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UpdatedTue, Mar 16, 2021 at 8:42 pm ET Replies(7) The Somers Zoning Board of Appeals voted 4-1 Tuesday in favor of an appeal brought by neighbors of the Four Town Fairgrounds. (Tim Jensen/Patch) SOMERS, CT — A marathon hearing by the Somers Zoning Board of Appeals, encompassing eight hours of discussion over three sessions, finally ended Tuesday night with the board voting 4-1 to sustain an appeal brought by neighbors of the Four Town Fairgrounds, overturning a decision by the town's zoning enforcement officer regarding "off-season" rentals of the property. Last summer, Zoning Enforcement O...

Reply A public hearing on an appeal from neighbors of the fairgrounds was continued to next week by the Somers Zoning Board of Appeals Tuesday. (Tim Jensen/Patch) SOMERS, CT — A highly-anticipated public hearing concerning an appeal by neighbors of the Four Town Fairgrounds concerning off-season usage of the property was continued to next week by the Somers Zoning Board of Appeals, due to a case of laryngitis on the part of the attorney representing the petitioners. Attorney John Parks, representing more than a dozen residents of Sunshine Farms Drive, Little Sorrel Lane and Country Fair Dri...

Replies(5) Some residents of streets abutting the Four Town Fairgrounds are seeking to end off-season rentals of the property, according to documents. (Tim Jensen/Patch) SOMERS, CT — A procedural matter involving affirmation of a longstanding usage agreement for the Four Town Fairgrounds has escalated into a battle between members of the society in charge of the property and residents who own homes neighboring or abutting the grounds. The dispute began last summer, when Zoning Enforcement Officer Jennifer Roy received a request for a special use permit to enable the Union Agricultural Socie...

SUFFIELD — The Board of Education has announced the appointment of two principals — Gina Olearczyk at A. Ward Spaulding School and Kris Pryce at McAlister Intermediate School — deciding that the women showed exemplary leadership while serving in those roles on an interim basis. Both Olearczyk and Pryce have served as interim principals at their respective schools since July, and school board Chairwoman Susan Mercik-Davis said that the interim period served as proof that both women deserved to be the principal at their respective schools permanently. “They met our expectati...