Would you donate a kidney to a nonrelative? This Lisbon woman did.

Maddison Martin, right, poses with Tammy McManaway on Tuesday, July 9, 2019, in Martin's Franklin home. Martin was born with a genetic kidney disease and by May of this year was in end-stage renal disease. McManaway is the Shattuck House secretary at Norwich Free Academy, from which Martin graduated in 2017, and learned of Martin's need for a kidney via social media and offered to donate one of hers. Martin has pledged her renewed life to raising awareness of organ donation. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

Maddie Martin, 20, was born with Alport syndrome, a genetic mutation that affects her kidneys, eyes and ears. A transplant was needed to save her life and in June, Tammy McManaway of Lisbon decided to donate a kidney to her.

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Groton Water Treatment Plant upgrade more than halfway complete

Groton Mayor Keith Hedrick and Daniel Bouges, manager of communications and community outreach, walk past new tanks Thursday, June 27, 2019, during a tour of the Groton Utilities water treatment plant. The facilities are just over halfway through a $54 million rehabilitation project with electrical and mechanical upgrades, enhanced fire protection and new technology for treating water. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)

The $54 million project includes constructing a new nearly 20,000-square-foot building for treating and processing water and two new above-ground storage tanks.

For this New Londoner, Kilimanjaro offers adventure of a lifetime

Karl Saszik and his brother Erik at Uhuru peak, the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. (Submitted)

Karl Saszik, 47, and his brother, 50-year-old Erik of Chicago, both native New Londoners, planned a trip to Mount Kilimanjaro a year ago as an adventurous reunion. They spent a week climbing a total of 48 miles round trip.

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Riley Eldridge, 15, left, and Jennie Lin, 15, hug as they and their group of friends, all East Lyme High School students, cross paths Saturday, July 20, 2019, at Celebrate East Lyme on Main Street in Niantic. (Dana Jensen/The Day)

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Norwich group seeks smoke-free public gathering spots

The new group, Norwich Green Initiative, hopes to create smoke-free zones in city parks and advocate for other eco-friendly initiatives.

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The Central Vermont Railroad Pier appears on the left, on the west side of the New London port facility, as seen in this undated image from the Connecticut Port Authority application pending before the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.

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Shipwright Chris Sanders continues the construction of the beakhead of the Mayflower II on Friday, July 19, 2019, at Mystic Seaport Museum's H.B. duPont Preservation Shipyard. The beak head is the protruding part of the foremost section of a sailing ship. It was fitted on sailing vessels from the 16th to the 18th centuries and served as a working platform by sailors working the sails of the bowsprit, the forward-pointing mast that carries the spritsails. The ship, built in 1956, is a replica of the vessel that brought the Pilgrims to the New World in 1620 and was built in England as a gift to the United States in thanks for support during and after World War II. The ship is nearing the end of a 30-month restoration in Mystic in preparation to sail again on the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims' voyage. A launching ceremony has been scheduled for Sept. 7. Next week, the steel and fabric structure that has enclosed the ship since the spring of 2017 will be removed. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

Mayflower homestretch

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Subjects included zoning updates, housing developments in the works, microtransit efforts and more.

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In this July 15, 2019, photo, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks as, from left, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., listen during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington. Long before President Donald Trump attacked the four Democratic congresswomen of color, saying they should “go back” to their home countries, they were targets of hateful rhetoric and disinformation online.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Cal Beggs, former engineer and program manager for Hamilton Standard, shows off his signed photo of Buzz Aldrin on Wednesday, July 17, 2019, at a community room in the StoneRidge senior living community. Beggs worked on a team that designed the Apollo backpack, a portable life-support system that the astronauts wore outside the spaceship. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)

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Dozens of citizens, most of them from several workers unions, carry out a protest against governor Ricardo Rossello in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Friday, July 19, 2019. Protesters are demanding Rossello step down for his involvement in a private chat in which he used profanities to describe an ex-New York City councilwoman and a federal control board overseeing the island's finance. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

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In this Jan. 3, 2019 photo, Daniel Thomas Moran, right, stands with others in the audience during the second inauguration of Republican Gov. Chris Sununu at the State House in Concord, N.H. Sununu is abandoning his pick for the state’s poet laureate amid growing criticism of the poet’s work and how he was chosen. Though he never formally nominated him, Sununu earlier this year chose Moran. Some say Moran is not qualified. The surfacing this past week of a sexually suggestive poem Moran wrote about former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice only intensified criticism. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

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