Volume 13, Number 43
Friday, November 2, 2018
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Pooler to take over at YMCA By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff
Mark Pooler will lead the Southington-Cheshire YMCA following the retirement of executive director John Myers at the end of December.
Decorations stretched up and down West Main Street at the annual Halloween in the Village on Thursday, Oct. 25. Photo by Jim McGovern, special to the Record-Journal
Families flock to Halloween in the Village Valenti Karate outside their tent on West Main Street.
By Ryan Chichester Record-Journal staff
Local residents threw on costumes and flocked to West Main Street to celebrate the annual Halloween in the Village event on Thursday, Oct. 25.
Pooler, 44, has worked at the YMCA for more than 20 years. He Pooler currently serves as operations director. “I’m feeling so honored and overwhelmed at the amount of community support myself and my family have received,” Pooler said Tuesday. Myers will retire in two months. He was “thrilled” at Pooler’s promotion. “The selection committee
See Halloween, A6
See YMCA, A9
Open space acquisition, roof project on ballot By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff
If approved, a referendum on $2 million for open space would authorize the bondLocal voters will decide ing of up to that amount for whether to authorize spend- the purchase of open space. ing $2 million for open space Town Council Chairman acquisition and $2.6 million Chris Palmieri, a Democrat, for a high school roof resaid there’s no specific propplacement on Election Day. erty in mind for purchase
but that having authorization to bond the money does allow the town to move faster when property becomes available. Whether to include the purchase of development rights in the referendum language
was a subject of council debate and ultimately development rights were not included.
way of leveraging town money than an outright purchase.
Under his leadership, the Michael Riccio, a Republican council bought development rights for the Hawk’s Landand former council chairman, has argued buying development rights is a better
See Ballot, A8