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NATURE'S
NOTEBOOK
TIM ABBOTT
COMPASS ‘Phantom
Menace’ strikes again,
Page A17
Black History Month: Elizabeth
Freeman’s fascinating journey
Page A3
Frank Delany tells
a few stories
Page A7
See NATURE, Page A16
See GENERATOR, Page A6 See GROCERY, Page A16
See MOVIEHOUSE, Page A16
See AD, Page A16
TRI-CORNER
REAL ESTATE
Inside
PHOTOBY ASHER PAVEL
Sap collected from maple trees at the Sharon Audubon Center on Route 4 supplies
the center’s sugarhouse, where it is boiled down to amber-colored syrup. For dates
and times of this year’s MapleFest, see Page A5.
Bucket brigade
Middle
school
AD post
trimmed
Plan moves to
regional board
By Asher Pavel
CORNWALL — The Region
One All Boards Committee
(ABC) voted at a Feb. 15 meeting
at Cornwall Consolidated School
to create a new position of middle
school athletic director. But the
job will be at half the salary and
time originally proposed by a
planning committee.
The ABC is made of chair-
men of the six elementary school
board of education chairmen
and the chair of the Region One
Board of Education.
Region On School District
Superintendent Patricia Cham-
berlain said the planning com-
mittee had suggested a half-time
position at a salary of $18,000
plus a reimbursement of $2,000
for mileage and cell phone use.
“Two boards initiated a dol-
lar cap they would contribute,”
Chamberlain said. “We took
By Whitney Joseph
NORTH EAST — John Jo-
seph of Southern Realty Devel-
opment LLC (SRD) has been coy
about the tenant planned for the
36,000-square-foot supermarket
to be located behind Thompson
Plaza on Route 44 just east of
the village of Millerton, home
to the North East Athletic Club
and Kids’ Time.
Millerton Mayor John Scut-
ieri indicated he believes it will be
a Hannaford, saying the business
“begins with an ‘H.’ ”
A large audience crowded
into the NorthEast-Millerton
Library’s annex building on
Thursday, Feb. 2, for a presenta-
tion on the supermarket plan.
Scutieri led the meeting. Town
of North East Supervisor John
Merwin did not take part in the
presentation.
Crisis-
ready
Maintaining a
generator for
emergencies
By Karen Bartomioli
CORNWALL — The thrum-
ming of a generator, the crackling
of logs in a ﬁreplace, heating
dinner atop a woodstove. All
make us feel secure, with a leg
up on whatever Mother Nature
might dish out.
But anything that offers
welcome heat and light during
a power outage also bears close
monitoring when in use — and
maintenance when not. It’s not
so easy for us creatures of an
automated world.
For the “Are you prepared
for the next storm?” forum Feb.
11 at Town Hall, the Cornwall
Association put together a team
of experts to talk mainly about
generators. (See the Feb. 16
Lakeville Journal for a story on
keeping food safe in a power
outage; online, go to www.tri-
cornernews.com.)
Among the presenters were
local electricians Steve Saccardi
and Brad Hedden. Scott Goff,
owner of Goff ’s Equipment
Service in Litchﬁeld, brought
an assortment of red and black
Honda generators. He has sold
Rock solid case
for saving our
stone walls
T
he ghost of a snake rail
fence zigzags through the
woods. I can tell its old
location by the line of stones that
once were piled at its base.
Fences like these were con-
structed here from the late 1700s
Rumors, reality as supermarket plan emerges
building a brand new store on a
10-acre site owned by Quinmill
Properties a close second. Anoth-
er 5 acres has also been acquired
by SRD for the project.
“We saw a good opportunity
to redevelop the store, but we
were unable to get it done,” he
said, adding the Grand Union is
27,000 square feet in size, nearly
10,000 square feet smaller than
the proposed new market. “We
went to alternative sites. This
seems to be the best alternative
— one of the few alternatives
in town.”
Next steps
The application is in the
midst of its site plan review. The
next step will be to plan for a
public hearing, which must be
publicized well in advance. The
town must also complete the
By Kayla Smith
MILLERTON — The Movie-
house in Millerton has reopened
as a completely digital theater.
Not only will the facility now
be showing 3D movies, but the
equipment upgrade will allow
many other new features.
Robert and Carol Sadlon,
owners of The Moviehouse, said
a new library server and operat-
ing software allows movies to be
loaded and programmed up to
two weeks in advance.
“The server talks to our sched-
uling software and sends the
right movies to the right theaters
according to our schedule, so
it’s all automatic now,” Richard
Sadlon said.
This automation will allow
The Moviehouse to further ex-
tend its customer service.
“If all goes right, all we have
to do is sell tickets, sell conces-
sions, greet customers and close
the doors when the movie starts,”
he said.
The Sadlons are nurturing
the facility as a cultural center
for the community.
“Everything is going to bits
and bytes. If you want to stay in
business as a theater, you have to
go digital,” Carol Sadlon said.
“We made the commitment
early, and it’s really a commit-
ment to Millerton. The town
deserves a digital theatre. It’s
going to be better picture, better
quality, better sound, as well as all
the other things that digital offers
to a theater, including digital 3D,”
Richard Sadlon said.
Along with the enhanced
audio and visual experience, the
upgrade also allows the theater to
show alternative content.
“This is the very exciting part
about our content. It’s going to
become much more diverse,”
Carol Sadlon said.
The Moviehouse will now be
able to show live feeds of both
The Metropolitan Opera from
New York and National Theatre
Live from London, England.
“We will be able to show the
Now-digital Moviehouse can show 3D
Clock
ticking
(fast) on
depot
plans
NORTH CANAAN — Plans
for the ﬁnal phase of the Ca-
naan Union Station rebuilding
are just about complete. More
importantly, the project, which
addresses interior and exterior
ﬁnishing work, is poised for ap-
proval by the state. It remains on
track to be completed before the
year is out.
The state Department of
Transportation (DOT) gets its
say because it is holding $1.3
million in federal funding ear-
marked for the project since
2005.
The historic landmark was
partially destroyed by ﬁre in
See DEPOT, Page A8
Joseph apologized for his in-
ability to be forthright about the
name of the market.
“It has to do with the lease
execution,” he said. “I really don’t
mean to be evasive.”
One question he did answer
directly related to the Grand
Union nearby in Millerton
Square plaza. SRD has repeat-
edly offered to take over the
Grand Union’s lease; its offer
has been rejected. If, however,
Grand Union’s wholesaler, C&S
Wholesale Grocers (the lease
holders), as well as landlord
Bob Trotta, became amenable
to SRD’s offer, Joseph said his
plans would change.
“The truth is our ﬁrst choice
is to redevelop the Grand Union
plaza,” he acknowledged. “If
they’re prepared to surrender
their lease, we’re prepared to pay
for it. If they were prepared [to
do so] I would not move forward
with this [other] project.”
Joseph explained that rede-
veloping the Grand Union has
always been goal number one;
PHOTOS SUBMITTED
FFA’s busy year
The Housatonic Valley
FFA has had a year of ac-
complishments in many
endeavors. A tribute ap-
pears on Page A9.
SPORTS GALORE, Pages A12 & A13
A THE LAKEVILLE JOURNAL, Thursday, February3,01
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Dr. Robert Murphy N.D. is pleased to announce that
Dr. Anna Maj N.D. is joining him at the Northwest
Holistic Health Center, Torrington, CT. Dr. Anna
Maj N.D. is a graduate of the University of Bridgeport
School of Naturopathic Medicine. Dr. Maj brings
her European background to her general practice
in Naturopathic Medicine with an emphasis on
women’s natural health. Dr. Maj is accepting new
patients, and is a provider for a number of insurances.
Please call for an appointment.
The Northwest
Holistic Health Center
21 Prospect St., Suite A
Torrington, CT. 06790
860-482-4730
POLICE BLOTTER
SALISBURY ............ A3 & A4
SHARON ......................... A5
CORNWALL .................... A6
KENT ............................... A7
NORTH CANAAN .......... A8
FFA ................................... A9
FALLS VILLAGE ........... A10
HEALTH ........................ A11
OBITUARIES ................ A12
SPORTS ............. A 12 & A13
OPINION ........................A14
VIEWPOINT ..................A15
COMPASS ..............A17-A19
FAMILY/FRIENDS........ A20
LEGALS ......................... A20
CLASSIFIEDS ..........A20-22
In The Journal this week
Friday ........................................... Rain, high 46°/low 32°
Saturday ...................................................Windy, 41°/22°
Sunday .......................................... Mostly sunny, 40°/32°
Three-day forecast
BOBCAT WATCH
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The following information was
provided by the Connecticut State
Police at Troop B. All suspects are
considered innocent until proven
guilty in a court of law.
Burglary
A Sharon resident reported a
burglary Feb. 14. Hooperﬁelds
Drive resident Tina Pitcher
ﬁled the complaint after she
discovered several items missing.
William Pitcher of North Canaan
was also listed as a complainant.
The incident is under investiga-
tion. Anyone with information
should call TFC Weber at 860-
824-2500.
DUI
David Hunter, 48, of Sharon
was arrested Feb. 14 after a
trooper on patrol discovered a
one-car accident on Twin Lakes
Road in Salisbury at 12:31 a.m.
Feb. 14. Hunter was found to be
under the inﬂuence of alcohol.
He was charged with driving
under the inﬂuence and making
a restricted turn. Bond was set at
$500. He is to appear in Bantam
Superior Court March 5.
Assault and disorderly
Two people were arrested Feb.
15 after a 12:25 a.m. report of a
disturbance on Bunker Hill Road
in Salisbury. An investigation re-
vealed an assault had taken place.
Robert Chase, 43, of 8 Bunker
Hill Road and Laurie Fox, 40, of
Salmon Kill Road in Salisbury
were charged with disorderly
conduct and assault. Bond was
set at $1,000 each. They were
to appear in Bantam Superior
Court later that day.
Car hits guardrail
Wylie Fresne, 18, of Lakeville
was driving west on Route 112 in
Salisbury Feb. 16. At about 4:03
p.m., .2 mile east of Route 44,
he lost control on a curve due
to road conditions. The 2003
Saab 93 hit a guardrail. The car,
registered to Timothy Foster,
of the same address, sustained
front bumper damage. Fresne
was not injured. He was charged
with traveling too fast for condi-
tions.
Car hits guardrail
Derek Wilkins, 25, of Lake-
ville was driving east on John-
son Road in Falls Village Feb.
16. At about 4:14 p.m., he lost
control traveling downhill on
snow-covered road. The 1996
Acura 3 hit a guardrail on the
right shoulder. Wilkins was not
injured. He was charged with
traveling too fast for conditions
and operating an uninsured
motor vehicle.
Hit and run
Police are looking for the
driver of a car that sideswiped
a utility pole and hit a mailbox
on Undermountain Road (Route
41) in Salisbury Feb. 16. The
incident occurred at about 4:15
p.m. A witness stated the car was
a red sedan. The driver continued
traveling south after the accident.
The mailbox is the property of
Kenneth Frederick of 462 Un-
dermountain Road. Anyone with
information should call TFC
Sorrell at 860-824-2500.
Warrant arrest
Jameson Martin, 22, of Tor-
rington turned himself in on a
warrant Feb. 16. The warrant
stemmed from a Jan. 14 incident
at the Black Rabbit Bar and
Grille on Ethan Allen Street in
Lakeville. He was charged with
breach of peace and assault
Bond was set at $1,500. He is
to appear in Bantam Superior
Court March 5. Clayton Keller,
21, of Lakeville was charged with
breach of peace and assault Feb. 3
on a warrant stemming from the
same incident. Stephen Lynehan,
32, of Millerton was listed as a
victim.
Car hits cable
Elizabeth Inglis, 59, of Great
Barrington, Mass., was driv-
ing north on Twin Lakes Road
in Salisbury Feb. 16. At about
4:57 p.m., about .2 mile north
of Route 44, she lost control in
snow. The 2008 Toyota Prius slid
off the left shoulder. It hit a util-
ity pole guy wire. Inglis was not
injured. She was given a verbal
warning for traveling too fast for
conditions.
The Lakeville Journal will
publish the outcome of police
charges. Contact us by mail at PO
Box 1688, Lakeville, CT 06039,
Attn: Police Blotter, or send an
email, with “police blotter” in the
subject line, to cynthiah@lakeville
journal.com.
By Kayla Smith
MILLERTON — Golden
Wok Chinese and Japanese
Cuisine won the Tang Ho Qual-
ity Award for Chinese Catering
Industry in America and was
awarded a rating of three stars
at a conference held Sunday and
Monday, Feb. 12 and 13.
The conference was organized
by The World Association of
Chinese Cuisine and The China
Cuisine Association.
Only 300 restaurants nation-
wide were considered for the
award and 60 winners chosen.
Amy Yang, manager of Gold-
en Wok, attended the conference
and accepted the award.
“I was so surprised. I had an
idea going that we were con-
Millerton’s Golden Wok wins top honors
sidered, but I did not know we
would win. I didn’t even know
they had eaten here,” she said.
Yang was also treated to cook-
ing demonstrations and a panel
with four of Beijing’s top chefs.
“It was really interesting to
learn new things. I learned to
cook from my father when I
was 12 and have been cooking
ever since. My house is full of
cookbooks, I’m always looking
for new ideas,” she said.
Yang was proud not only for
the Golden Wok but for Mil-
lerton as well.
“It’s really good for the town.
Having an award-winning place
to eat adds something to the
community. We’re really happy,”
she said.
The Golden Wok, at Railroad
Plaza in Millerton, is available
for customers to dine-in or
take-out. Call 518-789-9236 to
place an order or for hours of
operation.
PHOTO SUBMITTED
“We have been seeing a bobcat fairly frequently,” Martha
Guidotti of Lakeville said this week. “Here he is more visible
because of the snow, but still only had my phone with me to
take a photo of him.”
CL&P: Be wary of phone scams
BERLIN, Conn. — Connecticut Light & Power (CL&P) is ask-
ing customers to be wary of telephone calls from people claiming
to be from CL&P, offering “a $40 rebate” and then requesting that
customer’s account number and Social Security number.
CL&P warns customers to never provide personal information
— such as an account number or Social Security number — to any
unsolicited caller, even if the caller seems legitimate. Customers
who receive such a call should hang up the phone and report the
incident to the police.
Customers who doubt the authenticity of a phone call or visit
from a person claiming to be a representative of CL&P are advised
to call the company’s customer service department immediately at
800-286-2000 and ask the representative to verify the call or visit.
SALISBURY — The Salisbury
Forum series of lectures brings
an unusual documentary ﬁlm to
the Moviehouse in Millerton on
Sunday, Feb. 26, at 11:30 a.m.
“Human Terrain” is described
by the ﬁlmmakers James Der
Derian, David Udris and Michael
Udris, as “an expose of the U.S.
effort to enlist America’s best
and brightest in a global struggle
for the hearts and minds of its
enemies.
“After winning the short
battle of ’shock and awe’ in Iraq
but losing the long war to bring
democracy and peace to the
Middle East, the U.S. military
began a controversial program
to ‘operationalize’ culture as an
instrument of irregular warfare.
With the ‘Revolution in Military
Affairs’ that produced high-
tech, low-casualty victories in
Panama, Bosnia and Kosovo
tarnished by long and costly
counter-insurgencies in Iraq
and Afghanistan, the Army and
Marine Corps enlisted anthro-
pologists, political scientists,
historians, and other academics
in ‘Human Terrain Systems’ for
the global war on terror.”
The ﬁlmmakers “embedded”
with Marines during training
in the Mojave desert, and they
observed urban warfare training
at Quantico, Va., and training at
Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
The idea was to make “cultural
awareness a key element of [the
military’s] counterinsurgency
strategy.”
The ﬁlm is also the story of
a casualty — and becomes very
personal for the ﬁlmmakers.
Der Derian wrote in a state-
ment published on the www.hu-
manterrainmovie.com website
that the team “interviewed the
key players as well as the most
vocal critics.
“However, our original inten-
tions as well as moral ﬁxities were
undone when Michael Bhatia, a
colleague, collaborator and friend,
was killed in Afghanistan while we
were making the ﬁlm.”
Bhatia, a graduate student at
Brown University, was studying
how “the Pentagon was creating
new doctrines, strategies and or-
ganizations to help return some
symmetry to the battleﬁelds of
Iraq and Afghanistan.”
Documentary ﬁlm shows
‘a world without innocence’
What the ﬁlmmakers didn’t
know is that Bhatia was being
recruited for his expertise. When
he joined a “Human Terrain”
team in Afghanistan, they kept in
touch with him and were prepar-
ing for a video interview when
Bhatia was killed by a roadside
bomb in November 2008.
Michael and David Udris
wrote: “... perhaps Michael him-
self was not sure of his intentions
and motivations” in joining the
military’s program.
They ask: “In terms of coun-
terinsurgency doctrine, are we
taking the gloves off or putting
them on, in that argument have
we lost sight of the fact we are
talking about war?”
And concludes: “We have
ended up making a ﬁlm, a docu-
ment, fueled by good deeds and
dirty hands in a world without
innocence.”
— Patrick L. Sullivan

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Feb 16 32 37 Cloudy
Feb 17 30 40 Windy
Feb 18 27 37 Fluries
Feb 19 24 37 Mostly Sunny
Feb 20 21 31 Mostly Sunny
Feb 21 33 40 Partly Sunny
Lakeville Weather History
by The Lakeville Journal
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An actress portrayed Elizabeth Freeman in the August 2010
dedication of the Col. John Ashley House in Ashley Falls
as a site on the Upper Housatonic Valley African American
Heritage Trail.
Bett’s courageous walk to freedom still resonates today
By Patrick L. Sullivan
SALISBURY — Author David
Levinson visited the Scoville Me-
morial Library Saturday, Feb. 18,
to tell the story of Mumbet, or
Elizabeth Freeman, a slave who
won her freedom, whose court
case was critical in ending slavery
in Massachusetts and who went
on to become indispensable
to one of the most infuential
families in New England.
Levinson’s talk was part of the
Salisbury Association Historical
Society’s series. Levinson, along
with Emilie S. Piper, wrote “One
Minute a Free Woman: Eliza-
beth Freeman and the Struggle
for Freedom.” The book was
published in 2010 by the Up-
per Housatonic Valley National
Heritage Area/African American
Heritage Trail.
Levinson said Freeman’s
story is unique for an African-
American woman of the time.
She lived through three distinct
social, economic and political
situations: slavery, servitude
(politically but not economically
free) and freedom.
“She was important because
she became a role model,” Levin-
son said. “She was known as an
upright citizen that everyone
knew and could count on in
Stockbridge and Sheffeld.”
Levinson said the goal for the
book was to tell the Mumbet
story as accurately as possible
— not an easy task, as Freeman
left no written records of her life
except an “X” on her will.
“The task was to tell the
story based on other people’s
accounts,” Levinson said.
He said he and Piper resisted
the urge to fll in the gaps. “It’s not
a novel. There is some guessing,
and we subsequently discovered
we got a couple of things wrong,
which is what happens when you
guess.”
The 1781 court case, Brom
and Bett v. Ashley, and the story
of Mumbet standing up to armed
rebels during Shays’ Rebellion
are suffciently well-known that
the authors put them to the side,
Levinson said.
Her early life
Freeman was probably born
in 1740 in Claverack, N.Y., the
daughter of slaves belonging to a
wealthy Dutchman, Pieter Hoge-
boom. Levinson said Hogeboom
had at least 10 slaves, and when
his daughter Hannah married
John Ashley of Sheffeld, Mass.,
the teenaged Freeman (known
then as Bett) went with her.
Levinson said slavery under
Dutch owners was considered
harsher, and the Dutch when they
died did not free their slaves, as
English settlers often did.
Arriving in Sheffeld, Levin-
son said, Bett probably spoke
Dutch.
Ashley was the wealthiest man
in the area, with more than 2,000
acres of land and diverse business
interests. He had fve slaves; Bett
worked in the house, cooking,
cleaning and serving.
Not surprisingly, Ashley was
also politically well-connected,
and the story has it Bett, listen-
ing to conversations about the
new Massachusetts constitution,
which contained the phrase “all
men are created equal,” began to
formulate the idea of suing for
her freedom.
A wish for freedom
Bett had a daughter around
1775. Levinson said the father
might have been the male slave
Brom, later a fellow plaintiff in
the freedom lawsuit, but added
that slaves at that time gener-
ally did not formally marry, with
common-law marriages being the
norm, or no marriage at all.
In any event, in 1781 Bett
decided she’d had enough of
slavery, Levinson said.
“She took it on herself to go to
the law offce of Theodore Sedg-
wick [in Sheffeld]. She sued for
her freedom in Great Barrington
[where the court was] and the
jury found in her favor.
“We think the situation was
set up by Sedgwick and Ashley,
who were both members of the
legislature. Sedgwick thought
slavery was disruptive to the
future union. There is no record
of Ashley’s thoughts on the mat-
ter, but he was a businessman.
It was more economical to have
hired help than slaves, and his
agricultural operation was not
dependent on slave labor — he
had white tenant farmers.”
There had been several legal
attempts to end slavery, but Brom
and Bett v. Ashley was unique in
invoking the state constitution,
Levinson said. By 1783 slavery
was over in Massachusetts, and
an African-American community
formed in Sheffeld, with people
coming from other states.
“The only record of the
case is the jury fnding, so how
Sedgwick argued it is unknown,”
Levinson said.
A woman in the audience
asked about the story that Han-
nah Ashley was about to use a
red-hot iron implement on Bett’s
daughter, when Bett intervened,
and that was the catalyst for Bett’s
meeting with Sedgwick.
“We took a hard look at that
story,” Levinson said.
He and Piper found that Han-
nah Ashley certainly had a cruel
streak, tried to strike the daughter
and Bett took the blow.
“But as far as being a last straw,
it happened at least a year before
going to Sedgwick.”
Levinson said there were con-
tant battles within the household.
A woman on the run from an
abusive husband was turned away
by Hannah Ashley, but Freeman
went over her head to John Ashley,
who assisted the woman.
Levinson said the idea of a fed-
up Bett marching a long distance
to the lawyer is overblown. Bett
regularly either walked or rode a
horse to Sheffeld’s town center.
Bett also developed a following
as midwife and nurse, Levinson
said. In 1775 there is a record of
her nursing a man with typhoid
fever in North Canaan. Bett knew
about medicinal plants, and her
status as what would today be
called a nurse practitioner was
not unusual among female slaves,
whose knowledge was passed
along through the generations.
After winning her freedom,
Bett, who took the name Elizabeth
Freeman, went to live with the
Sedgwicks, who moved in 1785
from a modest home in Sheffeld
to a mansion in Stockbridge.
Sedgwick was now politically
powerful — a member of the state
legislature, a U.S.congressman
and senator, a judge and the ffth
speaker of U.S. House of Repre-
sentatives.
“There are letters from George
Washington,” in the Sedgwick
Papers, Levinson said.
Sedgwick spent much of the
year away from Stockbridge.
“Sedgwick was no fool. From 1790
to 1802 he was only home from
spring to fall,” the historian said.
“Reading his letters to his
children, we were struck by how
caring he was.”
Bett becomes Mumbet
The Sedgwicks had 10 children
of whom seven survived to adult-
hood. The household took its toll
on Pamela Sedgwick.
“Pamela was not up to the
task,” said Levinson. The long
cold winters and isolation caused
a profound depression, and she
was institutionalized three times.
She couldn’t run the house, which
fell to Freeman, who also raised,
effectively, the youngest children.
This period is when the name
Mumbet evolved.
Catharine Sedgwick wrote that
Mumbet was the only one of her
mother’s friends who could deal
with her “states.” Treatment at the
time consisted of locking the af-
ficted person in her bedroom.
Levinson told another story
that illustrated how critical Mum-
bet was to the Sedgwick family.
When Charles Sedgwick was born
in 1790 he was sickly and weak.
Theodore was ready to write the
infant off, but Mumbet asked for
three months, and nursed the
child to health. In gratitude, Theo-
dore Sedgwick gave Mumbet a $5
gold piece — a small fortune at
the time — which she still had
when she died.
To give an idea of the status
Mumbet enjoyed in the Sedgwick
family, an 1825 letter from Charles
Sedgwick, now an attorney, to his
wife mentions that Mumbet had
spent a week visiting. “She was
vacationing in Lenox.”
