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The Day - North Stonington invests American Rescue Plan funds in community services - News from southeastern Connecticut

Published July 27. 2021 4:35PM  Melina Khan, Special to The Day North Stonington  The Pawcatuck Neighborhood Center, Ledge Light Health District and North Stonington Volunteer Fire Company are among the beneficiaries of the first allocation of the town s American Rescue Plan funds. The finance and selectmen boards agreed last week to distribute roughly $220,000 of the more than $768,000 the town is receiving from the rescue plan this year. The second half of the town s $1.5 million in relief will be received in June 2022. The largest allocation  $165,000  will be given to the town s volunteer fire company to hire additional per diem staff over a three-year period.

The Day - North Stonington invests American Rescue Plan funds in community services - News from southeastern Connecticut

The Day - Stonington Pop Up book raises $35,000 so far for local organizations - News from southeastern Connecticut

Stonington  The Ocean Community Chamber Foundation has announced that it has donated more than $35,000 in profits from sales of its Pop Up Book of Stonington to a wide variety of local organizations, with more donations to come. The success of the book follows that of the chamber s Westerly pop up book, which raised $80,000, all of which was donated to charitable projects and nonprofit organizations. The chamber printed 4,000 copies of the Stonington book, which was released before Christmas. About 1,000 copies remain.  We re absolutely thrilled with the response, and I ve gotten a lot of nice notes from people about the book and families who gave it as a gift, said chamber President Lisa Konicki. It s been really nice, really gratifying.  

The Day - Stonington Free Library director retires - News from southeastern Connecticut

De Kay, 80, will be replaced by Assistant Director Micayla Hall, 33. De Kay s departure comes as the library has wrapped up a $1.8 million capital campaign that included the recent completion of an expansion and renovation project that made the library handicapped accessible. “It seems like a natural time,” De Kay said Wednesday about her retirement. “We’ve worked together all this time and the idea was always Micayla would take over. I think it’s time to launch her. She’s a young, wonderful person and I don t want to stand in her way.” While De Kay has retired, she will remain the library s director emeritus and plans to continue to work at the library to acquire books and materials for the collection, which she said is her true passion. 

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