Snapping turtles lay their eggs

SHARON — The natural world has been encroaching on Khurshed Bhumgara’s home in Sharon recently. Last week, The Lakeville Journal published photos of black bears wandering around his yard. This week, he shared photos of a large snapping turtle that has decided to nest on the perimeter of his house.“She is on my patio laying her eggs, three feet from my porch door!” he said. This is the season when the snappers lay their eggs, according to the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.“The nesting season is from April through November, with most of the nesting in southern New England occurring in late May through June, according to the state’s snapping turtle fact sheet (www.ct.gov/deep). The site also explains that, “Snapping turtles rarely leave their aquatic habitat except during the breeding season, at which time females travel great distances in search of a place to dig a nest and lay eggs.”Female turtles apparently lay as many as 30 or 40 eggs at a time. Hatching takes 80 to 90 days.

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Cornwall Consolidated School seventh graders Skylar Brown, Izabella Coppola, Halley Villa, Willow Berry, Claire Barbosa, Willa Lesch, Vivianne DiRocco and Franco Aburto presented a group research project on the life of Naomi Freeman Wednesday, April 23. In attendance were U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes, D-Conn., John Mills, president of Alex Breanne Corporation, Cornwall First Selectman Gordon Ridgway, Cornwall Selectman Jennifer Markow and CCS social studies teacher Will Vincent.

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Hayes was in attendance to celebrate history on Wednesday as the CCS students presented their group research project on the life of Naomi Cain Freeman, the first Black female landowner in Cornwall.

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