At this week's Board of Education meeting, the board approved the following motion:
“The Board of Education will accept a transfer of a section of the Donovan Park property from the City of Middletown should said transfer be approved by the Common Council.”
This is good news for Macdonough School and for the neighborhood. This transfer will not change the way that people use the park, it will merely give the school the ability to be strict when the playground is being abused. See our earlier blog, Problems In Donovan Park, for more details.
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Thursday, August 28, 2008
New Website and Blog
NEAT is trying to expand out outreach abilities and get information out to as many people in as many ways possible. To that end, we now have a new, updated website, created by North End resident and web designer, Carole Phelan. While almost everything that we do is a work-in progress, this new website is much more user-friendly and hopefully allows visitors to quickly access information about NEAT's programs and initiatives. NEAT's website is www.neatmiddletown.org.
But, a website doesn't easily lend itself to conversation and narration, so we've created a NEAT blog, the North End News to give people access to the day-to-day goings on of our organization and the North End in general. We are looking for submissions. If you would like to post something about your section of the North End, an update, an event, a history, or even a profile of a North End resident, please email it to me at izzi.greenberg@neatmiddletown.org and write BLOG in the subject line. The more information we can collect, the more interesting it will be. The goal is to have a place to learn about this neighborhood and all of its variety. The blog address is : http://nothendnews.blogspot.com/. You're already here!
But, a website doesn't easily lend itself to conversation and narration, so we've created a NEAT blog, the North End News to give people access to the day-to-day goings on of our organization and the North End in general. We are looking for submissions. If you would like to post something about your section of the North End, an update, an event, a history, or even a profile of a North End resident, please email it to me at izzi.greenberg@neatmiddletown.org and write BLOG in the subject line. The more information we can collect, the more interesting it will be. The goal is to have a place to learn about this neighborhood and all of its variety. The blog address is : http://nothendnews.blogspot.com/. You're already here!
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Green Street Arts Center and North End Action Team Announce Free Art of Living Classes
Building Computer Basics, First Time Homeowner and Credit Counseling to be Offered
The North End Action Team and the Green Street Arts Center are collaborating on a series of free life-skills classes intended to help attendees discover new opportunities and improve the quality of life. For more information, or to register in advance, call the NEAT office at (860) 346-4845. All classes will take place at the Green Street Arts Center, located at 51 Green Street in downtown Middletown.
Green Street will provide free arts activities for youth during Art of Living Classes. Please be sure to mention whether your child or children will be attending when you register.
The schedule is as follows:
First-Time Homeowner and Credit Counseling
Thursdays, September 4, 11, 18 & 25; 6–8pm
Rosa Carrero from Liberty Bank present four info sessions designed to help people take the first steps toward buying a home. Topics include credit counseling (Session 1), finding the right home (Session 2), the lending process (Session 3) and understanding legalities (Session 4). Participants in all four will receive a certificate of completion that meets one eligibility requirement for The City of Middletown grant and down payment assistance, CHFA and CHFA down payment assistance programs.
Building Computer Basics
Thursdays, October 2, 9, 16, & 23; 6–8pm
The North End Action Team and Green Street teaching artist Shawn Hill present a short, free introduction to computer basics. Learn how to create writing samples in Microsoft Word and explore the possibilities of budgets and lists in Microsoft Excel. By the time you have completed all four sessions, you will have the building blocks needed for adding a new skill to your job application, or for organizing your household bills. Absolute beginners, and people with all levels of computer experience are welcome.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Garden Party A Success!
Erin Street was alive on Thursday night with the sounds of soulful jazz, children playing and good conversation. NEAT hosted its eighth annual garden party in the Erin Street Community Garden in the North End.
Hundreds of people gathered to enjoy the sunshine (thank goodness!) and eat delicious food donated by many generous Middletown restaurants. There was jazz music by The Three Hats, which included North End resident, Bill Carbone on drums. You can hear/see their performance if you watch the video of the party.
Click Here to watch the video of the party (created by North End Resident Dan Nocera)
Click Here to see pictures of the party
NEAT presented its first ever scholarships to three outstanding young NEAT members to help them as they take their next steps toward college and career. Dylan Hansen and Tierra Gaskins have been NEAT kids for the last nine years, involved in everything from the daVinci Club, building the Dream House, making two Documentaries and building a boat, the Amazing Rowing Machine, to singing with the NEAT Notes. Tierra is not only the first person in her family to graduate from high school, but she is beginning college in the fall. Dylan graduated this year and is working as a chef at It's Only Natural Restaurant, fulfilling a dream of his to cook in a restaurant.
