Volume 24, Number 3
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Friday, June 15, 2018
Company offers to buy land, building from town By Lauren Takores Town Times
The Board of Selectmen reviewed an offer Monday from Durham Manufacturing to purchase the current location of town ambulance services.
David Jacobs, 4, of New Jersey picks strawberries and places them in his truck at Lyman Orchards in Middlefield. Andrew Baxter, Special to the Record-Journal
Strawberry picking at Lyman Orchards By Ashley Kus Record-Journal staff
Strawberry season is in full swing at Lyman Orchards in Middlefield with over six acres of ready-topick fields. “The berries are really good flavor this year,” said John Lyman, executive vice president of Lyman Orchards. “They’re a little small, but the trade off is excellent flavor.”
A cooler spring deterred the growing season by about a week. Usually, the season begins in early June. This year, the pick-your-own strawberry season began Friday, June 8. Guests can pick strawberries straight from the ground in the fields down the street from The Apple Barrel orchard store.
“We have people filling up the full flat or you have people just buying quarts, it really depends what they’re going to do,” said Tim Burt, director of marketing and retail operations at Lyman Orchards. For Wallingford resident Jenna Bourgeois and her family, strawberry shortcake was the end goal See Strawberries, A2
Durham Manufacturing’s campus, 201 Main St., surrounds 205 Main St., where the Durham Volunteer Ambulance Corps operates. The company, which produces and distributes industrial storage and work products, has been operating in Durham since 1922. First Selectman Laura Francis said Monday she received a letter from John Gowac, Durham Manufacturing CFO, on May 27. The proposal states that since the town is considering a consolidation of emergency medical services to further south on Main Street, the company wants to purchase the land and 1,600-squarefoot building to house maintenance vehicles and equipment. The company would acquire the building’s five parking spaces. See Land, A10
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