Audubon Programs

By SHANNON HICKS

Published: Jan 16, 2009 12:00 am

Audubon Programs

Â SOUTHBURY âOn Wednesday, January 21, Audubon Center Educator Jim Drennan will give an âAll About Eaglesâ presentation, covering the life history of bald eagles. The program will run from 10 am until noon in the centerâs historic barn.

After that the group will carpool to Shepaug Dam to view the bald eagles wintering on the Housatonic River. Registration is limited; call Mr Drennan at 264-5098 or send email to JDrennan@Audubon.org. Cost is $10 per person, or $7 for Audubon Center members.

Then on Sunday, January 25, and again on Wednesday, January 28, the Audubon Center will host a Winter Tree Identification workshop. Sundayâs session will run from 1:30 to 3:30 pm, and Wednesdayâs will run 10 am to noon.

Â Cost for this program is also $10 per person, or $7 for Audubon members, which includes the cost of a Winter Tree Finder book. Contact Mr Drennan to register at 264-5098, extension 306, or JDrennan@Audubon.org.

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Nobody is suggesting shutting the doors on new neighbors. What neighboring towns are doing, and what we should be doing too, is to tap the brakes on all of the multi-family residential development proposals so that we can spend 6 months updating our regulations such that if you want to build dense residential housing here, XX percent of it needs to be affordable (we will never make any headway on increasing our percentage of affordable housing otherwise, short of 8-30g), and the rest needs to be done in as low an impact manner as possible. Low impact on traffic, health & safety, the environment and on the cost of town services.

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