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East Lyme
Tuesday – Harbor Management/Shellfish Commission, 7:30 p.m., see website for location.
Wednesday – Board of Selectmen, 7 p.m., Town Hall upper meeting room.
Thursday – Town Building Committee, 6 p.m., remote access; Zoning Commission, 7:30 p.m., remote access.
Groton City
Virtual meeting information will be provided on the city calendar at cityofgroton.com in the meeting agenda. Mayor & City Council and Committee of the Whole meetings will broadcast live on GMTV.
Monday Board of Ethics, 5:30 p.m., Municipal Building, Council Chambers; Mayor & Council meeting, 7:30 p.m., hybrid: Municipal Building, Council Chambers or via Zoom.
Tuesday Planning & Zoning Commission, 6:30 p.m., hybrid: Municipal Building, Council Chambers or via Zoom.
BOZRAH On Sunday night, many people from Eastern Connecticut gathered on the grounds of the Bozrah Farmers Market to remember a man important to all of them; former Norwich Community Development Corp. (NCDC) President Jason Vincent.
A Celebration of Life for Jason Vincent, complete with speeches, poems, candles and a benediction, was held in his honor.
Vincent, who died in December at age 46, was remembered as a genius for his natural talent at planning and thinking ahead for solutions, from his work as a municipal employee for Norwich and Stonington, and as contractor, to proposing a rail project when he was only a teenager to his hometown of Plainfield. He was also remembered as a kind conversationalist who cared about people s problems.
Norwich The financial outlook for the Norwich Community Development Corp. has improved greatly this spring after the agency’s two main funding sources plan to boost allocations for the first time in over a decade to support its economic development activities.
NCDC in January had asked the City of Norwich and Norwich Public Utilities to each increase their annual $150,000 contribution by $125,000 to help meet the increased expenses and growing staffing needs of the agency.
Neither entity will meet that request, but late Tuesday, the Norwich Board of Public Utilities Commissioners voted unanimously to increase its allocation to NCDC by $75,000, to $225,000, starting with the 2021-22 fiscal year in July. Norwich City Manager John Salomone included an additional $50,000 for NCDC, bringing the city’s total contribution to $200,000.