A surfer bails out from his board and the end of a ride off the Misquamicut beaches in Westerly Tuesday, September 22, 2020. Hurricane Teddy, far off in the North Atlantic is churning up surf along the eastern seaboard. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Maureen Plumleigh, of Old Lyme, sets up her oars before participating in a Halfway to St. Patrick´s Day car parade with the New London Currach Rowers on Sunday, September 20, 2020 in New London. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)

Public Defender Fred DeCaprio poses for a portrait at his office at New London Superior Court on Thursday, September 17, 2020. DeCaprio, who has spent most of his career defending people facing the death penalty, including serial killer Michael Ross, is retiring after 30 years. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)

Melanie Meador helps her son Ford, 4, push his sister Sabine, 1, from North Carolina, as they walk along the Niantic Bay Boardwalk on Monday, September 21, 2020. The family is in town for a few months for work and decided to spend the early fall day walking around downtown Melanie said.(Sarah Gordon / The Day)

Lorenzo Cruz, 12, looks on as his dad Eudocio, of New London, fixes a nitro powered remote controlled cars along the rocks at Ocean Beach Park on Monday, September 21, 2020 in New London. Eudocio says he prefers using nitro over battery because of the troubleshooting you have to do. “Stuff breaks, you have to fix it, sometimes that´s the most fun part,Ó he said. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)

A fisher works from along the rocks of Eastern Point Beach as a Cross Sound Ferry passes on Tuesday, September 22, 2020 in Groton. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)

