Tuesday, August 3, 2010

The Editor's Notepod, Tues. Aug. 3, 2010

Southington: renovating the two middle schools, or doing something else with them to provide more space in the over-crowded schools, has long been needed. Renovation is a perfectly good choice, so long as everyone, school board, council, citizens, is on board with the plan, and so long as it doesn’t make middle school into a pure construction experience for hundreds and hundreds of kids.

Bears are nothing new in Southington or anywhere else: almost every town in Connecticut reports sightings annually. The thing is how to manage these inevitable contacts so that no one – not people, not bears, not pets – is hurt.

The Chamberlain Heights project in Meriden is now set to go forward, with a technical change to conditions approved by the City Council. This project should make a difference in many lives.

A study by the University of Connecticut Health Center, the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, the Department of Public Health and the Department of Environmental Protection which finds no chemical danger in artificial turf compounded of crushed rubber. This is a finding long-awaited, as several towns, including Cheshire, have been holding up projects pending its release.

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