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Friday, October 1, 2010

Annual Rockfall Symposium Set For Essex

The 24th Annual Rockfall Symposium "Changes to Regional Planning, New Opportunities to Share State & Local Services” will happen Friday, Oct. 8, at Essex Steam Train & Riverboat in Essex, Conn.

Four featured speakers:
  • David Kooris, vice president and director, Connecticut Regional Plan Association, Stamford; "Emerging Regions – The Context for Middlesex County"
  • John Harmon, professor emeritus, CCSU Department of Geography; "Rational Regions – Looking at Connecticut’s Tangle of Overlapping Regions"
  • Linda Krause, executive director, Connecticut River Estuary Regional Planning Agency, Old Saybrook; "Regional Planning Options in the Lower CT River Valley – How are we different?"
  • Tim Brennan, executive director, Pioneer Valley Regional Planning Organization, Springfield, Mass.; "Choosing to Collaborate – Innovative Ways to Get Cities and Towns to Work Together"

Fee is $50; optional buffet lunch must be ordered in advance. Optional ride on the Essex Steam Train is extra. For information on a group rate for the train, call (860) 767-0103.

For information about the event, see www.rockfallfoundation.org or call (860) 347-0340.