Workers with New England Masonry and Roofing Co., Montana Lamphere and Octavio Vasquez, left, and Benny Naxhaku and Jeff Rrahimi, right, remove bricks from the top tiers of the Cranston Building clock tower at Norwich Free Academy Monday, July 6, 2020. The summer-long project, which will rebuild the top portion of the tower, began with a crane removing 1,000 pound caps from the structure. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Sandra Laub, of Pawcatuck, holds signs for passing cars during a Peace & Justice for Crystal Caldwell rally at the Stonington Police Department on Sunday, July 5, 2020. The (Sarah Gordon / The Day)

Wayne Rawls, nephew of Crystal Caldwell, speaks as Al Mayo, a Gales Ferry resident and New London firefighter, waves a Black Lives Matter flag behind him during a Peace & Justice for Crystal Caldwell rally at the Stonington Police Department on Sunday, July 5, 2020. The (Sarah Gordon / The Day)

Hopkington residents Steven Kessler, left and Rebecca Thornton participate in a Peace & Justice for Crystal Caldwell rally at the Stonington Police Department on Sunday, July 5, 2020. The (Sarah Gordon / The Day)

New London City Councilor Curtis Goodwin reads Frederick Douglass´ speech, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?Ó during a program at the Hempsted Houses in New London on Sunday, July 5, 2020. The annual event featured a reading and conversation around the Declaration of Independence Douglass´ piece. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)

Bernadette Gecki waters the plants in the Rockwell Street Gardens in the median on Rockwell between McKinley Ave. and Crescent St. in Norwich Monday, July 6, 2020. Gecki, and her husband Stan Kaplan, are on their one-week rotation tending to the neighborhood garden, a responsibility shared with a number of neighbors as part of Rockwell Street Gardens. “He´s the weeder, and I´m the waterer,Ó said Gecki. “He´s a master gardener, I wouldn´t know what to pull,Ó she added. Rockwell Street Gardens, Inc., which was established in 2003, works with Malerba´s Farm to create a garden plan and then members take turns planting and tending the plants and flowers. . (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Waterford resident Michael Dunn pauses to collect himself as he speaks after receiving a certificate from U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) Monday, July 6, 2020 recognizing Dunn´s heroism in attempting to rescue a drowning woman last August on Long Island during a presentaiton at Harkness Memorial State Park in Waterford. Dunn has been named a recipient of a Carnegie Medal for heroism by the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, the highest civilian honor for heroism in the U.S. and Canada. With Dunn are his wife, Deborah Moshier-Dunn, and children Mac, 16, and Natalie, 7. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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An adult osprey and two offspring perch in their platform nest in the Paffard Marsh Preserve off Rt. 1 in Stonington Tuesday, July 7, 2020. Osprey generally mate for life and lay a clutch of 2-4 eggs each year. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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FRESH Junior staff members Renasha Brown, left, and Makeeda Bandele, and work on tying up green beans at a community garden in New London on Tuesday, July 7, 2020. The nine beds, located on Broad Street in front of the Ledge Light Health District office, are part of the Snack Bed Working Group of FRESH New London´s five-year Urban Agriculture Plan. Home to tomatoes, beans, collard greens and other vegetables the garden is maintained by FRESH and community members are invited to pick produce. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)

Andrew Phelan, 6, casts a line as his mother Anya helps his brother Sasha, 4, put bait on a hook as they fish with their father David, not pictured, all of Old Lyme, at a dock along Pattagansett Lake in East Lyme on Tuesday, July 7, 2020. David said the family has been working their way through area fishing spots this summer. “It´s a great way to spend a day, and usually a less crowded one where we feel safer,Ó he said. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)

Matt Zeppieri, with Groton City Parks and Recreation, uses a gas-powered trimmer to take down the tall grass growing in the wetlands known as Lake George in Washington Park Tuesday, July 7, 2020. Zeppieri said the mower usually used on the area is out of service today so he was using the trimmer on a wider area than usual. The trimmer is typically used only on the tall grasses around the deeper waterways. The area used to be flooded in the winter for use as a skating pond. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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The Mystic schooner Argia pass through a Noank shipyard on Wednesday, July 8, 2020. Argia offers sails out Mystic with strict guidelines for numbers and spacing of passengers due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)

