Two Tunxis Community College professors from Bristol are talking at 5:30 p.m. today at the Mark Twain House about this discovery. Consider going!
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January 23, 2009
Train students to work at ESPN, Wright urges
In another proposed piece of legislation, 77th District Democrat Chris Wright of Bristol is calling for lawmakers to allocate money "to fund additional courses in broadcasting and communications at E.C. Goodwin Technical High School and Tunxis Community College to train students for positions at ESPN."
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March 19, 2008
Tunxis gets $2.2 million to begin next new building
Just in, from Gov. Jodi Rell's office:
Governor M. Jodi Rell today announced that $2,221,622 in funding for the design of additions and renovations at Tunxis Community College in Farmington is expected to be approved when the State Bond Commission meets on March 28th. The design work is for renovations to an existing 34,000 square foot building to provide more classroom space as well as the construction of a new building that will house faculty and administrative offices.
“Providing the best learning environment possible for our students continues to be one of my top priorities,” Governor Rell said. “Investments in our institutions of higher learning are the best investments we can make in our future. Our community colleges play an important role by developing the skills of Connecticut’s workforce and we want to make sure that all of our public colleges and universities offer first-class educational opportunities.”
Last month, Governor Rell attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new $34.4 million library and classroom building at Tunxis Community College which doubled the size of the College. That project consisted of a 37,000 square foot two-story library with clock tower, a 58,000 square foot classroom building, and a glass-enclosed cyber café.
The new library includes two computer classrooms, 14 study rooms, an adjacent 40-seat classroom, and a coffee / sandwich bar. The new classroom building includes five science laboratories for Biology, Chemistry, Micro-biology, and Physics; a simulated dental hygiene clinic and laboratory; computer graphics studios; art and photography studios; six classrooms; eight break-out rooms; and academic resource space.
“Across Connecticut, we are continuing to transform the campuses of our public colleges and universities with new and renovated spaces and facilities,” Governor Rell said. “We will continue to focus on the creation of outstanding educational opportunities for all of the citizens of our state.”
Tunxis Community College was founded in 1970. The College serves close to 12,000 credit and non-credit students each year.
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Governor M. Jodi Rell today announced that $2,221,622 in funding for the design of additions and renovations at Tunxis Community College in Farmington is expected to be approved when the State Bond Commission meets on March 28th. The design work is for renovations to an existing 34,000 square foot building to provide more classroom space as well as the construction of a new building that will house faculty and administrative offices.
“Providing the best learning environment possible for our students continues to be one of my top priorities,” Governor Rell said. “Investments in our institutions of higher learning are the best investments we can make in our future. Our community colleges play an important role by developing the skills of Connecticut’s workforce and we want to make sure that all of our public colleges and universities offer first-class educational opportunities.”
Last month, Governor Rell attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new $34.4 million library and classroom building at Tunxis Community College which doubled the size of the College. That project consisted of a 37,000 square foot two-story library with clock tower, a 58,000 square foot classroom building, and a glass-enclosed cyber café.
The new library includes two computer classrooms, 14 study rooms, an adjacent 40-seat classroom, and a coffee / sandwich bar. The new classroom building includes five science laboratories for Biology, Chemistry, Micro-biology, and Physics; a simulated dental hygiene clinic and laboratory; computer graphics studios; art and photography studios; six classrooms; eight break-out rooms; and academic resource space.
“Across Connecticut, we are continuing to transform the campuses of our public colleges and universities with new and renovated spaces and facilities,” Governor Rell said. “We will continue to focus on the creation of outstanding educational opportunities for all of the citizens of our state.”
Tunxis Community College was founded in 1970. The College serves close to 12,000 credit and non-credit students each year.
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February 21, 2008
Tunxis takes flight... and looks for more
FARMINGTON - Don Cassin remembers the “little shopping center” with a bank building beside Scott Swamp Road where he used to get his hair cut.
Cassin, a Bristol resident who once served as the state’s public works commissioner, also recalls the day almost four decades ago that he started the state’s overhaul of the retail complex so it could become Tunxis Community College.
For most of its history, the college looked like it was squeezed into an old shopping center. But it’s not that way anymore.