Mumbet was also close to
Catharine Sedgwick, who was one
of the best-known authors of the
19th century and a contemporary
of Cooper, Bryant, Hawthorne
and Melville. Critics rediscovered
beginning in the 1950s and now
credit her with being an impor-
tant part of the development of
an American literature. Catharine
Sedgwick wrote from the point of
view of white settlers — and of the
Indians they displaced. She incor-
porated aspects of Mumbet’s life
into her novels and wrote directly
about Mumbet in “Slavery in New
England” in 1853.
Levinson said that as the chil-
dren grew up and left, Mumbet
kept on with her midwifery and
“seemed to want to get out of the
Sedgwick house.”
In 1807 Pamela Sedgwick died;
Levinson said there was some
speculation that Mumbet helped
her commit suicide. Theodore
remarried, and the children all
disliked their new stepmother.
“We assumed Mumbet felt
the same way,” Levinson said.
In 1803 she had bought a small
parcel of land and a house for her
daughter and her family; Mumbet
joined them in the small Afri-
can-American neighborhood.
Eventually Mumbet had 20 acres,
a house and a barn, but it was still
subsistence farming and a
rough life.
“The Freeman house
is gone now; Catharine
Sedgwick describes it as
a hut, but most houses
would look like that to her,”
Levinson said.
Shays’ Rebellion
When Freeman died in 1829
she left three apple trees, cows, 20
acres, the house and barn, $300
cash and no debt.
Which gets us to the Shays’
Rebellion story.
In 1786-87 an insurrection
broke out in central and western
Massachusetts, called Shays’
Rebellion after Daniel Shays, a
farmer and Revolutionary War
veteran who found himself in
court after the war, unable to pay
his debts. This was a common
problem among small farmers,
and they organized for debt relief.
There was some violence, and the
authorities took steps.
So feelings were running high,
and most of the Sedgwicks — an
obvious target for the rebels
— got out of town. But Mum-
bet, one Sedgwick child and the
servants were left behind, and
when the rebels came she “ran
them off.”
“She was really working
against her own interests, because
the high taxes worked against
black farmers too,”
said Levinson.
Levinson said
Mumbet left her
property in trust for
her daughter, Betsy,
and Betsy’s two chil-
dren because she felt
Betsy was unreliable.
But within 10 years the property
was sold — Levinson said he is
not sure why. By 1860 all the
descendants of Freeman had left
western Massachusetts for Con-
necticut — Norfolk, Hartford,
and points farther south.
Freeman is buried in the Sedg-
wick “pie” — a circular family
burial plot in Stockbridge —with
the same level of prominence as
the Sedgwick children.
She was independent to the
last. Levinson said the family,
hoping for a deathbed conver-
sion, sent the Unitarian minister
in to see her.
“She said it was between her
and God.”
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History
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Monday, Feb. 27
— Salisbury Housing
Committee at Town Hall,
4 p.m.; Transfer Station
Building Committee at
Sharon Town Hall, 5 p.m.;
Board of Education at
Salisbury Central School,
5:30 p.m.
Spring full of SOAR fun
SALISBURY — Activities coming this spring from SOAR, the
Salisbury Central School enrichment program, include:
• Disney’s “Mulan,” a musical, directed by Lanny Mitchell, at
The Hotchkiss School Blackbox Theater on Thursday, March 1,
and Friday, March 2, at 6:30 p.m., and Sunday, March 3, at 2 p.m.
Tickets are $2 at the door, with open seating.
• Spring after-school classes include boomerangs with Pat Surdam,
chess with Jonathan Doster and robotics for grades four through
six with David Lindsay and Randy Orzano.
• The SOAR Bowl on Friday, April 20, 6:30 p.m. Teams of students
and adults compete on topics covering math, literature, the arts, pop
culture, science and history.
Hotchkiss
students present
dance concert
LAKEVILLE — Students
studying dance at The Hotchkiss
School under the tutelage of
Alice Sarkissian-Wolf, director
of dance, will present an evening
of original works on Friday, Feb,
24, and Saturday, Feb. 25, at 7:30
p.m. in the school’s Walker Audi-
torium. Admission is free.
The program will consist of
fve works set to a variety of
music genres, and each piece
will be a premiere performance.
Each dance represents a col-
laboration among the students
who have worked together to
form the choreography, music,
costuming, lighting and staging
for each piece.
For more information, call
860-435-4423 or visit www.
hotchkiss.org/arts.
Photo exhibit takes viewers
on a journey around world
SALSIBURY — Noble Horizons will host a free opening
reception for Robert Blank’s collection of new photographs
in the Learning Center Gallery on Friday, March 16, from
5 to 7 p.m.
Gallery guests will enjoy a photographic journey through
Vietnam, New York, Namibia, Utah and several other exotic
global destinations. The exhibit will be open weekends from
11 a.m. to 4 p.m. through Sunday, April 22.
As an urban planner, Blank has had an ongoing fascination
with cities and their inhabitants. As a result, when the Lakeville
resident turned to photography, many of his photographs
were of cityscapes and city dwellers and how they live.
For more information, call 860-435-9851 ext. 190 or visit
www.noblehorizons.org.
Era of Elegance
lecture to focus
on portraits
SALISBURY — Richard Boyle
will present a lecture entitled
“Style, Truth and the Portrait
in the Age of Elegance” in the
Scoville Memorial Library’s
Wardell Room on Saturday, Feb.
25, at 4 p.m.
The lecture will cover Ameri-
can portrait painting from 1760
to 1860. Boyle, an art historian,
will discuss the meaning of the
words “truth” and “style” as they
apply to the portraits and address
the question, “what makes a great
portrait?”
The lecture is sponsored by
the Salisbury Association His-
torical Society and the Scoville
Memorial Library. It is the second
lecture in the Era of Elegance
winter series.
Concert will tell ‘The Secret
Life of Opera Singers’
LAKEVILLE — Crescendo, a Lakeville-based music organiza-
tion, will present a winter concert called “The Secret Life of Opera
Singers” at Trinity Church Lime Rock on Saturday, Feb. 25, at 4 p.m.
It is a collaboration between contralto Imelda Franklin Bogue and
pianist Anne Voglewede Green.
The show features a cabaret act that takes lovers and haters of the
art form on a journey beginning in the mind of a stubborn 10-year-
old girl who wants to sing at the Met. The show features the music
of Verdi, Handel, Gilbert and Sullivan, Rossini and Faure.
Tickets cost $25 and may be purchased at the door or online
at www.worldclassmusic.org/crescendo/Participate/tickets.htm.
Proceeds will beneft Crescendo’s programs.
The snow date is Saturday, March 3, at 4 p.m. For more information,
call 860-435-4866, email [email protected] or visit
www.worldclassmusic.org/crescendo/Projects/Secret_life.htm.
By Patrick L. Sullivan
LAKEVILLE — Looking for a
hike that’s not too strenuous and
not too long, but will still get the
heart rate up and provide a pleas-
ant, woodsy experience?
The destination, then, is
Dark Hollow Road — the dirt
road that runs between Farnam
and Salmon Kill roads — and
the trails there maintained by
the Salisbury Association Land
Trust.
The road is closed for the win-
ter, but the start of the Summit
and Farnham Fields trails is just
a few yards from the barrier on
the Farnam Road side.
The trails are well-marked
and easy to follow — especially in
this snowless winter. The Summit
trail involves some immediate
uphill action. Once up on the
ridge, the hiker can see across
the Salmon Kill valley, albeit
through the trees. A quick walk
off the trail improves the view
somewhat.
The trail then heads downhill,
in a very “lions and tigers and
bears, oh my!” stretch of woods
that conceals a bona fde mystery
(More on that in a moment.)
It loops around and returns
to the road.
Complete time from parking
at the barrier to returning to the
trail head (including pauses for
fddling with the camera) was
about 45 minutes. Mild sweat,
zero aches.
It was the work of a moment
to hit the trail and bear right this
time, past the marker set in a
boulder that dedicates Dark Hol-
low to Benjamin Moore Belcher
and Nancy Knapp Belcher, and
notes that “The purchase of
Dark Hollow by the Salisbury
Association Land Trust was made
possible by the generosity of the
Belcher Family and many other
charitable donors, July 2003.”
The Farnham Fields trail
winds downward, past the holy
grail of New England hiking (an
old stone wall), past some felds
(as advertised) and back up to
the barrier and your car. Total
time for this section is no more
than 20 minutes.
Now, about that mystery. It
was surprising to spot what ap-
photos by patrick l. sullivan
The trails in Dark Hollow are clearly marked. Even this reporter couldn’t manage to get lost. The marker at right appeared mysteriously a couple of
years ago at the base of a tree and overlooking a steep drop, just off the Summit trail, according to Tom Key of the Salisbury Association. Nobody
knows who put it there — or why.
Do ghosts carry their stones?
Stumbling upon a mystery while on a Dark Hollow hike
pears to be a grave marker leaning
against a tree trunk, overlooking
a hollow or ravine.
The marker reads, simply:
“Charlotte Remington, 1891-
1968.”
Tom Ke y,
who helps keep
an eye on Dark
Hollow for the
Salisbury Asso-
ciation, said he
spotted it one
day a couple of
years ago.
“One day I saw it, and I know
it hadn’t been there a few weeks
earlier,” Key said.
“I thought at frst it was a
prank. But that’s got to be pretty
heavy” and would be diffcult to
carry up to the spot.
Key developed a couple of
theories. “Maybe her ashes were
scattered up there and someone
thought the marker should go
with it.”
A more ominous theory:
“When ghosts walk at night,
maybe they take their stones
along.”
Town historian Katherine
Chilcoat was
asked about it.
She remem-
bered a Rem-
ington family
on Covered
Bridge Road,
of f Be l g o
Road.
Pos s i bl y
the answer is that the stone was
a mistake by the mason. Chilcoat
said there are plenty of door
stops and rocks in gardens that
are goofs from the gravestone
industry.
This theory has some merit.
Records at Town Hall have a
Charlotte Wilkie Remington, but
the dates are 1885-1982.
But if that’s the case, it still
doesn’t explain why the stone
is up on the Summit Trail, nor
does it shed any light on who
put it there.
There’s also a metal folding
chair at the beginning of the
Summit Trail. Maybe it was
brought along so whoever lugged
the Remington marker could
take a breather.
In any event, the Dark Hollow
trails (there is a third one, called
the Lower Trail) are accessible
and quiet, fairly easy on the limbs
and fll a niche between the Rail
Trail and a full-bore hike on the
Appalachian Trail.
Records at Town Hall
have a Charlotte Wilkie
Remington, but the
dates are 1885-1982.
Children’s opera coming to church
SALISBURY — A new production of Donald Sosin’s children’s
opera, “Esther,” based on the biblical story, will take place on Satur-
day, March 3, at 2:30 p.m. at the Salisbury Congregational Church.
Admission is free. Children over age 6 may participate in a free pre-
show workshop led by the founder and artistic director of Grumbling
Gryphons. Space is limited. Call 860-672-0286 to register.
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By Asher Pavel
SHARON — Planning has
begun for the annual road race
to beneft the Sharon Day Care
Center. At their meeting Feb. 14,
the selectmen approved the use of
West Woods Road, Boland Road,
the town Green and Town Hall
Parking lot for portable facilities
for the May 5 run.
Plans are also being made for a
triathlon to be held June 23. The
Board of Recreation and Youth
and the triathlon coordinators
submitted a request to the Board
of Selectmen, as the legal traf-
fc authority for Sharon, to use
Mudge Pond Road and Mudge
Town Road for the triathlon to
be held on June 23. The request
was granted.
Also approved was a request
from the Planning and Zoning
Commission to hold a town
meeting March 2 at 7 p.m. The
commission had previously
voted to approve the surrender
of the Keilty drainage easement;
the plan must now be approved
by voters.
The selectmen also discussed
concerns about town equipment
that is being stored outside of the
town garage.
First Selectman Robert Loucks
reported that a metal building,
measuring 30-by-50 feet, is avail-
able for $8,000. The building
would have to be put together.
Loucks had obtained estimates
for the required concrete work to
install the building and the cost to
erect it on the site. The purchase
price and the building costs would
bring the total to approximately
$70,000.
The building would not be
heated but would offer protection
from the weather.
Stan MacMillan, Sharon’s
building inspector and fre mar-
shall, has looked at the specifca-
tions and said they are OK.
Selectman Meg Szalewicz said
she agrees with the need for such
storage but was concerned about
fnding the money to pay for it
and where it would be placed.
Loucks said it would be erected
next to existing buildings.
The need for the building has
been discussed before. MacMil-
lan has said the current storage
arrangement is in violation of
regulations.
Loucks asked if the board
should “fnd” the $8,000 to pur-
chase the building and then hope
to obtain a state grant for the
construction costs to complete
the project.
A motion was approved to
proceed with this plan and meet
with the Board of Finance to
determine where budget adjust-
ments could be made to cover
the $8,000.
In other business the select-
men set two dates for budget
workshop meetings. They are Feb.
27 and March 1, both at 1 p.m.
Road races, new storage
on ‘to do’ list for town
SHARON — The recently re-
established Long Range Planning
Committee (LRPC) now has
nine members, according to First
Selectman Robert Loucks.
The committee members
were announced at the Feb. 14
meeting of the Board of Select-
men.
They are Jessica Fowler (chair-
man), Ray Aakjar II, Thomas
Bartram, Mike Beck, Douglas
Cahill, Alexandra Hunter, Dale
Jones and Liz Shapiro.
The members were approved
by a vote of the board.
An organizational meeting
of the committee will be held
Feb. 29 at 7 p.m., so the group
can designate a secretary and
begin work.
The selectmen agreed on a
list of issues it would like the
committee to look into.
A master plan should be cre-
ated for the town garage area and
the adjacent recreational felds.
The committee members
should look at the list of town-
owned properties to see what
future uses there may be for
them. Some of the parcels might
be sold if they are not of use to
the town.
Emergency preparedness, the
frehouse and incentives for vol-
unteers should be examined.
Town roads should be reas-
sessed to see if the town should
continue to maintain them. And
the committee should discuss the
possibility of creating a regional
middle school.
Selectman Meg Szalewicz said
she feels the former committee
members would appreciate, and
should get, a personal thank you
from the Board of Selectmen for
having served. A motion was
made and approved. Loucks said
he would compose a thank-you
letter for the board to approve
before it is sent out.
— Asher Pavel
Nine members and a mission
for long-range plan group
By Asher Pavel
SHARON — At the Feb. 14
meeting of the Board of Select-
men, Elizabeth Hall, an alternate
member of the Planning and
Zoning Commission (P&Z),
spoke to the selectmen about
P&Z concerns regarding parking
on Upper Main Street in front of
the Hamlin House.
“We are recommending that
you, as a board, look into institut-
ing diagonal parking and that at
the same time you consider mak-
ing that section of Upper Main
Street one-way southbound,”
Hall said.
P&Z and the Sharon Green
Preservation Association are
also concerned that automobiles
parking on Upper Main Street
encroach on the town Green and
are damaging it.
Hall said there is an offce in
Hamlin House that generates
fairly high traffc and parking
has been a problem. “There are
certain days people come to the
offces at Hamlin House and are
unable to fnd parking.”
Hall said there is enough space
in front of Hamlin House to meet
current regulations for diagonal
parking. While a proposed map
showed space for nine 45-degree
parking spaces, P&Z felt eight
spaces were more realistic.
The Sharon Green Preserva-
tion Association would be willing
to install boulders or other de-
terrents to prevent automobiles
from parking on the Green in
that area.
Hall said current regulations
require one-way traffc in areas
with diagonal parking.
First Selectman Robert Loucks
said, “I was on the phone with the
state Department of Transporta-
tion today, and parking is totally
up to the Board of Selectmen,
so we can vote on that. But
anything to do with a change
in the direction of the traffc or
signage, speed limits or that sort
of thing, we have to go back to
the DOT to get permission, even
on town roads.”
Selectman Meg Szalewicz
made a motion that the board
institute diagonal parking in
front of Hamlin House at this
time and look into the one-way
traffc situation with the Depart-
ment of Transportation. The
motion was approved.
Diagonal
parking
at Hamlin
House
SHARON — Budget discus-
sions have begun for the next
fiscal year, which will begin
July 1.
At the Sharon Board of
Education (BOE) meeting on
Feb. 13, Sharon’s Region One
Board representative, Marilyn
Yerks, said the town of Sharon
had 102 students enrolled at
Housatonic Valley Regional High
School (HVRHS) in the 2010-11
school year. In the 2011-12 year,
there are 79 students. Yerks said
that will mean an approximate
$300,000 reduction in Sharon’s
assessment.
All six towns in the region
share the cost of the regional high
school based on the number of
students attending in the prior
year. The number of students
at the school in the frst week of
October 2011 determines how
much Sharon will pay in its
2012-13 budget.
Yerks also reported that Mat-
thew Harnett, the new principal
at Housatonic, said there had
been a sexting incident at the
high school. Sexting is the use
of cell phones to send unsolic-
ited photographs of a sexual
nature.
In response, the high school
hosted a special presentation on
sexting on Feb. 22. Parents in
the community with children in
grade fve or higher were invited
to attend.
A new sidewalk from the front
of the Sharon Center School
entrance up to Hilltop Road has
been approved by the Planning
and Zoning Commission. A
4-foot-wide sidewalk, approxi-
mately 340 feet long, will be built.
Once survey and construction
costs are ascertained, budget
approval will be sought.
The board approved a bul-
lying policy and the school will
have an anti-bullying all-school
assembly on Monday, Feb. 27, at
1:30 p.m. Families are invited to
a separate program on this topic
at 6:30 p.m. that day.
There will be a student drama
production of “Annie Junior” on
Friday and Saturday, March 30
and 31. Principal Karen Manning
said in her report to the board
that, “the eighth grade invites all
to attend an awesome spaghetti
dinner on March 31 to help raise
funds for their Washington trip.
Enjoy an evening of dinner and
theater.”
There was extensive discus-
sion about the plan to hire a
middle school athletic director
for the region. Region One
Superintendent Patricia Cham-
berlain reported the position as
originally planned would have
been a half-time job with a salary
of $20,000.
However, several of the Re-
gion One towns said they would
not contribute enough money to
make that salary possible. It was
therefore necessary to scale back
BOE covers wide range of topics at meeting
Sharon
Calendar
Thursday, Feb. 23 — Board
of Finance special meeting at
Sharon frehouse, 5:30 p.m.,
to discuss town financial
support to the Sharon Fire
Department and to tour the
facility and equipment.
Monday, Feb. 27 — Salis-
bury Sharon Transfer Station
Building Committee at Sha-
ron Town Hall, 5 p.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 28 — His-
toric District Commission at
Town Hall, 7 p.m.
the scope and cost of the position
(See story, page A1.)
Chamberlain said the scaled-
back position could be tested for
a school year to see if it could
work. “If it didn’t work, we
would either abandon it or try
to improve upon it.”
The fnal decision on this po-
sition will be made by the Region
One board. However, each of the
six town boards of education
can make suggestions to the
All Boards Committee (ABC),
which would relay those results
to the regional board.
When a vote was taken,
there was an even split among
Sharon board members about
recommending this position be
approved as presented. Tortorella
said she would report to the ABC
that her board was deadlocked.
— Asher Pavel
SHARON — The town is
seeking help with cleaning up
the Green. Interested individuals
should contact the selectmen’s
offce for a job application.
“This is a very part-time
and temporary job opportu-
nity,” said Tina Pitcher, the
selectmen’s secretary. “Anyone
interested must be at least 18
years of age.”
All completed applications
must be received by Thursday,
March 1. Call 860-364-5789.
Temporary job
for Green cleanup
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more than 500 since the Octo-
ber nor’easter that left people
without power for as long as
10 days.
The crowd of about 70 quickly
learned the experts were not kid-
ding when they said there is more
to using a generator than just
starting it up and plugging things
into it when the time comes.
The general attitude of most
coming into the forum was that
a generator is something they
defnitely want. Cornwall always
seems to be the frst town to lose
power and the last to get it back.
However, some audience mem-
bers left two hours later saying
they might just opt to go without,
or head to a hotel or shelter.
Others said they felt more
confdent, and had not bought
one yet only because they didn’t
know how to choose or operate
one.
Purchasing a generator is
something to look into when
there is no immediate need.
Anyone who wants to enjoy a
backup power source at the worst
of times is going to have to make
some good decisions up front.
Carbon monoxide dangers
“I’m from the government
and I’m here to help,” Stanley
MacMillan prefaced his part
of the presentation. He might
have been paraphrasing Ronald
Reagan’s famous joke, but the
words were apt in this instance,
and not intended to be ironic.
MacMillan is an area build-
ing offcial and fre marshal. He
knows the building and fre codes
that govern the installation of
generators. He knows how eas-
ily a good situation can go bad
when it comes to generators and
backup heating sources.
“Most people who die in fres
die from smoke inhalation,” he
said. “But what’s in the smoke
they’re inhaling is carbon mon-
oxide. It replaces the oxygen in
their blood. It puts them in a deep
sleep and they never wake up.”
Those were sobering words
for people who just want to keep
their furnace, refrigerator, televi-
sion and microwave running. But
everyone here remembers the
snowstorm last October, when
a local family nearly died when
their properly installed generator
flled their home with carbon
monoxide (CO). Fortunately,
they were awake and got out
before being overcome. A Sharon
man was not as lucky; he and his
dog died from inhaling genera-
tor fumes.
Carbon monoxide is odor-
less and tasteless. It is toxic and
produces fu-like symptoms that
generally come on late. It is the
product of incomplete combus-
tion and can come from anything
that burns fuel, wood, oil, gas or
coal. It is heavier than air, but
can infltrate an entire home
quickly. It can fnd its way in
through the tiniest air leaks and
through bathroom exhaust fans
and dryer vents.
“People think it won’t reach
the second-floor bedrooms
of their house until the whole
house is flled,” MacMillan said.
“We had one CO call that turned
out to be a propane generator
that was installed properly, but
that was not serviced and not
running properly. You could see
the smoke settling in the heavy
air. The CO levels were high in
the house and highest in the
upstairs bedrooms. The heat
rising in the home was pulling
the bad fumes up to the second
foor, where the CO settled on
the bedroom foors.”
In the case of the Sha-
ron man who died from CO
poisoning,MacMillan said the
cause was a muffer that had
broken — not an uncommon
occurrence with generators.
The same happened in another
Sharon home during the same
storm. No one was home at the
time. Neither home had a CO
detector.
Essentials: a CO detector
If you don’t already have one,
buying a CO detector goes hand-
in-hand with buying a generator.
There are many options. They
come combined with smoke de-
tectors, hardwired or to plug into
an outlet. Separate units should
have backup batteries, which
should be changed regularly
along with those in household
smoke detectors.
A CO detector reads two
things: low levels for long periods
and sudden spikes. It will alert
for both, and neither should be
ignored. The building should be
evacuated and 911 called. Leave
windows and doors closed so the
fre department can meter CO
levels and investigate the source,
MacMillan said.
That said, a generator can also
be a lifesaver. Things like heat and
power for medical equipment
can be vital.
Choosing a power source
The advice from experts is to
consider needs and desires for
backup power, balanced against
cost and how much you are will-
ing or able to do when it comes to
maintenance and operation.
Options run from the low-end
portable models, which must be
carried or rolled out into the
yard and fueled; to permanent
installations that take a fip of
a switch and have a dedicated,
large-capacity fuel supply.
Consideration needs to be
given to building and safety codes
for hard-wired installations. A
building permit and possibly a
zoning permit will be required.
But with those can come valu-
able guidance.
Generally, the larger the
generator, the more power it
will produce, and the more it
will cost.
Add to the mix all sorts of
new technologies that are now
available. Honda has a new in-
verter technology, for example.
It eliminates voltage fuctuations
that could create problems when
powering a computer; regulates
engine speed in accord with
demand, to save fuel; displays
wattage produced; and allows
some models to run incredibly
quietly.
Of course, there is a price to
be paid.
Outside, at the end of the
forum, Goff fred up two nearly
identically sized models. One
chugged loudly and spewed
fumes. The other did little more
than hum. But the quiet model
costs several times more than its
noisier counterpart.
Generators can run on gaso-
line, diesel, propane or natural
gas. Installations will require
an electrician, and possibly a
plumber.
