By Andreas Yilma, Staff Writer
BEACON FALLS A group of senior citizens is looking to get back into the swing of things and use the Beacon Falls Senior Center again.
“We would like to get together at least a few days a week, if it’s possible, in the afternoon,” senior center President Bernadette Dionne told the Board of Selectmen during its April 12 meeting.
Dionne and seven other seniors inquired if the center could be reopened or hold its regular monthly meetings.
The senior center has been closed since the COVID-19 pandemic first hit the state last March.
The town is slowly starting to reopen. Town Hall is open to the public by appointment and Beacon Falls Public Library is open on a limited basis.
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BEACON FALLS The Planning and Zoning Commission is holding a hearing Thursday on a proposed zoning text amendment to establish a floating Residential Industrial Transitional Zone.
The hearing starts at 7 p.m., in-person, at the Beacon Falls Senior Center, 57 North Main St.
The proposed RIT zone is an overlay, or transitional, zone designed to provide a process that permits an acceptable range of land uses and controls for the reuse of properties in residential neighborhoods that border industrial sites, according to the language for the proposed amendment. Permitted uses are limited to low-intensity office and service uses characterized by low traffic generation with little to no customer contact on the premises.
By Andreas Yilma, Staff Writer
Basketball courts at the Pent Road Recreation Center in Beacon Falls are shown March 23. The town is planning a project to replace the basketball courts, tennis courts and playscape at the recreation complex. –ANDREAS YILMA
BEACON FALLS Town officials are getting the ball rolling with a project to replace the basketball and tennis courts at the Pent Road Recreation Center.
The Board of Selectman and the Board of Finance on March 23 approved appropriating a total of $222,039 for the project. Officials want to appropriate $142,039 from Local Capital Improvement Program funds and transfer $60,190 from the town’s undesignated fund balance to pay for the work.
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Griffin Hospital nurse Cary Carpino administers a COVID-19 vaccine to Andrew Bertola of Beacon Falls on Feb. 11 during a vaccination clinic run by Beacon Falls and Griffin Hospital at the Beacon Falls Senior Center. Clinic workers administered 25 vaccine doses during the clinic and residents will return March 11 to receive their second dose. –ANDREAS YILMA
HARTFORD In a change of vaccination strategy, Gov. Ned Lamont has decided to follow an age-based approach for administering COVID-19 vaccines to the remainder of the state’s population willing to get the shot.
The state vaccination program will open up to people ages 55 to 64 on March 1 under a tentative schedule that was released Monday. The schedule progresses to ages 45 to 54 on March 22, ages 35 to 44 on April 12 and ages 16 to 64 on May 3.
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BEACON FALLS The town is partnering with Griffin Hospital to host a COVID-19 vaccination clinic for Beacon Falls residents ages 75 and up.
The clinic is scheduled for Feb. 11 from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Beacon Falls Senior Center 2 North Main St.
The clinic is limited to the first 30 people who register. People must register for an appointment by 12 p.m. on Feb. 10. To register, call Kerry McAndrew in the First Selectman’s Office at 203-577-8100.
As of Tuesday morning, there were 11 people registered, according to First Selectman Gerard Smith.
Residents should bring a photo identification to the clinic.
Griffin Hospital staff will return on March 11 from 9 to 11 a.m. to administer the second dose of the vaccine to residents who receive a vaccine through the clinic. The second appointment will be made for the same time as the first one. If a resident cannot make the second appointment, they can register for another clinic to obtain their second dose.