to The Citizen
Angela Martano has worked construction, mentored disadvantaged youth and gutted flooded homes since graduating college. In her 23 years, the Southington native’s service with the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps has allowed her to experience more than the average young person. Martano is one of the 26
As a journalist, when I am out of the office it is usually to an assignment such as a municipal meeting, interview or special event. Last Friday I found myself in a tight spot I had never ex-
Twin Angels Folk Fest
team leaders who led 230 AmeriCorps NCCC during 10 months of full-time service within communities in need. She recently graduated from the program after serving throughout the country for the past two years. Also a recent graduate of Assumption College in Worcester, Mass., Martano became interested in joining NCCC as a way to travel,
See AmeriCorps, page 8
Retired serviceman brings World War II experience alive By Robin Lee Michel The Southington Citizen
Friday, September 17, 2010
perienced: I was wedged in the gunner’s cockpit of a B24 Liberator, looking down 2,000 feet on the communities near the Waterbury-Oxford Airport. Although this aircraft was not being fired upon by enemy troops, for See Retired, page 17
Citizen photo by Robin Lee Michel
Tom Chute, of Southington, takes a last look out a window of the B-24 before disembarking. Chute, who is the general manager and program director of WATR, has interviewed Hushak on the radio.
Photos by Ashley Wilson
In what has become an annual tradition, the Twin Angels Folk Fest returned to Camp Sloper Sept. 11 to raise awareness of the Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome. Left, James Samuel gives Zeb Lundgren a cozy seat for a good view. Right, Toddler Nicole Casbarro just wants to play with her soccer ball.
Southington council sets hearing on sewer line Leslie Hutchison Special to The Citizen Construction of a sewer line that would serve a proposed sports complex on Spring Street got one step closer Monday when the Town Council scheduled a public hearing to discuss funding the project through a bond ordinance of $225,000. The council voted to hold the hearing at its next meeting Sept. 27. The town would build a sewer line that would run about 455 feet along Spring Street and under the bridge that crosses the Quinnipiac River. Developer Carl Verderame III, who plans to build an $18 million complex off Smoron Drive, would install an additional 2,800 feet of line to the site of the proposed complex.
Department of Public Works Director Anthony Tranquillo said after the meeting that the line would only be installed if the sports complex is built. Otherwise, he said, the sewer project would be shelved. The Board of Finance unanimously approved the bonding request at its meeting last week. At that meeting, Town Manager John Weichsel said the town has been waiting more than 40 years to bring a sewer line past the river on Spring Street. “We have been promised a very sophisticated sports center would be created,” he said. Having the sewer pipe in place, Weichsel said, would allow development of hundreds of acres of industrial land in that area. The complex would be
built on the Smoron farm property, which has been the focus of recent Probate Court hearings. The council also approved a bid for the expansion of the library parking lot, but construction won’t begin until April. The delay is caused by a budget shortfall of $75,000. Public Works Committee Chairman and Town Coun-
See Council, page 12
Sports Schedule pages 28-30