Rohanna Powell has worked for NEAT for the last three years, helping out in the office and assisting our kids programs. She is a hard working, kind young woman, admired by all who get to know her. She is beginning at Hampton College in the fall. She will be missed very much!
NEAT wishes all three luck and success and we will keep in touch and keep tabs on them, as we have been doing for many years!
Thank You to everyone who donated to this party, and especially to the following restaurants who donated amazing food:
Empire Pizza,Fiore II Restaurant,Firehouse Steakhouse, Forest City, Fusion , Iguanas Ranas Taqueria, Inn at Middletown, It's Only Natural , Javapalooza , Mega Wraps , Metro Spirits, O'Rourke's Diner, Pattie Palace , Pho Mai, Public, Public Markets, Puerto Vallarta, Sweet Smelling Savour Chocolates , Tandoor-The Clay Oven, Tuscany Grill, Typhoon Asian Garden
Hundreds of people gathered to enjoy the sunshine (thank goodness!) and eat delicious food donated by many generous Middletown restaurants. There was jazz music by The Three Hats, which included North End resident, Bill Carbone on drums. You can hear/see their performance if you watch the video of the party.
Click Here to watch the video of the party (created by North End Resident Dan Nocera)
Click Here to see pictures of the party
NEAT presented its first ever scholarships to three outstanding young NEAT members to help them as they take their next steps toward college and career. Dylan Hansen and Tierra Gaskins have been NEAT kids for the last nine years, involved in everything from the daVinci Club, building the Dream House, making two Documentaries and building a boat, the Amazing Rowing Machine, to singing with the NEAT Notes. Tierra is not only the first person in her family to graduate from high school, but she is beginning college in the fall. Dylan graduated this year and is working as a chef at It's Only Natural Restaurant, fulfilling a dream of his to cook in a restaurant.
Rohanna Powell has worked for NEAT for the last three years, helping out in the office and assisting our kids programs. She is a hard working, kind young woman, admired by all who get to know her. She is beginning at Hampton College in the fall. She will be missed very much!
NEAT wishes all three luck and success and we will keep in touch and keep tabs on them, as we have been doing for many years!
Thank You to everyone who donated to this party, and especially to the following restaurants who donated amazing food:
Empire Pizza,Fiore II Restaurant,Firehouse Steakhouse, Forest City, Fusion , Iguanas Ranas Taqueria, Inn at Middletown, It's Only Natural , Javapalooza , Mega Wraps , Metro Spirits, O'Rourke's Diner, Pattie Palace , Pho Mai, Public, Public Markets, Puerto Vallarta, Sweet Smelling Savour Chocolates , Tandoor-The Clay Oven, Tuscany Grill, Typhoon Asian Garden
Monday, August 18, 2008
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
NEAT celebrates year with garden party
08/11/2008
By: JENNIFER SPRAGUE , Press staff
MIDDLETOWN - It's a fundraiser, yes - but more importantly, NEAT's eighth annual Garden Party is about celebrating the accomplishments of a neighborhood organization, said Izzi Greenberg.
"The importance of this event is to showcase what NEAT has done the past year," said the North End Action Team executive
director.
About 20 Middletown restaurants have donated food, desserts and drinks for Thursday's affair, which begins at 5:30 p.m. in the Erin Street Community Garden at the corner of High Street in Middletown's North End. With vegetables and herbs harvested from the garden, the planning committee will prepare additional menu items.
"We have a lot of tomatoes and basil, so we will probably be serving dishes with those ingredients," Greenberg said.
Bar tables will be set throughout the garden, and Erin Street will be closed while about 300 guests mingle and enjoy live jazz and hors d'oeuvres passed out by neighborhood kids.
The trio The Three Hats - organist Sammy Myers, guitarist Lance James and drummer Bill Carbone - will perform a mix of original jazz tunes as well as "some funkier jazz," said Carbone, a Pearl Street resident.
"We're part of the North End, so it's more than just a gig," Carbone said. "I live in the North End, and I enjoy the good things about it and suffer from the bad things about it."
Carbone, who also runs Wesleyan University's steel drum band, said "NEAT is a voice" for the people of the North End.