They can have a variety of
switch confgurations including:
ones that connect to an existing
circuit panel; or a standby panel
that will automatically take over
when the electricity goes out and
power preselected circuits.
Meters can manage load and
switch circuits on and off to
shed and reapply load to meet
demand when, for instance, the
water pump or furnace kicks on
for short spurts.
There were numerous ques-
tions about how and where to in-
stall a permanent generator. Local
building codes specify distances
from structures and other factors
depending on the particular in-
stallation. The answer boils down
to this: hire professionals.
Saccardi advised having a
plan and starting with some
knowledge about wattage needs
for your home’s vital functions,
including appliances and even
light bulbs. It all adds up quickly
when power is limited.
The largest portable genera-
tors average about 6,000 watts.
Saccardi offered a mock scenario
that used just about that amount
of power, to run a computer, a
television, a refrigerator, a mi-
crowave, a coffeemaker, lights,
an oil burner and a water pump.
He recommended adding a 20
percent cushion for additional
items. While that may seem like
a lot, Saccardi said most people
will want to power more things
after the frst couple of days.
That is factoring in the poten-
tial for everything being used at
once. A smaller generator could
suffce with a little planning to
avoid, for instance, using the
microwave (at a typical 1,500
watts) and coffeemaker (900
watts) at the same time.
Instead of using a desktop
computer (200 watts), use a
laptop (45 watts).
Or think about it in terms
of horsepower, when generator
shopping, with one HP produc-
ing 746 watts of power.
Among the things to keep
in mind is that a furnace, water
heater and anything that doesn’t
have a power cord attached can
only be powered if a circuit box
is hooked up to a generator.
With most homes here on
wells, water is sorely missed when
the power goes out. Toilets can-
not be fushed without manually
flling the tank. After the recent
storms, a popular idea was to buy
a small generator just to power
the well pump. But Saccardi
warned that well pumps use 240
volts, an amount that smaller
generators cannot produce.
It is important to have a switch
on installations, or to switch off
portable generators as soon as
power is restored. Power pro-
duced by a generator can back
feed onto the grid, energize power
lines under repair and cause in-
jury or death to linemen.
One of the biggest mistakes
people make is ignoring not
only the generator when it’s not
needed, but a gasoline supply.
Goff advised that gas cans should
have a good seal to prevent not
only evaporation but also water
infltration.
“The problem is the ethanol in
our gasoline. It boosts octane but
basically is alcohol that absorbs
large amounts of moisture. A gal-
lon of gasoline can easily absorb
4 to 5 ounces of water from the
air overnight.”
Water beads can form and
actually grow algae if left long
enough. Any impurities can
keep the gasoline from burning
properly, which in turn can cause
the generator to malfunction, or
worse, create excessive carbon
monoxide.
Solutions are to use a fuel
treatment product and, once a
month, dump the stored gasoline
in your car’s gas tank and refll
the container.
Follow recommended main-
tenance and safety checks for a
generator. Starting it occasion-
ally is necessary. In the two emer-
gencies MacMillan described,
the muffer problem could have
been detected.
Goff offers on-site service
plans that ensure generators
will be ready to go, safely, when
needed.
Noise and emissions were
also addressed, by the experts
and residents. The answer, again,
is to be prudent when using a
generator, for your own safety
and the comfort of others. Many
problems arise when people leave
a generator running around the
clock and don’t keep an eye on
it. MacMillan said the rule of
thumb is to turn it off while
you’re sleeping. Six hours of
downtime will allow fumes to
disperse and give your neighbors
a break.
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How to fnd and care for a generator in case of a power outage
CORNWALL — Anna D’Alvia
wants to be a writer when she
grows up. But it seems that it’s
not going to work out the way
she planned. It turns out she’s
well ahead of schedule. She’s a
writer now, and has already won
prizes for two submissions to
the Scholastic Art and Writing
Awards.
The eighth-grader at Corn-
wall Consolidated School placed
in the Northeast Regional Com-
petition. She earned a Silver Key
Award for poetry and a Gold
Key Award for a short story
in the “fash fction” category.
The latter will be judged along
with Gold Key Award winners
nationwide.
National winners are recog-
nized at a ceremony at Carnegie
Hall in New York City.
Whether Anna makes it to
Carnegie Hall or not, she can al-
ready count herself among fellow
award winners that include Andy
Warhol, Sylvia Plath, Truman
Capote, Richard Avedon, Robert
Cornwall
Calendar
Monday, Feb. 27 — Zon-
ing Board of Appeals at
Town Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 28 —
Committee on the Aging at
Town Hall, 7 p.m.
CORNWALL — In need of a
getaway? Looking for a unique
trip without having to consider
a lot of options? Some very entic-
ing choices have been added to
the list of items up for auction
at the Cornwall Child Center
Wine Social and Vacation Home
Auction, March 3, 6 to 9 p.m.
at the West Cornwall Railroad
Station.
The social combines the tra-
ditional auction gala with a new
twist: the return of last year’s
popular wine tasting. Together,
they promise an evening of good
wine, good friends, light food
and one short but spectacular
auction. This will be the center’s
most important fundraiser of
the year. Proceeds will go toward
operating expenses.
Support from the community
is already evident in the array of
homes donated by local residents
for vacation weekends or weeks.
During the frst part of the eve-
ning, bids may be placed silent
auction-style. Final silent bids
will become the opening bids
for the live auction.
Vacation spots include:
• New York City, a 16th-foor
apartment on Water Street in the
Financial District, a short walk
from South Street Seaport and
the 9/11 memorial.
• Amelia Island, Fla., a three-
bedroom, four-bath villa on a
golf course, a short walk to beach,
tennis and club.
• Sugarloaf, Maine, a rustic log
home in the western mountains.
The cabin has three comfortable
bedrooms and two baths and
can hold up to six people. It’s
got a modern kitchen. Activities
include skiing, snowboarding,
snowshoeing, Nordic skiing and
kayaking. Hiking biking and golf
are available in the summer.
• West Cork, Ireland, a coun-
try house outside the village of
Castletownshend. The three-
bedroom home has formal gar-
dens and views of the Atlantic.
Day trips can be made to Kerry,
Blarney and Kinsale and there are
opportunities for biking, hiking
and pub hopping.
• Crested Butte, Colo. Ski
in and ski out from this two-
bedroom, two-bath condo with
a loft. Beautiful views. Sauna,
steam room, hot tub and a shuttle
to the base area.
• West Village, Manhattan,
a one-bedroom apartment on
Morton Street. It’s convenient to
theaters, High Line and Green-
wich Village restaurants.
• Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., an
Vacation delights in CCC auction
ocean-view home in the town of
Chilmark. This four-bedroom
home sleeps up to eight (and a
well-mannered pooch). Great
deck and backyard.
• Costa Brava, Spain, details
are not yet available, but — it’s
Spain!
— Karen Bartomioli
Redford and Joyce Carol Oates.
“Surprised” was how Anna
described her reaction to the
news. She was up against stu-
dents in middle school and high
school.
Writing for the contest was
assigned as part of an online
writing course from school,
called Crafting the Essay.
“I feel like I learned a lot for
the course,” she said, “but I never
expected to win awards.”
Anna has known she wanted
to write ever since reading the
novel “Watership Down” by
Richard Adams.
“It inspired me. I think mostly
because it is about animals,
which I love.”
Her favorite animal is the
wolf, although her pets are a
little more typical: a dog, a cat
and a lizard.
“The Last Leaf ” is Anna’s win-
ning anthropomorphic essay.
“I found the last leaf on a tree
one autumn and I saved it. It was
lying on a shelf in my room all
wrinkled and doing nothing. I
decided to write my essay about
its memories of when it was
strong on the branch, and in the
autumn, when all the other leaves
had fallen down.”
Anna’s poetry comes almost
accidentally.
“Sometimes when I’m stuck
on a story I just write everything
that’s on my mind, and some-
times it turns into a poem.”
Her winning poem is called
“Sounds in a Lonely World.”
Anna entered another Scho-
lastic competition, sending in a
short novel. Given the length of
the submission, winners won’t be
announced for about a year, but
Anna said a medal for that would
be well worth the wait.
— Karen Bartomioli
photosubmitted
ANNA D’ALVIA
Writing a future for herself as an author
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Young and old enjoyed the ice at the Kent Memorial Library’s family ice skating party at the Kent School rink
on Feb. 19. This annual event raises money to support the library’s junior reading room for young readers.
Slip sliding away at library party
‘Let me tell you a story ...’
Delaney delights at Kent
Memorial Library talk
one year.
He said that County Tipper-
ary, where he grew up, is very
much like Litchfeld County:
green and colorful. Describing
the place of his youth, Delaney
said, “The word ‘riding’ means
one third, it is a land division of a
county. Tipperary has north and
south ridings, so I have always
said one third of our county
is missing and we don’t know
where it is. I grew up in western
Tipperary, which should have
been the west riding, but was,
in fact, the south riding.
“I grew up in rich, beauti-
ful countryside, with slow
rivers, old limestone abbeys
built in the 9th, 10th and 11th
centuries. Gorgeous old ruins,
Disneyland-type ruins. Abso-
lutely beautiful. That area is
full of stories and full of the
inspirations for stories.”
The author said he lived
in Ireland for 35 years before
spending 25 in England and
before moving to the United
States.
“The English don’t like
stories,” Delaney said. “They
talk slightly contemptuously
of narratives.
“Having left Ireland to go
there [England] and fnding
it barren of story, and then
coming to this place [the U.S.],
which is enormously rich in
story, I fnd all my faith in the
one thing I started out with, the
one belief I had in life has been
vindicated. The one belief is that
there is nothing in the world so
fascinating as a story.”
His next novel, due out in
early 2013, is set partly in the a
monastery in the 6th century.
By Asher Pavel
KENT — Frank Delaney,
Irish-born novelist, broadcaster,
journalist and screenwriter, now
a Kent resident, spoke at the
Kent Memorial Library (KML)
on Feb. 11. He was there to read
from and sign copies of his latest
book, released last month, “The
Last Storyteller.” More than 50
people turned out to hear and
meet him.
This book is the last in a
trilogy that also includes “Ve-
netia Kelly’s Traveling Show”
and “The Matchmaker of
Kenmare.”
In an interview with The
Lakeville Journal before his
library appearance, Delaney
said, “Very often titles don’t
express the book, but I try as
much as I can to use a title that
gives people a sense of what the
book is about.”
Both in the preappearance
interview and in his talk at
the library, Delaney talked
about storytelling in general,
Irish storytelling in particular
and how it became part of his
own life.
Storytelling has been going
on for all of human history,
Delaney said. The easiest way
to get someone’s attention is to
say to them, “Let me tell you a
story.” And that is exactly what
he did at the library.
When asked how long it had
taken him to write this book,
Delaney said, “I could tell you
it took me the sort of routine
year. But I could also tell you,
and be equally truthful, that
I have notes for it going back
about 15 years.
“People will always tell you a
trilogy is not the way to begin.
But I knew when I started it was
going to be a very big story. I also
knew that modern publishers
will not publish a 350,000-word
novel. I had a contract to write
three books, so it made com-
plete sense to write the story as
a trilogy.”
Delaney lived in England for
25 years where, in addition to his
writing, he was a broadcaster
on the BBC. He said the book’s
concept of a man telling his
own story came from “talking
to novelists and interviewing
writers [on the radio] and fnd-
ing out that what they were all
doing, one way or another, was
in every novel telling the story
of their own lives.
“So I thought, how interest-
ing it would be to have a charac-
ter who was telling himself the
story of his own life. And that
is what happened here.”
Though the book had been
on Delaney’s mind a long time,
the actual writing took about
Photoby Asher PAvel
Irish-born author, and
Kent resident, Frank Dela-
ney signed copies of his
latest book, “The Last
Storyteller,” after talking
about and reading from the
novel at the Kent Memorial
Library on Feb. 11.
KENT — Due to the absence
of an ice covering on the Housa-
tonic River in Kent this year, the
annual Ice Watch will be replaced
by a 50/50 drawing for people
who purchased tickets. The Ice
Watch is a fundraiser for the
Kent Volunteer Fire Department
(KVFD).
According to Susie Rundall,
who has worked on the Ice
Watch committee for about 40
years, there is a 50/50 drawing in
years when there is no ice. This
year the drawing will be held
at the fre department’s annual
dinner, to be held at The Kent
School in March.
Rundall is the mother of Bill
Rundall, who has been chair of
the Ice Watch committee for
about 10 years.
The cable that stretches across
the Housatonic is connected to
a clock that measures the exact
time the ice thaws. The cable was
ripped out at 11:59 p.m. on March
6, 2011, by the extraordinary ice
foes on the river that year.
Rundall said they know the
exact time because that was when
the clock stopped.
The cable has not yet been
replaced. Had there been ice this
year, Rundall said it probably
would have been repaired and
the thaw mechanism and clock
reinstalled.
Feb. 17 was the last day to pur-
chase tickets. Rundall reported
that $400 in tickets were sold. Last
year, ticket sales totaled $1,291.
Rundall said yearly ticket sales
can vary a great deal. In 1988, the
Ice Watch sold $3,650 worth of
tickets. In 1996, only $662.
The ice watch was started
about 40 years ago by John Green,
who brought the idea back after
a trip to Alaska.
— Asher Pavel
No ice to watch this year
Kent Calendar
Monday, Feb. 27 — In-
land Wetlands Commission
at Town Hall, 7 p.m.; Park
& Recreation Commission
at Town Hall, 7 p.m.
Thursday, March 1 —
Special town meeting at
Town Hall to discuss tax re-
lief for elderly and disabled
residents, 7 p.m.
KENT — Warren artist Beth
Carlson will have her paintings
displayed in the Kent Memorial
Library’s gallery from Thursday,
March 1, through Monday, April
30, in an exhibit titled “Lake
Waramaug Musing.”
An opening reception will be
held on Saturday, March 3, from
3 to 5 p.m. Along with the display
of Lake Waramaug images, hors
d’oeuvres by Marty Carlson will
be served.
The program is free and
open to the public. For more
information, call the library at
860-927-3761, email kmlinfo@
biblio.org or visit www.kentme-
moriallibrary.org.
Library exhibit
to feature
lake images
KENT — The Kent Memorial
Library requested a $5,000 grant
from the Board of Selectmen
(BOS) to purchase new tarps to
cover the book tables left out-
doors during the annual warm-
weather book sale. Tarps are used
to cover the book tables at night
and in rainy weather.
According to First Selectman
Bruce Adams, “The current old
tarps are commonly referred to as
‘body bags on Main Street’.”
The library reported to Adams
that the new tarps would not only
improve the look of the covered
book tables, they would also be
easier to put on and remove from
the tables — and they could even
increase book sale revenues.
The tarps now being used are
so cumbersome that revenues
are lost because tables remain
covered if there is even the pos-
sibility of rain showers. Adams
said newer tarps use a better
New tarps in store for KML book sale tables
technology for both quickly
securing them to the tables and
removing them.
It was pointed out that even
if the BOS approves the grant, it
will have to be approved by the
Board of Finance and that grant
money would not be available
until July 1.
The library needs to go ahead
with this project now because the
supplier, in Brookfeld, Conn.,
primarily makes boat sails and
can complete the project at a
lower cost before the boating
season begins.
Adams said if the grant is
approved, the library would con-
tract with the supplier now and
pay for the new higher-tech tarps
out of their current operating
budget with the understanding
the grant money would not be
forthcoming unless approved
by the Board of Finance.A mo-
tion to grant the library $5,000
for new tarps was approved by
the selectmen, pending fnance
board approval.
— Asher Pavel
Lunch for seniors
KENT — A senior lunch
program is offered Fridays at the
Kent Senior Center, Swifts Lane.
The center opens at 11:30 a.m.
and the meal is served at noon.
The cost is $2 per person.
Reservations are required by
calling 860-927-4627 by Thurs-
day noon.
KENT — Kent Park and Rec-
reation is accepting registrations
for the after-school program
that is open to Kent Center
School students in kindergarten
through sixth grade.
The program meets Monday
through Friday from 3 to 5:30
Registration open for after-school program
p.m. at the school and features
snack and homework time, in-
door and outdoor activities and
arts and crafts.
The cost is $11 per day. Reg-
istration forms and the program
handbook are available at www.
kentctparkandrecreation.com;
in the Park and Recreation offce
at Town Hall; at the Kent Center
School offce; or by calling 860-
927-1003.
Photos by Asher PAvel
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What does that mean for a
project timeline?
Charles Harlow, Principal
Engineer in Traffc Engineering
at the DOT Rail Division said
fnal designs on the project are
scheduled for summer 2013.
But the plan includes draining
into the Blackberry River, which
means extensive, time-consum-
ing state environmental permit-
ting. Priority has switched to two
projects that were ready to roll
when funding became available,
putting this project at least two
years out.
Collins Diner
CRHA has been attempting to
secure a license agreement with
Collins Diner owner Ameen-
Storm Abo-Hamzy to allow legal
use of the road behind the diner,
which is part of that property, as
an alternative access to the south
side of the depot. The board
decided on Feb. 8 to no longer
pursue that request.
Abo-Hamzy told The Journal
he was still trying to fgure out,
with his attorney, the best ap-
proach in a complicated situation
of easements, including rail and
utilities, on properties there, and
felt rushed by the pace of the
request.
Beyond that, he said he and
his family are nothing but sup-
portive of the project, and look
forward to being among the
businesses that will beneft.
Missed opportunity?
What Drury calls a “missed
opportunity” is a simple but
intriguing plan to commemo-
rate one of Canaan Union
Station’s standout features. The
north/south rail line once in-
tersected with an east/west line
there. Hence the L-shape (not
quite a 90-degree angle) of the
building.
He is advocating reinstalling
the east/west rail for the length
of that wing, creating a walkway
fush to the rails. It would require
moving a row of parking back,
which would serve to give the
building’s true facade the rev-
erence he feels it is due. With
passenger service gone and the
depot used as retail space, the
back, which faces Route 44 and
the parking lot, has come to be
perceived as the front.
Drury said that doing no more
than creating a parking lot there
would be “a clear mistake for a
project that claims to be about
historic preservation,” and an
approach that would make the
south face nothing more than a
“backyard.”
“From a railroading point of
view, however, the south face is
very much the front of the build-
ing. It is no accident that many
of the most striking images of
the station show the depot from
the southwest, not the northeast.
This was the face on which the
sign hung that welcomed pas-
sengers to Canaan for more than
a hundred years.”
The answer from CRHA is that
they asked the engineer to incor-
porate just such a design aspect
into the project as something they
can do at a later date.
“We have old rail saved and
it’s something we want to do,”
Humes said. “But it’s not allowed
in this project. We are hoping to
raise money and do it later on.”
As a completion date becomes
real, CRHA is getting solid inter-
est in the restaurant and retail
spaces. Except for the museum
and CRHA offce space, interiors
will be fnished as “white box”
rental spaces. Tenants will specify
and pay for fnal work, such as
partition walls and permanent
fxtures, to meet their needs.
— Karen Bartomioli
Efforts
continue
to make
Commons
plan work
NORTH CANAAN — A
request for a dramatic lowering
of a construction bond at Black-
berry River Commons is making
progress before the Planning and
Zoning Commission (P&Z).
The application to drop the
$300,000 bond to $25,000 or
$30,000 on construction of up
to 21 homes at the age 55-plus
condominiums has been before
P&Z numerous times. Owner
William Weingart was at the Feb.
13 meeting to discuss the issues.
He last appeared in April 2011.
The bond was required in
case the developer failed to
complete the work. It covers pav-
ing two private roads and other
infrastructure work, including
creating a buffer between the
10.5-acre property and the sewer
treatment plant.
The project has essentially
stalled, however, because no one
is buying there. Only one home
has sold. That was in October
2008.
Weingart is asking for a reduc-
tion that matches the value of
completed work. The problem
is there are many entities and
easements involved. P&Z will
revisit the request at its March 12
meeting, but will make a decision
only if it has in hand paperwork
from an engineer, Aquarion (wa-
ter company), CL&P and Canaan
Fire District, which operates the
sewer plant. Weingart continues
to work with the fre district on
required paperwork. A large
portion of the bond covers work
relative to the plant.
The development rights at
Blackberry River Commons are
good for 15 years.
— Karen Bartomioli
North CaNaaN
CaleNdar
Thursday, Feb. 23 — In-
land Wetlands Commission
at Town Hall, 7 p.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 28 —
Town meeting, NCES en-
ergy project, 7:30 p.m.
Continued from Page A1
2001. Its revival will include a
retail center and restaurant, and
there will also be a railroad mu-
seum in the former ticket offce
and signal tower.
It has not lost its designation
as a continuously operating train
station since 1872. Housatonic
Railroad Co. is working on a
plan to expand its freight ser-
vice to include passenger train
service into New York City, and
the project now seems more
crucial than ever to the vitality
of the town.
The pressure is on, as both
the DOT and depot owner
Connecticut Railroad Histori-
cal Association (CRHA), which
bought the depot in 2003, each
get prescribed comment periods
as the project heads toward bid-
ding in about three months.
Concerns from three groups
But there are other entities
that want their say as well. Ear-
lier this month, Geoffrey Drury
submitted six pages of comments
on the plans, written on behalf of
the Canaan Fire District, North
Canaan Streetscape Committee
and the North Canaan Beauti-
fcation Committee. Drury is a
semi-retired local attorney, but
wrote to CRHA through his close
association with each.
All three entities represented
have long given broad oversight
to the town center: envisioning
what it could be, securing grant
funds and completing a fair
amount of work in the way of
tree plantings, sidewalk pavers,
period lighting, benches and a
new playground, as well as plans
to move unsightly utility lines.
Among the things they learned
along the way is that even the
smallest details count.
Among the points on Drury’s
list was curbing, removal of the
bus stop shelter, trees planned for
removal, the width of sidewalks
(which are plowed by the fre
district), light pole and fencing
colors, the warmth of the tone of
lighting on the site and what he
termed a “missed opportunity”
in a project aimed at a historic
restoration.
Drury also wondered why
the draft site plan, dated July 8,
2011, was not made available
for public review for more than
seven months. He claims the
CRHA board has deliberately
denied the public an adequate
chance for input.
“It’s diffcult,” said Selectman
Charlie Perotti, who serves as
liaison between the town and
CRHA, “because there is no
face-to-face discussion with the
state. We pass the plans back and
forth and respond to each other’s
comments. The plans were in the
state’s hands since last July.”
CRHA has worked for years
to secure grants, seek donations
and hold fundraisers, with work
delayed at times by a lack of
funding, or a lack of a contrac-
tor willing to do the work. With
the federal funds covering more
than half of the estimated total
cost, they are at the mercy of
state approvals, and are running
out of time.
‘It has to keep moving’
Holding up the project is in
no way in the CRHA’s interest,
Perotti said.
“The association is paying
thousands and thousands in
interest. Some of the board
members have made donations
to make mortgage payments.
They just can’t afford for it to
be held up any longer than it
has to be.
“In a perfect world, we would
have $2 million of our own and
we could spend lots of time ask-
ing people what they want. But
we can’t stop at this point and
lose momentum. The project
has to keep moving through the
state process.”
On Feb. 8, CRHA board
members held a meeting and
addressed Drury’s comments.
Perotti said the issues were taken
seriously, and some changes were
made. But it boiled down to
making no changes that would
cost more money or necessitate
redrawing plans, anything that
would cause a delay.
The comments, Drury wrote,
“are offered for one purpose: to
make a project whose success is
of enormous importance to the
entire town of North Canaan,
and that would impact the look
and feel of the town center for
generations to come, as good as
it can possibly be.”
The proposed lighting, for
instance, would be a much
cooler, brighter tone that would
not blend in with the rest of the
downtown lighting. Consider-
able effort went into designing
lighting. Drury wants to see
continuity.
However, First Selectman
Douglas Humes, a member of the
CRHA board, told The Lakeville
Journal that being the town
“centerpiece,” perhaps the depot
should be more noticeably lit.
No ‘exclusive control’
Drury expressed concern, as
well, for the decision-making
process. The nonproft CRHA,
he said, ended up owning the
depot because its private owner
was not eligible for govern-
ment grants and bank bridge
fnancing. That doesn’t give the
association “exclusive control of
the project.”
“This is very much a public,
not a private, project, and the
planning for it should seek to
integrate it with, not isolate it
from, the larger town context.”
