WALLINGFORD - The girls on Sheehan High School's powder puff team, who will be trying their luck at the male-dominated sport of football next week, are suffering from no lack of confidence this year. And their 11 coaches agree: the team is both athletic and talented.

MERIDEN - The three minority party members to serve on the newly elected City Council are feeling snubbed after Democrats decided to name their own to committee leadership positions this week. There is also some quibbling about the number of leadership roles among the two minority parties, We the People and the Republican Party.

WALLINGFORD - After more than two years of searching for a new spot in the center of town, Wallingford Public Access Association television hopes it has found a new home on South Orchard Street.

SOUTHINGTON - Supporters of the Southington Youth Soccer League dug into their own pockets this season to pay nearly $8,000 in repair costs for their building at Recreation Park. The problem is, those expenses should have been paid by the town, according to Town Manager John Weichsel.

WALLINGFORD - After a protracted lawsuit, the town has reached a settlement to buy 35 acres of land along Dibble Edge Road for $700,000. It plans to use the land as open space.

MERIDEN - The price tag won't be pretty, but the job isn't optional.

That was the message City Councilors Brian Daniels and George McGoldrick carried to the Record-Journal editorial board Wednesday as they presented a recently completed overview of the city's options for renovating Maloney and Platt high schools.

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MERIDEN - East side resident Stephen Martin and his cat recently took to drinking filtered water after he experienced a sickening odor in his tap water on Saturday.

"It was really bad here," said Martin, of Lowe Avenue. "It was incredibly foul."

SOUTHINGTON - With area troops preparing to head off for training soon, members of the American Legion and American Legion Auxiliary presented them with travel packages Wednesday at the armory.

WALLINGFORD - The state Department of Environmental Protection has reached a settlement with the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority and Covanta Energy over an emissions violation discovered in 2007 at the trash-to energy plant on South Cherry Street.

CHESHIRE- Republicans will take control of the Town Council next month with a 7-2 majority, and that could have repercussions for the Library Advisory Board, Library Director Ramona Harten and, ultimately, Town Manager Michael Milone.

MERIDEN - Mayor Michael S. Rohde has selected one of his top campaign volunteers, Eddie Siebert , to become his constituent caseworker, which will leave the current caseworker, Jacqueline Fordiani, out of a job.

MERIDEN - There was testosterone behind the cheers and estrogen in every block, and once a year, that's how Meriden likes it.

The Spartans emerged victorious in the city's annual clash between the city's two high school powder puff teams, ending a four-year losing streak for Maloney High School.

   
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MERIDEN - A late algae bloom at Broad Brook Reservoir over the weekend caused foul-tasting water for some residents of Dana Lane, according to City Manager Lawrence Kendzior.