Gov. Jodi Rell showed up for Thursday’s celebration at the growing school for a ceremonial ribbon cutting on a $34.4 million renovation that has transformed the college’s appearance, providing state-of-the-art classrooms, study areas, a modern library, a Cyber Café and more.
“We’ve come a long way since that bank building,” Rell said. “The future is here – and the future is Tunxis.”
“We will never again be invisible,” said Cathryn Addy, the college’s longtime president. “We believe this is the beginning of yet another new era of quality education.”
“It’s a better learning environment,” said Wendy Tordonato, a student from New Britain. “I love it. I think it’s great for the school. It’s long overdue.”
She said the newer, fresher buildings “bring a new life to the school, which is important. This is bringing the school more together as a community.”
“It shows this college really does care about its students,” said Southington’s Mike Cordani, the student government secretary.
Looking around inside the library, state Rep. Bill Hamzy, a Plymouth Republican, said, “It’s incredible. This is… wow!”
Rell told a crowd of about 250 who packed into the new library that the Tunxis project “is a symbol that we believe in education” in Connecticut.
She said that some say there are “no magic bullets” to solve the problems facing the state, but she’s not sure that’s true.
“If education isn’t a magic bullet, then I don’t know what is,” the governor said.
U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy, the 5th District’s Democratic congressman, said that Tunxis has done a terrific job educating students for many years, but having new facilities will make it easier.
“Walls and bricks and mortar do matter,” Murphy said, in boosting morale and making life better for the students, faculty and staff who play such an important role in educating thousands of area residents.
“This isn’t just a school. This is a community,” Murphy said, adding that it serves as the lifeblood for Plainville, Bristol, Plymouth, Farmington and other nearby towns whose people flock to Tunxis to further their educations and careers.
The new construction is “phenomenal,” said Bristol’s mayor, Art Ward. He said it will help provide educational opportunities for many residents who might not have a chance otherwise.
“Community colleges make dreams into realities,” said the chancellor of the Connecticut community college system, Marc Herzog.
For state Sen. Tom Colapietro, a Bristol Democrat who represents the 31st District, the college offered him his first chance to learn about computers. He learned the old DOS operating system at Tunxis years ago, he said, and it’s the reason he’s shelled out so much money on computers ever since.
Colapietro said he tried to learn to type at Tunxis, too, but never got the hang of it.
Officials praised the architects and construction firm for providing a first-class project that’s been partly in use since last summer. They also heaped praise on Rell for supporting the project.
But it was clear that Addy played a key role.
Addy “has a gentle persistence,” Herzog said. “I’m a little black and blue.”
Addy made a point of point of highlighting the work done by Tunxis’s building director, John Lodovico of Bristol.
“None of this would have been possible” without his efforts, Addy said. “John is absolutely the best that I can imagine. He is never going to be allowed to retire.”
After about 50 minutes of speeches, area lawmakers, college officials, Rell and others connected to the construction gathered behind a crepe paper ribbon for a ceremonial dedication of the new library.
As the ribbon fluttered to the ground, Addy was beaming.
Project facts
Cost: $34.4 million
Construction began: Spring 2006
Size: 95,000 square feet
Buildings: Two
Architect: DuBose Associates, Inc. of Hartford
Contractor: M.A. Angeliades, Inc. of Trumbull
What’s next for Tunxis?
The college is hoping to move on to Phase 2 of the project soon.
The next phase would demolish some older classrooms that remain and construct a much-needed auditorium and faculty offices, college officials said.
The price tag is $15 million for the next construction phase, said the chancellor of the Connecticut community college system, Marc Herzog.
Herzog said, though, that less than $5 million in design work is needed first. That money is already approved, but needs the governor’s green light to make the State Bond Commission agenda, officials said.
“Get in line,” Gov. Jodi Rell said Thursday. But, she added, she would think carefully about doing it.
Rell said that with so many people competing to get projects on the state list so they can move forward, it’s never easy to choose.
Tunxis President Cathryn Addy jokingly mentioned the bond agenda in a letter she put in a time capsule that’s slated for opening in 25 years. She asked future officials if the next phase had yet made it past the bond panel.
Rell laughed, but made no promises.
“It would be nice to see the rest of the building done,” said Mike Cordani, a student from Southington. “But it all comes in time.”
