Anne Marie McGuire is locked in such a bitter feud with the Girl Scouts that she won’t even buy their cookies. The Girl Scouts have blocked her East Haven driveway with a split rail fence and a pile of boulders to stop McGuire and her brother from driving on Sperry Lane, the private lane that leads to Camp Murray, a Girl Scout camp. The organization is also suing the siblings. The dispute started after McGuire and her brother each built a home seven years ago in back of their parents’ home on a lot that fronts the Girl Scouts’ private road. The siblings say, while their homes were being built, the town allowed them to share the town’s easement, a claim East Haven officials deny. Girl Scout officials said they’ve had to contend with parked cars and construction trucks on Sperry Lane as a result of their new neighbors.
An advocacy group is investigating the placement of the mentally ill in nursing homes to determine if Connecticut is violating state and federal laws. The Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, working with state groups, is focusing on nursing home residents with psychiatric disabilities who have not exercised their right to court hearings or are in locked wards without proper psychiatric care. The organization, based in Washington, D.C., also is looking into whether Connecticut has a plan to place the mentally ill in community settings, said Karen Bower, a Bazelon center lawyer who is leading the investigation. More than 2,700 people with psychiatric disabilities live in nursing homes in Connecticut, and “in all likelihood that’s a low estimate,” said Wayne Dailey, spokesman for the state Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services.
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