The Week in Photos, Sunday, October 25th
October 24, 2020 12:00 am
• Last Updated: October 24, 2020 9:30 pm
The Stonington High School girls crew team passes the Mystic Seaport Museum Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020, while practicing on the Mystic River. (Dana Jensen/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
A look back at the week in photos from The Day, Sunday, October 25, 2020.
Survivors, from left, Mary Beth Klender, of Pawcatuck, Heidi Hultmark, of Groton, and Margie Elkins, of Niantic, wave from a convertible during a Pink Celebration and Drive Through event for breast cancer survivors at Rocky Neck State Park on Sunday, October 18, 2020. The event, hosted by Making Stride Against Breast Cancer of New London County, was planned after COVID-19 canceled their annual walk to raise awareness and funds. Participants were encouraged to decorate their cars as they drove through the park where there was a survivor recognition tent and a tribute garden set up. “We thought it was important to recognize another year has passed for our survivors,Ó said Community Development Manager with the American Cancer Society Dana Wolf. “Especially given that this year has been the hardest for many of us.Ó (Sarah Gordon / The Day)
David Vocatura, right, owner of Vocatura´s Bakery, talks to emergency responders after a man drove his Jeep through the front of the building Sunday, October 18, 2020 in Norwich. The driver of the Jeep that crashed through the front window of the landmark city business walked away uninjured. Vocatura said he just escaped with his life, having stepped away from the location the vehicles entered just moments before. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Volunteers with the East Great Plain Fire Department Dave Royce left, and Joe Jackson look at a drone, donated by Airborne Works, following a ceremony on Monday, October 19, 2020. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)
A pedestrian pauses to read the marquee at the Garde Arts Center in New London on Monday, October 19, 2020. Governor Ned Lamont announced the state will be providing up to $9 million in grants to nonprofit arts organizations in pandemic relief. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)
Late fall foliage is reflected in the waters of Fitchville Pond in Bozrah Monday, October 19, 2020. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Caroline Doughty sits in her school bus at the Regional District 18 lot Thursday, October 15, 2020 in Old Lyme. Doughty is retiring this week after 48-years driving school buses in town. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Sara Bohara brings her sons Noah, 6, and Liam, 2, to watch their dad Daniel, operating the backhoe, work with his Norwich Public Utilities crew on a waiter main repair on Fitchville Rd. In Bozrah Monday, October 19, 2020. The 30-inch water main broke around 1 p.m. and crews are expected to take 10-12 hours for the repair. NPU customers in Bozrah will be without water for the duration and NPU has asked customers in Norwich to conserve water as much as possible during that time as well. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
National Theater Institute student Max Younger, right, and Patrick Thompson, center, stay to different areas of the porch as work through a song on Tuesday, October 19, 2020 at the Eugene Eugene O'Neill Theater Center´s campus in Waterford. The rehearsal was part of a singing class taught by Anne Tofflemire who sat on the opposite side of the porch from students. The class is usually held indoors with groups of students but with this fall´s COVID-19 protocols students meet one-on-one outdoors said Tofflemire. Social distancing and masks are required on the school´s campus for all student´s and visitors. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)
Before the debate Sen. Paul Formica (R),left, and and candidate Martha Marx (D) discuss wether they will be wearing masks during the 20th District State Senate debate Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2020, at the Garde Arts Center in New London. Steve Sigel, Executive Director of the Garde, looks on. (Dana Jensen/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
A paddle-border moves past a sailboat in the fog off Groton Long Point on Wednesday, October 21, 2020. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)
A fisherman tries his luck Wednesday morning, Oct. 21, 2020, off the coast of New London with New London Ledge Light in the background. (Dana Jensen/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
A group of young men play basketball at the city basketball court on Washington St. in Norwich Monday, October 19, 2020. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Jennifer Sim, right, dives for a ball as teammate Jeff Cummings looks on as they play friends in a game of volleyball at Esker Point Beach on Thursday, October 22, 2020 in Groton. Cummings, who owns the Sandbox an indoor beach sports and event center in Groton, said a group has been getting together to play outside every chance the weather allows. “Luckly it´s been a very cooperative fall,Ó he commented. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)
