Friday, October 14, 2011

The Editor's Notepod, Sat., Oct. 15, 2011

A face-off between MidState of Meriden (backed by Hartford Health Care) and Yale-New Haven cannot be a good thing for Connecticut or Meriden or anywhere else, can it? Since all the hospitals and their umbrella companies are non-profits, is it absolutely necessary for them to compete?

Meriden’s art teachers, present and past, are displaying works at the Augusta Curtis Cultural Center. Some are for sale, some not, but all are to be seen and enjoyed.

Decision at Bacon Academy, Colchester, Connecticut’s public high school, to go with something called baseline testing, “the new front line in the war of athletes versus concussions.” This is no substitute for medical professional care, but it is a tool to be used in keeping an informed eye on athletes at risk for head injuries.

After we all thought last July that Wallingford’s former American Legion building was settled and sold to a firm which wanted to convert the place to condos and offices, it seems that the offer has been withdrawn. We’re sorry this has happened, particularly because it means that this topic will once again be the subject of discussion and probably controversy for town government.

Arc of Southington wants to donate a tenth of an acre of land at 303 Summer Street to the town as part of Open Space and Land Acquisition program. Adjacent to the Rails to Trails line and near Goat Island, it sounds ideal and we hope the plan is approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission.

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