Enfield News

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The "burn-in" started Monday morning and the lights will remain in continuous operation around the clock until approximately noon on Friday.

Reginald Clemons of 54 Drake St., Apt. 2, Windsor, was charged with third-degree assault, disorderly conduct and threatening.

Paul D. Mayers Jr., of 41 Windsor St., is charged with three counts of first-degree and two counts of sixth-degree larceny, according to court records.

A 46-year-old Windsor woman has been given a suspended prison sentence for interfering with a murder investigation involving her former boyfriend.

On Thursday, a group of residents, business owners, landlords and others held the second meeting of the Voices of Thompsonville and Thompsonville Action Group.

William Leary, the town's probate judge, has spent more than half of his life, 37 years, sorting out estates and contested wills. On his way to retirement next month, he'll step down as one of the longest-serving probate judges in the state.

'When I started here, we were pretty much confined to estate administration,' Leary said.

Since he was first elected in 1971, he has seen the addition of child custody, termination of parental rights, title disputes and - his favorite - adoption approvals to the jurisdiction of probate court.

Eutiquio Reyes, of 32 Church St., is charged with attempted first-degree assault, second-degree assault, first-degree reckless endangerment, carrying a weapon and second-degree breach of peace.

More responsibilities and too few inspectors are hindering restaurant inspections, according to a newspaper's review of data.

The town council on June 16 approved the plan to add a check box to tax bills, allowing taxpayers to donate funds to the board of education.

Since Easter, Barry Andrusik has spent his Sundays praying, preaching and driving back and forth between Enfield and Tolland, where he was the pastor at both the 10-year-old Enfield Community Church and the new Tolland Community Church.

The two churches will merge Sunday to form New Life Community Church, which will meet in the auditorium of Somers Elementary School on Ninth District Road. Andrusik had planned to serve as pastor of the separate churches for several years before combining them, but space problems in Enfield and Tolland led the churches to merge sooner than expected. The town of Enfield renovated the community center where Enfield Community Church had been meeting to create space for some municipal departments, decreasing the space available for the church's use, said Enfield Town Manager Matthew Coppler. Tolland Community Church was told it could no longer use Parker Memorial School, which will be closed this fall, Andrusik said. 'The first thing happened with the Enfield building and a couple weeks later that happened with Tolland,' Andrusik said. 'So I said, 'Well, I guess God has moved up the timetable.' It amazes me how God's timing is not our timing.' Church members are excited about the move. 'I think it'll be great because we'll have an opportunity perhaps to reach some people in Somers as well as the roots we planted in these other two towns. That's the basic hope I have,' said church member Richard Davis. 'Pastor Barry is just a real down-to-earth preacher, so I think he'll have a lot of appeal.' The church is one of several organizations that use Somers school district facilities, said Bill Boutwell, the district's director of business services. The church pays a rental fee and custodial fees to the district to use the elementary school auditorium, Boutwell said. The first service at New Life Community Church will be held at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at 55 Ninth District Road. For more information, visit the church's website at http://www.NewLifeCommunityChurchCT.org .

- Organizers expect this year's Fourth of July Town Celebration to go well because they chose this weekend knowing it would rain last week, Mayor Scott R. Kaupin joked.

'The weather so far looks great,' Kaupin said.

The annual festival, which runs today, Saturday and Sunday on the town green, includes musical entertainment, children's activities, an arts and crafts fair, the Taste of Enfield, a road race, a parade and a fireworks display. Everything is free except the Taste of Enfield and the arts and crafts fair.

It will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., though items may be viewed starting at 8:30 a.m. Included in the auction will be office equipment, bicycles and miscellaneous public works equipment/salvage vehicles.

"He just started firing at random parked cars," Police Chief Thomas A. Terribile said.

A former engineer for the state Department of Transportation has pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges as part of a bribery investigation.

Three historic grave markers, remnants of an old Shaker community, have been removed from a prison walkway and will be presented Monday to a Enfield museum.

An 85-year-old woman found dead in her apartment at Scitico Garden Apartments was killed by a blunt force trauma to the head, the chief medical examiner's office said Monday.

The body of Lillian McGuire was discovered in her apartment in the Scitico Gardens complex by a family member Friday afternoon, police said. When her body was found it was obvious that she was a homicide victim, police said over the weekend.

Hartford police arrested 32-year-old Kevin McGuire, the victim's grandson, on a drug-related charge Saturday night and interviewed him over the weekend. He remains a person of interest, Deputy Police Chief Anjo Timmerman said. McGuire was arraigned in Superior Court in Hartford on Monday and held, with bail set at $200,000.

A Simsbury man charged in the shooting death of a black bear he found eating birdseed in his garage has applied for a special form of probation.

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