Bear cubs sighted along Mix Street Sunday afternoon

Staff report

This afternoon, shortly after 1 p.m., three bear cubs emerged from the woods between Mix Street and Coventry Road near the entrance to the pump houses on the New Britain Watershed property.

It took the confused cubs nearly a minute to cross the street. The mother bear was not spotted during the encounter.

Traffic stopped in both directions to allow the cubs to cross.

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