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Dealership Property
Town of Putnam aerial map. Solid black line is around now larger parcel border. Dotted line between newer parcel (left) and original parcel. Gray area is wetlands.
Dealership
plan gets
a boost
Drier parcel added
to the mix
By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
EAST PUTNAM — With the purchase of an additional parcel, developers of a proposed Toyota dealership on 12 acres on Rt. 44 hope they have enough workable property to move forward.
The 12-acre property has a good deal of wetlands.
According to town records, last August a 1.1-acre parcel next to the original parcel was sold by Salvatore A. Colantino and Carolyn B. Colantino to Sean and Michael Putnam LLC, for $725,000.
Recently engineers dug several 9-to-10 foot soil test pits on the properties to formulate from there a workable plan for the property. The engineer is using the data to come up with a plan. General rules call for 1 inch of water, per storm, to filter into the ground. That’s where most of the runoff pollutants are. Then sand/silt filtration.
A proposed plan would go to Inland Wetlands, the Planning Commission and the Zoning Board of Appeals. The town’s Land Use department would be assisting those boards.
A year ago, the 12-acre property was purchased by Sean and Michael Putnam, LLC for $1.335 million.
When the property was purchased, company officials said the company “intends to give all their customers as many local options as possible at the Toyota dealership now slated for 88 Providence Pike.”
The agent listed for Sean and Michael Putnam, LLC, of Norwell, Mass., is Robert McGee. Under various companies that group owns 17 dealerships including McGee Toyota in Dudley.
The parcel contains a small yellow house, a field adjacent to the house along Rt. 44 and a large undeveloped area directly behind the house and field. The open acreage in the back runs all the way behind the store buildings on the eastern end of the Putnam Parkade.
Directly across from the property are Tractor Supply and a liquor store. Retail stores, a pharmacy, fast food restaurants, banks, and more fill in Rt. 44 on both sides heading west toward I-395.
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Winter Sky Reflected
This Woodstock stream looked more like a Monet painting. More photos on page 4 and additional photos Wednesday night at FB: Putnam Town Crier & Northeast Ledger. Linda Lemmon photo.
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High school
senior hoopster
shooting for the
stars
PUTNAM — The Putnam Rotary Club will offer the Ray Brousseau All-Star Senior Basketball Shootout at the Putnam High gym March 14.
The event, featuring high school senior girls’ and boys’ basketball players, has been in existence for more than two decades and is the culminating game in the basketball careers for many players who have been on the hardwood for the past four years. Chairing the evening’s festivities is Rotarian Jonathan Tremblay.
“I’m very excited about this year’s game because the area has witnessed a large number of outstanding male and female players,” said Tremblay. “The players are anxious to display their skills. It’s always an entertaining evening and this year won’t disappoint.”
The games are held annually in memory of the late Raymond Brousseau, a local businessman who strongly supported local youth sports. Brousseau, who was a Putnam Rotarian for nearly five decades, served as the club president and enjoyed 41 years of perfect attendance at the weekly meetings. Brousseau and his wife Violet endowed a significant scholarship to the Club. It’s presented annually to a local graduating high school senior.
The girls’ game is scheduled to tipoff promptly at 5:30 p.m. followed by the boys’ game at approximately 7:30 p.m. There are shootouts, open to any contestant, in between including a foul shot, a shot from the top of the key and a half court shot. The prizes are $50 compliments of CorePlus Credit Union.
Players have been invited from: Plainfield, Killingly, Ellis Tech, Griswold, Putnam Tourtellotte, Woodstock Academy, Marianapolis, Pomfret School, Parish Hill, Putnam Science Academy and Windham Tech. All players will receive a game T-shirt and a memento of the game provided by sponsors, Archambault Insurance, Benpe Consulting, Centreville Bank, WINY Radio, The Woodstock Academy and The Byrnes Insurance Agency.
Coaches for the girls’ game are Lee Blanchette of Tourtellotte and Will Fleeton of The Woodstock Academy. The boys’ coaches are Ben Desaulnier of Killingly and Donte Adams of Woodstock. Officials for the contest will be certified referees from the local Board #35 of Approved Basketball Officials, according to the Board’s assignment chairman Chad Neal. Committee members: Chairman Tremblay, and Rotarians H. Douglas Porter, Richard Loomis, Jonathan Sturdevant and Ronald P. Coderre.
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LEGAL NOTICE
Abington Cemetery Association
2023 Annual Meeting
A meeting has been called for
Thursday, March 23rd at
6:30 p.m. at the
Pomfret Senior Center
All lot owners are invited to attend,
wearing of masks is optional,
please remove winter
decorations, perennial plantings
and plastic
arrangements by April 15th
or they will be disposed of by
the Cemetery Association.
The cemetery opens April 1st.
Tim Morrarty, President
March 9, 2023
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