Anita Bellows of Waterford, center, pauses to watch Greg Stratos, also of Waterford, move to return the ball while she and Pat Whitaker of East Lyme have a conversation while waiting their turn to play a game of pickleball Wednesday at Samuel M. Peretz Park at Bridebrook in East Lyme. A group of pickleball players play pickup games at parks, and bring their own nets in Waterford and East Lyme where there are tennis courts, but Peretz Park has pickleball courts painted on the basketball courts. (Dana Jensen/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Candidate Brendan Saunders (R), left, and State Sen. Norm Needleman (D) chat after their 33rd District Senate debate Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020, at the Garde Arts Center in New London. (Dana Jensen/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Robert Wade inspects the apples as he feeds from into the hopper to be ground up for cider pressing at B.F. Clyde´s Cider Mill in Old Mystic Friday, October 23, 2020. Cider pressing can be seen sporadically between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. most days. Due to coronavirus precautions visitors are not allowed into the historic cider mill building, but doors and windows are open for viewing. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Old Mystic Fire Department Fire Inspector/Firefighter Adam Pereira washes the department´s G-62, a 2015 Ferrara Inferno rescue pumper, at Station 2 Friday, October 23, 2020. Pereira says they wash the engine at that station at least every Friday and more often as needed. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
A power boat departs Norwich Harbor southbound on the Thames River Friday, October 23, 2020. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Cadet second class Bethani Hartman, left, gives last second pointers to members of the color guard as the corps of cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy forms up to march in the fall Parents´ Weekend Regimental Review Saturday, October 24, 2020 on the Washington Parade Field. Less than half the full corps participated in the review due to coronavirus precautions. Rear Admiral Willam G. Kelly, the superintendent of the academy, served as the reviewing official. Attendance was limited to academy personnel so the event was streamed live over the academy´s web site. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
John Miner, center, a member of the 5th generation of his family to run B.F. Clyde´s Cider Mill in Old Mystic, explains the cider pressing operation to John, right, and Michele Martin, of Pratt, Kansas, with two of their grandchildren, Carly, 9, and Jackson Tucker, 11, of Canterbury, Friday, October 23, 2020. The Martin´s flew in from Kansas this week to surprise their daughter Lindsay for her birthday. Michele Martin says she loves visiting he area and Clyde´s is on the short list of places they like to visit when they come. Cider pressing can be seen sporadically between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. most days. Due to coronavirus precautions visitors are not allowed into the historic cider mill building, but doors and windows are open for viewing. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Angel Aybar, Jr., right, and his sons Angel, III, 9, and Joseph, 7, from New London, join volunteers handing out Farmers to Families food boxes Friday, October 23, 2020 at the Groton Senior Center. The event, sponsored by the senior center and assisted by the Groton Police, Poquonnock Bridge Fire Department and volunteers with Keeping kids out of Prison (K.O.P.) handed out 590 USDA-supplied boxes of fresh food. The senior center plans another distribution next Friday at 11 a.m.. K.O.P. has a distribution scheduled for Saturday (tomorrow) at Jennings School in New London at 10:30 a.m.. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Dale Cunningham, lower right, president of the Registered Nurse AFT Local Union 5049and Lawrence + Memorial Hospital workers hold signs with the number of positive COVID-19 cases in hospital departments while participating in a rally across the street Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020, in New London. The workers want greater distribution of of N95 respirators. (Dana Jensen/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Registered Nurse Andrea Lamperelli, right, of the Intensive Critical Care COVID-19 Unit and fellow Lawrence + Memorial Hospital workers, and her mother, Pat Lamperelli, second from right, wave to passing honking cars on Montauk Avenue while they participate in a rally across the street Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020, in New London. Pat Lamperelli, of North Stonington, said she wanted to support her daughter and is very concerned for her daughter and the other employees she knows. The workers want greater distribution of of N95 respirators. (Dana Jensen/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
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