Several Town of Windsor facilities or activities including Northwest Park, the Windsor Library and the Concerts on the Green Series are featured in this year’s Passport to Summer Fun sponsored by the Windsor Chamber of Commerce. Designed to promote tourism, the Passport program provides an opportunity to win prizes by visiting eight of thirteen local attractions between now and October 8.

Details on the program, and passports are available at Town Hall and the Chamber office. For more information call the Chamber at 688-5165 or go to their website at www.windsorcc.org.

At the last Council meeting a concern was raised regarding restroom facilities at Sage Park. Recreation staff has confirmed with the Director of the Windsor Youth Baseball Association, that he is opening the restroom facilities located at the Sage Park Concession building. The town will have the restrooms cleaned on a regular basis and they will be available for public use weekdays and weekends while games are in progress.

Tax bills are being were mailed on Friday, June 24^th. Although all taxes are due by July 1^st, which has obviously passed, there is a 30-day grace period that ends on August 1^st. If a bill is paid on August 2^nd, it is classified as "delinquent" and will be issued a tax penalty of 3% for that month. Each month thereafter, a late charge of 1-1/2 % penalty will be added per State statutes (calculated from the original tax amount) with a maximum amount of 18% of penalties to be administered for late fees per year. In addition to the traditional method of paying your tax bill directly at the Tax Office on the main floor of Town Hall, residents are reminded that they can save time by mailing their payment or utilizing the drop-box located in the rear parking lot of Town Hall. For more information, call 285-1810.

A concern was raised at the last Council meeting regarding the "timing" of the traffic signal at the Day Hill Road and Prospect Hill Road intersection. The "loop detectors", a system of wires buried in the road pavement, which "tell" the traffic signal that a vehicle has come to the intersection were broken at this location. With the loop detectors broken, the traffic signal cannot detect that a vehicle is at the intersection and the signal goes through its standard timing cycle for determining when the light should turn red or green. Staff has temporarily re-routed the wiring at this location around the break and has also contacted the vendor to make permanent repairs. It is anticipated the repairs will be completed early this month.

Summer concerts on the town green have been scheduled for Thursday evenings beginning at 7:00 PM. This Thursday, July 7^th the TNT Jazz Band will be featured. Future concert dates and bands include: July 14^th: Maestro’s Men (polka), July 21^st: Dyn-O-Myte Disco Review and July 28^th : Souled Out featuring sounds of Motown.

There will also be a concert on the town green Wednesday, July 13^th beginning at 7:30 PM featuring members of the Windsor Summer Youth Band. For more information, call 285-1990.