[CPEO-IRF] Stratford (CT) plant not a success story

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Closed base not happy story

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cape Cod Times
July 11, 2005

STRATFORD, Conn. - There was a time when the shelves at the South Main
Package Store were filled with spirits for the Army machinists to take
home after work. The price tags are still there, clinging to empty shelf space.

These days, Alice Connolly doesn't stock much at her family business:
six liters of vodka, a few scattered bottles of table wine, a half-full
cooler of beer.

It's been that way since 1997, when the Base Closure and Realignment
Commission closed the Stratford Army Engine Plant across the street,
wiping out 1,400 jobs.

The Pentagon's Office of Economic Assistance publishes a guide to
recovering from base closure and highlights a number of success stories
in which new industry blossoms.

"You know what you can do with those brochures?" said Janice Paige, a
convenience store owner down the road from the plant. "Rip 'em up and
throw 'em away."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/closedbase11.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org
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