Drury told The Journal he is in
no way disparaging the members
of the CRHA board, or their good
intentions on this project. But he
felt it was worrisome that at an
informational meeting held at
Town Hall in early January by the
state and CRHA, it was evident
that much of the planning had
been delegated to engineers and
architects, who, in Drury words,
“appear to have little knowledge
of the community and only
limited interest in how their
decisions about the depot plaza
will impact the rest of the town
center.”
Issues raised at that meeting
included trees planned for re-
moval that were planted as part
of beautifcation projects; the
problematic blocking off of the
road behind Collins Diner; and
the removal of valuable parking
in front of the diner for banks
of shrubbery.
Trees remain in debate. CRHA
has since reversed the engineer’s
plans to block the access road,
and install new shrubs. At the in-
formational meeting, landscape
architect Stephanie Fuss was
asked why she would trade park-
ing for plantings, when the diner
is already nicely landscaped. Fuss
admitted she had not been on
the site, but used information
provided by the designers at A1
Engineers, Inc., which did not
specify anything adjoining the
area be developed.
Some accommodations
While Drury’s comments
offer many solid suggestions,
Humes said, he reiterated that
little can be changed at this
point without risking project
delay and overstepping what is
allowed under the terms of a
subsidized project. The sugges-
tions were faxed to the architect
for review.
For instance, Drury’s fear that
the plaza is likely to look “white
and cold” compared to the streets
around it was answered by a plan
to change the bulbs later on if that
turns out to be the case.
Changed at Drury’s urging
was the width of sidewalks,
widened by 6 inches, to accom-
modate plows.
Light poles and a fence be-
tween the parking lot and the
depot were planned to be black.
Drury suggested they be the same
dark green as poles installed for
lights and traffc signals as part of
the Streetscape work. The board
voted to make the color change
for the poles. No mention was
made of the fence.
While the light fxtures will
be distinctly different from the
ones in the center of town, Drury
likes the more industrial style
that fts with the depot. A similar
design was originally planned for
the Streetscape work. But plaza
lighting out by the street should
be the same as the rest of the town
center, he asserted.
Five streetlights in the depot
plaza and a Greenway signboard
kiosk on the ellipse will be re-
moved and stored for future use
elsewhere in town.
Issues that were not changed
or addressed by the board were
the subject of a quick reply from
Drury, working from an offcial
response to his comments from
Perotti.
The “ellipse,” the grassy area
on the Main Street (Route 44)
edge of the plaza, also serves as
a stop for buses that run between
Vermont and New York City. It
is currently an easy swing into
the plaza from either direction.
Drury is concerned that will no
longer be the case when the en-
trances are reconfgured — nar-
rowed down to two lanes requir-
ing sharp turns — and he fears
the stop may be eliminated.
He cited a lack of concern for
bus service, as expressed by the
project engineer at the informa-
tional meeting, and suggested it
was another way for the CRHA
board to treat the project as if it
were “divorced from everything
around it.”
A bus stop shelter is planned
for removal as part of A1’s at-
tempt to clear the ellipse of ev-
erything but the new clock tower.
The idea is to open up the view
of the depot. Drury argued that
the alternative of allowing bus
passengers to wait in the depot
lobby is not a good option, and
that the shelter disrupts the view
from only “a very few square feet
of Route 44.”
The view is one of the reasons
most of the trees around the plaza
were originally slated to
go, it was explained at the
informational meeting.
The added cost of moving
or trying to preserve trees
is why the board decided
the best approach is to re-
plant after construction.
Drury continues to
take issue with replac-
ing mature trees, and
remains unconvinced by
the designers’ approach.
Although it’s tagged as a
historic restoration, trees
would not have been
included way back when
because they would have
been in the way at a busy
rail station.
“This is a short-sighted and
silly approach in a town that has
been making strenuous efforts
over the last three or four decades
to restore its once magnifcent
street trees, and that is well on
its way to accomplishing that
goal. It will be both aesthetically
and commercially unfortunate if
the depot plaza ends up looking
exposed, hot and uninviting in
the middle of an otherwise green
and welcoming town.”
‘A bright and sizeable eyesore’
Drury asked that a historical
article required for the project
be done by local people with
knowledge of the period, or
at least reviewed by the town
historian.
Subtle nighttime exterior
lighting of the signal tower and
cupola, as well as the lighting in
the museum, were concerns. The
board’s answer is that museum
and decorative lighting are still
in the planning stages.
Perotti said the entire mu-
seum, right down to display
fxtures, will be included in the
federal funding.
Along the Route 44 frontage,
striped “islands” will be painted
to temporarily defne the bound-
aries and two driveways. This
is part of DOT Project 99-115,
better known as the plan to install
lights and gates at the Main Street
railroad crossing. Diffculties in
devising a plan to economically
and effectively drain the cross-
ing of chronic standing water,
to prevent equipment malfunc-
tion, have kept the project on the
drawing board for 20 years.
The painted stripes will be
replaced by grass-covered islands
after excavation for drainage is
complete. Drury called them “a
bright and sizeable eyesore.”
“Does the CRHA have any
Plan B in mind for these areas
if the DOT dithers for another
10 years?”
The answer is that CRHA has
no control over the DOT project,
or the “islands,” which are on
state property.
Perotti said recent testing,
with dye injected to determine
the functionality of numerous
existing drain lines, had a very
positive outcome.
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Canaan’s Union Station, as it looked in 1970. It did not face
Main Street, but the opposite direction, where its ticket win-
dow overlooked the junction.
Union Station road to restoration has been a long one, but the end is in sight
First Selectman Douglas Humes said the depot, the
town “centerpiece,” should be more noticeably lit.
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psychology of bullying.
In her own words, “being
bullied is not the victim’s fault;
that is one of the main messages
I want to get out there. I was bul-
lied, and I know how horrible it
was, and because of this, I want
to help make a difference in the
lives of people who are being
bullied. I want them to know
that it is not their fault, and I
want those people to know that
even though it seems like it will
never end, there is life after be-
ing bullied.”
Alexa studied this subject as
a part of her fnal project in the
Women in Literature course,
and she is hoping to share the
presentation that she developed
with some of the elementary
Falls Village Calendar
Thursday, Feb. 23 — Senior Center lunch, 10 a.m.;
Hunt Library story hour (ages 3-5), 10:30 a.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 28 — Hunt Library story time (ages
2-4), 10:30 a.m.; Hunt Library board meeting at library,
6 p.m.; Ladies Auxiliary at frehouse, 7:30 p.m.
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ALEXA CURTISS
Housatonic Valley Regional student of the week
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Laura Munson (holding basket) and Betsy Howie volun-
teered at the live auction at the Chocolate in the Village
event at the D.M. Hunt Library.
Chocolate event
a melting pot of
fun for the village
FALLS VILLAGE — The Chocolate in the Village party
Feb. 18 at the D.M. Hunt Library raised just over $2,000 for
the library.
Hosted by The Friends of the David M. Hunt Library, the
event is in its ffth year.
Cheerful young ladies served baked goods, candy and sa-
vory dishes, mostly produced by local community members
and businesses.
Bruce Paddock of Berkshire Trivia emceed a lively round
of trivia, Joshua Stone provided the music and Betsy Howie
used skill and humor in running the live auction.
Email reporter Patrick Sullivan
at [email protected]
FALLS VILLAGE — The
Region One Band and Chorus
had busy days Monday and
Wednesday, Feb. 13 and 15,
with shows at the elementary
schools in Kent, Cornwall and
Sharon on Monday and North
Canaan, Falls Village and Salis-
bury on Wednesday, plus a show
Wednesday night at Housatonic
Valley Regional High School.
All the regional music teach-
ers were involved: Michael
Piraneo from Lee H. Kellogg
School in Falls Village; David
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David Gaedeke (right in top photo) conducted the band and
Michael Piraneo (left) led the chorus at the Region One Band
and Chorus concert at Lee H. Kellogg School Wednesday, Feb.
15. Gaedeke, who works at North Canaan Elementary School,
helped out on trombone for part of the show. Piraneo is the
music teacher at Kellogg. Percussionists, right, readied their
instruments before one of the programs.
Regional band,
chorus tour schools
Gaedeke from North Canaan
Elementary; Nicole Stickle
from Sharon Center School;
David Poirier from Sharon and
Kent Center Schools; Sandra
Kleisner from Kent Center;
Alicia Simonetti-Shpur from
Cornwall Consolidated School;
and Rob Nellson from Salisbury
Central.
The band did a solid job
on a difficult piece: Strauss’
“Thus Spake Zarathrustra”
(best known as the theme
from Stanley Kubrick’s film
“2001: A Space Odyssey”),
and the chorus peformed a
diverse selection, including
an African choral piece and
“Beautiful Day” by the Irish
rock band U2.
— Patrick L. Sullivan
FALLS VILLAGE — The Lee
H. Kellogg School’s Quiz Bowl
Team placed third in the Charter
Oak Scholastic Open on Jan. 29.
The inaugural academic compe-
tition was held at the Middlesex
Middle School in Darien and
drew teams from as far away as
Boston.
The Kellogg team was cap-
tained by eighth-grader Emily
Hennessey and included Riley
Simmons, Julie Horowitz and
Olivia Wadsworth.
Kellogg won six of their nine
games by quickly buzzing in to
answer questions such as: “In
2010, this air force captain was
deployed in a rescue to a gas rig
in Morecambe Bay. This alumnus
of the University of St. Andrews
became the Duke of Cambridge.
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The Kellogg Quiz Bowl team: Olivia Wadsworth, Emily Hen-
nessey, Julie Horowitz and Riley Simmons.
Quiz Bowl season gets strong start
Name this man, second in line to
the British Throne and husband
of Kate Middleton.”
The Region One Quiz Bowl
season begins on Feb. 29.
— Coach Amy Lake
schools in the area in an effort
to stem that kind of behavior at
an early age.
Clearly, Alexa also exhibits
other characteristics of a good
education, empathy and citizen-
ship, and is putting them to use to
make a difference in her world.
— Ian Strever,
Assistant Principal
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he relatively warm winter is threatening to bring more ticks this
spring, and it’s already delivering an unexpectedly large and vigor-
ous batch of winter colds and ﬂus.
Doctors are available for actual medical advice. But with many
illnesses, medicine isn’t what we rely on to fully restore ourselves.
Sometimes what really works is a cool hand on a hot forehead, or
a soothing cuddle on freshly changed sheets. In an informal round
of interviews with area residents, the answers had one consistent theme: What made
me feel better was having my mother spend a little extra time with me. This was as
true for “only children” as it was for people who have multiple siblings.
Whether you are a parent trying to ﬁgure out ways to comfort a child or an adult
trying to remember what it was that made you feel better, the following is an un-
scientiﬁc sampling of suggestions. We didn’t add names because, really, what could
be more personal than these stories? However, since my heritage will give away my
identity on this one: When I was sick as a child my mother would always make me
miso soup with large bits of seaweed in it. She would serve it in a large bowl and add
rice. Here’s what other people told me:
• When I was sick, my mother used to cut an apple in half and core it. Then she
would sit with me and scrape out the center of the apple and feed it to me, like
instant apple sauce. It was cool and refreshing, but the best part was that she was
spending that extra time with me.
• When I had a fever, which was often, my mother would sit with me and press
cool, wet washcloths to my forehead. And she would change my sheets a lot.
• The most comforting thing my mother did really was to stay by my side. She
worked from home so staying home sick meant a day with mom, and it was always
the best part to spend the time alone with her while Dad and my brother were at
work and school.
• I suffered from asthma as a child (still do, but not as badly), and my mom would
dig out the humidiﬁers and turn the bathroom into a sauna using hot water from
the shower.
• First we’d get warm ginger ale, then we’d get chicken noodle soup and, when we
started to get better, it would be cinnamon toast. And we got to stay at home in bed
and listen to the radio. That was a real treat.
• Vicks VapoRub rubbed on my chest always made me feel better, whether it
worked or not. It just made me feel better to have someone doing something to take
care of me.
• My mother would let me stay in bed and read all day.
• My mother would sing to me, the old-fashioned songs like “Good Night, Sweet-
heart.”
• She would tickle my back and sing the Irish lullaby, “Toora, loora, loora.” And
she used to give my sisters and me crushed ice with Coca Cola. That was a big deal
because we were never allowed to have soda or anything with sugar in it. We had an
old-fashioned ice grinder on the wall and she would grind the ice and pour it over
the Coke.
• Soap operas. My mom would let me stay in bed, and I’d watch soap operas
all day. My favorite was “As the World Turns.” Even now, sometimes, if I’m feeling
down, I’ll get in bed and watch the soaps.
• My mother always made me creamed tuna on toast. It was tuna, milk and peas,
thickened, on toast. It always made me feel good. I make it now for my daughter. We
call it Ugly Tuna.
• I used to get to stay home from school and lie on the couch and watch cartoons.
• My father used to read to me from my favorite book, “The Book of Knowledge.”
I used to love that. And my mother would make soup. It didn’t matter what kind of
soup, and it didn’t matter whether I ate it or not. It was comforting, it made me feel
better just to know that she had made it.
• My mother would put Vicks VapoRub on our chests and then wrap a woolen
scarf around our necks with a big pin and send us to school.
• My mother would make us egg nog, with vanilla instead of whiskey. Back in
those days you could still eat raw eggs because they were so fresh. They came from a
nearby farm.
The best cold remedy:
love and attention
Everything you grow in the garden can become a metaphor for life. Take garlic. It’s a
plant. It’s a cooking ingredient. And it’s a thing that changes and grows and, yes, gets old
and decays.
But unlike, say, a carrot that goes inexorably from edible to compost, garlic traces the
circle of life. You plant the sprouted cloves in autumn and then in spring you start to see
those long curly scapes arching and backbending all over your garden. You cut off the
scapes so the cloves will grow fat (you can eat the scapes). Then the cloves quietly grow and
develop underground through the summer, and in fall, when the green leaves have turned
brown, you unearth what used to be a single clove and discover (unless you’re a mediocre
gardener, as I am) a big beautiful bulb of many cloves.
You carefully cure your cloves so they will last through the winter.
And then right about now, no matter how carefully you cured them, your garlics will
begin to sprout and small green growths will swell in their center and pop out of the top.
From a culinary point of view, this is annoying. From the point of view of optimistic
renewal, it’s really cool.
So now all my garlic cloves are sprouting, and probably yours are, too. And this means
we have to make some choices. Do we take the fattest of the sprouted cloves and go stick
them in the garden, hoping they will grow into nice fat multi-cloved heads? (Answer: yes.)
And when we ﬁnd these sprouted cloves on the kitchen counter, do we eat them? Even
raw? (Answers: yes, yes.). Even the sprout? (Yes, yes, yes.)
And will we ﬁnd the sprout bitter? Perhaps. There seems to be a wide range of opinions
on this particular topic. Although sometimes I manage to pop the green sprout out before
I chop a clove for salad or sauté, there are also many times when I just chop up the whole
thing and to be honest, I’ve never noticed any bitterness. But on the other hand, I don’t
ﬁnd eggplant unpleasantly bitter either, so it might just be a matter of taste.
Since this is the health page, the question, of course, is whether sprouted garlic cloves
(and sprouted onions) will make you sick. The answer, not very scientiﬁcally derived, is no.
Some people in some countries go so far as to consider the sprout a delicacy. Some peo-
ple pickle the sprouted cloves (the sprout makes a nice little handle, one website promises).
I wouldn’t go that far. But I would not hesitate to use late winter’s green-fringed garlic
for some of my favorite cold-weather comfort foods: sautéed spinach with garlic and on-
ions; and garlic mashed potatoes.
You can probably ﬁnd some local spinach, if you’re lucky enough to know someone
with a greenhouse. And you might still have some potatoes left from last year’s crop; if not,
try the Millerton and Amenia farmers markets, which remain open through the winter
(www.ameniafarmersmarket.com and www.neccmillerton.org/millerton_farmers_market.
html).
Served together, the spinach and the mashed potatoes make almost a full meal.
I like to trim the sandy ends off the spinach and then soak the leaves in a big bowl or
pot for an hour or so, changing the water once or twice. Then I boil a kettle full of water
and pour it over the leaves, to shrink them to a manageable size.
I sauté the ﬁnely chopped onions and garlic (yes,
with the sprouts) in olive oil, squeeze the water out
of the spinach leaves and then toss them in the hot
sauté pan for just an instant (too long and they’ll
shrivel unattractively). Season with coarse salt and
ground pepper, maybe a squeeze of lemon to keep
the leaves green, maybe a half teaspoon of sesame oil
(you can barely taste it; it just makes it a scratch more
interesting and complex).
For the potatoes, boil them (peeled or not, you
choose) and then, while they’re still hot, mash them
up with some butter, cream, Parmesan cheese, salt
and pepper. Keep in mind that colored potatoes such
as the blue ones that you can ﬁnd at most markets
these days have more nutrients in them. If you want
to add a little tang, add some boiled mashed parsnip.
SALISBURY — On four consecutive Monday evenings beginning March 5, Noble Ho-
rizons will host “Food to Live For” with Jane Sirignano, The Cancer Project’s acclaimed
“Food for Life” nutrition and cooking instructor. The free series will feature information
and recipes that can help prevent heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and cancer, as well as
improve overall health.
Each class will highlight healthy nutrition basics and feature cooking demonstrations from
simple recipes that yield naturally delicious, easy-to-prepare meals. Class participants are
encouraged to enjoy the food prepared in class, the ingredients for which have been donated
by LaBonne’s Market in Salisbury. Among the topics are “Grains: the Good and the Bad,” and
“Phytochemicals: The Department of Defense.”
Registration is required for the classes, which will meet on March 5, 12, 19 and 26, from 5:30
to 7:30 p.m. To register, visit www.noblehorizons.org or call 860-435-9851 ext. 190.
CORNWALL —A Red Cross blood drive will be held on March 1 from 1 to 5:45 p.m. at the
United Church of Christ, 8 Bolton Hill, Cornwall. March is Red Cross Month.
NORTH CANAAN — VNA Northwest is offering a free, 6-week workshop to help
people with chronic diseases gain more control over their lives, beginning March 14.
Called “Live Well,” the program will cover a new topic each week and provide opportunities
for interaction and group problem solving. The six sessions will be held at Beckley House, 85
South Canaan Road, on Wednesday mornings, 9:30 a.m. to noon, March 14 through April 18.
“Live Well” is designed for adults age 55 and older who have on-going health conditions
such as diabetes, high blood pressure, arthritis or similar issues. It is also beneﬁcial for care-
givers, family members and friends of people with chronic diseases.
Participants will have the chance to set action plans on nutrition,exercise and effective
communicating with family and care providers to help them gain control over symptoms like
pain and fatigue. “Live Well” is an evidence-based program developed by Stanford University
that has helped individuals to better manage their ongoing conditions and to ﬁnd healthier
ways of living. The program is not disease speciﬁc, so it does not replace, but enhances exist-
ing programs, such as diabetes management courses. Pre-registration is required, and space is
limited, so register soon by calling Joyce Dunn at 1-800-752-0215, or Ruth at 860-824-7884.
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Christ Church Episcopal in Sharon
9 South Main, Sharon CT 06069
860-364-5260
email: [email protected]
www.christchurchsharon.org
Reverend Jon Widing
Sunday Holy Eucharist 8 & 10 AM
All welcome to join us
North Canaan
Congregational Church, UCC
Rev. Savage Frieze
172 Lower Rd/Route 44, East Canaan, CT
860-824-7232, Church Offce
A congregation that puts faith into service,
in the community and in the world.
Worship services held at 10 AM
each Sunday
www.northcanaancongregationalchurch.org
[email protected]
The Congregational Church
Of Salisbury, U.C.C
30 Main Street
Serving the Lord with Gladness
We bid you warm welcome to come
worship with us Sundays at 10 am.
All are welcome!
Child care, moving music,
and Christian fellowship in a
historic 19th C. Meeting House.
The Rev. Diane Monti-Catania
(860) 435-2442
www.salisburycongregational.org
Worship Services
Week of February 26, 2012
Trinity Episcopal Church
484 Lime Rock Rd., Lime Rock
Sun. 8 & 10:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist
Nursery Care/Sunday School 10:20 a.m.
(860) 435-2627
"Offering companionship along the way"
email: [email protected]
website: www.trinitylimerock.org
Rev. Heidi Truax
The Sharon United
Methodist Church
112 Upper Main Steet,
North end of Sharon Green
Touching Lives - Lifting Spirits
The Rev. Kwang-Il KIm
10:45 a.m. Worship Service, Nursery Care
Church School 9:30 a.m.
860-364-5634
email: [email protected]
Greenwoods Community Church
355 Clayton Road, Ashley Falls, MA
413-229-8560
Sunday Service 10:30 AM
Kidz Konnection K-6th grade
(during Sun. Service)
Nursery Care All Services
Rev. Ed Eastman
(860) 824-7442
Church of St. Mary
76 Sharon Rd., Lakeville, CT
860-435-2659
Weekend Liturgies
Sat. Vigil at 4:00 PM
Sun. at 8:00 & 10:15 AM
Weekday Liturgies Mon.
& Tues. at 9:00 AM
Wed. at 10:00 AM at Noble Horizons
UCC in Cornwall Congregational
8 Bolton Hill Road, Cornwall Village, CT
worshipping at
Cornwall Village Meeting House
Sunday, 10am, followed by Fellowship
Rev. Micki Nunn-Miller
860-672-6840
[email protected]
www.uccincornwall.org
An Open and Affrming Congregation
Falls Village
Congregational Church
16 Beebe Hill Road, Falls Village
10:00 a.m. Family Worship
11:00 a.m. Coffee Hour
A Friendly Church with
a warm welcome to all!!
860-824-0194
Saint Joseph Church
4 Main Street-Canaan
860-824-7078
Weekend Liturgies
Saturday -Vigil Mass 4:00 p.m.
Sunday -Mass 8:30 a.m.
Weekday Liturgies
Wed, Friday 7:30am
Weekday Eucharistic adoration
One hour prior to Mass
Geer Nursing-1st Tuesday 2pm
www.sacrament7.org
St. Thomas Episcopal Church
Rev. Elizabeth Fisher, Vicar
Leedsville Road at Hitchcock
Corner & Amenia Union
Worship: Sunday 10:30 am
Sunday School Available Every Week
Tel: 1-845-373-9161
The Chapel of All Saints, Cornwall
An intimate Episcopal service every Sunday
8:00am Holy Eucharist and sermon
The North Cornwall Meeting House
Town Street at Cogswell Road,
West Cornwall, CT
All Saints of America
Orthodox Christian Church
313 Twin Lakes Rd., Salisbury, CT
860-824-1340
Rev. Fr. John J. Kreta
Vespers Sat. 5PM
Divine Liturgy Sun 10:00 AM
www.allsaintsofamerica.us Christ Church, Episcopal
Holy Eucharist, Sunday, 10:00 am
All welcome for
contemplation and prayer.
Treasure Shop Thrift Store
Open Friday & Saturday, 10am to 1pm
860-824-7410
www.christchurchcanaan.org
58 Main Street, Canaan, CT 06018
Immaculate Conception Church
4 North Street-Norfolk 860-542-5442
Weekend Liturgies
Saturday -Vigil Mass 6:00 p.m.
Sunday -Mass 11:00 a.m.
Weekday Liturgies
Mon. & Tues. 8:00 a.m. Weekday
Eucharistic adoration
One hour prior to Mass
www.sacrament7.org
St. John's Episcopal Church
12 Main St., Salisbury, CT
Rev. John F. Carter
Our Doors Open For You!
Sunday Worship
8 am and 10 am Eucharist
9:50 am Church School
www.stjohnssalisbury.org
860-435-9290
All Are Welcome - Bienvenidos Amigos
ESL and Spanish language classes available
The Lakeville
United Methodist Church
319 Main St., Lakeville, CT 06039
860-435-9496
The Rev. Kwang-Il KIm
9:15 a.m. Worship Service
Sunday School 9:15 a.m.
"Open Hearts – Open Minds – Open Doors"
[email protected]
Promised Land
Baptist Church
29 Granite Avenue, Canaan, CT
Independent Church body whose sole
authority for faith & practice is the Bible.
Please consider joining us Sundays
at 11 a.m. & 6 p.m.
