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Old Lyme First Selectman Signs Local Declaration of Emergency
OLD LYME -- Yesterday, Friday, Aug. 7, Old Lyme First Selectman Timothy Griswold signed a local Declaration of Emergency. As at 4 p.m. this afternoon (Saturday), Eversource reports that 7.54 percent of Old Lyme are still without power and the equivalent number for Lyme is 14.13 … [Read More...]
Old Lyme Emergency Services, Town of Lyme Give Latest Isaias Updates
LYME/OLD LYME -- UPDATED 3:01pm: Eversource reports that the outage level in Old Lyme is now down to 31.62 percent while in Lyme, it stands at 41.34 percent. Old Lyme Emergency Management Services issued the following update at 12 p.m. (noon) today. If you have an emergency, dial … [Read More...]
CT’s Primary is Tuesday; Have You Completed, Sent In Your Absentee Ballot? Do You Know Where, When to Vote in Person?
LYME/OLD LYME -- Connecticut's Primary takes place next Tuesday. Hopefully everyone who requested an Absentee Ballot has now received it For many Lyme and Old Lyme residents, this may be the first time voting by absentee ballot. Based on the information that Town Clerks received from the state, … [Read More...]
Winning Against Water Chestnut: Volunteers Clear Hadlyme’s Selden Cove, Creek Of New Plants
LYME -- (from a press release issued by Friends of Whalebone Cove) The two-year community effort by volunteers to save Hadlyme's Selden Cove and Selden Creek from being covered by a carpet of invasive water chestnut plants is achieving success. After three "Paddle & Pull" work parties … [Read More...]
A Comment on Comments
We welcome comments, but when you submit one, please be sure to supply an email address that we can verify. We have a number of comments sitting in the hopper that we can't publish because they have -- how shall we say this? -- 'creative' e-addresses. Examples of such e-addresses are ones like … [Read More...]
Deaths Announced of Stanley Suski (July 30), Wife, Nancy (March 9), Both of Lyme; Parents of Marcia Neville, Previously of Old Lyme
Stanley J. Suski Stanley J. Suski, 86, of Lyme and Niantic and a former Southington resident, passed away on Thursday, July 30, 2020. He was the husband of the late Nancy (Coates) Suski who passed just 143 days prior. Stanley was born on Feb. 26, 1934 in Middletown, CT the son of the late … [Read More...]
A la Carte: Friday Means Fish: How About Healthy, but also Delicious ‘Poached Cod in Tomato Curry’?
I still have not had an ear of sweet corn, but the farm stands do seem to be in high cotton*. (*I have actually never used that phrase, but I have been reading novels that take place in Virginia lately, and one person used “high cotton,” so I looked up the phrase and, originally, it meant that … [Read More...]
Op-Ed: An Open Letter to all the States on the Mandatory 14-Day Quarantine List
Hi! This is Connecticut. You know, the little northeastern state with great pizza, high quality of life, and New England charm? Doesn’t ring a bell? We’ve got small cities and a beautiful shoreline and grouchy people and … still no, huh? Okay, fine. We’re the one between Boston and New York with … [Read More...]
Letter to the Editor: Old Lyme Land Trust’s Assessment of Bucky Brook Beaver Situation Challenged
To the Editor: I recently read the statement provided to you by the Old Lyme Land Trust in February. I find it odd that no one from your organization met with Dave Berggren to confirm the lowering level of the pond after one dam was removed. What’s more egregious is that when I took the Bucky … [Read More...]
Trees Down, Power Out All Over Lyme, Old Lyme; Lyme Estimates at Least Three Days Before Power Restored
LYME/OLD LYME -- UPDATED 9pm: "[It] looks like a war zone, wrote one reader from Old Lyme on Facebook talking about the state of her yard this morning. Tropical Storm Isaias hit Lyme and Old Lyme hard yesterday felling trees, bringing down power lines and making roads impassable. As at 7:45 a.m. … [Read More...]
