Expanded online reporting about the town of Cornwall, Connecticut, its government, and civic affairs.
After more than a decade as president of the Cornwall Chronicle, Paul DeAngelis is stepping down. Running an all-volunteer publication where staff engage once or twice a year isn’t as glamorous or easy as you may think. Paul’s excellent [...Read More]
We had the opportunity to briefly catch up with Will Schenk recently and got an update on the progress towards opening the market in Cornwall Bridge. He told me, “On the market side, the kitchen equipment is starting to trickle in [...Read More]
For the last three years, Cornwall’s town planners have been laboring to update and modernize the town’s zoning regulations for the first time in recent memory. Now it’s time for everyone else to weigh in. The Planning and Zoning [...Read More]
A sparsely attended Wastewater Management Project committee meeting was held via Zoom during the recent nor’easter March 14. With most committee members unable to attend on account of widespread power outages, Stephen McDonnell of WMC Consulting Engineers gave a [...Read More]
The Cornwall Volunteer Fire Department, CVFD for short, celebrated its 90th anniversary last year. One of the ways they are celebrating this milestone is by launching a new website, www.cornwallfire.org" www.cornwallfire.org. The site aims to highlight the CVFD’s rich history [...Read More]
It wasn’t the high wind and not the massive rainfall but a pickup truck with a backhoe in tow that damaged the West Cornwall Covered Bridge on Friday, December 23. The bridge had to be closed. The first prognosis [...Read More]
Below is one resident’s reaction to the official hearing convened last week by the state to consider Nuvance Health’s request to discontinue maternity services at Sharon Hospital, a process requiring state approval. Further background on Nuvance’s petition, the “Certificate [...Read More]
One of Cornwall’s most influential institutions, the Foreign Mission School, traces its ties to Hawaii through a young native named Opukaha’ia. Opukaha’ia (anglicized to Obookiah when he lived in Connecticut) was the school’s founding pupil, and a devoted student. Opened in [...Read More]
“If it’s not one thing it’s another,” Roseanne Roseannadanna famously said on Saturday Night Live, which resonates as we recall some of this past summer’s agricultural challenges. First there was the spongy moth invasion, decimating foliage; and then came [...Read More]
The Cornwall Housing Forum on October 19 gave the 36 people who attended via Zoom a good look at what Cornwall can do about housing and what has been done or is in the works. The main barriers are [...Read More]