We promise you a warm welcome
www.promisedlandbaptist.org
Unitarian-Universalist
Fellowship of NW CT
Next Meeting March 11, 10:30AM
Noble Horizons, Salisbury, CT
In The Parlor
For information call 860-435-2319
Canaan United
Methodist Church
2 Church St., Rte 44
860-824-5534
Pastor Rachel Duncan
9:45 a.m. Worship Service
"Open Hearts – Open Minds – Open Doors"
Canaan,Ct. [email protected]
Sports
LAKEVILLE — The Hotch-
kiss School and The Kent
School girls basketball teams
squared off on Saturday, Feb.
18, in a rematch of a hard-
fought game at Kent 10 days
earlier in which Hotchkiss
defeated Kent for the first time
since 2005.
Saturday’s game had sig-
nificant playoff implications
for Hotchkiss, and Kent came
in clearly eager to get revenge
for their previous loss and to
play spoiler for Hotchkiss’s
post-season hopes.
The game was fairly even
through the first half, with nei-
ther team gaining any signifi-
cant advantage. The half ended
with Kent leading 27-25.
In the second half, Kent
jumped out to a big lead, rid-
ing hot shooting from Kayleen
Murray, Daneesha Provo and
Briana Santiago, and great team
defense to stake themselves to
a 47-33 lead with under nine
minutes to go.
With the game about to slip
out of reach, the Hotchkiss
girls steadied themselves and
chipped away at the Kent lead,
getting big shots from captain
Danielle Jacobs and clutch
drives from Leah Settipane and
Erika Steeves.
Hotchkiss’s defense also
stiffened, forcing turnovers
and tough shots, holding Kent
to only three points in the final
eight minutes of the game.
Down by three with one
minute and 30 seconds on the
clock, Hotchkiss’s Settipane
drove the left wing and kicked
the ball to Jacobs in the corner,
who nailed the three-pointer to
tie the game.
Thirty seconds later as Kent
was heading down on a fast
break, Steeves made a big steal
and led Settipane with a great
pass upcourt, putting Settipane
in a position to be fouled on
the layup.
Settipane hit two clutch free-
throws with under one minute
to go, giving Hotchkiss its first
lead since the first half.
After Hotchkiss missed the
front end of a one-and-one,
captain Renee Palmer made a
great help-defense play, forcing
Kent’s Daneesha Provo into a
tough shot for Kent’s last good
look.
Kent’s top shooters were K.
Murray, 14 points; D. Provo,
13 points; Shayla Lamb, eight
points and B. Santiago, eight
points. For Hotchkiss: D. Ja-
cobs, 23 points; E. Steeves, 17
points and L. Settipane , six
points.
When the clock went to all
zeroes, the Hotchkiss players
mobbed each other at half-
court, having completed an
improbable 14-point come-
back to win 52-50. Hotchkiss
now stands at 11-7, and Kent
fell to 6-9.
— Douglas Kneeland
Hotchkiss girls come back
to best Kent in close rematch
Photoby Asher PAvel
A Kent School player worked to keep the ball out of reach of a Hotchkiss opponent at a game
on Feb. 18 at The Hotchkiss School.
SALISBURY — The Salis-
bury School wrestling team
competed in the Western New
England Tournament Feb. 11 at
The Hotchkiss School. The team
wrestled very well and for the
athletes it was the culmination
of their hard work all season
long.
Their year was capped with a
ffth place fnish as a team, the
best fnish in a few years. There
were two champions, one third-
place fnish, one ffth-place fn-
ish and one sixth.
The two champions, Josh and
Jake Roometua, highlighted the
place winners for the tourna-
ment. Josh won all his matches
by pin except for the fnal, where
he beat his opponent for the
third time this year and by a
major 9-0 decision.
Jake also won all his matches
by pin, winning his champion-
ship match by pin in the third
period.
Sadiq Olanrewaju took third
Wrestlers cap
good year with
strong tourney
place. He began the day only
having three matches under his
belt, but lack of experience did
not stop him from having a very
good day. He upset the number
four seed twice on his way to a
third-place fnish, improving
during every match.
Captain Nick Merriam wres-
tled very well, placing ffth in a
very tough weight class. Nick
went 4-2 on the day, wrestling
the best he had all season. He
ended his wrestling career at
Salisbury on a high note, earn-
ing a victory and a ffth-place
fnish. His losses were to the
eventual second- and fourth-
place fnishers.
— Salisbury School
Head Coach Adam Bunce
Photoby JosePhMeehAn
A Salisbury School wrestler faced an opponent during the tournament on Feb. 11.
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Send obituaries to Cynthia Hochswender
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Schedule
and ScoreS
HVRHS schedule
Friday, Feb. 24
Boys varsity ice hockey vs.
Bolton/Coventry/Lyman at
Hotchkiss rink, 8 p.m.
Monday, Feb. 27
Boys varsity ice hockey
at Shepaug/Litchfeld/Non-
newaug at Gunnery rink,
7:55 p.m
Wednesday, Feb. 29
Boys varsity ice hockey vs.
New Milford at Hotchkiss
rink, 6:30 p.m.
HVRHS scores
Boys varsity basketball
L 60-61 vs. Wamogo,
Feb. 13
W 66-47 vs. Shepaug Val-
ley, Feb. 14
Girls varsity basketball
L 29-42 vs. Shepaug Val-
ley, Feb. 13
Boys varsity ice hockey
L 2-5 vs. Sheehan, Feb.
15
L 0-2 vs. Masuk, Feb. 18
LAKEVILLE — A celebra-
tion of life service for William
E. Appleyard will be held at the
Wychmere Harbor Club in Har-
wichport, Mass., on Saturday,
April 7, at 2 p.m.
A memorial service will be
held at The Hotchkiss School on
Saturday, June 16, at 2 p.m.
The family requests that
memorial gifts be made to
The Chatham Conservation
Foundation, 104 Crowell Road,
Chatham, MA 02633, www.
chathamconservationfounda-
tion.net.
Memorial service:
William E. Appleyard
LAKEVILLE — The 2012
Lime Rock Park spectator event
schedule is as follows.
Friday through Sunday, May
25 to 27 — Lime Rock Park’s
traditional season opener, the
Memorial Day race weekend,
will be packed with sports car
series races, featuring the newly
revitalized SCCA Pro Racing
Trans-Am Series. The third
annual Royals Car Show will be
held on May 27, featuring more
than 200 cars from the Tri-state
area. The show will beneft local
charities.
Friday and Saturday, July 6
and 7 — The American Le Mans
Series (ALMS), presented by
Tequila Patron Northeast Grand
Prix, will feature the fastest and
“greenest” prototypes.
Saturday, July 21 — The
Ferrari Challenge will feature
all manner of Ferraris, includ-
ing Ferrari 458 Italia race cars.
This challenge returned to Lime
Rock last year after a four-year
hiatus.
Friday, Aug. 31, through
Monday, Sept. 3 — More than
300 vintage race cars will fll the
grounds for Historic Festival
30. Also, the Sunday in the Park
Concours will be held on Sept.
2. The honored guest will be Sir
Stirling Moss. The racing on the
track is nonstop from 9 a.m. to
6 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 1, and
Monday, Sept. 3.
Friday and Saturday, Sept.
21 and 22 — The North Atlan-
tic Road Racing Champion-
ship (NARRC) Run-offs will
feature races from dawn to
dusk. SCCA drivers from New
England will race in a multitude
of classes, from agile formula
cars and nimble sports sedans
to GT-1s.
Friday and Saturday, Sept.
28 and 29 — The Grand-Am
Rolex Sports Car Series cham-
pionship fnale, presented by
Crown Royal Cask No. 16, may
give fans the chance to witness
the race that decides the driver
and carmaker championships
in both DP and GT. The feature
race on Saturday showcases the
same cars that race in the Rolex
24 Hours of Daytona. Also on
tap are the “showroom stock”
cars in the Continental Tire
Sports Car Challenge, where
virtually every automaker is
represented in the Grand Sports
and Street Tuner classes.
For more information, visit
www.limerock.com.
Lime Rock event schedule
OBiTuARieS
SHARON — There were
six full tables for duplicate
bridge at Good Neighbors on
Low Road in Sharon on Feb.
15. Five boards a round were
played with a skip after three
rounds, so all pairs played 25
of the 30 boards in play. The
average score was 50.
For North South pairs, in
first with 62.5 points (62.5 per-
cent) were Kay and Fred Joseph;
in second with 55 points (55
percent) were Wendy Summer
and John Bevan, and in third
with 51 points (51 percent)
were Ruth Adams and Harry
Hall.
For East West pairs, in first
with 63.5 points (63.5 percent)
were Marguerite McGrath and
Ken Clark; in second with 59
points (59 percent) were Kitty
Kiefer and Kit Kellogg, and in
third with 45.5 points (45.5
percent) were Vivian Sullivan
and Lull McGrath.
— Harry Hall
Sharon bridge
scores Feb. 15
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SALISBURY — Choate Rose-
mary Hall showed why they are
ranked number one in the New
England Preparatory School
Athletic Council Class A by
turning back second-ranked
Salisbury, 72-59, in a home game
Feb. 15.
Choate’s John Papale and
Peter Weston combined for 42
points and drilled seven of eight
attempts from behind the arc to
lead the Wild Boars to their 17th
win against only two losses.
Choate took a double-digit
lead early as Salisbury (16-4, 5-1
in NEPSAC Class A) struggled
to fnd the bottom of the net.
Strong inside play by Myles Jones
and a pair of three pointers by
Glenn Baral helped the Salisbury
Knights close the gap to 10 points
at the half, 34-24.
The Boars maintained their
lead through most of the second
half as Papale and Weston put on
a shooting clinic. With six min-
utes to play, Salisbury tightened
its defense and cut the margin
to 57-51 behind Jones and the
long-range shooting of Ryan
Frazier and Brandon Hedley.
Choate Rosemary Hall was able
to expand its lead back to double-
fgures down the stretch.
Jones led Salisbury with 16
points and Frazier and Hedley
scored 14 and 11, respectively.
Samuel Dingba led all rebound-
ers with nine, and Hedley dished
out three assists to pace the
Knights.
— Salisbury School
Head Coach Jeff Ruskin
photos by josephmeehan
Above, Salisbury School’s Myles Jones (behind) and Brandon Hedley (front) kept their eyes on a loose ball during the game
against Choate Rosemary Hall on Feb. 15. Right, Samuel Dingba soared to the hoop.
Salisbury School falls to Choate Rosemary Hall
FALLS VILLAGE — Although
the Housatonic Valley Regional
High School girls varsity basket-
ball team lost to Shepaug 42-29
on Monday, Feb. 13, that evening
was a celebration of the team’s
seniors: captain Jaime Conklin,
Brianna Ongley, Brittney Pas-
tre, Kiera Bisenius and Kayla
Quinion.
Ongley scored 13 points and
had three steals. Heather Kearns
scored six points, while Quinion
and Katie Heacox each sank fve
points. Pastre had six rebounds.
Conklin didn’t score, but played
a great game.
Shepaug was led by Melinda
Fragomeli with 16 points, fol-
lowed by Brittney Hartman with
nine points, Jenni Issac with
seven points, Colleen Koslosky
with fve points, Brooke Parker
with three points and Kate De-
witte with two points.
Final regular season game
Housatonic defeated Canton
51-39 in Canton on Thursday,
Feb. 16. It was the last regular
season game for both teams.
Housatonic was led by Kearns
with 17 points, which included
fve three-point feld goals. Ke-
arns ended the season with 136
points.
Ongley scored 16 points, and
led Housatonic in scoring for the
year with 180 points.
Heacox scored 11 points, with
164 points for the year. She led
the team in rebounding.
Conklin scored fve points
in the game. She had 134 points
for the year while leading the
Lady Mountaineers in assists
and steals.
Pastre scored two points in
the game and 46 points for the
year. She was second in rebounds
on the team.
Bisenius, Hailey Nelson and
Abby Wilson did not fgure in
the scoring but played great on
defense. Housatonic ended the
season with a 6-14 record.
— Frank Hadsell
FALLS VILLAGE — The
WhosCTEKS Robotics Team
from Housatonic Valley Re-
gional High School has won its
frst scrimmage of the season,
the Suffeld Shakedown, which
was held Feb. 18 at Suffeld
Senior High School in West
Suffeld.
The scrimmage was orga-
nized to give teams the oppor-
tunity to practice their driving
skills, test their robots and ob-
serve other teams on the offcial
FIRST playing feld.
Many teams from Connecti-
cut and New York were a part of
the scrimmage, and their robots
were designed with particular
functions in mind, including
shooting basketball hoops at
three different heights and bal-
ancing on a tilting ramp.
The team is coached and
mentored by Cindy Fuller, Andy
Brockway, Dave Van Deusen,
Tom Paine and Dave Lindsay.
The team’s alliance partners
were Team 176 Aces High from
Suffield/Windsor Locks and
Team 2168 The Aluminum
Falcons from Groton.
The team will participate in
the FIRST BAE Systems/Granite
State Regional competition,
Thursday to Saturday, March 1
to 3, in Manchester, N.H., at the
Verizon Wireless Arena.
To learn more about FIRST
robotics, go online to www.
usfrst.org.
— Stephanie Plunkett
HVRHS Athlete of the Week
FALLS VILLAGE — Han-
nah Arel has been named
Housatonic Valley Regional
High School’s Student Athlete
of the Week. Arel, a junior, is
on the wrestling and volleyball
teams.
Arel said wrestling is her
favorite sport.
“My brothers did it,” she said.
“I’ve been around wrestling for
years, and I want to keep up my
family’s tradition.”
When she graduates from
HVRHS, Arel expects to go to a
college where she can continue
to wrestle.
Arel’s career goal is to be-
come a veterinarian because
she loves animals.
— Asher Pavel
photoby asher pavel
HANNAH AREL
Robotics team earns win Lady Mountaineers end
season, honor seniors
SALISBURY — The Salis-
bury Recreation Commission
is accepting registrations until
Friday, April 6, for the 2012 youth
lacrosse program.
The program, which will be
offered from April 12 to May
24, is run in conjunction with
the Hotchkiss and Salisbury
schools and is open to children
throughout Region One and the
surrounding Massachusetts and
New York towns.
Registration forms are avail-
able at www.salisburyct.us and at
Town Hall. For information, call
860-435-5186 or email recreation
[email protected].
Regional lacrosse April 12 to May 24
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100 years ago — February 1912
The Observer (editorial):
Sharon is to build a big stretch
of new cement sidewalks the
coming summer. If only the side-
walk germ would hit Lakeville,
it would fnd a splendid feld
for work. Sidewalks are about
the greatest need the village has,
but they seem mighty slow in
coming. The other villages all
around us are distancing us in
this respect, and we can not be
very proud of the fact.
SALISBURY — The Leap Year
Dance last Friday night was a
great success. Every body seemed
to have a good time and a good
supper and $41 was netted for
the street light fund.
CANAAN — W.S. Storm has
resigned his position with C.E.
Badgley. It is reported he will
open a market.
LAKEVILLE — Abram Mar-
tin has rented his team of grays
to the telephone company, and
they are now in Torrington.
Abram Martin is demonstrat-
ing a handsome new “Dan Patch”
auto. The new machine is one of
the neatest things in the way of a
moderate priced car going. Mr.
Martin has the agency for them
and will be pleased to have any
one call and look it over.
50 years ago — February 1962
A three-alarm fire did an
estimated $30,000 to $40,000
damage to the Christopher Smith
home in Cornwall Plains Tues-
day, gutting the main portion of
the house and totally destroying
the upper foors.
The White Hart Inn in Salis-
bury is about to “double its
bulk,” according to plans released
yesterday by its manager, John
Harney. An addition designed by
local architect S. Norton Miner,
will be built directly behind the
present structure and will include
space equal to that of the present
building’s ground foor.
Mrs. Claire Barcher Acker-
man reports seeing a golden
crowned kinglet at her Taconic
home last Thursday.
25 years ago — February 1987
CANAAN — The Yale Barn,
located on U.S. Route 44 in East
Canaan, has been renamed The
Lamplighter. The new owners,
Ivan and Burnetta Iveskic, of
Ridgefeld, and Lubo and Diedre
Pecarina of Wingdale, N.Y., plan
to reopen the local restaurant in
late March.
Taken from decades-old Lake-
ville Journals, these items contain
original spellings and phrases.
T
he success of the ski jumps sponsored by the Salisbury
Winter Sports Association (SWSA) this year was not
only the result of hard work and dedication on the
part of many volunteers, but also courage and unbending
resolution to have the jumping hill groomed despite a gen-
eral lack of support from Mother Nature.
The winter carnival the frst weekend of February, then
the Jumpfest Feb. 10, 11 and 12, needed to have plenty of
snow made in order to accommodate the jumpers. This
meant SWSA volunteers making snow again and again over
weeks in the face of warm weather, and even rain, that kept
taking away the snow they created when the temperatures
dropped. They persevered, to their credit, and a great time
was had by all.
Congratulations to SWSA and to all those jumpers who
inspire the rest of us to think about taking part in some
winter sports, if not to take the step of becoming airborne as
they do.

While those who have to drive to work or decide whether
to close the schools are just as glad not to have the kind of
snow this region experienced last winter, the lack of snow is
very challenging for businesses that welcome visitors who
make this area a destination when there’s at least some snow
each winter: ski areas, inns and motels, restaurants, even
the movies. Also affected are those who plow snow and clear
property so people can get around safely.
Remember to support those businesses as much as
possible that are experiencing losses due to the dearth of
snow this year. Being dependent on the cooperation of the
weather, as many businesses are in this rural area, means lost
revenues and higher expenses when such a relatively warm
and snowless winter occurs.
Of course, that can change before the winter is over, but it
may be too little, too late for winter sporting enthusiasts and
those businesses that serve them.
Chili Cook-off correction
On behalf of the Chili Cook-off Committee, we would like
to correct the error we posted in last week’s letter to the edi-
tor (“Three-way tie at Chili Cook-Off,” Feb. 16). While there
were many votes for the Country Bistro, the actual winners
were On the Run, Pastorale and The Woodland.
Once again, thank you to all the restaurants that partici-
pated. We apologize for the error.
Deb Bain, Davin Lindy and Donna Stoetzner
Salisbury
Two reasons for
complaints for
cable company
I called Comcast recently to
fnd out how I would see the
Duke-UConn girls basketball
game that night on my newly
programmed-for-basic TV. I
was connected to a nice, young
(I assume) man in the Philip-
pines. We have been outsourced
again. Oh, where have all the U.S.
jobs gone? Overseas. Shame on
Comcast.
Not only can’t I fnd the pro-
grams I used to see, but now I
have umpteen little black boxes
dangling to and fro or taking up
space on my power surge protec-
tor, just to have my cable work at
all. So much for improvements.
Priscilla Belcher
Falls Village
This is an important notice to all who have
applied for or need help with their fuel bills.
March 15 is the last day that fuel deliveries can
be made and paid for under the Connecticut
fuel assistance program. It is also the last day
to apply.
Participants in the program should make sure
they have received all of their benefts. We are wor-
ried that some people may have been discouraged
by their award letter which indicates the possibility
of only partial payment for a fuel delivery. In fact,
if you were approved, you are eligible for more
assistance than the amount stated in the letter. Be
sure to call CACD at 203-748-5422 or call your
social service agent about this.
And remember that more assistance — through
Operation Fuel or other fuel banks — may be
available if you are still in need after your CACD
grant has been exhausted. Call your social service
agent.
We thank all who have warmed our neighbors
this year. We also thank Salisbury Bank and Trust
who sent out a most productive appeal on behalf of
the Northwest Corner Fuel Bank (NCFB, PO Box
385, Sharon, CT 06069). Fortunately, the winter
has been mild so far, but high oil and electric
prices have made it tough for many families. And
so we thank all you generous people who have
contributed, not just to the regional fuel bank,
but also to the fuel banks in our towns.
Ella Clark, coordinator, NCFB
Sharon
Apply for fuel help by March 15
Mourns Houston, no matter what
In reference to Bob Cuddeback’s letter (“Whitney Houston is
not a role model,” Feb. 16) concerning Whitney Houston:
First, my condolences on the tragic loss of your son, and my
support for your honoring many unrecognized and worthy role
models. However, in my own sadness at the passing of Whitney
Houston, consideration of her as a role model or not seems ir-
relevant. As yet, we do not know how she died, but if the cause,
indeed,was addiction, I mourn the passing of yet another gifted
person who was not able to help herself. Alas, we have yet to
discover a cure for the ineffectiveness of will power.
Gila Lipton
New York, N.Y.
On Jan. 27, my husband and I were driving
on the New York State Thruway in a horrifc rain
storm, from Rochester to Hartford, when the arm
and windshield wiper blew off the driver’s side of
our car, reducing visibility to near zero.
Rains pelting the windshield and 18-wheelers
tearing by required us to get to the nearest Ford
dealership as soon as possible. It turned out, even
though we were near Herkimer, we learned the
closest dealership with the arm and blade in stock
was not in Schenectady or in Albany, rather it was
hours away, in a small town called Millerton, at
McLean Ford.
My husband removed the arm/blade from the
passenger side and installed it on the driver’s side
so that we had visibility, on his side, to drive safely
the distance down to Millerton. I’d called ahead
and Joe, in the parts department of McLean,
double-checked his inventory, and sure enough,
he had one arm/blade left. Upon our arrival (mid-
afternoon), Judy was so kind to offer us a loaner
so we could grab a bite to eat at the Deli.
The installation was so quick, we didn’t need
to consider that. In no time, we were all set and
could head safely onto Hartford. Whew!
Truly, we were made to feel very welcome and
were well taken care of by the kind folks at McLean
Ford. I’ve written directly to Alan Mulally, the
president of Ford Motor Company, to commend
Joe and Judy at McLean and have also called David
McLean to extend our gratitude for the nice folks
at his dealership.
No doubt, readers of this newspaper are already
fully aware of these great neighbors.
Marsha Senges
Victor, N.Y.
Kudos to McLean Ford in wiperblade emergency
February is merely as long as is needed to pass the time until March.
— Dr. J. R. Stockton
T
he papers have been full
of articles over recent
months about a dooms-
day infuenza virus called H5N1
that has been created by scien-
tists. The New York Times (Jan.
7), the Economist and other pa-
pers are thundering about loom-
ing calamity, and this column
was about to do the same. But
in a moment of sense I decided
to visit my friend and colleague,
Vincent Racaniello. Dr. Racani-
ello is the Higgins professor of
microbiology at Columbia, the
author of an important virology
textbook and host of the podcast
“This Week in Virology.”
Flu viruses are made of
segments of genetic material
surrounded by a protein shell.
Many variations of flu virus
circulate in birds, pigs, humans
and other animals. When differ-
ent viruses infect the same cell,
they may trade genes, creating a
new virus to which our unvac-
cinated immune systems cannot
respond quickly, as in the H1N1
pandemic of 2009. (See “The fu
is with us again, but maybe not
forever,” The Lakeville Journal,
Oct. 20, 2011, for details of fu
viruses and new ways to defeat
them.) Viral genes may also
mutate in a less dramatic way,
and these mutations can also
cause trouble.
The reason for the excitement
in the press is that among 571
Is H5N1 infuenza a doomsday virus, as some would have us believe?
people hospitalized with an acute
H5N1 infuenza infection, nearly
60 percent died. The infected
people had been in close contact
with birds that carried H5N1.
H5N1 does not spread easily
from one human or mammal to
another, so the infection has not
spread worldwide in the human
population. Now, scientists in
three laboratories have selected
mutated forms of H5N1 that
infect at least one mammal
— the ferret.
The bad news is that the mu-
tated virus from one ferret infects
others in nearby cages. Most fu
viruses affect the upper airways,
but the new version of H5N1,
which has fve mutations that
distinguish it from the previous
virus, adheres to molecules on
the surface of cells found farther
down in the lungs of ferrets
and humans, accounting for its
transmissibility.
uuu
Two questions arise from this
work. First, should we be scared?
Second, should scientists be free
to do potentially dangerous ex-
periments? As for being scared,
Dr. Racaniello smiled.
“Look, the virus is not nearly
as lethal as it sounds,” he said.
“Everyone thinks that there have
been only 571 cases in Southeast
Asia and very high lethality, but
those were people who had been
hospitalized. There are thou-
sands of people who have been
infected and had mild disease
or no symptoms at all. We know
this because they have antibodies
to the virus in their blood. The
chances of dying from H5N1
are not even close to 60 percent.
