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Essex Ed makes his way up Main Street during the 42nd annual Essex Ed Groundhog Day Parade on Sunday, January 26, 2020. A crowd gathered in downtown Essex banging on pots and pans and joining in the parade for the 42nd annual event. Ed was dressed by the Essex Community Fund as a firefighter to salute the Essex Fire Department for its dedicated service since 1833. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)

42nd annual Essex Ed Groundhog Day parade

A common loon emerges from the water with a crab in its beak while searching for food Friday, Jan. 24, 2020, in the waters of Stonington Harbor. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

Winter visitors come to Stonington amid not-so-wintry weather

Walkers take advantage of good weather at the Niantic Bay Boardwalk on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)

'Out on the Boardwalk' in Niantic

Eleanor Willis, right, of Westerly spots something in the sand while she and her husband, Ray, look for shells and sea glass Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, at Misquamicut State Beach in Westerly. (Dana Jensen/The Day)

Looking for sea glass in Westerly

Aaleyna Chicote ties tassels along the edge of her fabric while she and her fellow seventh-graders in the Teen Outreach Program, or TOP, make cat blankets for the Waterford Humane Society after school Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020, at Teachers Memorial Global Studies Magnet Middle School in Norwich. (Dana Jensen/The Day)

Norwich students turn scraps into blankets for cats

Mark Alexander of Waterford walks his dogs, Skippy, right, 13, and Scout, 9, along the path Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020, at Waterford Beach Park. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)

A winter's walk at Waterford Beach Park

Riggers at the Mystic Seaport Museum work on the rigging on the main and fore masts of the Mayflower II on Tuesday at the museum’s H.B. duPont Preservation Shipyard. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)

Mayflower II continues to get into ship-shape

2019 MLK Scholar Sara Beth Bouchard dances a traditional Argentinian dance with her mother Claudia Bouchard during the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Trust Fund Ecumenical Service on Sunday, January 19, 2020 at St. James Episcopal Church in New London. The 36th annual service honored the 13 MLK scholars of 2019 with music, dance, poetry and speakers. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)

Annual MLK scholar service

David Jimenez gives his daughter Magdalee, 4, a push off a ramp on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020, at the Winthrop Cove Skatepark in New London. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)

Riding like a princess in New London

Firefighter Mike Gentile of the New London Fire Department laughs with Elijah Rocket, third from left, during lunch Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020, with fellow classmates, clockwise from bottom left, Rosyln Hall, R.J. Damas, Reed Wester, Shea Felber and Jaxon Ford, at Winthrop STEM Elementary School. Gentile and fellow members of the fire department joined students as part of the Lunch Tray Program. The initiative, created by Katie Hallisey of Higher Edge, gives students a connection to their community by having groups, such as police officers, firefighters and Rotarians, spend lunchtime with students once a month. (Dana Jensen/The Day)

New London firefighters and students bond over lunch

Nik Charron reads lines Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020, as theater students at the Visual and Performing Arts pathway at New London High School rehearse their production of

New London students take a trip to Spoon River — on stage

Gerald LaGrange, left, of Old Lyme and Judy Peritz of Old Saybrook work on their paintings during the Oil Painting for Beginners class with instructor Jacqueline Jones, not shown, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020, at the Lyme Art Association in Old Lyme. ( Dana Jensen/The Day)

Lyme Art Association brings together beginner and seasoned artists

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