Old Lyme ― As members of law enforcement sound the alarm on a popular high school tradition, students and parents at Lyme-Old Lyme High School are hopeful the game known as Assassins will go on as pla.
Old Lyme The Rev. Steven R. Jungkeit, senior minister at the First Congregational Church of Old Lyme, has helped turn the historic house of worship into a home for social justice.
The church itself provided physical sanctuary to a Pakistani couple facing deportation for 212 days in 2018. The year before, the congregation purchased a home in Old Lyme to welcome refugees in perpetuity, Jungkeit said. Guests have included refugees from Syria and Congo, as well as climate refugees from Puerto Rico in the months following Hurricane Maria. Members of the church community have also helped many more refugees find housing, jobs and, ultimately, the official go-ahead to remain in the United States.
Old Lyme Selectwoman Mary Jo Nosal has once again failed to gain support from the rest of the Board of Selectmen for her proposed resolution that would identify racism as a public health crisis here.
Nosal, a Democrat, told the board s two Republican selectmen Monday that she was hoping the town could take the lead in bringing the national issue to the shoreline. That s why she said she presented a draft resolution to the selectmen last August and has continued to bring up the issue since. I m just surprised we haven t at least had a discussion or formed a committee to look at the merits of this, she told First Selectman Timothy Griswold and Selectman Christopher Kerr on Monday.