A message from Mayor Tim O'Brien: Cleaning up and celebrating Halloween.
City and utility workers continue clean up and fix up after the storm. As of this message, there are still people in the city without power, and we are continuing our work with CL&P on that. We are also working on clearing fallen branches, trees and other debris and are otherwise working to return life in our city to normal. I want to thank all of the city workers who worked hard to serve and protect city residents and businesses during the storm, and let me share my appreciation to our city's residents for doing what you needed to do to prepare and be ready.
Here are some updates and information:
- With the storm emergency passed, the New Britain Emergency Operations Center, which had been open for the storm since yesterday morning, closed today. The city is, however, continuing to work on clean-up and restoration.
- The Senior Center, which had operated as our city's shelter through the night, closed this morning.
- To help the city's residents, our Recycling Center at 642 Christian Lane in Berlin will be available during normal hours for city residents to bring trash, wood debris and recycling. This will be free for New Britain residents until Saturday. Please bring a proof of residency to access this free service.
- This (Tuesday) morning trash pick-up was cancelled and it is not practical for the city to reschedule the city's pickups to allow Tuesday pick up until next Tuesday morning. I apologize for any inconvenience. However, the Recycling Center is free for city residents to bring trash until Saturday, if you would like.
- If your recycling pick-up was for this (Tuesday) morning, we have scheduled a special recycling pickup for you for next Tuesday morning. After that, your recycling schedule returns to normal.
Halloween!
- The City's downtown Halloween celebration will be happening tomorrow (Wednesday) night. My house at 25 South High Street and many downtown businesses and organizations will have treats for kids and fun programs from 4:30pm to 6pm. At 6:30pm, there will be a costume parade for the kids and prizes for great costumes.
- For trick or treating citywide, please be safe. Some neighborhoods may still have some debris on the ground and, of course, please keep kids (and adults) away from any downed power lines.
Thanks so much, again. And have a fun and safe Halloween!