Even in seasonal fu, if you are
sick enough to be in the hospital,
you have a good chance of dying,
perhaps 20 percent, but only a
fraction of 1 percent of infected
people are sick enough to be
hospitalized.”
There are other reasons for
sober concern rather than panic.
The fact that the virus spreads
among ferrets does not mean
that it will do so among humans.
Trials in Southeast Asia show that
the drug Tamifu works against
H5N1 and a vaccine is ready for
rapid production if the virus
evolves to allow human-to-hu-
man infection.
Finally, there may soon be new
methods to create vaccines and to
treat acute viral infections. The
H5N1 virus has been followed
since the 1990s and thanks to
modern DNA sequencing and
data analysis, the medical and
scientifc community will know
quickly when it acquires new
properties. This is still a serious
virus but, according to Dr. Ra-
caniello, everyone, including the
editorial writers and reporters
of The New York Times, should
calm down.
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Should scientists be free to
do potentially dangerous experi-
ments? The rationale in this case
was not evil, but there are several
worries. First, a virus that infects
humans could escape from the
laboratory and second, the in-
formation might be considered a
source for terrorists. Those risks
have to be balanced against the
potential utility of the informa-
tion. The nature of the new muta-
tions has not been made public
and both Nature and Science,
two prestigious journals, are
considering whether to publish
the data.
The instinct of scientists
is that to know is better than
not to know, but some say this
work should never have been
done. There is no reason that
decisions like the one to select
a transmissible virus should be
left exclusively to scientists, who
are morally no wiser than any
other group. All major research
institutions have institutional re-
view boards that decide whether
an experiment on humans is
permissible, and they include
nonscientists. Perhaps the same
should hold true on questions
of dangerous experiments, like
generating new viruses. The
Lakeville Journal’s editorial
page welcomes all opinions and
discussion, as do I.
Richard Kessin, Ph.D, is Profes-
sor of Pathology and Cell Biology
at the College of Physicians and
Surgeons of Columbia University.
He and his wife, Galene, live in
Norfolk. He can be contacted at
[email protected].
The Body
ScienTific
RichaRd h. KeSSin
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An interesting spurt in sold, or
pending real estate transactions will
give us hope that some of the doldrums
we have been experiencing are ending.
A large land parcel sold in Sharon
at 74% of its original asking price;
a large home/estate in Lakeville is
under agreement at somewhere around
55% of its original asking price; and
a 3rd more recently built property in
the Wells Hill area, is JUST under
agreement at somewhere in the mid
$2million to $3million range.
All 3 are in TERRIFIC
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of real estate purchases in these price
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least. Also, where there are homes
thereon, it would take considerably
more to reproduce a similar result
than the prices that are being paid
for them.
The best thing about these are
that they prove, once again, the
desirability of our area for real estate
ownership.
There is nothing more to say, for
this column, at least.
Visit other column topics for
reading, at my web site. www.
robinleechrealestate.com.
THREE LARGER SALES-
PENDING OR CLOSED
By Robinson Leech
If You Ask Me
DIck Ahles
Cartoon by Bill Lee of Sharon and New York City
Some reproductive Connecticut history
I
f, as legend has it, Lincoln
called Harriet Beecher Stowe
“the little lady who started
the big war” with “Uncle Tom’s
Cabin,” I guess New Haven’s
Estelle Griswold could qualify
as the lady who started the big
culture war.
Griswold, who died in 1981,
gave her name to Griswold v
Connecticut, the 1965 Supreme
Court decision that overturned
an 1879 Connecticut law pro-
hibiting the use of “any drug,
medicinal article or instrument
for the purpose of preventing
conception.”
More signifcantly, the Gris-
wold decision was the frst to de-
termine that the right to privacy
is protected by the Constitution.
Griswold thereby begat Roe v
Wade and the Court’s ruling
that a woman’s decision to have
an abortion was protected as a
private action between her and
her doctor.
I interviewed Griswold, who
was executive director of the
Connecticut Planned Parent-
hood League, 50 years ago when
I worked for the Hartford Cou-
rant. She and Dr. C. Lee Buxton,
chairman of Yale’s Department
of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
had been charged with violating
the old law at the birth control
clinic they ran at the corner of
Whitney Avenue and Trumbull
Street in New Haven. They were
found guilty and fined $100
each.
The rarely enforced law
prohibited married and unmar-
ried couples from using birth
control devices and forbade
their dissemination and sale by
organizations like Griswold’s
Planned Parenthood League and
drug stores, which sold condoms
under the counter.
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The law was one of many
“Comstock Laws,” named for
New Canaan native Anthony
Comstock, a YMCA worker
turned postal inspector, that were
passed by the federal government
and the states in the 19th century.
Comstock devoted his long life
to the suppression of what he
considered vice and managed
to convince Congress and many
states like Connecticut to pass
versions of his law banning con-
traceptives and books. In doing
so, he imposed morality as he
saw it on an entire nation.
Over the years, Connecticut
notables like Katharine Hep-
burn’s mother, President Taft’s
brother and Taft School founder
Horace Taft and Dr. Hilda
Standish worked unsuccessfully
for the law’s repeal against the
opposition of the then powerful
Connecticut Catholic bishops.
A 1940 raid on a Waterbury
clinic led to the frst test case,
but the law was upheld by the
Connecticut Supreme Court and
Connecticut’s law remained on
the books long after it had been
repealed by most states, making
Connecticut something of a
national joke.
Then, in 1961, Buxton and
Griswold got themselves arrested
and after their conviction was
upheld on appeal, it reached the
Supreme Court.
The law was invalidated by
the Court by a vote of 7-2 on the
grounds that it violated “the right
to marital privacy.” Although the
right to privacy is not explic-
itly stated in the Constitution,
seven justices found it in two
amendments. The dissenters,
Justices Hugo Black and Potter
Stewart, a liberal and a moderate,
maintained the right to privacy
was not where the others said
it was.
Although Republican Stewart
(Hotchkiss ’33) argued in his dis-
sent that the Connecticut law was
Constitutional, he memorably
wrote it was also “an uncom-
monly silly law.”
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Eight years later, with Black
retired and Stewart voting with
the majority, the Court ruled
abortion was protected as a
private decision by a woman
and her doctor. The vote was
again 7-2, with only Kennedy ap-
pointee Byron White and Nixon
appointee William Rehnquist
dissenting.
Roe launched the culture war
that has raged intermittently over
the past 40 years and recently
enjoyed a revival when President
Obama required church-run
organizations like colleges and
hospitals to provide birth con-
trol coverage with their health
insurance. This historic gaffe
divided the nation and even
found Obama faithful like Con-
necticut U.S. Representatives
Rosa DeLauro and John Larson
on opposing sides.
When the president offered a
compromise, the Catholic bish-
ops decided it wasn’t enough and
seemed to divide not only the
country, but their own church,
with the bishops and priests on
one side and the nuns, Catholic
charities and the laity on the
other.
With the number of sexually
active American women practic-
ing birth control running the
gamut from 98 to 99.9 percent
by various estimates, this does
not appear to be a winning stance
for the bishops, whose credibility
on sexual matters has suffered in
recent years.
But the culture war will con-
tinue this election year, at least
through the primary season,
as Republican candidates have
long fooled their social issue-
conscious base by promising if
nominated and elected, there will
be Constitutional amendments
for all, from banning abortions,
fag burning and gay marriages to
requiring prayer in schools.
Simsbury resident Dick Ahles
is a retired journalist. Email him
at [email protected].
Part 5 of 5
In Part Four of this series,
Church analyzed various sections
of the National Defense Autho-
rization Act. In this fnal part,
he evaluates how well President
Obama acquitted himself with
the NDAA, and expresses his own
grave concerns for when succeed-
ing administrations take over.
S
o where does all this leave
us? Not terribly far from
where we were:
1. Detention authority — The
National Defense Authoriza-
tion Act for Fiscal Year 2012
(NDAA) is really a codifcation
of the existing authority the
administration claims. “It puts
Congress’s stamp of approval
behind that claim for the frst
time, and that’s no small thing.
But it does not — notwithstand-
ing the widespread belief to the
contrary — expand it. Nobody
who is not subject to detention
today will become so when the
NDAA goes into effect ...,” Wittes
and Chesney say.
2. Indefinite detention of
citizens — They also tell us that
the NDAA does not authorize
such detention, but it does not
foreclose it either. Congress
ultimately included language
expressly designed to leave the
question untouched, that is, gov-
erned by pre-existing law, which
is unsettled on the question.
3. Does the NDAA mandate
military detention of terrorism
suspects? — “Not really, though
both supporters and critics seem
quite sure that it does,” say Wittes
and Chesney. Rather, the NDAA
sets military detention as a quasi-
default position for a subset of
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detainable persons (members
— not independent supporters
— of al-Qaeda or its associated
forces, but not the Taliban or its
associated forces).
The government can none-
theless elect the civilian pros-
ecution option as its preferred
disposition “under the law of
war,” and the statute provides a
“waiver” mechanism that simply
turns the mandatory detention
requirement off altogether, on
a written certifcation by the
president or his designee that
a waiver is in the best interests
of national security. Either of
these elections will be a visible,
discrete act that can be the basis
for political criticism.
4. Closure of Guantanamo
Bay detention facility — The
NDAA in Sections 1026 and 1027
does three things that makes it
impossible, at least during fscal
year 2012, for President Obama
to fulfll his promise to close
the detention facility. It forbids
him to spend any money ready-
ing an alternative site to house
detainees in the United States;
it forbids transfers of detain-
ees to the United States; and
it makes it diffcult — though
a little less diffcult than it has
been, note Wittes and Chesney
— to transfer detainees to third
countries.
5. Does it prevent civilian
criminal trials of terrorism sus-
pects? — Yes and no, Wittes and
Chesney tell us. The restriction
on transfer to the United States
of Guantanamo detainees pre-
vents civilian trials for anyone
there. (Think, most notoriously,
of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,
the alleged 9/11 mastermind).
But the NDAA does not pre-
Longtime Falls Village resident
Rev. Cyril Wismar (1918-2012)
shared with The Lakeville Journal
his remembrances, written in May,
2011, of a Falls Village/Town of
Canaan of a different time. His
wife of 68 years, Sylvia, was glad
to allow us to share them now with
our readers.
Part 1 of 2
I
n the beginning, God created
Canaan, 1738, and it was a
land of milk and honey. The
farms were dairy farms. That
which was extracted manually
from the cows was transported
by horse-drawn wagons. Skip
along to the 20th century, early,
the wagons went to the large Bor-
den Creamery which was located
alongside the railroad track off of
Lime Rock Road. The station was
at that time a single freight car.
Later it burned down and a new
building was constructed, which
still later became a house.
May 5th is a celebratory day,
not in the framework of a Mexi-
can Army victory, but for a happy
abode here in the beautiful hills
of northwest Connecticut.
On a very bright and beauti-
ful 5th of May, 1925, my father,
my brother and I frst set foot
on what is known as the Wismar
property. If you will pardon some
personal references, let me go
on to tell you that my parents
had purchased 60 acres (more
or less) from the estate of Fred
Dean. At one time his property
had included the beautiful Dean’s
Ravine. He sold it to the state of
Connecticut for $6 per acre.
On the 60 acres my parents
bought through the Strout Real
Estate Agency, there stood one
house, one outhouse, one vacant
schoolhouse, three barns, a gra-
nary and a milkhouse.
The house had been the resi-
dence of the hired hand and his
rather untidy family. The main
house, three-tenths of a mile
down the dirt road known as
Barrack Mountain Road, had
burned down. All that remained
was a cellar hole. In time, another
house was constructed by my
parents and served as a residence
for the tenant farmer.
My father felt very strongly
that farmland should be farmed.
That small house has subse-
quently been enlarged. Should
you inquire as to the cost of the
60 acres, one house, etc. when
my family bought it, the answer
is exactly $1,925.
According to my mother, the
house had “all the modern in-
conveniences.” No plumbing, no
electricity, and we had kerosene
lamps. The pump at the kitchen
sink was rather temperamental,
and we had to haul buckets of
water from the spring some 150
Life in Falls Village,
generations ago
yards down the road, and of
course, there was no telephone.
My mother cooked on a wood
stove.
The land’s one dirt road ran
very close to our house. There
was very little traffc. Monday
through Saturday we were sure
one car would pass. The driver
of the black Model T Ford was
Mr. Morse, our mailman. On
occasion my mother would have
forgotten something when shop-
ping in the village and would ask
Mr. Morse if he would mind
bringing the needed items the
next day. He always did. The
other assured traffc was that of
neighbor Myron Dean on his
way to the Borden Creamery.
He would stop his wagon and
fll the two milk pails that had
been set out on the porch for
that content.
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It wasn’t until about 1930 that
the road was paved and then the
name was changed from Barrack
Road to Music Mountain Road.
The path of the road had been
very close to the front of the
house. Mr. Lee Kellogg at the
time of the paving made a deal
with my parents. He could run
the road through the pasture if
we would have a stone wall put
up along it. That is what he did,
and it is over that wall that a
stile was constructed which is
something of a marker along the
road today.
When the road became a
paved two-lane thoroughfare,
electricity was also made avail-
able. Halfway down the road
between the two barns and the
granary there may be seen a
large stone monument which
bears this inscription: “Canaan
Resolves, August 17, 1774.”
Those statements were drawn
up in the one-room school that
once stood at that site, and
the Resolves may be found on
Page 8 of the Town of Canaan
Records, Volume A. The farm-
ers of the area had decided that
they would set aside their farm
implements and picking up their
muskets head off to Dorchester
Heights to join Washington’s
troops in fending off the invading
redcoats from England. Behind
that marker there stands an old
and beautiful maple tree which
was planted by the children in
the school at that time, August
17, 1876.
Second part next week.
vent civilian criminal trials for
new captures, though it does
authorize military detention as
an alternative and in some cases
as a default option.
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Perhaps, given the extravagant
claims about the NDAA, I should
add that, no, it does not repeal
the Bill of Rights, as the afore-
mentioned BenjaminWittes and
Robert Chesney agree. To the ex-
tent that any provision is found to
confict with any provision in the
Bill of Rights, it will not survive
constitutional scrutiny.
And human rights groups
and civil libertarians should
be pleased about Section 1024,
which as noted requires that
people subject to long-term
military detention for which
habeas corpus review is not avail-
able — think of the Detention
Facility in Parwan, Afghanistan
— henceforth shall have the
right to a military lawyer and
a proceeding before a military
judge to contest the factual basis
for his detention.
How well did Barack Obama
acquit himself? Given the fnal
vote tallies in the Senate and the
House, the two-thirds majorities
in both houses required by Ar-
ticle I, Section 7 of the Constitu-
tion for overriding a presidential
veto would have been available,
absent some later vote fipping.
And it is never easy to veto a de-
fense authorization bill. Hence,
doing what he did — negotiating
to change the worst aspects then
signing the bill — was at least a
highly defensible course.
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But that is not to say that
the NDAA is not a cause for
worry. Most vitally, presidential
signing statements do not bind
subsequent chief executives.
When Barack Obama says that
his “administration will not
authorize the indefnite mili-
tary detention without trial of
American citizens,” I take that
very seriously.
But what of the future?
As the aforementioned Scott
Horton explained: “If you’ve
watched any of the recent G.O.P.
presidential debates, then you
know that all of the contenders
(excepting Ron Paul and possibly
Jon Huntsman) embrace torture
techniques like waterboarding,
would expand Guantanamo,
believe that military prisons are
the alternative to an ineffective
criminal justice system, would
revive extraordinary renditions
and CIA black sites, and gener-
ally rush to characterize anyone
who thinks differently about
the world as un-American or
worse ... The question there-
fore becomes not what Barack
Obama’s Justice Department
would do with the NDAA, but
what a Rick Santorum or Mitt
Romney Justice Department
would do.”
When I consider that, I
tremble for the republic.
Charles R. Church is an at-
torney practicing in Salisbury who
for years has studied Guantanamo
Bay detention, torture, habeas
corpus and related issues.
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that cap and worked backward
to arrive at a new total for the
middle school athletic director
position of $9,975. Doing that
cuts the cost for the proposed
position in half.
“The question you are go-
ing to have to ask yourselves is
whether this is sufﬁcient to move
forward?”
As an alternative, Chamber-
lain said the $9,975 could be
given to a current Region One
employee as a stipend to do the
job, in addition to his or her
primary duties.
Chamberlain advised the
ABC to move forward with this
or “... end it today.”
Sharon Center School Board
Chairman Electra Tortorella
said she would like to send the
reduced proposal, making it a
quarter time position, back to the
original committee to determine
if the reduced position would be
enough time to properly perform
the job. She said she doesn’t want
to set up a plan that would fail.
Chamberlain said, “That
would delay things. We don’t
have the time to go back and
forth on this and still get it in
our budget [for the next school
year].”
In response to a question,
Chamberlain said the middle
school athletic director would
report to the region’s Central Of-
ﬁce and would coordinate with
the high school athletic director.
The salary would be included in
the Region One budget.
Region One Board Chairman
Phil Hart said, “If we can ﬁnd
someone to accept the position
at this level, we should move
forward to see if this is what is
needed.”
Rebecca Hurlburt, chairman
of the Cornwall Board, said, “We
don’t yet have a job description to
go with this reduced plan.”
Andrea Downs of Falls Vil-
lage, who served on the original
planning committee said, “We
already spent 10 months on this.
We were charged with a task
and I feel we met that charge
on a number of issues. First, by
coming up with a middle school
athletic handbook. Second, by
coming up with the part-time
athletic director position. We
did this to meet the needs we
heard expressed at past ABC
meetings.
“We already tried to do this as
a stipend position and now we are
trying to do this with fewer hours
and fewer resources. I think we
set up the person to fail when
we do that. We identiﬁed a need
in the middle schools and if we
want to do that right, it is going
to cost money to do it.”
Kent Center School Board
Chairman Tracy Horosky made
a motion to recommend the plan
for a reduced position to the full
Region One Board of Education.
The motion was adopted by a
4-2 vote.
through the ﬁrst part of the
next century, when wood was
less plentiful and before barbed
wire kept the livestock from
going over the wall. The rails
were laid without upright posts,
end across end, which dictated
their serpentine form. Today
one generally sees these zigzag
fences adorning old battleﬁelds
(and, oddly enough, also running
along a side road in Norfolk),
but their day is done and only
the stones remain.
Most of our historic stone
walls are made of “ﬁeld stone”
rather than quarried stone.
Granite, gneiss and even lime-
stone left behind by the glaciers
were most commonly used for
wall building, with granite and
gneiss preferred because of their
harness. Plowed ﬁelds in our
region regularly produce a new
crop of rocks from soil layers be-
neath, and over time these might
be added to existing walls.
One can tell a lot about the
historic use of a piece of land
by its stone walls. Those small
enclosures that contain stones of
all sizes may have been cropland,
while those constructed with
larger rocks were more likely
unplowed pasture. In the 1830s,
the height of agriculture and of
land clearing in our region, Li-
tchﬁeld County was a signiﬁcant
producer of cheese, butter, pork,
beef, dairy cattle and sheep, along
with wheat and rye.
There is no statewide protec-
tion afforded to Connecticut’s
historic stone walls. Those
located along designated scenic
roads, within historic districts,
or in a handful of municipali-
ties where there are additional
safeguards in place beneﬁt from
some safeguards, but for the most
part these walls, often centuries
old, are vulnerable to disman-
tling and destruction.
Along with cedar trees
poached for fence posts, the il-
licit removal of stones from old
walls is a widespread problem on
conservation lands.
Oddly enough, in my land
protection work I sometimes
come across grants of conser-
vation easement that do not
identify the archaeological or
historic features of the protected
property among their conserva-
tion purposes. Stone walls may
be scenic, but their true value lies
in the evidence they contain of
historic land use, and as such they
should be considered artifacts,
worthy of protection in their
own right.
Tim Abbott is program director
of Housatonic Valley Association’s
Litchﬁeld Hills Greenprint. His
blog is at greensleeves.typepad.
com.
State Environmental Quality
Review Act (SEQRA) process,
which could be subject to either
a short-form or long-form En-
vironmental Assessment Form,
which will dictate the length of
the review process.
Not everyone was content to
listen to the presentation; some
wanted to voice their concerns
about having a big box store in
the town of North East.
Peter Greenough of Millerton
was among them.
“I’m on the village Planning
Board,” he said. “We’ve had no
input, and people are concerned
this project might vacuum up a
lot of businesses in the village
and hollow them out. There are
probably 10 or 15 things people
are concerned about.”
“Honestly, it’s just a free-
standing grocery store,” said
Joseph. “It’s not a Walmart.”
“I haven’t heard one person
say they think this could damage
downtown,” Scutieri said. “How
many people shop at the Grand
Union now? Think about how
many people are going outside of
town to do their shopping.”
Amenia resident Sharon
Kroeger, who is a member of the
Tri-state Chamber of Commerce,
said, “If you put a Hannaford
here it will suck up stores and
resources and send them to Bel-
gium. It’s a regional issue, not a
town issue.”
Millerton resident Peter Rich-
mond asked the mayor why he
was sitting on stage with the
developer, clearly supporting
the project.
“Yeah, I’m the mayor, but I’m
also a taxpayer,” Scutieri said.
“And I dislike the Grand Union
as much as anybody. This area
deserves a new grocery store. …
I can’t go anywhere right now
without hearing about it.”
“Good for you,” said North
East resident Cathy Fenn. “John’s
not just mayor, he also cares
about the community.”
“I think it’s important for our
village to have smart growth,”
added Millerton resident John
Panzer. “It adds value to our
village. We need good projects
like this, thoughtfully developed
and executed. I care about other
towns, but I especially care about
this one. We need good busi-
nesses and jobs.”
“There’s an option,” Schul-
man said. “I hear Freshtown
has an option to go into Grand
Union.”
Freshtown
Scutieri then introduced
Noah and Dan Katz, owners
and operators of Freshtown
supermarkets, with locations
in Amenia and Dover that are
part of a 65-store cooperative.
The brothers had been in the
audience, watching the SRD
presentation.
The fact that Grand Union
is supplied by C&S Wholesale
Grocers, the same wholesaler that
supplies Freshtown, makes the
Katzs’ plans to take over Grand
Union seem more plausible than
SRD’s plans, according to the
brothers.
C&S only became their whole-
saler at the end of last year, which
is why they are entering the Mil-
lerton grocery discussion so late,
they said — roughly a year after
Joseph appeared with his plans.
“We know we’re coming in
late, but the explanation is the
65-store cooperative last year
switched suppliers,” Noah Katz
said. “We have a great relation-
ship with C&S, who are clear they
don’t want to be in the retail
business, so we said let’s do it.
It’s great.”
Freshtown has an application
before the Planning Board, Katz
said, although it’s missing one
signature. He also said his stores,
especially the newer ones, are
$10 million stores, completely
updated and offering the freshest
and the ﬁnest any supermarket
can provide.
Sunday in the Country Food
Drive organizer “NASCAR” Dave
MacMillan rose to praise the Katz
brothers, and the civic service
the Freshtown stores continually
offer the community.
“I just want to say my experi-
ence with the Katzes for the past
10 years ... I just hope anybody
who comes into the community
is as dedicated as this family is
to the community,” he said. “We
need people who give back to the
community.”
Millerton resident Eva Yuran-
ich, a young mother, however,
had less favorable comments
about Freshtown. She said her
experiences shopping at the store
have hardly been ideal, and she
instead travels 40 minutes each
way to shop at the Hannaford in
Red Hook.
Millerton resident Anne
Veteran asked the Katzes why
they decided to venture into
the village.
“I don’t understand the risk,”
she said, noting the Grand Union
and the site of the SRD proposal
are just down the road from one
another. “You could be stuck in a
25-year lease that you’re going to
take over when a bigger company
[with the SRD application] is go-
ing to come in next to you.”
Noah Katz replied that he and
his brother are going to “do what
they do,” and proceed even if the
SRD plans move forward. Dan
Katz added they have “access to
the capital needed to renovate
the property.
“We are optimistic and would
like to come to Millerton,” he
added. “I think we can give you
a great store.”