Second class cadets Lily Maranto, left, and Mary Tran take the height measurement of Nicholas Torres, center, as members of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Class of 2024 report-in for the start of Swab Summer Wednesday, July 8, 2020. The 275 prospective cadets arrived by platoon over the course of the day and after a check-in routine and swearing-in started a 14-day restriction of movement (ROM) period consisting mostly of online and some classroom training. The traditional physical training, haircuts and uniform issue will take place after the quarantine period. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Second class cadet Greg Hill, center, checks on Charlie Platoon as members of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Class of 2024 report-in for the start of Swab Summer Wednesday, July 8, 2020. The 275 prospective cadets arrived by platoon over the course of the day and after a check-in routine and swearing-in started a 14-day restriction of movement (ROM) period consisting mostly of online and some classroom training. The traditional physical training, haircuts and uniform issue will take place after the quarantine period. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Nick LoBianco, left, and Stephen Turner of Roasted Coffee Company at their location in the Velvet Mill in Stonington on Wednesday, July 8, 2020. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)

Beachgoers play along the rocks of duBois beach as sailboats move past on Wednesday, July 8, 2020 in Stonington. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)

Aiden Wilson, 10, of East Providence, splashes in the cascade from Chapman Falls in Devil´s Hopyard State Park in East Haddam Thursday, July 9, 2020. “It´s hot and humid, so I thought Ôlet´s go find a waterfall,Ó said Aiden´s mother Taschi. The falls, which drop the river 60-feet in elevation, are a popular spot of fishing, swimming, and leaf-peeping. The name of the park is said to come from glacial potholes found in the area of the falls being formed when The Devil, angry at getting his tail wet in the river, burned holes in the stone with his hooves as he hopped away. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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A bumblebees searches for nectar on pickerelweed blossoms as the historic Chester-Hadlyme Ferry M/V Selden III crosses the Connecticut River Thursday, July 9, 2020 in the shadow of Gillette Castle State Park. The seasonal ferry, the second oldest continuously operating ferry in the state. The ferry runs from April through November. The ferry can carry from 8-9 cars per trip and connects state route 148 across the river. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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A bicyclist moves along Groton Long Point Road as a group of kayakers moves through Palmer Cove in Groton on Thursday, July 9, 2020. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)

Adeline Smith, of East Lyme, works on her basketball skills on the courts at Peretz Park in Niantic Thursday, July 9, 2020. Smith, who was homeschooled through high school, will attend UConn Avery Point this fall where she will play on the women´s basketball team. Smith said she was glad when the hoops at the Peretz Park courts were recently re-installed, giving her a place to practice close to home. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Josian Figueroa, 12, jumps into the water to join his friend Johnathan Ventura, 13, as a crowd of kids cool off in the waters of the Eight Mile River at the base of Chapman Falls in Devil´s Hopyard State Park in East Haddam Thursday, July 9, 2020. “It´s always fun here, it never disappoints,Ó said Ventura. The falls, which drop the river 60-feet in elevation, are a popular spot of fishing, swimming, and leaf-peeping. The name of the park is said to come from glacial potholes found in the area of the falls being formed when The Devil, angry at getting his tail wet in the river, burned holes in the stone with his hooves as he hopped away. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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New London recreation department lifeguards, from left, Fiona Hook, Callan Veltheim, and Jake Gannotti, take shelter from the rain inside their office at Greens Harbor Beach Friday, July 10, 2020. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Wayne Rawls turns from the crowd to direct his ire toward the Stonington Police Department building as several dozen protesters gather Saturday, July 11, 2020, in support of Crystal Caldwell of Groton. Surveillance video shows Caldwell being assaulted by a white couple allegedly hurling racial slurs June 26 while she was working at the Quality Inn in Mystic. The protest, organized by We Won't Stand Down, was directed at the Stonington Police Department's handling of the case. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Crystal Caldwell, center, is comforted by her son Jammel Caldwell, back, her husband, Charles Boyd, back left, her attorney M. John Strafaci, left, and nephew Wayne Rawls, right, after breaking down before addressing several dozen protesters gathered Saturday, July 11, 2020, in front of the Stonington Police Department to rally in her support. Surveillance video shows Caldwell being assaulted by a white couple allegedly hurling racial slurs June 26 while she was working at the Quality Inn in Mystic. The protest, organized by We Won't Stand Down, was directed at the Stonington Police Department's handling of the case. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Lola and Luis Sosa of New Britain take a photo together Saturday, July 11, 2020, among the fire monitors mounted atop the historic fireboat Fire Fighter docked at the Custom House Pier in New London. The vessel, which served the Fire Department of the city of New York from 1938 to 2010, is operated out of Greenport, N.Y., as America's Fireboat -Fire Fighter Museum. It will be docked at the pier in New London awaiting an opening at a Rhode Island shipyard for maintenance. Tours no more than 12 visitors on board at one time are offered from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Fire Fighter was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Surfers bob in the water Saturday, July 11, 2020, awaiting a wave in the waters off the Weekapaug Fire District Beach in Westerly. Tropical Storm Fay, which made landfall Friday night in New Jersey, churned up surf in the region. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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