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Mike and Marguerite Haaga have instructed EMT classes at the Killingworth Ambulance Association for over two decades, with several of their understudies among the KAA’s current roster of techs. But that run is about to end. The two plan to step down next year and leave the area. Until then, however, nothing is changed. They will do what they always do this time of year: They will teach another class. This one starts Monday, Aug. 24 and is scheduled to

In case you missed it, Gov. Ned Lamont on Tuesday activated an Extreme Hot Weather Protocol, alerting state residents of a suffocating heat wave that may last through Sunday and could, as his proclamation stated, “reach the warning-level criteria” – with temperatures reaching 100 and heat indices approaching 110. In response, Killingworth is making the air-conditioned Town Hall and Town Library available as “cooling centers, Deer Lake will provide campers a tent with cooling water mist, the Killingworth Congregational Church

When the Killingworth Ambulance Association ran its first-ever “Friends and Family” CPR classes last year, instructor Pat Miller had no trouble filling the three-hour classes. OK, so each was limited to six students. But waiting lists were not uncommon. In fact, the response was so overwhelming that when the course ended in late September, Miller decided something had to change if she were to hold the class again. Well, something will. Not only will Miller host the “Friends and Family”