Word: hammonasset
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Connecticut, Fourth of July celebrations began with all the pizazz of a damp firecracker. As dawn broke over Hammonasset Beach State Park last Tuesday, rangers routed campers out of their tents and ordered them to leave. In Hartford a few hours later, agencies ranging from the department of banking to the board of pardons failed to open their doors as 20,000 state employees began an indefinite furlough...
...some campers, the holiday disruption caused by the state's fiscal crisis turned out to be mercifully brief. Three Connecticut companies chipped in $43,000 to keep Hammonasset and two other state beaches open through the weekend. But how soon state employees will return to work depends on how quickly Governor Lowell Weicker can hammer out his differences with the legislature over his plan to create a state income...
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