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The Salisbury Affordable Housing Commission will be hosting a special meeting by zoom to review the Salisbury Housing Committee's proposed new application for the Holley Place Affordable Housing project.
SALISBURY — The idea of a psychic highway drawing all sorts of radical thinkers to a nearby region was enough to draw an audience of nearly 90 members arranged in Zoom squares to hear the latest Scoville Library remote lecture.
SALISBURY — Structural racial inequality has impacted attitudes for centuries. In this century there is movement to bend the arc toward progress.
SALISBURY — Newspaper columnist Jim Cameron made some gloomy observations about the post-pandemic future of mass transit at an online talk sponsored by the Scoville Memorial Library on Thursday, Jan. 14.
SALISBURY — At the regular monthly meeting of the Board of Selectmen on Monday, Jan. 4 (on Zoom), First Selectman Curtis Rand and town Comptroller Joe Cleaveland said that Town Hall workers have been “overwhelmed” by the paperwork generated by the unusually high number of house and property sales in 2020.
SALISBURY — Salisbury First Selectman Curtis Rand told the Board of Selectmen that there will be a meeting of town, state and power company officials in February to discuss the overcrowding on the Housatonic River last summer and what steps to take for the summer of 2021.
State legislators were sworn in during a chilly but relatively peaceful ceremony on Wednesday, Jan. 6. The roughly 500 protesters who came out were mostly concerned about responses to COVID-19. Photo by Brian M. O’Connor
LAKEVILLE — U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes (D-5) issued statements condemning the Wednesday, Jan. 6, riot and breach of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C.
SALISBURY — The Inland Wetlands Conservation Commission withdrew its cease and correct order on a property owner who had cleared debris from part of his property with out permits.
The commission voted unanimously at its online meeting on Monday, Jan. 4, following a brief “show cause” hearing.
SALISBURY — State historian Walt Woodward talked about his new book, “Creating Connecticut,” on Saturday, Nov. 14. The talk was sponsored by the Scoville Memorial Library.
SALISBURY — A Zoom talk sponsored by the Salisbury library and the historical society managed to cover 300 years of the history of a Black family from Salisbury.
The Scoville Memorial Library hosted the event, which attracted 100 viewers —including robust attendance of Cesar family descendants from throughout the nation.
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