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I wish all our Weston, Redding and Easton students, teachers, faculty, staff, and parents an enthusiastic welcome back to school!
I hope everyone is inspired and energized as the new school year begins in all three towns.
 As a reminder, we all have to stop for school buses. Never go around a bus when they have their stop sign out and always be cautious there may be students nearby even if the stop sign signal isn’t active.
 Slow down in the school parking lots.
Here’s to a year full of connection and growth!
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| One of my favorite spots in the world -- not just in the district or the state -- is the Saugatuck Reservoir. My recent visit to attend the annual fire chiefs meeting and training last week, hosted by Aquarion Water Company, was refreshing and recharging, and served as a constant reminder that we must constantly work to preserve, conserve and protect the natural life-sustaining resources around us. |
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Almost 1 in 10 Connecticut residents are burdened by medical debt and often they are the most vulnerable among us.
Connecticut became the first state to help over 120,000 residents pay off medical debt. But many of us are just one car accident, one cancer diagnosis, one house fire, or one chronic disease away from crushing medical debt. Even if we haven’t personally experienced medical debt, it looms over us and threatens our peace of mind because it’s usually unplanned, unpredictable, unavoidable, and unaffordable.
Click here to view steps health care consumers can take to reduce or eliminate medical debt.
If you have a problem, question or concern about your healthcare policy, its coverages, your deductibles, having your claims paid or getting preauthorization for medically necessary care, contact The Connecticut Office of the Healthcare Advocate today!
Phone: 866-466-4446
Email: Healthcare.Advocate@ct.gov
Website: www.CT.gov/OHA
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This week we recognized Women's Equality Day. On Aug. 26, 1920, the 19th amendment was certified - giving women the right to vote ... but the fight was not easy. It took activists and reformers, like my grandmother, pictured on the right at 16 years old taking to the streets of Washington, D.C., in 1917, over 100 years to win that right after a massive, peaceful civil rights movement.
Pictured below is my grandmother, the teenage suffragette. |
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| I don’t take our right to vote for granted these days, and neither should you. There are attempts to suppress, deny and delegitimize our hard-won civil and constitutional rights on all fronts. This is why I take to the streets in solidarity with those fighting for due process, for exercising all our constitutional rights in this moment. |
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| Aspetuck Land Trust Fall Native Plant Sale online ordering began Aug. 26 for members. Join or Renew Here! Plant Pickup at Haskins Preserve in Westport, Oct. 3 to 5. |
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The 64th annual Mark Twain Library Book Fair will take place Labor Day weekend -- Friday, Aug. 29, to Monday, Sept. 1 -- at the The Redding Community Center, 37 Lonetown Road.
The times are the following:
- Friday: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. prices as marked
- Saturday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. prices as marked
- Sunday (half-price day): 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. half price day
- Monday ($10 for a box of books): 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The book fair is the oldest and one of the largest in New England, with more than 60,000 books in 75 categories that will be on sale.
Admission is free, except there is a $20 early admission fee from 9 to 10 a.m. on Friday ONLY.
Free parking; refreshments will be on sale.
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| Summer Movie Under the Stars |
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Weston Commission for the Arts, in partnership with Weston Softball and Weston Baseball, is hosting a movie under the stars on Saturday, Aug. 30, at 5 p.m. at the middle school baseball field. (Rain date Aug. 31).
The evening will start at 5 p.m. with pre-film baseball and softball games featuring a sports announcer/DJ, hot dogs, Cracker Jacks, and maybe even a cameo or two of your favorite characters from the film itself! Bring your lawn chairs, picnic baskets, and baseball mitts. |
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As always, please feel free to contact my office at 800-842-8267 or by email at anne.hughes@cga.ct.gov. And "Like" and follow my Facebook page for regular legislative updates.
Peace,
Anne Hughes
State Representative |
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