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Volume 25, Number 27
Thursday, July 6, 2023
Contract talks ongoing between ambulance service, union leaders Record-Journal report
MERIDEN — In late June, the International Association of EMTs and Paramedics Local 294 warned its employees of a potential strike after it failed to reach a contract with Hunter’s Ambulance and parent company Hartford HealthCare. Negotiations regarding the contract for 215 unionized workers have been ongoing for a year and a half. Talks were scheduled to resume into July. See Ambulance, A8
During the Berlin High School baseball team’s Senior Night ceremony this spring, Coach Leo Veleas was recognized for collecting his 600th career victory. Veleas is pictured with director of athletics Dave Francalangia. Berlin High School, Facebook
Berlin’s Mr. Baseball isn’t talking retirement By Robert Mayer Special to The Citizen
Leo Veleas says he coaches baseball for a simple reason. He just loves the game. Veleas has coached hundreds of players during his nearly four decades at the helm of the Berlin High
School baseball program, and while his lineup is everchanging, the sport he loves has stayed very much the same. "The game is the game," said Veleas, 74. "You have to master the fundamentals and do the job. If you get told to bunt, you get the bunt down. You have to
know the signs. The game is the game. You pitch, you catch, you hit, you throw. I go to coaching clinics and hear big-time coaches and they all say if you can’t practice and perfect the fundamentals, the rest doesn’t matter." See Baseball, A6
Around Town Senior housing project A long-stalled plan to build senior housing at the former Knights of Columbus property on Percival Avenue was discussed at the June 23 Town Council meeting. Mayor Mark Kaczynski said the plot had been identified as the location for 50 senior housing units in two buildings, and funding was in place to get the project moving.
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Joe Bajorksi, chairman of the Housing Authority, said the two buildings will have a colonial feel, and would not be as tall as the nearby Sherwood Falls condominiums. Council members expressed that there is a need for senior housing in the community. Berlin purchased the Percival Avenue property in 2002.
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