River Cleanup Pushes North

Lisa Santangelo, the intrepid and ubiquitous volunteer and Chairperson of Middletown's Democratic Town Committee supervised a crew of local volunteers, Alternative Incarceration Workers and municipal volunteers to move the Harbor Park cleanup about another hundred yards north along the Connecticut River Saturday.

The event was co-sponsored by the Middletown Lions Club and the Jonah Center.

The crews, with chainsaws and loppers, took down junk trees, vines and risked poison ivy to remove bramble and trash.  They moved beyond the solid brownstone walls and past the old ferry launch to clear access to the river.  They also planted day lilies and ferns along the fencing where clearing opened the view of the river last year.