Another benefit flowing from the Trail of Terror in Wallingford is the gift of $9,000 to the fire department for a thermal imaging camera. This should help fire fighters find threatened people in smoky buildings.
Meriden’s school board has voted to seek a 2.93 percent increase in funding for the next budget year, which we suspect it will be unlikely to receive, despite last year’s no-increase budget. And even if the school system does get 2.93 percent more, 9 special ed staff, 9 unidentified employees, 8 reading facilitators, 7 classified staff, 2 math facilitators, one pre-k teacher and a science teacher on special assignment, would still lose jobs – the partridge in the pear tree would be offered a position in public works.
The decision to keep Pulaski kids in school during a power outage seems to have worked out very well, and made a lot of sense considering that most of the kids are from the surrounding part of Meriden also, naturally, hit by the outage. Given a choice of empty and powerless homes and remaining in school wearing jackets, the latter option made a lot of sense.
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