Town/Govt

BOE Faces Budget Shortfall

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BOE faces budget shortfall By Kim Becker The Board of Education listened with concern as Harry Traver, Business Manager, outlined shortfalls in the current budget. The $248,000 cost overrun is due to Special Education costs. Regular education is favorable by $45,000 due to spending freezes in “conferences, supplies, books, and library books”. At this point, the weather may not be a large cost factor as the schools’ roofs are bearing the snow load well, saving the District as […]

People

Loosing Your Mind?

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Are you losing your mind? Chances are you know someone suffering from memory loss or a type of dementia. The numbers are staggering. Five million people in the United States are living with Alzheimer’s, every 67 seconds someone in the U.S. develops Alzheimer’s and in 2013, 15.5 million caregivers provided an estimated 17.7 billion hours of unpaid care (source: alz.org). Providing care for a person with any form of dementia is an exhausting emotional and physical burden. The stress l […]

People

Animal Talk

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A bill was recently introduced to the Connecticut General Assembly that would outlaw drivers from holding pets on their laps. This is another form of distracted driving such as texting and is dangerous to the driver, other motorists, and the pets themselves. I’m not sure we need a law for this behavior but I am definitely in favor of harnessing dogs to keep everybody safer. As veterinarians, we have seen many trauma cases where dogs jumped from moving vehicles and most of these cases invo […]