"Lydia Brewster, community organizer for NEAT, and Izzi [Greenberg] serve such an important purpose for people who live in the North End," he said. "There have been a lot of major issues on our block. If you report it to NEAT, they advocate for you. They're so huge. They give me hope for the North End."
Funds from Thursday evening's garden party will benefit NEAT's programs, but more importantly, Greenberg said, it will give people a chance to see "what this neighborhood is all about."
"It's a really special place," she said. "It's important to realize what good neighbors and what incredible beauty can be achieved in a neighborhood."
When NEAT first began working at the Erin Street garden, a collaboration with the city of Middletown, the lot was overgrown and filled with junk cars, Greenberg said. Now there are 20 plots, tended by groups and individuals.
"It's really a testament to the committee that runs this garden," Greenberg said. "They're a force to be reckoned with."
Neighborhood kids, proud of what the garden has become, sometimes give tours during the party, she said.
"That's a really powerful feeling for a neighborhood that's often criticized," Greenberg said.
The garden party is open to anyone. A donation of $20 is suggested for individuals and $35 for families. Donations benefit NEAT's programs.
For more information about the garden party, call (860) 346-4845. For more information about NEAT, visit neatmiddletown.org.
The North End Action Team is a neighborhood organization that began in 1997 to develop grassroots leadership in the North End. NEAT is made up of residents, business leaders, property owners and stakeholder groups. NEAT's mission is to provide neighborhood-based participation and leadership, to identify concerns, define strategies and develop resources to improve the quality of life in the North End.
Jennifer Sprague can be reached at jsprague@middletownpress.com or by calling (860) 347-3331, ext. 222.
By: JENNIFER SPRAGUE , Press staff
MIDDLETOWN - It's a fundraiser, yes - but more importantly, NEAT's eighth annual Garden Party is about celebrating the accomplishments of a neighborhood organization, said Izzi Greenberg.
"The importance of this event is to showcase what NEAT has done the past year," said the North End Action Team executive
director.
About 20 Middletown restaurants have donated food, desserts and drinks for Thursday's affair, which begins at 5:30 p.m. in the Erin Street Community Garden at the corner of High Street in Middletown's North End. With vegetables and herbs harvested from the garden, the planning committee will prepare additional menu items.
"We have a lot of tomatoes and basil, so we will probably be serving dishes with those ingredients," Greenberg said.
Bar tables will be set throughout the garden, and Erin Street will be closed while about 300 guests mingle and enjoy live jazz and hors d'oeuvres passed out by neighborhood kids.
The trio The Three Hats - organist Sammy Myers, guitarist Lance James and drummer Bill Carbone - will perform a mix of original jazz tunes as well as "some funkier jazz," said Carbone, a Pearl Street resident.
"We're part of the North End, so it's more than just a gig," Carbone said. "I live in the North End, and I enjoy the good things about it and suffer from the bad things about it."
Carbone, who also runs Wesleyan University's steel drum band, said "NEAT is a voice" for the people of the North End.
"Lydia Brewster, community organizer for NEAT, and Izzi [Greenberg] serve such an important purpose for people who live in the North End," he said. "There have been a lot of major issues on our block. If you report it to NEAT, they advocate for you. They're so huge. They give me hope for the North End."
Funds from Thursday evening's garden party will benefit NEAT's programs, but more importantly, Greenberg said, it will give people a chance to see "what this neighborhood is all about."
"It's a really special place," she said. "It's important to realize what good neighbors and what incredible beauty can be achieved in a neighborhood."
When NEAT first began working at the Erin Street garden, a collaboration with the city of Middletown, the lot was overgrown and filled with junk cars, Greenberg said. Now there are 20 plots, tended by groups and individuals.
"It's really a testament to the committee that runs this garden," Greenberg said. "They're a force to be reckoned with."
Neighborhood kids, proud of what the garden has become, sometimes give tours during the party, she said.
"That's a really powerful feeling for a neighborhood that's often criticized," Greenberg said.
The garden party is open to anyone. A donation of $20 is suggested for individuals and $35 for families. Donations benefit NEAT's programs.
For more information about the garden party, call (860) 346-4845. For more information about NEAT, visit neatmiddletown.org.
