East Haddam Lions ask for auction and tag sale goodies

The East Haddam Lions Club auction will include pottery and a host of other items. Image – Roseville Pottery pitcher from artpotteryplace.com

The East Haddam Lions are hoping you have some cool stuff to donate to the club’s annual auction and tag sale, which will be held on July 13.

The tag sale opens at 8 a.m. and the auction will be held at 10 a.m. at the Old Grange Hall, 488 Town St. in East Haddam.

WFSB Channel 3′s Kevin Hogan will be the guest auctioneer.

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In East Haddam, Get good tips on improving your child’s behavior

Help your child learn to think in ways that will create solutions and allow them to be accountable for their own behavior… it empowers both children and adults to respond rather than react to life events.  Image: the “I-Choose” board from ConsciousDiscipline.com

A series of  “Conscious Discipline” workshops begins on Wednesday, May 22 at 6 p.m. sponsored by the East Haddam Early Childhood Council.

Please pre-register. Free child care is available with registration.

The free series will be held at the Family Resource Center at the East Haddam Elementary School. (Room 202, childcare in Room 108)

Learn how to promote behavior change through relationship-building instead of the traditional reward-and-punishment methods.

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DOT plans road work in East Haddam

The Connecticut Department of Transportation (DOT) wants you to know that road milling and resurfacing will be performed on Route 82 in Haddam and East Haddam beginning Monday, May 20 through Tuesday, May 21.

Press Release

The Connecticut Department of Transportation (DOT) wants you to know that road milling and resurfacing will be performed on Route 82 in Haddam and East Haddam beginning Monday, May 20 through Tuesday, May 21.

The project consists of milling and resurfacing a little more than a mile on Route 82 in Haddam and East Haddam.

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REMINDER East Haddam budget referendum is May 21

At the May 8 Town Meeting, electors decided to set this year’s budget referendum hours for noon to 8 p.m. The referendum will be held on Tuesday, May 21 at the Town Meeting Hall, at 492 Town St. in East Haddam.

By Brenda Sullivan | HTNP News Editor

At the May 8 Town Meeting, electors decided to set this year’s budget referendum hours for noon to 8 p.m.

The referendum will be held on Tuesday, May 21 at the Town Meeting Hall at 492 Town St. in East Haddam.

Electors will be asked to vote on the proposed 2013-14 budget as follows:

Shall the Town of East Haddam budget of $28,700,076 as recommended by the Board of Finance for fiscal year 2013-2014 be approved?

Absentee ballots are now available at the Town Clerk’s Office.

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In East Haddam – listen to adventures of the Voyage of Yankee Lady

“The Voyage of Yankee Lady” tells the story of six very different sailors, all retired, who cruised three modest sailboats, on modest budgets, for 3,000 miles along the Canadian and American waterways that surround New England.

Press Release

The Friends of the Rathbun Free Library in East Haddam, CT are pleased to announce the return of their popular summer speaker series, “Fridays At 5:30.”

The series kicks off again on Friday, May 24 with author and local resident Judith Silva, who will talk about and answer questions about her book “The Voyage of Yankee Lady: Circumnavigating New England on a Sailboat.”

The library is located at 36 Main St. (Route 149).

“The Voyage of Yankee Lady” tells the story of six very different sailors, all retired, who cruised three modest sailboats, on modest budgets, for 3,000 miles along the Canadian and American waterways that surround New England.

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Fishing season opens – get info here about where to fish in Connecticut

Approximately 381,000 trout have already been released this spring into 102 lakes and ponds and 200 rivers and streams throughout Connecticut and are awaiting Opening Day anglers. Photo courtesy of CT Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) 2013.

Opening day of the Trout Fishing Season is Saturday, April 20 and the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) has the state’s rivers, streams, lakes and ponds stocked and ready.

Approximately 381,000 trout have already been released this spring into 102 lakes and ponds and 200 rivers and streams throughout Connecticut and are awaiting Opening Day anglers.

DEEP’s spring trout-stocking effort began in early March and will continue through the end of May. When spring stocking is completed, DEEP expects to have stocked about 630,000 trout.

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