From Scott Kessel
Hamlin Factory Salvage Days: Saturday, August 9th : 9 am to 3 pm Sunday, August 10th : 10 am to 4 pmThe Hamlin Factory - Middletown's soon-to-be workspace for artists, is proud to sponsor two Community Salvage, Recycle, Reuse, and Remove Days, August 9th and August 10th.
We have a great opportunity to keep a lot of reusable and recyclable objects out of the landfill. Help us to empty out the old factory building. Salvage stuff that is of use to you - recycle stuff that isn't. Wesleyan University has provided two large dumpsters for the stuff no one is interested in. Come and take what you want (with thanks to Wesleyan) in exchange for a few hours of good hard work.
From the attic to the basement, there are treasures to be discovered. Nearly everything that isn't nailed down (and some stuff that is!) is up for grabs. Junk sculptors, found object artists, tinkers and inventors beware. There's so much cool stuff, you'll wish you had a truck or trailer.
Please bring your own gloves, dust mask, and flashlight if you wish. Wear work clothes you can get dirty in. No kids please. Due to some unfortunate vandalism, it's quite a mess in there. There is electricity, but no running water or toilets. Because we don't own the property yet, everyone entering the building will need to sign a Visit Waiver and Release agreement.
We're looking for volunteers to help coordinate certain aspects of the clean up. Please contact me at kesselarts@gmail.com or by phone at (860)-930-8440 before the weekend if you can help. If you have any extra boxes for organizing and sorting recyclables, please bring them.
Visit our web site: http://groups.google.com/group/hamlin-park for a partial list of the stuff available for salvage inside the old factory, and for the latest information about the progress of the factory project itself.
Please feel free to spread the word to those you might think would be interested. Come by to help or just to see the factory space and show your support.
A car traveling down College apparently failed to stop, or did not see a car moving through the intersection on Broad. Witnesses stated that the red car on the right did not stop. The police reported that the driver of that car did not have a drivers' license. The car that was hit was traveling south on Broad when it was hit while in the intersection, on the back right side of the car. It must have been hit pretty hard, as it spun around, about 3/4 of a circle. It stopped short of where you see it in the photo, by the time the photo was taken the car was moved, a 
few feet to make way for traffic to pass. The red vehicle had two young passengers. The one 
in the front seat was taken to the hospital in the ambulance. There did not appear to be concern for broken bones, and no one was bleeding, but that is not to say no one was hurt. The tan car was driven by a young women on her way to the beach with a friend. She reported she was fine, but was taken to the hospital as precaution. The driver of the red car was not hurt. This reporter was at the intersection at the time of the accident but was looking in another direction, and only heard the crash. The guy in the red car, jumped out of the car after the accident, and was verbally abusive, and threatening to the driver in the tan car. Many witness where at the scene and stayed to to give testimony to the police. It was tense for a few moments waiting for the police to arrive, as the guy without the license did not calm down at all, until the first on the scene, fireman arrived, and insisted that the guy stop yelling and calm down. The photos where taken after the police arrived, not knowing what might further uncork the drives temper. The accident happened sometime shortly tafter 11:00 am.