The North End Action Team is a neighborhood organization that began in 1997 to develop grassroots leadership in the North End. NEAT is made up of residents, business leaders, property owners and stakeholder groups. NEAT's mission is to provide neighborhood-based participation and leadership, to identify concerns, define strategies and develop resources to improve the quality of life in the North End.
Jennifer Sprague can be reached at jsprague@middletownpress.com or by calling (860) 347-3331, ext. 222.
Friday, August 8, 2008
Hot Spots: August 6, 2008
POSITIVE CHANGES:
- Positive collaboration and communication existing between NEAT and police personnel.
- Playground at Green and deKoven is clean and seeded
- City organized a meeting with Wharfside, NEAT and city representatives to begin dialogue
- General improvements to living conditions on lower Grand St.
- 85 Grand and 281
- Space between 56
- Vandalism and unsupervised children at the playground behind Wharfside/GSAC. Fence is being taken apart and it is becoming unsafe.
- Continued reports of problems at the intersections of
- Possible drug activity at 105
- Continued problem with garbage at
- Parking lot/Fire Lane at the top of Ferry Street: people selling out of car trunks, illegal parking (can signs be put up?), noise
- Reports of continued presence of prostitution in Liberty/Frazier area.
- Constant litter outside of Aresco’s Market. Can trash cans be put there?
Monday, August 4, 2008
African Drumming at Erin Sreet
On Wednesday, the final Arts in the Garden workshop took place in the Erin Street Community Garden. It was by far the best of this series that we've ever held. Over 70 people from all over the state gathered in the garden to drum and dance on what turned out to be one of the nicest nights of the summer. The workshop was led by Abdoulaye Sylla, who has a knack with groups of kids. He had people aged from 2-80 drumming in time and sounding good! The kids took turns leading the drum circle, they did the limbo and stuffed themselves with watermelon.What a wonderful way to cap off the summer series. One woman, who had traveled from Farmington said: "we just don't have anything like this where we live...my kids love this kind of thing." I heard similar sentiments from other participants. It's nice to know that our little garden is unique and welcoming.
If you haven't checked it out, please stop by and sit on a bench or walk around. You'll be amazed at this year's bounty.
To see more pictures from the event, go to: http://picasaweb.google.com/neatmiddletown/AfricanDrumming
Thank you to the Green Street Arts Center from co-sponsoring this series and to the Middletown Commission on the Arts for generously funding it!
Friday, August 1, 2008
Voter Registration
We're inching up to the 2008 election and many North End residents are not yet registered to vote. I can't stress enough how important voting is for a neighborhood like ours. So, we're launching a voter registration campaign. Our teen leadership group, the Teen Dreams Society, will be doing voter registration drives and, along with other NEAT members, intend to hold a political forum in October.
In the meantime, are you registered to vote? Are you confused about the registration process? Do you have a criminal record and don't think you can vote? You may be wrong. Please contact the NEAT office if you would like help registering to vote or would like more information about the process.
If you're interesting in helping with NEAT's North End Votes campaign, please email izzi.greenberg@neatmiddletown.org or call the NEAT office at 860-346-4845.
In the meantime, are you registered to vote? Are you confused about the registration process? Do you have a criminal record and don't think you can vote? You may be wrong. Please contact the NEAT office if you would like help registering to vote or would like more information about the process.
If you're interesting in helping with NEAT's North End Votes campaign, please email izzi.greenberg@neatmiddletown.org or call the NEAT office at 860-346-4845.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Jewelry Making at GSAC
Last Wednesday, the fourth Arts in the Garden workshop happened indoors at the Green Street Arts Center. Darn rain.
BUT, it was so much fun. My little girl made a necklace out of beads with holes big enough for her two-year-old fingers to negotiate, but many of the participants created much more sophisticated adornments.This workshop was led by Cookie Quinones, NEAT's president, who did an outstanding job of including everyone and teaching along the way.
This Wednesday, July 30th is the final Arts in the Garden workshop and it's taking place in the Erin Street Garden (corner of Erin and High). This week will be African Drumming and Dance with Abdulaye Sylla. 5:30 pm.
Thanks so much to the Middletown Commission on the Arts for funding this program!
Middletown Parking Study
For the last year, the Downtown Parking Study has been meeting to discuss parking problems in Middletown. I have sat on that committee and experienced more conversation about parking than I ever hope to have again! We met over 25 times and came up with some concrete solutions to downtown's parking problems. There were many proposed solutions and many compromises made, and in the end, a report has been created. The findings of the committee and study will be presented to the Middletown Common Council on August 4th from 6:00-7:00 pm.
