NEWINGTON
Town Crier Friday, June 22, 2012
INSIDE:
Cruising Newington car show a success, Page 4
City veteran named Connecticut Marine of the Year, Page 8 Baseball runs in the family for Meuccis, Page 17
Revision in sight
Salvatore V. Sena Sr.
Health care workers unhappy with proposed contract, Page 4
Bipartisan commission completes charter rewrite; document now heads to council By ERICA SCHMITT STAFF WRITER
hearing — Town Councilors Clarke Castelle and Myra Cohen, along with the town’s newly-hired Economic Development Director Andrew Brecher — all whom expressed their confidence in the revisions made. “I thank you; you’ve done a fabulous job,” Cohen told the
After months of examining the Town Charter — the document dictating how Newington is run — the commission charged with updating and making revisions to it completed its work Monday evening, following a scarcely See COMMISSION, Page 2 -attended public hearing. “If the public didn’t come out, Volume 53, No. 21 Free I’ll take it as a sign that they thought we were doing a good job and didn’t need to come out,” said Alan Nafis, chairman of the Charter Revision Commission, who thanked the three individuals who did speak in the
Signs of summer
Kids hula hooped, danced, ran under sprinklers and more at the Lucy Robbins Welles Library s summer reading program kickoff event. Attendees were able to play in a moon bounce, sign up for the library s program, draw, get their faces painted and even get temporary tattoos. See more photos on Page 11.
Locals star in mafia mockumentary By ERICA SCHMITT STAFF WRITER
Italian-American culture is not all “Jersey Shore,” pasta and pizza at every meal and gangster life, according to local resident Nancy DiDomenico, who stars in a mockumentary mafia film
that debuted last Friday titled, “The Joe Baccala Story.” DiDomenico, who has lived on the Newington/New Britain line for the last 30 years, was asked by her longtime friend Rocco Mesiti to join a cast of other performers from New Britain, Hartford, Southington
and Springfield, Mass., in making the film, which addresses Hollywood’s stereotypical portrayal of Italian Americans. “The Joe Baccala Story” debuted Friday in Springfield, selling out a local theater and even enjoyed by the city’s Mayor See LOCAL, Page 3