[CPEO-MEF] Middletown (CT) reserve training center

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

As Military Seeks Site, a Move to Protect Rolling Acres

By THOMAS KAPLAN
Middletown Journal (CT)/New York Times
January 11, 2008

MIDDLETOWN, Conn. - A few months ago, when Wesleyan University announced 
that it would create 10 scholarships to encourage military veterans to 
study here, school officials and students talked of welcoming them with 
open arms.

A few weeks later, when the Army Corps of Engineers began inspecting 
land a few miles away from the Wesleyan campus to build a new, 
200,000-square-foot regional training center for reservists, the spirit 
was not so warm.

Some residents have asked the military to find another site for its 
complex, which they say could disrupt their rural neighborhood, Maromas, 
and mar the meadows and woodlands near the Connecticut River.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/nyregion/11middletown.html?ref=nyregion

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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