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4 THE HARTfOBD COURANT: Friday, DKmbr 16, 1994 B9 a BOLTON WINDHAM Teachers to work two additional days Loss of Montrealer service angers many By PAUL MARKS Courant Staff Writer BOLTON Teachers will wnrk an Mtnna tun i days annually beginning next year under a contract signed last week by the school board and the teachers' union. year, Pawelkiewicz wrote. Ending the Montrealer line will, he wrote, "force persons travelling long distances to catch trains from either Hartford or New London. Unfortunately, traveling to Hartford or New London is not possible for many students and residents in this community." The four-vear eontrart erante th cvctam'c C8 teachers a 2.8 percent pay raise in 1995-96 and a 2.5 percent raise the vear after Salarv IovpIc anH hnf in the final two years of the contract are to be negotiat ed! uuuci a icupener provision. Next vear's increase will arid ah it ton nnn tn ho state- and federally mandated programs such as drug awareness and AIDS education have taken up time previously devoted to academic subjects.

"The teachers gave two additional work days at no charge to the town, and that's really showing a lot of faith in the town," Esliger said. "We've had a lot of problems with (winning approval of budgets in the past, and taking a very small raise demonstrates good faith on their part." Teachers also agreed, for the first time, to a managed-care health insurance plan that requires a $20 co-payment for visits to a doctor's office and co-payments of up to 1 0 on prescription drugs. Their co-payment on overall policy costs was boosted from 7.5 percent to 12 percent. The Bolton Education Association negotiating team consisted of union President Wendy J. Scott, Renee Hartzog Smith and Cindy Martin.

Scott and Martin could not be reached for comment Wednesday, and Smith declined to comment. The contract, a 33-page document, was filed with the town clerk this week in accordance with a state law giving town residents the right to challenge it if they choose. The agreement could be brought to a vote by a petition seeking a town meeting and East Hartford police news school board's salary costs, which this year stand at 0 OC mIIKam Similar increases are nrnviHpH fnr stipends for athletic coaches and advisers to student By EJ. GONG JR. Courant Staff Writer WINDHAM A day after Am-trak announced plans to shut down its Montrealer line, town officials and residents expressed anger and sadness Thursday over losing the region's only passenger train service.

"I'm really upset about the news," First Selectman Walter M. Pawelkiewicz said. "We spent a lot of time and effort to get the train, and now, without conferring with us, they plan to take it away." The Montrealer's stop in Willi-mantic was won after a hard battle in the early 1990s. The town, with the help of nearby towns and politicians, began a letter-writing campaign, held countless meetings and spent thousands of dollars to entice Amtrak to make Willimantic a stop on the New York-to-Montreal line. After 1 8 months of wooing Amtrak, Willimantic saw its first train in November 1991.

Acrowd of nearly 1,000 well-wishers cheered at its inaugural stop at the newly constructed station near Main Street. Town officals heralded the train's arrival as a harbinger of better times for the once-vigorous area. During Willimantic's heyday in the early 1900s, more than 75 trains pulled into town daily, bringing travelers from all over New England. On Tuesday, Amtrak announced plans to make sweeping cuts, eliminating nearly one-fifth of its train service across the country and to lay off 5,500 employees. The goal is to eliminate an annual operating deficit of $200 million by September 1995, officials said.

The cuts would be the biggest since Congress formed the railroad in 1971. Pawelkiewicz said he understood Amtrak's dire economic situation, but he still planned to argue for at least partial service on the line. In a letter sent to Amtrak President Thomas Downs, Pawelkiewicz said that closing the line "will have devastating effects on this region." The train service has nearly 3,000 riders in Willimantic each aiuviucs. i nuae aupenas win range rrom aDout 5800 to about $2,500 next year. Board member Dennis Fsli board of education's negotiating team, said he is uciigmcu wan me uuicome oi negotiations, wnicn ran from late August to late November.

"I think this is a verv ffctnd rnntrart fnr tho tnurn Kidnapping suspect arrested in Hartford A 21-year-old man wanted on charges of kidnapping his 14-year-old girlfriend this month was apprehended late Thursday in Hartford, police said. Trevaughn Ulett, whose address was not clear, had argued with the girl over the telephone Dec. 1 before showing up at the Gateway Condominium complex on Ellington Road and forcing her to leave, police said. He later dropped her off at her home unharmed, but was not of Bolton." he said. "I think the teachers bent over backwards" to reach agreement.

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