The committee will be recommending efficient ways to use the federally earmarked $19 million dollars in parking money. While the committee did find that there is an extreme need for parking in the North End, none of this money will be used to improve the parking problems in the North End (because of a complicated restrictions on the money: please call if you want me to explain it to you, it's too much to write!) so NEAT members should 1) come to this workshop and hear how this important Middletown money will be used and 2) in the coming months, be diligent and insistent that the findings of the committee are acted upon. We need parking on this side of town, and we need to help the city find creative ways to make that happen outside of this $19 million dollars. Remember, the North End will be ignored if we don't show up.
Click here to be directed to the City of MiddletownParking Study info.
The committee will be recommending efficient ways to use the federally earmarked $19 million dollars in parking money. While the committee did find that there is an extreme need for parking in the North End, none of this money will be used to improve the parking problems in the North End (because of a complicated restrictions on the money: please call if you want me to explain it to you, it's too much to write!) so NEAT members should 1) come to this workshop and hear how this important Middletown money will be used and 2) in the coming months, be diligent and insistent that the findings of the committee are acted upon. We need parking on this side of town, and we need to help the city find creative ways to make that happen outside of this $19 million dollars. Remember, the North End will be ignored if we don't show up.
Click here to be directed to the City of MiddletownParking Study info.
Friday, July 18, 2008
North End Mexican Food!
So, it looks like the North End is becoming Middletown's capital for inexpensive, family-owner, tasty, low-key ethnic food. I tried the new restaurant, Iguanas Ranas today, and it was good. (sorry to sound like a food critic, here, but I have to give you reason to go!)
Let's start with dessert first. They have flan, and that is enough for me. I had a delicious barbacoa (slowly cooked beef) taco, which was really good. Mostly, I like that this restaurant offers your no-so-American Mexican food. There are interesting things on the menu, like rice & egg tacos or choriso gorditas and really familiar things like hot dogs and french fries for unadventurous, under 10 set.
The service was friendly and approachable. Overall, it is worth trying out.
Between Pho Mai (right next door) and Iguanas Ranas, our neighborhood has some really tasty food!
Steel Pan Drumming
watch a video of the workshop
It was a beautiful night on Wednesday and the (surprisingly good for beginners) sounds of novice steel pan drumming filled the air on Green Street. North End resident, Bill Carbone led a workshop in the back garden at the Green Street Arts center. There were a bunch of North End kids and families there, and we all learned a lot about these instruments and about playing as an ensemble. Maybe we should start our own!
Next week's Arts in the Garden Workshop will be jewelry making. with NEAT's president, Cookie Quinones. Come make some dazzling adornments!
It was a beautiful night on Wednesday and the (surprisingly good for beginners) sounds of novice steel pan drumming filled the air on Green Street. North End resident, Bill Carbone led a workshop in the back garden at the Green Street Arts center. There were a bunch of North End kids and families there, and we all learned a lot about these instruments and about playing as an ensemble. Maybe we should start our own!
Next week's Arts in the Garden Workshop will be jewelry making. with NEAT's president, Cookie Quinones. Come make some dazzling adornments!
Thanks to the Middletown Commission on the Arts for funding this program!
On Tuesday, the Erin Street Community Garden was buzzing with young North End farmers as the Community Health Center's Kids Camp, run by the Homeroom program, hosted its closing party. Camp is over, and families were invited to celebrate the season's harvest.
The campers made party food from their garden plot, slicing squash and sharing blueberries. It was a great event, and all who attended were amazed at what the kids had learned.
Though camp is over, the kids will continue to harvest their plot all throughout the summer.
Thank you to the Middletown Commission on the Arts for funding this series!
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Garden Party Committee
NEAT's garden party committee is up and running (Party is August 14th at 5:30) and will have its first meeting tonight (Wednesday, July 16th) after the Arts in the Garden workshop at the Green Street Arts Center Green Street Arts Center
VOLUNTEER at Middletown Mission Week
A collection of Middletown churches have come together to do volunteer projects throughout Middletown, and a group of people will be working on NEAT projects in the garden and throughout the neighborhood.
If you are available at all next week (July 21-25), please consider volunteering some time. I have sign up sheets if your are interested.
