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The building under the kiosk structure in Miller Park received some paint and will be painted white in the spring. In addition to the sign for the park, the area below the park proper was fenced in with a privacy screen. Linda Lemmon photo.
Town crews installed fence posts, followed by a privacy screen, according to Parks and Rec Director Willie Bousquet. It will help beautify the area to the side and below the park space. The side wall of the “under” building has been primed and the door replaced and it will be painted in the spring — white so it matches the rest of the “kiosk” structure above it, in the park proper.
A sign promoting the park was also installed last week. It is box shaped so that it hides the electrical pole there.
Bousquet said the town is “making progress” on the plaques and maps that were on the kiosks walls. Those were all removed and a “good deeds” crew of Centreville Bank managers sanded and repainted the walls last year.
Bousquet said a River Trail map will return to its home there. When the trail is completed, pushing through to Thompson, the map will be redone/replaced. In addition, new plaques explaining the park and a replica of Robert “Bob” Miller’s Putnam High School Wall of Honor plaque will go up on the kiosk walls.
Bousquet said the Miller family has helped with the restoration project.
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salvation pg 3 1-26-23
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Top Winner
Putnam Rotary President Missy Meyers, left, presents the Ring a Ding Trophy to Paige Perry from Putnam High School.
Salvation Army and Interact Bell-Ringers both win
PUTNAM — It was a win-win campaign. The Putnam Rotary Club’s Interact Club and its student helpers had a friendly competition going as they rang bells for the local Salvation Army. And all that work netted the Salvation Army nearly $14,000 and that money stays local.
The bell-ringing season ends each year with a Salvation Army/Interact Pizza Party where the individuals and the schools who put in the most hours ringing bells are honored. It’s a friendly competition.
Debbie White, service extension coordinator for the Salvation Army, thanked all the volunteers who took part in the 2022 kettle campaign. The bells were ringing for four weekends before Christmas.
The schools represented were: The Woodstock Academy, Putnam High School, Tourtellotte Memorial High School, Killingly High School, Marianapolis Prep School, Harvard H. Ellis Tech, EO Smith, Ashford School, Pomfret School, Rectory School and Assumption School.
The schools with the most bell-ringing hours were:
Third place - Putnam High School - 55 hours; second place - Tourtellotte Memorial High School - 66 hours; and first place – The Woodstock Academy with 172 hours.
The winners for the student with the most bell-ringing hours were:
Third place - Gabriell Cerasiello - 8 hours; second place - Carter Payne, Alyssa Thompson, Caitlin Mercer, Eoin Mercer (team) - 9 hours; and first place – Paige Perry – Putnam High School - 13 hours.
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psa pg 5 1-26-23
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PSA’s Cedano –
support from
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KC Cedano started and finished last Friday’s PSA girls’ Prep basketball game at Tilton the same way – providing a big lift for her teammates. But she did it from very different places.
She got a steal and layup on the first possession of the game, then came down and drilled a 3-pointer on the next one, getting PSA off to a quick start it needed.
She scored 10 more points over the course of the game, giving her 15 total, but she found herself on the bench for the final three or four minutes as coach Devin Hill liked the feel of the five who were on the floor. No matter for Cedano, who was the loudest cheerleader on the sideline as the Mustangs avoided a three-game losing streak by outplaying Tilton in a 69-62 win.
“It bothered me a tiny bit at first, if I’m being honest, but that’s just the competitive side of me,” said Cedano, one of the Mustangs best players and finishers. “But I trust my teammates and I knew they could finish it. At that point, my job was to keep the energy up on the sideline and make sure everybody was cheering and being supportive.
“As you get older, not only do you have to be good on the court, but you have to be good off it. You have to get more mature. You have to listen to the coach, trust the coach, trust your teammates, and not be selfish. We wouldn’t gain anything from me sitting on the bench pouting or being mad.
”We had been in a bit of a slump for a week or so with two losses, so we needed this win to get our confidence back up. Games are going to get more and more intense as we get into the last month of the schedule, and we needed to get going back in the right direction. I’m just glad we won. Nothing else matters.”
PSA led 20-12 at the end of the first quarter, then 37-28 at the half. It was 60-56 with two-and-a-half minutes to play when the Mustangs regrouped during a timeout, with plenty of positive “We can do this” in the huddle. And they did, overcoming a questionable call that went against them in the final minute, and Ines Goryanova and Genevive Wedemeyer both went two-for-two from the free throw line to seal the win.
Goryanova finished with 22 points, five steals, and four assists, while Wedemeyer had 10 points and played baseline-to-baseline lockdown defense on Tilton’s talented point guard.
Wednesday, PSA got caught looking ahead to the Tilton matchup and dropped a 61-54 decision to a game Busche Academy. Janeya Grant had 24 points and Astou Ndeye finished with nine points and seven rebounds in that one.
Stephen Nalbandian
Sports Information Director
Putnam Science Academy
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cal pg 6 1-26-23
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Wed. Jan. 25
Outdoor Program
POMFRET ---Ragged Hill Woods “Animal Tracking” outdoor program will be presented at 10 a.m. and at 4:30 p.m. at Windham Tolland 4-H Camp on Taft Pond Road for children from PK – Grade 8. $20 per child. Register: 860-974-1122.
