MIDDLESEX HEALTH “16th ANNUAL TREE OF LIGHTS” RETURNS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2025 FROM 6 P.M.-7 P.M. TREE LIGHTING AT 6:15 P.M.

MIDDLESEX HEALTH “16th ANNUAL TREE OF LIGHTS” RETURNS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2025 FROM 6 P.M.-7 P.M. TREE LIGHTING AT 6:15 P.M.
By Frank LoGiudice

The Middlesex Health "16th Annual Tree Of Lights" returns again this year with a ceremony on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, at the Middlesex Hospital lobby at 28 Crescent Street in Middletown. It will take place from 6 p.m.-6:45 p.m. The tree lighting will take place at 6:15 p.m. The ceremony will include the Mercy High School Chamber Choir.

According to the Middlesex Health website it states, ¨The Middlesex Health Hospice Program invites you to donate in honor or in memory of anyone who has impacted your life. The 16-year tradition of Tree of Lights is a heartfelt event to remember or honor loved ones with a tree lighting ceremony, and a display that stays prominent into the New Year.¨

 

Steven Liedlich of Middlesex Health, “Middlesex Health's Tree of Lights event on December 2nd is ¨a heartfelt event with a tree lighting ceremony, a holiday choir and a display of loved oneś names. This program offers vital end-of-life support for patients and families, focusing on comfort, dignity, and emotional care in their journey. By participating, attendees directly contribute to Middlesex Hospice, helping to sustain these services and programs. Your donation helps the Middlesex Health Hospice Program have a meaningful impact on hospice patients who face life-limiting illnesses and their families. Our program supports and assists patients and their families in making important decisions regarding their care,  and is focused on enhancing their patientś quality of life. The goal of Hospice is to enable patients to remain in their own homes as long as possible with the aid of family, Hospice staff and volunteers.¨

Donations received after November 17^th will be listed on the website only. 

 

To view the listing of those memorialized, please go to MiddlesexHealth.org/TreeofLights.  ¨The Tree of Lights honoree names will be on display on the new digital donor wall in the lobby of Middlesex Hospital from December 2 – January 2, 2026,¨ according to their website. 

 

The Middlesex Health Hospice Program is celebrating ¨40 years of caring for the community.¨ The Middlesex Health Hospice Program websites states, ¨We are commemorating 40 years of offering compassionate physical, emotional, social, and spiritual care to individuals facing terminal illness, while also supporting their families through this journey. Founded in 1985, the program is dedicated to helping patients live as comfortably and fully as possible - remaining alert and free from pain - so they can spend their final days with dignity and in the presence of those they love, Your support has a meaningful impact on hospice patients and their families.¨

 

For more information about the 16th Annual Tree of Lights and the Middlesex Hospice Program please go to 

 

https://middlesexhealth.org/donate/fundraising-events/tree-of-lights

https://middlesexhealth.org/hospice-care/middlesex-health-hospice-program-40th-anniversary/hospice-40th-anniversary

 

 

For Thanksgiving & Christmas Baked Goods

For Thanksgiving & Christmas
Holiday Goodies

   Whether you're new to the Middletown area--or not, you might wish you had a little extra help in the kitchen as holidays approach. 

If so, you can hardly do better for special dishes, desserts, and fruit than Lyman's Orchard Store and Gotta's Store, which, in addition to our many local grocery stories and supermarkets, help many families fill in gaps on their menu during the holidays. 

Lyman Orchard Store is on Route 157, in MIddlefield. 

Gotta's Store is across the River, on Route 17 in South Glastonbury.
Links are below. Lyman can deliver, Don't know about Gotta's.
Check them out. Every little bit helps. 

Lyman Orchards

860.349.6017
32 Reeds Gap Road, Middlefield, CT 06455

Gotta’s Farm & Cider Mill

Gotta’s Farm
661 Glastonbury Turnpike
Route 17
Portland, CT 06480

OPEN 8-6 EVERYDAY

                         

   860.342.1844

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QP Farm Market
Rte 66 Portland, CT 06480     

CLOSED FOR 2025

OPENING MAY 1ST 2026                                                             

Kiss Squinting Goodbye: A Chrome Browser "Reading Mode" Feature

A Feature for the Farsighted 
(who can't see near) 
in the Chrome Browser 

If you're a reader who sees the online printed word getting smaller every year--and in case you haven't discovered it yet, the Chrome browser has a built-in feature for the Farsighted.

On the Chrome webpage, click on the three dots at upper right & you'll see a drop-down picklist. Toward the bottom of the picklist, click on "More Tools" to display a Popout. 

On the Popout, click Reading Mode just up from the bottom of the list and your reading matter will instantly transform into larger, darker, & more readable paragraphs. You'll never need to squint again!

HYBRID Genealogy Club - Saturday, November 22, 2025

 

Date:    Saturday, November 22, 2025

Time:    1:30 - 2:30 PM

Host:    Godfrey Memorial Library

Topic:    Tried and True Published Sources for Early Connecticut Research
              with Al Fiacre, Board Chair and Treasurer, Godfrey Memorial Library

This is a reprise of Al's popular New England Regional Genealogical Conference (NERGC) presentation for those of you who were unable to make it to New Hampshire earlier this month.

Not everything of genealogical value has been digitized. Join Al as he discusses some Connecticut genealogy resources that have stood the test of time and are sometimes overlooked.

Please register by 4:00 PM Friday, November 21 . The invite will be sent out on that Friday.

Godfrey Premium members can register for free at the following email: zoomregistration@godfrey.org  If you are not a Godfrey Premium member and want to attend the presentation, you can pay $10 via PayPal (https://www.paypal.com/us/home) with the payment sent to Godfrey Memorial Library.  Then register using the above email.