If you are available at all next week (July 21-25), please consider volunteering some time. I have sign up sheets if your are interested.
Middletown's Wharfside Commons Gets Mixed Report Card
By JOSH KOVNER | Courant Staff Writer
July 15, 2008
MiddletownWharfside was this city's most anticipated housing development when it opened a year ago on Ferry Street in the North End, the poorest street in the poorest section of Middletown.
Now, Wharfside's 96 apartments are all rented, and the tenants, most of whom are working and earning $25,000 to $40,000 annually, have boosted employment and income along the blocks between the northern end of the city's wide, bustling Main Street and Route 9.
But the one-year report card is mixed, clouded by a recent assault and a nonfatal shooting involving people living or staying at Wharfside. Those incidents, and an impression that the complex had relaxed its tenant-screening policy, raised concerns about management and triggered an ultimatum from Mayor Sebastian Giuliano.
"This project was sold as the salvation of the North End," Giuliano said last week, after meeting with Wharfside's management to discuss whether past problems were making a comeback on Ferry Street. "Well, it better be the salvation. Anything less would have to be considered a failure."
The mayor and Police Chief Lynn Baldoni both said they felt better about day-to-day operations at the complex after the meeting, and accepted the assertions from regional manager Tracy Luttrell that prospective tenants are aggressively screened and that rules violations by residents aren't tolerated. Luttrell said there have been three evictions so far.
But expectations are high for Wharfside, the largest infusion of new housing and working adults in the North End since the neighborhood was the destination of choice for European immigrants in the early part of the 20th century. The mayor was born in the North End and went to elementary school a few yards away from where Wharfside now sits.
Wharfside opened at a time when politicians, social advocates and business leaders are lamenting the scarcity of affordable housing in Connecticut. Household incomes at Wharfside range from a minimum of about $9,000 for a single person to a maximum of $48,660 for a family of four — equal to 60 percent of the area's median income.
The cluster of four- and five-story brick buildings replaced blighted houses and now dominates the narrow, two-block street. The building on the east end of the complex has a view of the Connecticut River, beyond Route 9, a source of joy for tenant Dawn Brooks, a teacher at Cheshire High School who has lived at Wharfside since April.
A Middletown native, Brooks lived 33 years ago in one of the buildings replaced by Wharfside. She said she loves the fact that she's just around the corner from Main Street, and that she walks to the drugstore and even to the supermarket on Washington Street, a 25-minute trip. She said her apartment is of high quality and that management is responsive and accessible.
But the complex has had its critics from the start. Giuliano and the downtown business establishment believe the complex is too big and too dense, and they believe the city — through grants, a property tax break and a donation of land — gave too sweet a deal to the developer, the wealthy Richman Group of Greenwich. Richman owns and operates thousands of apartments across the country, including eight developments in Connecticut and New York. Most of the financing for the $22 million Wharfside complex was from housing tax credits, in which corporations invest in affordable housing developments in return for federal tax incentives.
Baldoni and the mayor agreed with the notion that the realities and perceptions of the "old Ferry Street" — crime and apathy — are hard to shake. Another challenge, said City Planner William Warner, is that Wharfside is still ringed by vacant multifamily houses. Nonprofit developers are waiting for public funding and bank financing to turn those properties into owner-occupied housing, but this crucial second step of the neighborhood's revitalization is taking longer than expected.
Still, said Warner, the developer "has the experience and resources to make this work. This is a major investment, even for them, and they can't let bad tenants chase away good tenants. It's reassuring that they've got a lot of tenants making 60 percent of the median and working at good jobs — so it comes down to property management." Izzi Greenberg agrees. The executive director of the North End Action Team said, "The naysayers expect Wharfside to fail, so it's up to management to prove it's a success, to go to public meetings and talk about what they're doing.
"I think Wharfside's residents have to push back a little, too," Greenberg said. "A lot of them have joined our NEAT meetings, and that's a sign they care about the community. And that makes me optimistic about the development."
Contact Josh Kovner at jkovner@courant.com.
Copyright © 2008, The Hartford Courant
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Take our Survey!
As a grassroots organization, NEAT must always be focusing upon issues that are relevant to the neighborhood. Please take our short survey (to the right) and help us stay informed of what you think are the most important issues right now. As always, feel free to email any concerns or comments to: neat@neatmiddletown.org. Thanks for participating!
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