Scutieri suggested Freshtown
allow SRD to pursue its project
and let it “live or die on its own
merits and then we’ll welcome
you,” but the Katzes didn’t quite
take to that sentiment.
“We did not just show up a
few weeks ago,” Noah Katz said,
adding the process started last
year.
At the meeting’s end the
mayor suggested anybody who
would like to weigh in call the
Village Hall or Town Hall with
their comments, or write a letter
with the same.
“The last thing anybody wants
is to be stuck with the Grand
Union for another 10 years,”
Scutieri said, urging public par-
ticipation.
‘Romeo and
Juliet’ Feb. 26
at Salisbury
School
SALISBURY — The Salisbury
School Dramatic Society will
present William Shakespeare’s
“Romeo and Juliet” on Sunday,
Feb. 26, at 2:30 p.m. in Seifert
Theater on the Salisbury School
campus. Doors will open 15
minutes before the start of the
performance.
There is no charge for admis-
sion. Salisbury School is located
at 251 Canaan Road.
Metropolitan Opera live from
Lincoln Center. It’s ﬁlmed on sev-
eral cameras, so you will get to see
behind the scenes and interviews.
It’s such an enhanced experi-
ence,” Richard Sadlon said.
Both venues are often sold
out, but The Moviehouse will
provide an opportunity to view
these prestigious shows.
“Not everyone can get down
to New York or take a weekend
and ﬂy to London. This is bring-
ing the arts to Millerton. It’s also
a lot more to see than sitting in
an audience because a director is
taking you places you would not
be able to see if you were sitting
in your seat at Lincoln Center,”
he said.
The Moviehouse is also ex-
tending its hours.
“We will now have matinees
every day, which will show a
lot of this alternative content.
It’s interesting for us because
the feeds are live, so the event
time in London or New York
will dictate the times we need
to accommodate the shows. It’s
all very new and very exciting,”
Carol Sadlon said.
For more information, in-
cluding showtimes, visit www.
themoviehouse.net or call 518-
789-0022.
Canaan Fire Company (CFC) held a fundraising dance Saturday, Feb. 18, and among those
attending were, upper left, Crystal and Christopher Ohmen (he is assistant chief of Lakeville
Hose Company). Continuing clockwise are Timmy Redlund (Canaan Fire Police), Ginny
Redlund, Rich Crane (Canaan Fire Company veteran), Valerie Crane and Ron Carpenter
(president of CFC); then Rowland and Robin Denny of Norfolk (he is deputy ﬁre marshall
for North Canaan); and last, Maribeth Weaver (secretary of CFC), Jody Zeller (Norfolk Fire
Department) and Shanna Foley (captain, CFC).
PHOTOS BY HEATHER WEAVER
CFC aloha
THE LAKEVILLE JOURNAL, Thursday, February 23, 2012 A17
M
y mind
wandered
a lot dur-
ing the
two hours and 23 min-
utes of the 3D revamp
of George Lucas’ “Star
Wars Episode One —
The Phantom Menace.”
For starters, I am not
entirely clear as to what
“phantom menace”
refers to. The menace
seemed pretty above-
board to me — all
these little droid soldier
things everywhere, plus
the two Trade Federa-
tion guys with no noses.
And the fellow with
the red-and-black face
paint job.
Not one of these was
a phantom.
I’d better back up.
Liam Neeson is Qui-
Gon Jinn, a Jedi knight,
which means he can
ﬁght his way out of
almost anything, utter
gnomic pronounce-
ments that everyone
believes and dress like
need for guard rails in
space?
Everywhere you go
there are platforms
sticking way the hell up
in the air for landing
your ship on, and not a
guard rail in sight.
If this ﬂick were
shorter and paced bet-
ter there would be no
time to wonder about
these things, and that’s
the problem. The other
problem is getting up to
go to the bathroom and
forgetting to take off
the 3D glasses.
If you’re a Star Wars
person, or a comic book
collector, or captain of
the Quidditch team at
Nerd State, then you
have to go see this and
a dork at a comic book
convention and not get
laughed at.
His sidekick, Obi-
Wan Kenobi (Ewan
McGregor), is along
for the ride and has
the added advantage
that his made-up name
sounds almost normal
by comparison.
So they have to go
get these Trade Fed-
eration jerks to stop
the boycott of Naboo
because the Galactic
Senate is too busy rac-
ing their super senate
pod ship things around
the Great Hall to do
anything useful.
But the Federation
guys ﬁnd that because
they don’t have noses,
they can’t smell a rat.
Anyway, they are in the
tank for some shadowy
evil guy who appears on
secret holograms every
so often to give orders
and threaten.
So there’s this whole
complicated thing
with the Queen (Nata-
lie Portman) and the
Gungans and escap-
ing to another planet
and ﬁnding some spare
engine parts and a little
kid named Ani who will
turn out to be Darth
Vader, but we really
don’t know that.
And lots of meetings
and then a version of a
demolition derby and
some more meetings
and space ships and the
Gungan army and zip
zap powie wowie zowie
— in 3D.
I might as well just
lay this out: This movie
is boring, with or with-
out the special glasses.
Here are some of the
things that crossed my
mind as I ﬁdgeted in my
seat:
º Tle accent of tle
no-noses Trade Fed-
eration bigshots was an
uneasy cross between a
yakuza chief in a Japa-
nese gangster ﬂick and
the late Ricardo Mon-
talban extolling the
virtues of the Chrysler
Cordoba.
º Tle Calactic Sen-
ate doesn’t use Robert’s
Rules of Order.
º Tle trip tlrou,l
the planet Naboo’s
core, a dark, wet place
ﬁlled with dangerous
creatures, reminded me
of the colonoscopy I
have scheduled for next
month.
º l wisl l ,ot paiJ to
write lines such as “Zsa
Zsa bunga the booba!”
º Wlen tle power
goes out of the droid
army it reminded me of
the ﬁrst week of No-
vember around here.
What I really want to
know is this: Is there no
marvel at Jar Jar’s 3D
tongue work. And if
you have a little boy
your parental duty is
clear. Otherwise...
“Star Wars Episode
One — The Phantom
Menace” is at The Mov-
iehouse in Millerton and
elsewhere. It is rated PG
for sci-ﬁ action/violence.
Movies: ‘Star Wars Episode One -The Phantom Menace’
PATRICK L. SULLIVAN
It Takes a
Special Audience . . .
T
his weekend brings a novel entertainment in the
form of a beneﬁt concert for Crescendo, the choral
and instrumental ensemble specializing in early and
contemporary music. The Secret Life of Opera Sing-
ers is a humorous, musical behind-the-scenes look at
an aspiring opera singer, performed by up-and-coming professional
contralto and comedienne Imelda Franklin Bogue, accompanied
by Anne Voglewede Green.
Billed as cabaret, the performance introduces listeners to classic
opera repertoire by composers such as Bizet, Verdi, and Rossini.
The event takes place Feb. 25, 4 p.m. at Trinity Church Lime Rock
(on Route 112 in Lakeville, CT, opposite the race track). Beneﬁt tick-
ets are $25 and can be purchased online at www.worldclassmusic.org
or at the door. For information, call (860) 435-4866.
In a different vein, Lakeville composer Donald Sosin has re-
vived his 1977 one-act children’s opera, “Esther,” which tells the
Purim story, focusing on Esther’s central role. It will be performed
the weekend before Purim in Salisbury and repeated in Amherst,
MA.
The performance is produced by Sosin’s Farmouse Window
Productions in association with Grumbling Gryphons, the award-
winning, Cornwall-based children’s theater company founded
by Leslie Elias. The production honors the 100th anniversary of
Hadassah, the Jewish women’s charitable organization. The lyrics
are by children’s writer Sari Magaziner. The cast includes Chelsea
Friedlander, Jennifer Barsamian, John-Andrew Fernandez, Vince
The Music Scene: Fred Baumgarten
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F
abricated, The
latest Tremaine
Gallery show
at The Hotch-
kiss School, explores,
through photography,
the power of manmade
structures, how they
can shape or reﬂect our
values and, in deteriora-
tion, become metaphors
for lost hopes and failed
dreams.
The show is about
fact, ﬁction and sym-
bols; and about where
the descriptive and
artistic aspects of pho-
tography merge.
The ﬁrst image in
the show establishes
its tone: Jeff Brouws’s
full-color shot of aban-
doned public housing in
Cleveland. The small
red brick shell seems
sound, yet windows
are boarded up and
mounds of detritus ﬁll
the yard. Melancholy
lies beneath the color, a
depressing reminder of
the American habit of
building and abandon-
ing, of leaving derelict
relics behind as our
interests and policies
move on.
Next come two won-
derful images from Livia
Corona’s portfolio,
“Two Million Homes
for Mexico,” in which
she has captured the
Mexican government’s
efforts to sponsor new
housing for a growing
middle class.
“Progressive Develop-
ment, 2009” shows a
horizontal row of con-
nected houses inter-
rupted and punctuated
by a three-story, blocky
tower of three apart-
ments. The colors are
dusky. Security gates of
Mexican wrought iron
cover the windows,
and TV antennas on
roofs stand askew. The
buildings may be new,
but the feeling is Old
Mexico.
Corona’s astonish-
ing “47,526 Homes for
Mexico, 2009” is alto-
gether different.
From a high vantage
point, she has captured
the regular, geometric
sprawl of thousands of
identical, small, two-
story houses of pale
yellow-gold with red-
tiled roofs stretching
away toward distant
mountains. In the fore-
front is a line of market
stalls under tenting and
bus stops. The image is
beautiful; the sameness
stultifying.
Randy Fox’s three pic-
tures from his “Store-
front Churches” series
are poignant reminders
of the persistence of
hope and ingenuity in
the midst of poverty.
Then there are three
fabricated photographs
from Leigh Merrill. In
each, houses — seem-
ingly similar, yet quite
different from each
other on close viewing,
selected from thousands
of Merrill’s shots — are
combined wall-to-wall
in a fantastical, horizon-
tal neighborhood.
Richard Edelman’s
images of an abandoned
grain silo with birds
ﬂying by and the long,
low facade of an aban-
doned factory with its
regular row of windows
carefully bricked in are
memorable.
Susan Wiles chal-
lenges the notion of a
bucolic Hudson River
Valley in “GM Site,
Sleepy Hollow, 2009”
with its abandoned
expanse, fenced and
overgrown, strewn with
garbage, against the glo-
rious blue of the river, a
small lighthouse on its
bank.
Then there are 12
small, square shots of
Walmart Supercenters
in various cities by
Travis Shaffer. Rifﬁng
on Ed Ruscha’s famous
“Thirtyfour (Empty)
Parking Lots in Los An-
geles,” Shaffer appropri-
ates satellite imagery
that focuses on white
parking structures in
each shopping center.
The 12 photographs,
hung in a square, are
powerful comments on
the sameness and banal-
ity of American cities
and suburbs today.
Finally, Wendy Bur-
ton’s two elegiac shots
of ruined, abandoned
buildings close the
show. In gorgeous color
and light, the shots are
laments for a society
that rushes from dream
to dream leaving hopes,
and lives, behind.
“Fabricated,”
curated by
Melissa Stafford,
continues at the
Hotchkiss
Tremaine Gallery
through March 2.
For informa-
tion, call 860-
435-3663 or go
to www.hotch-
kiss.org/arts.
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presents the
AMERICAN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24 and
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25
7 pm Preconcert talk by Christopher H. Gibbs
8 pm Performance
Maurice Ravel
la valse, pceme chcreqraphique
Sergey Prokofiev
Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 63
Jiazhi Wang, viclin
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Continued from
page 17
Vincent and Victor
Khodadad; the com-
poser’s son, Nick Sosin,
narrates, and Donald
Sosin directs.
According to the
story told in the Bib-
lical Book of Esther,
Queen Vashti, wife of
King Ahasuerus, refuses
to “display her beauty”
(disrobe, presumably)
before her drunken
husband and guests and
is dismissed. Esther, a
Jewish woman, wins a
beauty contest to re-
place her. She hides her
Jewish identity from
the king. Meanwhile,
she and Mordecai learn
of a plot by the king’s
minister, Haman, to
kill all the Jews of the
kingdom.
Esther reveals that she
is Jewish, at great per-
sonal risk, and the king
also learns that Morde-
cai had earlier foiled a
plot to assassinate him.
Ahasuerus sends Ha-
man to his death, and
the rest of Haman’s
allies are defeated.
Sosin’s score is tuneful
and jaunty, never sac-
charine. In parts it has
overtones of Sondheim-
like Broadway, and at
others sophisticated but
not inaccessible harmo-
nies.
The ﬁrst performance is
at the Salisbury Congre-
gational Church Satur-
day, March 3, at 2:30
p.m. Admission is free.
The next day, Sunday,
March 4, at 2 p.m., “Es-
ther” will be performed at
the Yiddish Book Center
in Amherst, MA. Tickets
are $10 for adults, $8
for members and free for
students and children 18
and under.
A free pre-show work-
shop for children age 6
and older will be offered
both days, at noon, by the
Grumbling Gryphons.
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Auditions
[The] Center for Performing
Arts, Rte. 308, Rhinebeck,NY,
845-876-3080, www.
centerforperformingarts.org
Seeking men ages 18-35 with
background in dance for May
production of “Fiddler on
the Roof.” Contact director
at [email protected]
to schedule an audition.
Dance
[The] Bardavon, 35 Market St.,
Poughkeepsie, NY, 845-473-2072,
www.bardavon.org Vassar
Repertory Dance Theatre,
30th Annual Bardavon Gala,
Feb. 25, 8 pm, Feb. 26, 3 pm.
MASS MoCA,1040 MASS MoCA
Way, North Adams, Mass., 413-
662-2111, www. Jacob’s Pillow
and Mass MoCA present
Australian contemporary
dance company, Chunky
Move,March 24, 8 pm, March
25, 3 pm.
Galleries
Argazzi Art, 22 Millerton Rd.,
Rte.44, Lakeville, CT, 860-435-
8222, www.argazziart.com
Curious Children, paintings
by Carrie Pearce through
April . Winter hours: Fri.-
Sun. 11 am-5 pm.
Franklin Riehlman Fine Art,
24 East 73rd St., Suite 4F, NY,
NY, 212-879-2545 Art by
Robert Kipniss, March 1-31,
reception March 3, 1-5 pm.
Ober Gallery, 6 North Main St.,
Kent, CT, 860-927-5030, www.
obergallery.com Russian
Nonconformists, through
April 15. Gallery hours:
Thurs., 1-4 pm, Fri., Sat.,
noon to 5 pm., Sun. 1-4 pm.
Sohn Fine Art, 6 Elm St.,
Stockbridge, MA, 413-298-
1025, [email protected]
Fran Forman, Alchemy of
Memory, through March
5. Gallery hours: Thurs.-
Mon., 11 am-5 pm, or by
appointment.
Tremaine Gallery, Hotchkiss
School, 11 Interlaken Rd.,
Lakeville, CT, 860-435-4423,
www.hotchkiss.orgFabricated,
through March 2. Gallery
hours Mon.-Sat., 10 am-4
pm, Sun.,noon-4 pm.
Movies
[The] Bardavon, 35 Market St.,
Poughkeepsie, NY, 845-473-2072,
www.bardavon.org “Little
Shop of Horrors,” March 16,
7:30 pm; “Who’s Afraid of
Virginia Wolff,” April 12, 7:30
pm.
Cinerom, 89 Farley Place, Across
from K-Mart, Torrington, CT, 860-
489-4111, www.cinerom.com
Gilson Cafe & Cinema, 354 Main
St.,Winsted, CT, 860-379-5108,
379-6069 Dinner, movies.
Mahaiwe Theatre, 14 Castle St.,
Great Barrington, MA, www.
mahaiwe.org, 413-528-010
“Fast Times at Ridgemont
High,” March 9; “Pink
Floyd: The Wall,” March 10;
“Poltergeist,” March 11, all
shown at 7 pm.
Mallory Brook Cinemas, 380
New Hartford Rd., Barkhamsted,
CT, 860-738-7507, www.
cinemaholdings.com
[The] Moviehouse, 48 Main
St., Millerton, NY, 518-789-
3408, www.themoviehouse.
net The Salisbury Forum
in collaboration with
FilmWorks Forum presents:
“Human Terrain: War
Becomes
Academic,” Feb. 26, 11:30 am.
[The] Triplex, 70 Railroad St.,
Great Barrington, MA, 413-528-
8885, www.thetriplex.com
Music
Bard College, Fisher Center for
Performing Arts, Red Hook,
NY, 845-758-7900, www.bard.
edu American Symphony
Orchestra, Feb. 24-25, 8 pm.
[The] Bardavon, 35 Market St.,
Poughkeepsie, NY, 845-473-
2072, www.bardavon.org An
Evening with Bebe Neuwirth,
March 3, 8 pm; Bardavon
Gala 2012: Tony Bennett,
March 11, 7 pm; The Met,
Live in HD: “Manon,” April
7, noon; “LaTraviata,” April
14, 1 pm.
Club Helsinki Hudson, 405
Columbia St., Hudson, NY, 518-
828-4800 Open mic Tues.,
8-11 pm; Shearwater, Feb.
26; Sweet Clementines, Feb.
27; Lower Dens, March 1;
The Connor Kennedy Band,
March 2; The Magnetic
Fields, March 6.
Dewey Hall, 91 Main St.,
She eld, MA, 413-229-2476,
www. DeweyHall.com Folk
Music Series: Matching
Orange, March 3, 7:30 pm.
Innity Music Hall & Bistro, 8232
Rte. 44, Norfolk, CT, 866-666-
6306, www.innityhall.com
The Cast of Beatlemania,
Feb. 25; Black 47, March
1; Eight to the Bar, March
2; David Grisman Folk
Jazz Trio, March 3; Royal
Southern Brotherhood,
March 8; CoCo Montoya,
March 10; George Winston,
March 11; Jon Anderson,
March 14.
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center,
14 Castle St., Great Barrington,
MA, 413-528-0100, www.
mahaiwe.org The Met, Live in
HD:“Ernani,” Feb. 25, 1 pm;
encore, March 7, 1 pm; Close
Encounters with Music:
Grand Piano Quartets,
March 24, 6 pm; The Blind
Boys of Alabama, March 25,
7 pm; The Met, Live in HD:
“Manon,” April 7, noon;
encore, April 11, noon.
Morgans’s at the Interlaken Inn,
74 Interlaken Rd., Lakeville,
CT, 800-222-2909, www.
InterlakenInn.com Dinner
and Jazz: Scott Heth, every
Saturday, 7-10 pm; Richard
Dejenarus, Thurs. and Sun.
6-9 pm.
St. Andrews Church, Main St.,
corner of Rtes.341 and 7, Kent,
CT, 860-927-3486 Music in the
Nave: Lynn Henderson and
Friends, March 24, 7:30 pm.
St. Mark Catholic Church, 400
West St., Pittseld, MA, 413-
442-6120 Berkshire Concert
Choir: Franz Liszt-His 200th
Year-Work of Franz Liszt and
JS Bach, March 11, 3 pm.
Towne Crier Cafe, Rte. 22,
Pawling, NY, 845-855-1300,
www.townecrier.com Cheryl
Wheeler, Feb. 24; Popa
Chubby Band, Feb. 25;
James Maddock, March 2;
Lucy Kaplansky, March 3;
Nick Moss and the Fliptops,
March 9.
Trinity Church, 484 Lime Rock
Rd., Lakeville, CT, 860-435-
4866, www.worldclassmusic.
org Crescendo presents: The
Secret Life of Opera Singers,
Feb. 25, 4 pm.
Ulster Performing Arts Center,
(UPAC), 601 Broadway, Kingston,
NY, 845-339-6088, www.upac.
org The Met, Live in HD:
“Ernani,” Feb. 25, 1 pm.
Vassar College, 124 Raymond
Ave.,Poughkeepsie, NY, 845-437-
5370, www.vassar.edu HVP
String Competition, March
11, 10 am and 3 pm.
Warner Theatre, 68 Main St.,
Torrington, CT, 860-489-7180,
www.warnertheatre.org The
Met, Live in HD: “Ernani,”
March 3, 1 pm; “Manon,”
April 7, noon; Merle
Haggard, April 19, 7:30 pm.
Theater
Barrington Stage Company,
36 Linden St., Pittseld,
MA, 413-499-5447,www.
barringtonstageco.org New
Play Festival: “10x10 on
North,” ten 10-minute plays,
through Feb. 26.
Berkshire Community College,
1350 West St, Pittseld, MA,
413-499-4660, www.berkshirecc.
edu “Seriously Funny, An
Evening of Mamet, Pinter
and Silverstein,” Feb. 24, 25, 8
pm, Feb. 26, 2 pm.
[The] Center for Performing
Arts, Rte. 308, Rhinebeck,NY,
845-876-3080, www.
centerforperformingarts.org
“Hairspray,” February
24-March 11.
Cinerom, 89 Farley Place, Across
from K-Mart, Torrington, CT,
860-489-4111, www.cinerom.
com National Theatre, Live in
HD: “Love Never Dies,” Feb.
28, 7 pm, March 7, 7 pm;
“Traveling Light,” March 1, 7
pm, March 4, 3 pm.
[The] Ghent Playhouse, 6 Town
Hall Place, Ghent, NY, 518-392-
6264, www.ghentplayhouse.
org “Pack of Lies,” March
16-April 1.
Mahaiwe Performing Arts
Center, 14 Castle St., Great
Barrington, MA, 413-528-0100,
www.mahaiwe.org National
Theatre, Live in HD: “The
Comedy of Errors,” March 1,
March 29, 7 pm.
Shakespeare & Company,
Founders’ Theatre, 70 Kemble St.,
Lenox, MA, 413-637-3353, www.
shakespeare.org “The Learned
Ladies,” through March 25.
Sherman Playhouse, 5 Rte. 39
N, Sherman, CT, 860-354-3622,
www.shermanplayers.org “The
Subject was Roses,” March
30-April 21.
TheaterWorks, City Arts on
Pearl, 233 Pearl St., Hartford,
CT, 860-527-7838, www.
theaterworkshartford.org “The
Sty of the Blind Pig,” through
Feb. 26; “Red,” March 23-
May 13.
TheatreWorks, 5 Brookside
Ave.,New Milford, CT, 860-350-
6863, www.theatreworks.us
“The Irish Curse,” March 2
through 24.
Ulster Performing Arts Center,
(UPAC), 601 Broadway, Kingston,
NY, 845-339-6088, www.upac.
org Cesar Millan, “The Dog
Whisperer,” April 6, 8 pm.
Unicorn Theatre, 6 East St.,
Stockbridge, MA, 413-298-5576
Stage Reading: “Adjustments:
A Gentle Comedy for Cynical
Times,” by Gloria Miller and
Ilene Tetenbaum, March 23,
7:30-9:30 pm.
Warner Theatre, 68 Main St.,
Torrington, CT, 860-489-7180,
www.warnertheatre.org
Shirley Maclaine, March 24,
8 pm; Capitol Steps, April 6,
8 pm.
Williamstown Theatre Festival,
1000 Main St., Williamstown,
MA, 413-597-3400, www.
wtfestival.org Main Stage: “Far
From Heaven,” July 19-July
29; Nikos Stage: “The Blue
Deep,” July 11-July 22.
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listing, go to our website at
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A20 THE LAKEVILLE JOURNAL, Thursday, February 23, 2012
LegaL Notices
LEGAL NOTICE
Agricredit Acceptance LLC
will offer the following repos-
sessed equipment for sale to
the highest bidder for cash plus
applicable sales tax.
E q u i p me n t : Ma h i n -
dra-2615HS Tractor, S/N:
26H050731768, Mahindra-
ML104, S/N: 061430746,
Mahindra 72in Mower, S/N:
1006301, Mahindra-2516 Trac-
tor, S/N: 25G080700688, Ma-
hindra-ML105 Loader, S/N:
084246940.
Date of Sale: Tuesday,
February 28, 2012
Time of Sale: 10:30 a.m.
Place of Sale:
Crane and Sons
337 Ashley Falls,
Canaan, CT.
Equipment can be inspected
at place of sale. The equipment
will be sold AS IS, without war-
ranty.Wereservetheright tobid.
For further information please
contact Rob Masters, 515-306-
6137 Cell, Reference Number
919434 & 1109354.
