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Wallingford gets first glance at what could be part of its new police headquarters Wallingford gets first glance at what could be part of its new police headquarters Wallingford Public Works Department Director Robert Baltramaitis and Beth Dighello, the police chief’s secretary, listen to Police Chief William Wright during the first meeting of the Police Station Steering Committee on May 13. | Nick Sambides Jr., Record-Journal Advertisement The Wallingford Police Station Steering...

The evening of January 2, 1993, was a chaotic shitshow at the Silver Dollar. Two inches of toilet water from a stopped-up men’s room toilet had flooded out onto the middle of the dance floor. In the mosh pit, countless pairs of Chucks were getting drenched. Mohawks were mussed. Performing onstage to the crowd of about 400 was Green Day, less than one year from the release of Dookie, the breakthrough album that would catapult the Bay Area punk act to superstardom. Many of the songs in the ban...