For more information, check out Tunxis' website about the project
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Cassin, a Bristol resident who once served as the state’s public works commissioner, also recalls the day almost four decades ago that he started the state’s overhaul of the retail complex so it could become Tunxis Community College.
For most of its history, the college looked like it was squeezed into an old shopping center. But it’s not that way anymore.
Gov. Jodi Rell showed up for Thursday’s celebration at the growing school for a ceremonial ribbon cutting on a $34.4 million renovation that has transformed the college’s appearance, providing state-of-the-art classrooms, study areas, a modern library, a Cyber Café and more.
“We’ve come a long way since that bank building,” Rell said. “The future is here – and the future is Tunxis.”
“We will never again be invisible,” said Cathryn Addy, the college’s longtime president. “We believe this is the beginning of yet another new era of quality education.”
“It’s a better learning environment,” said Wendy Tordonato, a student from New Britain. “I love it. I think it’s great for the school. It’s long overdue.”
She said the newer, fresher buildings “bring a new life to the school, which is important. This is bringing the school more together as a community.”
“It shows this college really does care about its students,” said Southington’s Mike Cordani, the student government secretary.
Looking around inside the library, state Rep. Bill Hamzy, a Plymouth Republican, said, “It’s incredible. This is… wow!”
Rell told a crowd of about 250 who packed into the new library that the Tunxis project “is a symbol that we believe in education” in Connecticut.
She said that some say there are “no magic bullets” to solve the problems facing the state, but she’s not sure that’s true.
“If education isn’t a magic bullet, then I don’t know what is,” the governor said.
U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy, the 5th District’s Democratic congressman, said that Tunxis has done a terrific job educating students for many years, but having new facilities will make it easier.
“Walls and bricks and mortar do matter,” Murphy said, in boosting morale and making life better for the students, faculty and staff who play such an important role in educating thousands of area residents.
“This isn’t just a school. This is a community,” Murphy said, adding that it serves as the lifeblood for Plainville, Bristol, Plymouth, Farmington and other nearby towns whose people flock to Tunxis to further their educations and careers.
The new construction is “phenomenal,” said Bristol’s mayor, Art Ward. He said it will help provide educational opportunities for many residents who might not have a chance otherwise.
“Community colleges make dreams into realities,” said the chancellor of the Connecticut community college system, Marc Herzog.
For state Sen. Tom Colapietro, a Bristol Democrat who represents the 31st District, the college offered him his first chance to learn about computers. He learned the old DOS operating system at Tunxis years ago, he said, and it’s the reason he’s shelled out so much money on computers ever since.
Colapietro said he tried to learn to type at Tunxis, too, but never got the hang of it.
Officials praised the architects and construction firm for providing a first-class project that’s been partly in use since last summer. They also heaped praise on Rell for supporting the project.
But it was clear that Addy played a key role.
Addy “has a gentle persistence,” Herzog said. “I’m a little black and blue.”
Addy made a point of point of highlighting the work done by Tunxis’s building director, John Lodovico of Bristol.
“None of this would have been possible” without his efforts, Addy said. “John is absolutely the best that I can imagine. He is never going to be allowed to retire.”
After about 50 minutes of speeches, area lawmakers, college officials, Rell and others connected to the construction gathered behind a crepe paper ribbon for a ceremonial dedication of the new library.
As the ribbon fluttered to the ground, Addy was beaming.
Project facts
Cost: $34.4 million
Construction began: Spring 2006
Size: 95,000 square feet
Buildings: Two
Architect: DuBose Associates, Inc. of Hartford
Contractor: M.A. Angeliades, Inc. of Trumbull
What’s next for Tunxis?
The college is hoping to move on to Phase 2 of the project soon.
The next phase would demolish some older classrooms that remain and construct a much-needed auditorium and faculty offices, college officials said.
The price tag is $15 million for the next construction phase, said the chancellor of the Connecticut community college system, Marc Herzog.
Herzog said, though, that less than $5 million in design work is needed first. That money is already approved, but needs the governor’s green light to make the State Bond Commission agenda, officials said.
“Get in line,” Gov. Jodi Rell said Thursday. But, she added, she would think carefully about doing it.
Rell said that with so many people competing to get projects on the state list so they can move forward, it’s never easy to choose.
