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AHNA wishes you and your family a happy and healthy New Year. Our first General neighborhood meeting of 2021 will take place on Monday, January 4th at 6:15pm via Zoom. The agenda for January includes an overview of the upcoming legislative session from Speaker-elect Matt Ritter and as well as an update on road safety and school zone speed camera legislation in 2021.
Greetings to my friends and neighbors in Asylum Hill!
2021!
By State Rep. Matt Ritter
2021 is here and we are ready for a new year and a new legislative session. I am very proud that my colleagues in the House of Representatives have chosen me to be Speaker of the House after four years as House Majority Leader.
In looking back at the year that everyone seems to disparage, let's try to identify a few of the good things that happened, if only to give one another some encouragement for the year ahead.
For those of you who have been to the AHNA website most anytime in the past few years you have no doubt noticed that the basic design hasn't changed in a lot of years, and also that it's not the most modern or user friendly. It's not that we are ignoring it; it's just that we really haven't had the band width or skills to fix it.
When we left off last month we noted that there are fewer than 100 single family, owner-occupied brick Victorian homes remaining in Asylum Hill. That is less than a quarter of the more than 400 such homes that are shown on the Sanborn map from 1920.