Community volunteer Zechariah Stover assembles a picnic table at Wequonnoc Magnet School in Norwich Wednesday, September 23, 2020. Stover joined Family Resource Center coordinator Cindy Beauregard, and Norwich Public Utilities employees Tom Gaedreau, and Shawn Paradis, assembling the ten tables delivered to the school. The Norwich Education Foundation is raising money to buy 100 picnic tables for the city´s schools to be used for outside dining, mask breaks and other outdoor activities. Volunteers from the community have been helping assemble the tables at each school. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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The last sunset of summer glows over the New London skyline Monday, September 21, 2020. The Autumnal Equinox, the beginning of fall, is at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Mike Jarvis, left, owner Tom Williams, not shown, and fellow crew members remove a scup net from F/V Heritage Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, at the Stonington Town Dock. The crew used the scup net in local waters during storm Teddy and will switch back to the net they use for catching haddock when they return to Georges Bank. (Dana Jensen/The Day)
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A small flock of snowy egrets feed along the shores of Goshen Cove in the Niering Preserve at Darkness Memorial State Park in Waterford Tuesday, September 22, 2020. The New England coastline is breeding territory for the birds. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Community volunteer Zechariah Stover uprights a newly assembled picnic table at Wequonnoc Magnet School in Norwich Wednesday, September 23, 2020. Stover joined Family Resource Center coordinator Cindy Beauregard, and Norwich Public Utilities employees Tom Gaedreau, and Shawn Paradis, assembling the ten tables delivered to the school. The Norwich Education Foundation is raising money to buy 100 picnic tables for the city´s schools to be used for outside dining, mask breaks and other outdoor activities. Volunteers from the community have been helping assemble the tables at each school. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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David Boisvert, center, department head of Hauling and Launch, goes through final checks aboard the Alerian 28-foot sailboat and talks to boat hauler Cliff Stamm, (cq) right, about hauling the boat to the indoor storage location in Ashaway, R.I. while staff member Gabriel Lima, left, takes a look after power washing the hull Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, at Dodson Boatyard in Stonington. Boisvert said they started hauling a few boats out of the water the second week of September and it won´t be real steady until after October 1 with the peak being anytime after Columbus Day and continue through Christmas. (Dana Jensen/The Day)
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A groundskeeper at Shennecossett Golf Course in Groton waits for the irrigation sprinklers to shut down before mowing the area around the 16th green Thursday, September 24, 2020. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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The U.S. Coast Guard Barque Eagle, training tall ship for the Coast Guard Academy, departs Fort Trumbull State Park bound for sea Thursday, September 24, 2020. Eagle is carrying a class of Coast Guard and National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) officer candidates. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Mystic Seaport Museum shipwright Scott Gifford inspects the starboard propeller, or screw, of the training vessel Liberator as he works with Greg See, Nathan Adams, along with Vice President for Watercraft Preservation and Programs Chris Gasiorek to re-install the 400-pound bronze hardware Thursday, September 24, 2020 at the Henry B. duPont Preservation Shipyard. The T/V Liberator, a training vessel for the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, NY, has been in Mystic for maintenance since June and is scheduled to return to King´s Point Friday. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Mystic Seaport Museum shipwrights Greg See, left, Nathan Adams, right, and Scott Gifford, back, along with Vice President for Watercraft Preservation and Programs Chris Gasiorek, not pictured, work to re-install the starboard propeller, or screw, on the training vessel Liberator Thursday, September 24, 2020 at the Henry B. duPont Preservation Shipyard. The T/V Liberator, a training vessel for the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, NY, has been in Mystic for maintenance since June and is scheduled to return to King´s Point Friday. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Spectators at the Mystic River Park watch as the tall ship Kalmar Nyckel passes the Mystic River Bascute Bridge after departing Mystic Seaport Museum Thursday, September 24, 2020. The vessel, the official tall ship of the state of Delaware, has been at the Seaport´s Henry B. duPont Preservation shipyard since the end of August undergoing maintenance and a U.S. Coast Guard Inspection. It is bound for its homeport off Wilmington and be open for a delayed and shorted fall sailing season. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Mike Berlinski of Plainville paints the view from Harkness Memorial State Park Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, in Waterford. Berlinski said he use to come to the park frequently, but had not been to the park in about ten years and had forgotten how beautiful it is and will now come more often. (Dana Jensen/The Day)
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Groton City Police Captain Eric Jenkins models one of the department´s new Axon body cameras Friday, September 25, 2020. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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U.S. Navy Lt. Commander Jeanne Van Gilder, engineering officer on the Virginia-class attack submarine USS Minnesota (SSN 783) Friday, September 25, 2020. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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Workers with Montenegro Roofing use a lift to access the upper floors to re-point the masonry of the exterior of the Custom House on Bank St. in New London Friday, September 25, 2020. The building, constructed in 1833 and designed by architect Robert Mills, best known for designing the Washington Monument, was damaged by an earthquake in the 19th century and the gaps in the stonework have grown to a point, according to museum Director Susan Tamulevich, where the masonry issues must be addressed. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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People sit in the Hygienic Art Park for a performance by Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra musicians Jonathan Towne and Rebecca Noreen Friday, September 25, 2020 as part of the weekly Dine-In Friday event. This Friday´s show as the final in the series of Soundscape Concert Series shows from ECSO performers. The Dine-In event features performances for a variety of local artist and various local artisans selling their wares. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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The U.S. Navy Virginia-class attack submarine USS Indiana (SSN 789) returns to U.S. Naval Submarine Base in Groton Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, after its maiden six months deployment. The homecoming was drive-in movie style with crew members walking to the parking spaces where their loved ones were waiting to welcome them home. (Dana Jensen/The Day)
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Crew members of the U.S. Navy Virginia-class attack submarine USS Indiana (SSN 789) wait on the brow before stepping onto the dock to see their loved ones upon returning to the U.S. Naval Submarine Base in Groton Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, after its maiden six months deployment. The homecoming was drive-in movie style with crew members walking to the parking spaces where their loved ones were waiting to welcome them home. (Dana Jensen/The Day)
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McKenzie Corley, 5, runs to her father, U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Hassan Corley, after he and his fellow crew members of the USS Indiana (SSN 789) returned Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, to the U.S. Naval Submarine Base in Groton. Lesean Corley, mother and wife, captures the moment with her smart phone in the background with sign. The homecoming was drive-in movie style with crew members walking to the parking spaces where their loved ones were waiting to welcome them home. (Dana Jensen/The Day)
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Wearing her steampunk garb, Elizabeth McKee, of Mystified Escape Room, directs traffic in the parking lot at the Bozrah Famers Market Friday, September 25, 2020. Steampunk is an inspired movement of creativity and imagination. With a backdrop of either Victorian England or America´s Wild West at hand, modern technologies are re-imagined and realized as elaborate works of art, fashion, and mechanics. The market runs July through October 9th from 4-7 p.m. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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U.S. Navy Electronics Technician 2nd Class Brandon Pyland and his fiancée Destiny Davis share a moment after placing his duffel bag in the back of the car after he and his fellow crew members of the USS Indiana (SSN 789) returned Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, to the U.S. Naval Submarine Base in Groton. The homecoming was drive-in movie style with crew members walking to the parking spaces where their loved ones were waiting to welcome them home. (Dana Jensen/The Day)
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The women's rowing group, of Ledyard Rowing, row a 25-foot gig with coach Russell Smith, right, steering while out on the Thames River Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020, in Gales Ferry. (Dana Jensen/The Day)
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Coach Russell Smith, front left, teaches a member of the youth rowing group, of Ledyard Rowing, how to row a scull while the other members row a 25-foot gig, in background, while out on Poquetanuck Cove Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020, in Gales Ferry. (Dana Jensen/The Day)
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Teanna Perkins, 11, of New London, looks at the 3.5 inch porgy she caught after it was officially measured during the second annual Family Fishing Tournament hosted by the New England Science & Sailing Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020, at City Pier in New London. Early in the tournament the fish was in the running for being the smallest fish caught. (Dana Jensen/The Day)
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Arianna Waring, 5, of New London, center, learns how to fish from Firefighter Lou Racicot, of the New London Fire Department, while Dimitri Karabelas, 10, of Waterford, fishes along side during the second annual Family Fishing Tournament hosted by New England Science & Sailing Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020, at City Pier in New London. (Dana Jensen/The Day)
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Norwich Police Sgt. Nick Rankin, head of the Community Policing unit, center, shares a laugh with community member Robin Relliford-Vilchez, left, one of the organizers, and Quinton Leftwich, right, of Roanoke, Va., during the Community Chat with NPD picnic event Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020, at Mohegan Park in Norwich. Leftwich, in town visiting his 2 year-old daughter, Kamiyah, was taking a walk with his daughter and his young brothers in the park when Relliford-Vilchez spotted them and invited them to join the picnic. (Dana Jensen/The Day)
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Jaxson Sherman, 5, second from right, of Norwich, gives Norwich Police Officer Briana Ramirez, left, of the Community Policing unit, an air high five after they successfully removed a block while playing Jenga against Kori Moody, 11, lower right, of Norwich, and Patrolman Robert McKinney, top right, also of the Community Policing Unit, during the Community Chat with NPD picnic event Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020, at Mohegan Park in Norwich. The boys were with their grandmother, Jeannie Amado, not shown,walking in the park when she remembered hearing about the picnic. (Dana Jensen/The Day)
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