Note:  We've had a few requests lately to try a hybrid (Zoom and in-person) Genealogy Club, and we're going to give it a try with our November meeting.  So locals, come and join us!

Peace Resource Project: Newest Vinyl Cut-Out Stickers & Other Bumpersticker Designs.

From Peace Resource Project  

Our Newest Vinyl Cut-Out Stickers - Expand Selection of Artful Designs!  

Decals & Bumperstickers of more understated design
are shown at the websites below.

Peace Resource Project Latest email Flyer    www.peaceproject.com           www.etsy.com/shop/PeaceResourceProject  Dear Friends, We've been working on this new set of new vinyl cut-out stickers for a while and we're happy to finally share with all of you! From peace signs to cats to We the People these iconic simple designs offer artful and cheerful messages to express wherever you choose to place them. When you click through to our site you'll see our full selection of 170 designs within a wide range of themes. Here are our latest creations in Vinyl Cut-Out Stickers that are available in 14 colors with of course tie-dye as one option! - See them all here! Here's some of our more popular designs - messages for peace, love and kindness adorn these sticker - all ready to display to the world! Our next email will have another set of new large and small stickers just coming back from our printers and our offerings in peace calendars for 2026. Gabriel and the folks of the  Peace Resource Project 707-822-4229 - 888-822-7075 Fax 707-268-8985 www.peaceproject.com www.etsy.com/shop/PeaceResourceProject

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Mahadevan - Sunday November 2 at 4pm - South Indian Carnatic vocal music by Raga Club

The Raga Club is delighted to present a concert of Carnatic classical music of South India:

Sri TVS Mahadevan, vocal

Sri VS Gokul, violin

Sri V Sai Raghavan, mridangam

4pm, Sunday, November 2

Connecticut Valley Hindu Temple Society (CVHTS)

11 Training Hill Road, Middletown, CT 06457

Please join us for a sublime and thrilling performance by these master musicians! All are welcome. We ask that you also invite your friends, colleagues, and family.

Please see our website for more information and to purchase your tickets in advance.

Website: http://www.ragact.org/

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ragaclubct/

Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/raga_ct/

Different Perspectives: Power by Nuclear Fusion & "Life After Carbon"

Reposted because of technical difficulties.

Nuclear fusion firm Gauss unveils

Europe's first power plant design

By Reuters

October 9, 20252:36 AM EDTUpdated October 9, 2025

Link: New German Nuclear Fusion Reactor to go Online

• Companies

• Gauss Fusion GmbH
• Tianjin Optical Electrical Gaosi Communication Engineering Technology Co., Ltd.
• Proxima Fusion GmbH

FRANKFURT, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Gauss Fusion, a German technology company, said on Thursday it will hand over Europe's first fusion power plant design to the German chancellery within ten days.

Gauss Fusion CEO Milena Roveda was scheduled to present the design at a climate congress hosted by Germany’s BDI industry federation. The event comes just days after the German government unveiled a 2 billion euro ($2.33 billion) Fusion Action Plan, which will run to 2029.

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Germany said it aims to move beyond basic research and adopt an industry-led approach, positioning itself as a global leader in the race to develop fusion energy — a technology that replicates the process powering the sun to generate electricity.

Germany's conservative-led government supports the technology within its energy agenda.

WHAT IS THE CONTEXT?

Competition is intensifying across several fronts: between state and private companies, among governments in Europe, the United States and China, and between different technological approaches -- such as plasma confinement and the use of lasers.

Continue to read at link below.  

Nuclear fusion firm Gauss unveils Europe's first power plant design

Reposted because of technical difficulties. 

Can Work on Route 9 through Middletown Forge Ahead as Mixmaster Interchange Has Done?

Excerpt from email version, Audio link below.
Read in print or online. Amazing photos, interesting story.  
Title: At MixMaster Interchange, they had to move a river.
see The Middletown Press, October 17, 2925)

October 17, 2025

How do you move a river?
Waterbury Mixmaster overhaul could do just that

By Brianna Gurciullo,Staff WriterOct 16, 2025

Sometimes a highway construction
project doesn’t go with the flow. 

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“When it comes to relocating a river, we need
to prove to the agencies that we’re going
to make a betterment,” Carifa said.

brianna.gurciullo@hearstmediact.com

Oct 16, 2025

Brianna Gurciullo

Reporter

Brianna Gurciullo is a reporter for the Connecticut Post who covers issues in Fairfield County. She previously reported on local government and politics for the Stamford Advocate. Before that, Brianna wrote about federal transportation policy for Politico in Washington, D.C. She was born and raised in Meriden, Conn., and now lives in Bridgeport with her sassy, silly and slightly overweight cat, Lilo.

ZOOM Genealogy Club, Saturday, October 25, 2025

Date:    Saturday, October 25, 2025

Time:    1:30 PM

Host:    Godfrey Memorial Library, Middletown, CT

It's time for another Genealogy Club group chat! We'll all be presenters! Topics to consider:

1. AI -- have you found some legitimate uses for it in your genealogy?

2. How about the full-text search at FamilySearch? Success stories? Frustrations? Hints for most effective use?

3. Maybe you have a brick wall that you want the "hive mind" to help you with.

4. Other ideas? Send us an email before that day with suggestions.

Please register by 4:00 PM Friday, October 24. The invite will be sent out on that Friday.

Godfrey Premium members can register for free at the following email: zoomregistration@godfrey.org  If you are not a Godfrey Premium member and want to attend the presentation, you can pay $10 via PayPal (https://www.paypal.com/us/home) with the payment sent to Godfrey Memorial Library. Then register using the above email.