Winter Storm Postpones Old Lyme Town Business Meeting

The announcement of Old Lyme’s Citizen of the Year will be made at the rescheduled town meeting on Thursday.

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January 24, 2026
A new Public Works truck sits in the town garage.
After a yearlong wait, the town’s new $242,000 Freightliner truck arrived in time for the storm. Public Works Director Ed Adanti said it replaces a 1996 International.

OLD LYME, CT – The Annual Town Business Meeting – including the announcement of Old Lyme’s Citizen of the Year – has been postponed to Thursday at 7:30 p.m. due to the impending storm.

In addition to celebrating the town’s 2026 honoree, voters at the rescheduled town meeting will be asked to accept the Annual Town Report as presented by the Board of Finance.

Town Hall will be closed Monday. First Selectwoman Martha Shoemaker said the closure allows town public works crews to concentrate on snow removal for the 61 miles of road in Old Lyme.

A storm warning from the National Weather Service extends from 3 a.m. Sunday to 6 p.m. Monday, with total snow accumulations predicted between 12 and 16 inches.

The Lymes’ Senior Center will also be closed. Shoemaker said CWPM will collect Monday’s trash route on Tuesday.

A townwide parking ban will be in effect from Sunday at 7 a.m. until Tuesday at 7 p.m.

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Elizabeth Regan

Elizabeth started her journalism career in 2013 with the launch of The Salem Connect, a community news site inspired by digital trailblazers like Olwen Logan. Elizabeth’s earliest reporting included two major fires — one at a package store and another at a log cabin where she captured, on video, a state trooper fatally shooting the unarmed homeowner and suspected arsonist. The experiences gave her a crash course in public record searches, courthouse procedures and the Freedom of Information Act. She went on to report for The Bulletin, CT News Junkie, The Rivereast, and The Day, where she covered the Lymes and helped launch the Housing Solutions Lab on affordable housing. Her work has earned numerous awards from the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists and the New England Newspaper & Press Association. Now, after more than a decade in digital, weekly, and daily journalism, she’s grateful to return to the place where it all started: an online news site dedicated to one small corner of Connecticut.

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