02-16-12
02-23-12

LEGAL NOTICE
BAUER FUND
BAUER FOUNDATON
COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS
Through grants to colleges,
TheBauer Foundationprovides
indirect scholarship assistance
for undergraduate college edu-
cation to students residing in
Regional School District One
based on merit and need.
The Bauer Fund operates
in the same manner. However,
grants from the Fund are lim-
ited to students attending either
Cornell or Wellesley.
Students attending Cornell
or Wellesley should apply to the
Fund. All others shouldapply to
the Foundation.
Application forms are being
mailed to students currently re-
ceiving scholarships. Newappli-
cants whowouldliketoapplyfor
the2011-2012school yearshould
request application forms by
E-mail to BAUERFDS8@aol.
com or by writing to The Bauer
Foundation, P.O. Box 1784,
Lakeville, CT 06039.
Fully documented applica-
tions must be returned to The
Bauer Foundation no later than
May11,2012.Scholarshipawards
will be announced by August
17, 2012.
02-23-12
03-01-12
03-08-12
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Estate of
MARY T. WELDEN
Late of Salisbury
(12-00063)
The Hon. Diane S. Blick,
Judge of the Court of Probate,
Litchfeld Hills Probate District,
by decree dated February 15,
2012, ordered that all claims
must be presented to the fdu-
ciary at the address below.
Failure to promptly present
any such claim may result in
the loss of rights to recover on
such claim.
The fduciary is:
Thom T. Welden
379 Taconic Road
Salisbury, CT 06068
Heath B. Prentis
Assistant Clerk
02-23-12
LEGAL NOTICE
PUBLIC AUCTION
In accordance with Con-
necticut General Statutes, a
public auction consisting of
miscellaneouspersonal property,
furniture and household goods
will be held at Stor-It-All, Inc.,
13 Clayton Rd. and 325 Ashley
Falls Rd., Canaan, CT 06018 at
1 p.m. on Thursday, March 8,
2012. Stor-It-All, Inc. reserves
the right to cancel a sale at any
time, for any reason.
Since due notice has been
given to the owners and all par-
ties known to claim an interest
therein, you are each notifed
your personal property will be
sold unless all storage and re-
lated charges are paid in full.
13 Clayton Road:
21- Hope Dunham
77- Larena Blais
202 -Laurie L. Newkirk
215 -Shelly Romano
219 -Patrick M. Verre
Items to be sold as is, no war-
ranty is expressed or implied.
Items to be more specifcally
described at time of sale.
Terms of payment: CASHor
CERTIFIED CHECK.
Stor-It-All, Inc.
P.O. Box 1105
Canaan, CT 06018
02-16-12
02-23-12
NOTICE OF SPECIAL
TOWN MEETING
TOWN OF SHARON
MARCH 2, 2012
Aspecial townmeetingof the
electors and citizens qualifed
to vote in town meetings of the
town of Sharon, Connecticut,
will be held at the Sharon Town
Hall, 63 Main Street, Sharon,
Connecticut, on March 2, 2012
at 7 p.m. for the following pur-
poses:
1.To seewhat action the town
will take to surrender a drainage
easement to Ms.Margaret Keilty,
originally granted by Ms. Keilty
on March 28, 1980. A copy of
the drainage easement is on fle
at the Town Hall, recorded in
Vol. 96 Page 1047 of the Sharon
Land Records.
2. To take any further action
in connection with any of the
foregoing matters.
DatedatSharon,Connecticut,
February 22, 2012.
Robert J. Loucks
John Perotti
Margaret M. Szalewicz
Selectmen
02-23-12
LEGAL NOTICE
CANAAN FIRE DISTRICT
WARNING
All persons eligible to vote
in meetings of the Canaan Fire
District are hereby warned that
the annual meeting of the said
district will be held at the North
Canaan Town Hall on Tuesday,
March 6, 2012 at 7 p.m. to con-
sider andact uponthe following
items:
1. Tonamethelegal deposito-
ries for the funds of the Canaan
Fire District for the fscal year
beginning July 1, 2012 and end-
ing June 30, 2013.
2. To name an auditor to
inspect the accounts of the
Canaan Fire District for such
fscal year.
3. To elect three members of
theExecutiveCommitteetoserve
for three-year terms.
4. Totransact any other busi-
ness proper to come before such
meeting.
Dated at North Canaan,
Conn., February 16, 2012.
Anthony J. Nania
Warden
02-23-12
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Friday at 4 p.m. for publication
the following Thursday.
Notices can be e-mailed to
[email protected]
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ESTATE SALE - 69 INDIAN MOUNTAIN ROAD George III
Painted Mahogany Linen Press c. 1800, Partner’s Desk
early20thCentury, American MahoganyDropLeaf Dining
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carts, matchingbrownleather swivel chairs, linens, books
andmore books, tools, outdoor furniture, recumbent bike,
freestandingair conditioner, washer/dryer, trashcompac-
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something for everyone! Cash only. Saturday, February
25th, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, February 26th from
9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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INVENTORY REDUCTION SALE30 to 80% o everything in
thestoreplus much, muchmore! 9a.m. to 6p.m. Saturday
andSunday, March10th&11th. 860927-467721Railroad
Street, Kent, CT.
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• emphasized team work, self management and
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• rapid growth potential
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Linda Barilli
The Seamstress in Amenia
for all your sewing needs
Spring is right around the corner.....
Bridal Party alterations • Outdoor cushions
Baseball Glove replacing & conditioning
Jeans hemmed $5.00/pair
ALL MAJOR CREDIT CARDS accepted
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Homeowners, Landlords
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Rte. 7
(860)824-0733
Canaan, CT
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individual with a strong work
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have own reliable transporta-
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send a letter of interest to
[email protected]
to arrange an interview.
CHILD THERAPIST: Seeking
child development profes-
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interested in entering the child
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willing to make a commitment
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for our June 2012 open-
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[email protected].
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Noble Horizons
17 Cobble Road, Salisbury, CT 06068
(860)435-9851
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Careers In Nursing
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Please schedule an interview
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SHARON — The honor roll
for the second marking period
at Sharon Center School is as
follows.
Grade fve
High honors: Anna Coon,
Mackenzie Hunter, Marijke Stif-
fer, Tianna Togninalli
Honors: Liam Brady, Bethany
Conti, Lilian Culbreth, Ryan
Duncan, Nicole Gorat, Henry
Hoyt, Gillian Hudson, Holden
Marks, Maureen McGuire, Zach-
ary Ongley, Christina Winburn
Certifcate of progress: Troy
Brazee, Erin Sheehan
Grade six
High honors: Mitchel Shap-
iro-Albert
Honors: Cole Anderson,
Richard Krenitsky, Lauren Mur-
tagh
Grade seven
High honors: Paris Bedding-
feld, Scott Dignacco, Mohaned
Elserafy, Justin Gregory, Abigail
Hansell-Baumgarten, Katherine
Tortorella
Honors: Caroline Bailey,
Grace Beddingfeld, Jonathan
Bristow, Katherine McGuire,
Ryan Nugent, Mikayla Oyanadel,
Juliana Paton
Grade eight
Honors: Ivailo Agli, Ashley
Coon, Dana Isaac, Clelia Tufts
Certifcate of progress: Joey
Lebeda-Hall
Sharon Center School
second period honor roll
North Canaan Elementary
second period honor roll
NORTH CANAAN — The
honor roll for the second
marking period at North
Canaan Elementary School is
as follows.
Grade seven
High honors: Jala Cooke,
Eve Cullerton, Kyra Culler-
ton, Mari Cullerton, Chloe
Dakers, Dantae Maddock,
Brooke Olownia, Margaret
Riccardelli, Greyson Schopp,
SaraVanDeusen
Honors: Samuel Foley,
Alexis Ghi, Matthew Holder-
man, Amanda Jacquier, Bailey
Jacquier, Morgan Jacquier,
Michael O’Connor Jr.
Grade eight
High honors: Ashlee Bald-
win, Sierra Grossman, Jamie
Long, Hannah McGuire,
Theodore Perotti
Honors: Ann Bosio, Alex
Callinan, Chanel Clark, Ce-
leste Conlogue, Markenzia
Couser, Morgyn Gasperini,
Lauren Gilderdale, Zoe Lor-
ette, Caelyn McCarthy, Madi-
son Snyder, Max Vadakin
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Bentley University
Mark Miller of Salisbury has
been named to the dean’s list at
Bentley University for the fall
2011 semester.
Endicott College
Amanda Louise Spelbos has
been named to the dean’s list at
Endicott College for the 2011
fall term. She is a junior major-
ing in liberal studies teacher
licensure, and is the daughter
of Jos and Carol Spelbos of
Kent.
Sacred Heart University
Elissa C. Whitmore was
named to the dean’s list at Sa-
cred Heart University for the
fall 2011 semester. Elissa is the
daughter of JoAnn and Kenneth
Whitmore of Kent and is a se-
nior in the John F. Welch College
of Business. She is also pursuing
her master’s degree in education
and was recently inducted into
the university’s chapter of the
Delta Epsilon Sigma national
scholastic honor society.
Fairleigh Dickinson
University
Timothy Yu of Kent has been
named to the honor’s list at Fair-
leigh Dickinson University’s
metropolitan campus for the
fall 2011 semester.
Northwestern Connecticut
Community College
Tara Nugent of Sharon has
been named to the dean’s list
at Northwestern Connecticut
Community College for the
fall 2011 semester. She gradu-
ated from Housatonic Valley
Regional High School.
Students make dean’s list
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OFFICE SPACE
MILLERTON: 675 square feet of Re-
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Village.High volume tra c and on
site parking. Call 860 364-5736.
EXCEPTIONAL OFFICE SPACES
- MAIN STREET LAKEVILLE: Ex-
tremely well maintained building.
3 spaces available. 950 sq.ft./260
sq.ft./260 sq.ft. Please call 860
435-2635.
MILLERTON: Final Executive Class
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in Millerton, NY. Unrivaled qual-
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month. Call Andrew Gates 860
671-1437.
PINE PLAINS: O ce space in at-
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HOUSES FOR SALE
LAKEVILLE: Walk to everything!
3+ bedrooms, large sun room,
yard. $269,000. Bosworth Real
Estate 860 364-1700.
NORTH EAST, LOVELY HOME
FOR SALE: 3 bedrooms, 2 baths,
kitchen, dining room, living
room, wood stove, deck with
views. Attached 2 car garage.
“Mother/Daughter” apartment
with inside entrance, bedroom,
bath & kitchen. Laundry room.
$249,000. By Owner. 518 696-
2828.
SHARON: Highly desirable upper
end unit condo facing woods
oers quiet and sunlight. Two
Beds, 2 baths, living room with
replace, dining room, generous
closets. In unit washer/dryer,
deck, 1 car garage. $219,000. Best
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CLAVERACK, NY: Brand new, just
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a quiet family park in Claverack,
NY. 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, solid oak
cabinets, central air conditioning,
all appliances, eat in kitchen,
oversize patio. Landscape pack-
age included, lot with trees, lawn
and creek view. Priced to sell at
$59,900. View at www.zydema.
com or call 845 868-7202.
LAND FOR SALE
SHARON: 2 to 9+ acres, near
town, minimum 2 for $35,000/
acre. Bosworth Real Estate 860
364-1700.
SHARON: Close to town, approved,
2 acres. $89,000. Bosworth Real
Estate 860 364-1700.
LESSONS AND
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SERVICES
OFFERED
ALL SMALL HOME IMPROVE-
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ATTORNEY NEW TO MILLER-
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CNA: With years of experience.
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307-1300.
DAVID JAMES VALYOU -
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- HANDYMAN: Renovation
for homes and barns. Full
remodeling service; kitchens,
baths, additions, roofing,
painting, structural repairs.
Historic preservation and
care of older homes. Long
list of local clientele, many
references. 860 364-9880
[email protected].
DON’T SPEND YOUR WEEK-
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chores during this fun time of
year. Leave the cleaning to me!
Call Leigh 860 913-4471.
HANDYMAN: Light carpentry,
painting, chain saw, landscap-
ing, etc. Experienced and reli-
able with references! Call Pat
at 860 672-2315.
HOUSECLEANING: Good refer-
ences, honest and thorough.
518 851-9672.
HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT:
All home care duties: Cleaning
shopping, driving. Senior, child
and pet care. References. 860
672-6170.
PRUNING AND BRUSH CLEAN-
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and Deck with privacy and seasonal water views. Located
on a dead end road with deeded rights to lake access.
Walk to Hotchkiss golf course, athletic track and felds.
Web# EH2391
Leslie Bell & Elyse Harney $685,000
SHARON, CT - Formerly an old barn, the structure was con-
verted in the late 1930's to a colonial-style house with 4 BRs
and 2.5 BAs. There are wood floors throughout, a large LR
with a stone fireplace, a formal DR and a patio terrace. Situ-
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Sharon Saltbox
3 bedroom / 2 bath
Large Deck / 3.5 acres
$239,000
Apartment For Rent
limeRock: 1 bedroom studio. Washer, dryer,
full kitchen. Wood foors. No pets. Non-smoker.
$850 per month. Heat and electric included.
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.
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HELP WANTED
CUSTOMER SERVICE & COL-
LECTIONS: Full time. Seeking
a highly organized individual
who can work independently
in a fast-paced atmosphere.
Must be comfortable with
phone work and customer
service. Detail & accuracy a
must. Fax resume to 518 789-
0556 attn: Yvonne or email
[email protected].
DRIVERS: Great Hometime. $.40
per mile plus bonus, benets,
99% no-touch, 24 hour dis-
patch, late model equipment.
CDL-A, 2 years tractor trailer
experience required. Logistics
One: 888 880-5909.
HOUSEKEEPER - FULL TIME:
for home in Wassaic, NY. Re-
sponsibilities include shop-
ping, cleaning, light cooking,
light childcare, supervising
house maintenance, liaising
with service providers, and
assisting property manager.
2+ years housekeeping expe-
rience, childcare experience,
drivers license, and scheduling
exibility required. Full time,
salaried position with health
and dental benets. Contact
ameniasta [email protected].
INTERNET RESEARCH AND
DATA ENTRY POSITIONS:
Reference book publisher in
Amenia, NY has immediate
full time openings for internet
research/data entry positions.
Candidates must be fast and
efficient searching for infor-
mation on the internet and
have experience doing data
entry. Please email resume to
[email protected].
MEDICAL ASSISTANT: with
experience or LPN that can do
phlebotomy needed for medi-
cal o ce. Send resume with
references to: Box 0924-J, The
Lakeville Journal, P.O. Box 1688,
Lakeville, CT 06039.
STABLE HELP - FULL TIME:
Experienced only. Must be
dedicated, hard working indi-
vidual. Looking for long term
commitment. 6 days a week,
approximately 40 hours. Hous-
ing plus utilities for the right
individual. 860 435-2052, ask
for Dawn.
LESSONS AND
INSTRUCTIONS
GUITAR LESSONS: An innovative
program personally designed
around the music you listen to.
Learn technique, theory, chords
and scales from an experienced
college instructor. Explore song-
writing and recording. Electric
and acoustic guitars welcome.
Call Je at 845 877-3311.
SERVICES
OFFERED
TILE INSTALLATION: 30 years
experi ence. $3. 50 f l oors,
$8 showers, $9 marble, $10
stone veneer. Mar k, 860
485-1470.
TREE WORK: Storm damage
cl ean up, Land/Lot cl ear-
ing, Trees dropped, Vista’s
cleared, Wood/Brush chip-
ping services. Call 860 601-
7955.
PETS
CAT FREE TO GOOD HOME: 15
year old, indoor, spayed, in good
health, female short-haired,
outgoing sweetie! Veterinar-
ian and background check re-
quired. Call 860 201-3967.
HORSES AND
EQUIPMENT
HORSE AVAILABLE: 11 years
old, registered quarter paint,
15.3 hands, has all vaccinations.
Western, Pleasure – Excellent,
sure footed trail horse. Call 413
854-3005.
FIREWOOD
FIREWOOD: All green hard-
woods. 1 cord, $200. 2 cords
or more, $190 each. Full cord
minimum. 16” to 18” & 20” to
24” available. Also 2 cord loads
of 12’ poles, $215. Call for other
furnace wood pricing. 860 824-
4708.
WANTED
ENCORE CONSIGNMENT BOU-
TIQUE: Accepting Consign-
ments for Spring Womens
Clothing (New or GENTLY Used
– Designer and Name Brand) .
Also looking for local Artisans
and Antiques for consignment.
ENCORE - 16 Main Street – Salis-
bury - Please call 860 435-0202
for an appointment.
ORIENTAL ANTIQUES: Chinese,
Japanese, Pacic Islands. Porce-
lain, Jade, Ivory, Wood Carvings,
Paintings. Collections or ne
single items. 860 672-6274.
TORRINGTON GOLD & COIN
EXCHANGE: Always buying:
Gold, Silver, Coins, Sterling,
Antiques, World War II items,
Large Diamonds, Anything
Weird or Valuable. Rolex, Tif-
fany. 99 Main St., Torrington,
Conn. 860 618-2274/203
751-0396 24/7. We will beat
any legitimate oer.
BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITIES
SOAP AND LOTION MAKING
SUPPLIES: Base Blocks, Scents,
Colors, Molds, Etc. Too much
to list! $1,500 value, will sell
for $300. Call after 5 p.m. 860
927-1336.
APARTMENTS
PUBLISHER’SNOTICE:EqualHous-
ing Opportunity. All real estate
advertised in this newspaper is
subjecttotheFederalFairHousing
Actof1966revisedMarch12,1989
whichmakesit illegal toadvertise
any preference, limitation, or dis-
crimination based on race, color
religion, sex, handicap or familial
status or national origin or inten-
tionto makeanysuchpreference,
limitation or discrimination. All
residential property advertisedin
the State of Connecticut General
Statutes 46a-64c which prohibit
themaking,printingorpublishing
or causingtobemade, printedor
published any notice, statement
or advertisement with respect to
thesaleorrental ofadwellingthat
indicates any preference, limita-
tion or discrimination based on
race, creed, color, national origin,
ancestry, sex, marital status, age,
lawful source of income, familial
status, physical or mental dis-
ability or an intention to make
anysuchpreference, limitationor
discrimination.
AMENIA: 2 bedroom, 1 bath
apartment, 2nd oor, bright
and spacious. $950/month.
Heat included. Havens Real
Estate, 845 373-8555.
AMENIA: 2 bedroom. $1,000/
month. All utilities included.
No pets. Call after 5 p.m. 845
373-8256.
CANAAN: 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath
apartment in duplex. $795/
month Utilities not included.
Security and oil deposit re-
quired. Contact Phil at 860 824-
7132, available March 1st.
COLEBROOK APARTMENT IN
COUNTRY FARM HOUSE: 2
room furnished apartment
with full bathroom, wood stove
(firewood provided), cable
and Dish connections, “closet”
kitchen. On 100 acre property
with lake, woods pool, sauna,
trap range, chickens, dogs, cats,
etc. Hunting/shing rights to
licensed tenant. $650 monthly.
Write: Byrd Farm, Colebrook, CT
06021 with full biographical
information. Available now.
LAKEVILLE: 2 bedroom. Heat
included. $895 per month. 1st,
last and security. No pets. no
smoking. Available April 1. 860
435-2697.
MILLBROOK VILLAGE: Beauti-
ful, aordable, well kept studio,
1 and 2 bedroom apartments.
All major appliances;washer/
dryer/dishwasher/microwave.
Close to all amenities. $600
- $830 - $980. Call 845 677-
8180.
APARTMENTS
MILLERTON AND LAKEVILLE CT
APARTMENTS: 1,2,3 bedroom
apartments for rent. O street
parking, yard, pets OK, $800
- $1250. Call to set up an ap-
pointment 845-901-6302.
MILLERTON, NEAR CONNECTI-
CUT BORDER: 1 room studio
with new kitchen, bath. Sepa-
rate entrance. Walk to town.
Available February 1. $550 plus
electric and security. 845 832-
9199, 845 527-9354.
PINE PLAINS: 1 bedroom. Hard-
wood floors. Heat included.
References. $650. Call 518-
398-7683.
SHARON: 1 bedroom apartment.
Available 3/15. $975/month.
3 miles from Sharon Center.
Cute, wood oors, tile, skylights,
includes cable, internet, utili-
ties, washer and dryer. No pets.
Non-smoker. Call Scott 860
248-8973.
SHARON: Classy studio weekend
getaway. Completely furnished.
860 364-5135.
STANFORDVILLE; 2 APART-
MENTS: 1 bedroom with porch
on 2 acres, $750 and 2 bedroom
with deck, $850. Heat/hot water
included with both. References/
security. 518 527-1493.
WINSTED: 3 bedrooms, 1st oor,
new gas heat, appliances, wash-
er/dryer hook up. Credit check,
1st, last, security. $900/month.
860 350-8667.
CONDOMINIUMS
FOR RENT
MILLERTON CONDOMINIUM: 2
bedrooms, 1 bath, laundry, large
loft (office or 3rd bedroom),
garage, close to Village - Traver
Place. $1,050 per month. Call
Nancy 518 789-3636.
HOUSES FOR
RENT
LAKEVILLE: Spacious village
home with 3+ bedrooms, yard.
$1,650 per month. Bosworth
Real Estate 860 364-1700.
MILLERTON (BRIARWOOD):
Master bedroom and bath with
massage tub, walk in closet,
2 bedrooms with full baths,
downstairs 1/2 bath, library, liv-
ing room with replace, dining
room, deck o master bedroom,
large rear deck rst oor with hot
tub, 2 car garage, nished play-
room in basement, association
rights to use large recreational
area with pond for shing and
boating. Nestled in the woods,
great neighborhood, private
mountain top yet minutes to
village. 1 year lease - reasonably
priced. Call 518 789-3636.
MILLERTON: 1 Bedroom Cottage
with loft. Newly renovated.
Private yard and parking in the
Village of Millerton. $900 + utili-
ties. Call 860 364-5736.
HOUSES FOR
RENT
MILLERTON: 1 bedroom cot-
tage, deck, storage shed in
private country setting 1
mile south of village. Excel-
lent condition. $750/month
plus heat and utilities. Refer-
ences, security required. 518
789-3067. Leave message if
no answer.
MILLERTON: Small 2 bedroom
house with covered deck, shed
and nice yard. Just renovated.
Located near village line and
two minutes from Rail Trail. Ex-
cellent condition. $900/month
plus utilities. References and
security required. 518 789-
4415. Available right away!!!
MILLERTON: 2 bedroom, or
1 bedroom and one o ce,
decks, rural, quiet, gorgeous
views, laundry. $1,000 plus
utilities. Snow plowing in-
cluded. Pets considered. 518
567-8277.
SALISBURY: 3 bedroom ranch
on 9 acres. 1 1/2 baths, living
room with stone fireplace.
Large family room, spacious
kitchen/dining room, 2-car
garage. Countr y setti ng.
$1,600 per month plus utili-
ties. Security and references
required. 413 229-8529.
SALISBURY/TACONIC : 3
bedrooms, 1.5 baths, large
kitchen. $1,550/month, heat
included. 860 596-4239.
SHARON GREEN COTTAGE: 2
bedrooms, bath, kitchen, large
open oor plan. Washer/dryer.
$1,350 includes ground main-
tenance. Credit check, secu-
rity. Litcheld Hills Sotheby’s
International Realty. Susan
Lynn, 860 435-5935.
SHEFFIELD, MA: Village Sum-
mer rental, Memorial Day -
Labor Day. Charming Colonial
home, 2 bedrooms, paneled
living room, library/o ce, 3
season porch, washer/dryer,
gazebo, blue stone terrace
with beautiful garden. Secu-
rity and references required.
For additional information
call 305 335-9825 or email
[email protected].
STORAGE
SPACE WANTED
STORAGE SPACE WANTED:
In Sharon or close proximity
with cement oor. No other
amenities needed. Call 860
364-0108.
Painting Lessons
in
Oil and Watercolor
John Pirnak Studio
4 Arnott Drive
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Catskills. Deck style 3 bedroom home, freplace,
open interior. Garage with storage. Close to
fshing, skiing, hiking. OFFERED at $695,000.
5 BDRMS, 6 acres, LR & DR with freplace, upper
childrens’ area, private main BR. Stunning views.
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Floor Renishing
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RestoReRs & conseRvAtoRs
of fine Antiques
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Auto Repair
Antiques Restoration
Computer Services
Painting
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