Eleni Kavros DeGraw

With heat come storms and as I have included tips yet again for staying cool and avoiding heat exhaustion or heat stroke, I also recommend keeping an eye to the skies, and perhaps to a weather app on your phone, to keep yourself and others safe from dangerous weather events like lightning and strong winds. This afternoon looks to be a little wild!

It’s a broken record already, but we continue to be under an extreme heat advisory. I hope you are taking all precautions and if you do not have access to air conditioning at your home, you are seeking out the libraries and senior centers in Avon and Canton. Keeping that water bottle handy is extremely important right now.

Thank you to all the wonderful people who came out to the coffees in Canton on Saturday and the one this morning in Avon. Special thanks to LaSalle Deli & Market and to Beanz & Co. for hosting us – two extraordinary community builders in our community.

Special Session was a bit of a whirlwind yesterday as I brought out the 137-page emergency certification bill with an assist from Representatives Maria Horn and Jason Doucette. The bill passed in a bi-partisan fashion and not unusually, Republicans and Democrats found a lot to agree on.

Tomorrow the House will be in special session as the Senate is in today. Initially, we needed a special session because of an amendment to a House bill by the Senate that was deeply flawed. It would have significantly impacted commercial vehicles and secondarily personal vehicles.

As you most likely heard via news outlets yesterday, the Governor has activated the hot weather protocol this week due to the unusual-for-June 90-degree heatwave we are expecting.

Today, as a state, we mourn the passing of State Trooper Aaron Pelletier. While I did not know him, I do know members of his extended family and as you can imagine, it’s been an incredibly shocking and difficult time.

Today, as a state, we mourn the passing of State Trooper Aaron Pelletier. While I did not know him, I do know members of his extended family and as you can imagine, it’s been an incredibly shocking and difficult time.