Tunxis President Cathryn Addy jokingly mentioned the bond agenda in a letter she put in a time capsule that’s slated for opening in 25 years. She asked future officials if the next phase had yet made it past the bond panel.
Rell laughed, but made no promises.
“It would be nice to see the rest of the building done,” said Mike Cordani, a student from Southington. “But it all comes in time.”
For more information, check out Tunxis' website about the project
Here's what Phase 2 is supposed to look like:
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September 21, 2007
Bond money for Bristol
Press release from Sen. Tom Colapietro this morning:
SEN. COLAPIETRO APPLAUDS BOND AUTHORIZATIONS FOR BRISTOL COMMUNITY
Hartford - In a 21-to-12 vote at the Capitol last evening, the Senate approved a bond authorization package for the State of Connecticut including school construction funds, bridge repairs and transportation improvements, restoration of the Clean Water Fund, and funding for several capital improvement projects in the 31st District.
“This is a good balanced package for the state that recognizes some of Bristol’s needs while funding bridge repairs and school construction projects,” said Senator Colapietro.
The package, which authorizes the state’s bonding for the next two fiscal years, includes:
· A $200,000 grant for the Indian Rock Nature Preserve in Bristol,
· A $425,000 grant-in-aid to the Bristol Community Organization, Inc. to purchase a building for expansion of its Head Start program, and
· $19,118,861 for alterations and improvements to the buildings and grounds at Tunxis Community College.
“These are organizations and projects that provide great social and cultural service to our communities,” Senator Colapietro said.
Additionally, Senator Colapietro noted that $3,500,000 was authorized for road relocation, utility upgrades, new service facilities, and other improvements related to expanding the Lake Compounce Water Park in Southington.
“Although Lake Compounce isn’t wholly in my district,” Senator Colapietro added, “I pushed for the funding in for the park. I know that many of my constituents enjoy Lake Compounce, and I’m pleased that these funds are in the bond package.”
The package was later approved by the state House of Representatives in an 84-to-38 vote.
The total $3.15 billion package for Fiscal Years 2008 and 2009 must still be signed into law by Gov. M. Jodi Rell; individual bonding projects must then be placed by the governor on the State Bond Commission agenda for its consideration and approval before any work is undertaken.
“I urge the governor to sign this package for the benefit of the State of Connecticut and to put these items for Bristol and Plymouth on the Bond Commission agenda,” Senator Colapietro said.
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SEN. COLAPIETRO APPLAUDS BOND AUTHORIZATIONS FOR BRISTOL COMMUNITY
Hartford - In a 21-to-12 vote at the Capitol last evening, the Senate approved a bond authorization package for the State of Connecticut including school construction funds, bridge repairs and transportation improvements, restoration of the Clean Water Fund, and funding for several capital improvement projects in the 31st District.
“This is a good balanced package for the state that recognizes some of Bristol’s needs while funding bridge repairs and school construction projects,” said Senator Colapietro.
The package, which authorizes the state’s bonding for the next two fiscal years, includes:
· A $200,000 grant for the Indian Rock Nature Preserve in Bristol,
· A $425,000 grant-in-aid to the Bristol Community Organization, Inc. to purchase a building for expansion of its Head Start program, and
· $19,118,861 for alterations and improvements to the buildings and grounds at Tunxis Community College.
“These are organizations and projects that provide great social and cultural service to our communities,” Senator Colapietro said.
Additionally, Senator Colapietro noted that $3,500,000 was authorized for road relocation, utility upgrades, new service facilities, and other improvements related to expanding the Lake Compounce Water Park in Southington.
“Although Lake Compounce isn’t wholly in my district,” Senator Colapietro added, “I pushed for the funding in for the park. I know that many of my constituents enjoy Lake Compounce, and I’m pleased that these funds are in the bond package.”
The package was later approved by the state House of Representatives in an 84-to-38 vote.
The total $3.15 billion package for Fiscal Years 2008 and 2009 must still be signed into law by Gov. M. Jodi Rell; individual bonding projects must then be placed by the governor on the State Bond Commission agenda for its consideration and approval before any work is undertaken.
“I urge the governor to sign this package for the benefit of the State of Connecticut and to put these items for Bristol and Plymouth on the Bond Commission agenda,” Senator Colapietro said.
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