Art Exhibit
THOMPSON --- The Friends of the Thompson Public Library’s Art @ the Library series will present “Old and New – paintings by Jean Arcand” through Jan. 30. In the display case, through Jan. 30 will be “Quilted Bags” by Laura Salo. 860-923-9779.
Thur. Jan. 26
Nature Program
POMFRET --- The Connecticut Audubon Society of Pomfret at the Grassland Bird Conservation Center will present “Bird Walk at the Quinebaug Valley Fish Hatchery in Plainfield” at 9 a.m. on Jan. 26 and on Feb. 23. $10, CAS members; $20 nonmembers. 860-928-4948.
Fri. Jan. 27
‘The Sunshine Boys’
PUTNAM --- The Bradley Playhouse will present “The Sunshine Boys” by Neil Simon at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 27 and 28 and at 2 p.m. Jan. 22 and 29. $23 for adults; $20 for students, seniors, first responders and military. www.thebradleyplayhouse.org.
Lecture
POMFRET --- The Pomfret School will present its Schwartz Public Lecture, Jessica Bruder at 7 p.m. in the Hard Auditorium. Open to all. Free. No registration required. Bruder is the NYT best-selling author of “Nomadland.” A book signing and reception will follow.
Sat. Jan. 28
‘The Sunshine Boys’
PUTNAM --- The Bradley Playhouse will present “The Sunshine Boys” by Neil Simon at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 28 and at 2 p.m. Jan. 29. $23 for adults; $20 for students, seniors, first responders and military. www.thebradleyplayhouse.org.
Art Exhibit
POMFRET --- The Connecticut Audubon Society of Pomfret at the Grassland Bird Conservation Center on Day Road will present the opening reception for “Trail Wood Reflections,” an Edwin Way Teale Artists & Writers In-Residence 10th Anniversary Exhibition at 2 p.m. The exhibit runs through March 18. Snow date March 18. 860-928-4948.
Sun. Jan. 29
‘The Sunshine Boys’
PUTNAM --- The Bradley Playhouse will present “The Sunshine Boys” by Neil Simon at 2 p.m. Jan. 29. $23 for adults; $20 for students, seniors, first responders and military. www.thebradleyplayhouse.org.
Nature Program
POMFRET --- The Connecticut Audubon Society of Pomfret at the Grassland Bird Conservation Center on Day Road will present “Nature Sketchbook Journaling” from 1 to 3 p.m. Suggested supplies: watercolor sketchbook, permanent marker, portable watercolor kit, small cup to hold water and paper towels. Also being held Feb. 25 and March 25. CAS members, $15; $25 nonmembers. Register: 860-928-4948.
Wed. Feb. 1
Outdoor Program
POMFRET --- Ragged Hill Woods “Hibernation” outdoor program at 10 a.m. and at 4:30 p.m. at Windham Tolland 4-H Camp, Taft Pond Road for children from PK – Grade 8. $20 per child. Register: 860-974-1122.
Thur. Feb. 2
Scramble the Duck
EASTFORD --- Scramble the Duck, the accurate weather-predicting groundhog alternative, will predict an early spring or six more weeks of winter at 7:30 a.m. at the Ivy Glenn Memorial. All invited and the event will be livestreamed at: scrambletheduck.org/livestream
Wed. Feb. 8
Outdoor Program
POMFRET --- Ragged Hill Woods “Snow/Igloos” outdoor program at 10 a.m. and at 4:30 p.m. at Windham Tolland 4-H Camp, Taft Pond Road for children from PK – Grade 8. $20 per child. Register: 860-974-1122.
Sat. Feb. 11
Cornhole Tourney
THOMPSON --- The Woodstock Lions Club will hold a fund-raiser Cornhole Tournament at the Raceway (inside). Registration is at 11 and the round-robin starts at noon. For info: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Sun. Feb. 12
Concert
PASCOAG --- Grace Note Farm and the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council will present, as part of the Music at the Farm series, “Ah, the Birds” concert at 2 p.m. at the Grace Note Farm on Jackson Schoolhouse Road. $30. 4010567-0354.
Thur. Feb. 16
History Program
THOMPSON --- The Thompson Public Library and the Thompson Historical Society will present “Old Turnpikes of Northeast Connecticut” at 6 p.m. at the library.
Sat. Feb. 18
Bird Program
POMFRET --- The Wyndham Land Trust will present “Restoration of Bird Populations: Woodcock a Case Study” at 2 p.m. at the Connecticut Audubon Society of Pomfret.
Wed. Feb. 22
Outdoor Program
POMFRET --- Ragged Hill Woods “Basket Weaving” outdoor program at 10 a.m. and at 4:30 p.m. at Windham Tolland 4-H Camp, Taft Pond Road for children from PK – Grade 8. $20 per child. Register: 860-974-1122.
Wed. April 5
Art Show
THOMPSON --- The 19th Annual Thompson CT Community Art Show, Resilient by Nature, will open at the Thompson Public Library and run through April 29. To register to take part, go to: www.thompsonrec.org. An opening reception will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. April 4.
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