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Sea of Green ... and Smiles
The Courthouse O'Putnam 5k included a Wee Race. More photos on page 4. Additional photos Wed. night on our FB page: Putnam Town Crier & Northeast Ledger. Linda Lemmon photo.
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Kyle Borner and his son Adam. Adam came in 1st in the 1/4-mile run. His brother Griffin came in third.
Mayor Barney Seney (yes, he was wearing his kilt)
Hope green is your favorite color! Additional photos on Wednesday night on FB: Putnam Town Crier & Northeast Ledger.
By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
PUTNAM — The Courthouse O’Putnam 5K and Wee Run went off gloriously March 12. Competition and fun fashion were the watch words.
According to the Hartford Marathon Foundation, it was a day of new course records with Scott Bushey of Glastonbury winning in 15:21, and Elizabeth Fengler of Wallingford winning the women’s race in 17:53. Second place was Stephen Fengler of Wallingford in 15:32, 3rd place was Luke Lopriore of Putnam in 16:56. In the women’s field, Brittany Sarza of Brooklyn came in second in 19:52 and Samantha Park of Meriden took 3rd in 20:04.
The 10th annual race was flawless — there was even a bagpiper standing near the last turn before the finish line “inspiring” the runners.
The fun was fashionable: seas of green tutus, shamrock headgear and striped tights and green T-shirts.
The foundation thanked Mayor Barney Seney and Putnam Police Chief Christopher Ferace and his crew for hosting the event. The run brought in 950 registrants, according to Sheila Frost, which isn’t a record but is a good sign of building, post-COVID.
Scott Bushey, 29, Glastonbury 15:20 – record; Second: Stephen Fengler, 23, of Wallingford, 15:30; Third: Luke Lopriore, 26, Putnam, 16:54; Elizabeth Fengler, 27, of Wallingford, was the first female across the line at 17:51.
Other winners:
Luke Legendre, 38, Worcester, 18:22; Ryan Markey, 16, Kensington, 18:30; Charlie Caggiano, 16, Woodstock, 18:43; Matt Bellerive, 33, Brooklyn, 18:44; Luke Mayo, 46, Coventry, 18:47; Eric Ciocca, 45, Northhampton, Mass., 18:47; Peter Armon, 36, Cheshire,, 18:48; Parker Widlicka, 15, Ledyard, 18:49; Jake Almquist, 27, Woodstock, 18:54; Paulo Dias, 27, Waterbury, 19:03; Johnathan Delskey, 17, Windsor, 19:12; Matthew Charlton, 35, Allston, Mass., 19:17; Daniel Dubois, 43, Columbia, 19:21; Matthew Polak, 28, Pascoag, 19:39; Lucas Pearce, 15, Windsor, 19:47; Brittany Sarza, 28, Brooklyn, 19:48; Samantha Park, 17, Meriden, 19:56; Will Morin, 15, Windsor, 19:59; Jeffrey Larrow, 36, Pomfret Center, 20:05; Mark Oeding, 38, Branford, 20:14; Keegan Lyons, 16, Putnam, 20:15; Richard Labriola, 36, Woodstock, 20:16; Kristen Legendre, 38, Worcester, 20:18; Thomas Funk, 28, Putnam, 20:21; Scott Lecuyer, 53, Charlton, 20:22; Samuel Burdick, 22, Central Village, 20:24; Kolby Sanders, 15, Plainfield, 20:25; James Pierce, 43, Woodstock, 20:29; Logan LeBlanc, 22, Brooklyn, 20:30; Justin Williams, 30, Manchester, 20:35; Danielle King-Watkins, 39, Colchester, 20:49; Luke McGurl, 41, Eastford, 20:58; Eric Watters, 57, E. Haddam, 21:00; Todd LePine, 48, Plainfield, 21:03; Hannah Donzella, 16, Windsor, 21:04; Sam Greene, 13, Woodstock, 21:07; Lauren Konicki, 32, Hampton, 21:15; Richard Fernandes, 44, Waterbury, 21:15; Andrew Luneau, 42, Danielson, 21:20; Caylee Wolfburg, 28, Moosup, 21:22; Serena Germain, 35, Putnam, 21:26; Johnathan Putnam, 16, Southington, 21:27; Jackson Santos, 15, N. Grosvenordale, 21:29; Lucas Heide, 14, Ledyard, 21:32; Andrew Flynn, 42, Manchester, 21:34; Bob St. John, 66, Dudley, 21:44.
All results can be found at https://www.athlinks.com/.../232.../Division/2066048/Results
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Award Winner
Woodstock Academy senior Braiden Saucier, right, who received the Inspiration Award from the Walter Camp Foundation this past weekend, is looking dapper alongside a fellow quarterback, 2022 Heisman Trophy Award winner Caleb Williams. The two met prior to the foundation awards dinner where Williams was named the College Football Player of the Year. Photo by Sean Saucier.
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The Sprint Medley Relay team and alternates prior to the New Balance Indoor Nationals Rising Star competition. he team broke its own school record. Photo by Josh Welch/Woodstock Academy.
Woodstock Academy sophomore Olivia Aleman put together a strong individual performance at the New England Gymnastics championship Saturday.
She finished sixth in the All-Around with fifth-place finishes in the vault and in the floor exercise.
“She was a little nervous going into the competition, though. She was a little shaky to start. Bars wasn’t her normal but, overall, she did great and had such a great season,” said coach Kasey Tocchio. “She has to be proud of herself. I think she is ready to come back and be a leader next year. It was a good ending.”
Another good sign was that Aleman was able to stay, for the most part, injury free.
“She has those overuse and aches and pains like most gymnasts at this time of year but we really tried to balance her training this season and I think she did a really good job of listening to her body to get through it,” Tocchio said.
Freshman Julia Kerr was also scheduled to take part in the New England championship but an ankle injury suffered in practice following the State Open championship the week before sidelined her.
But Aleman wasn’t alone.
“It was a lot of fun (Saturday). There were five of them (from Deary’s Gymnastics), all wearing the same leotard in different colors. We had four of them competing in the All-Around which was kind of cool. They were a very good group so they got to hang out and cheer each other on and cheer on other kids from the state. Connecticut was like its own little team,” Tocchio said.
Indoor Track
Several members of the Woodstock boys’ indoor track program put together some fine performances this past weekend.
They just did so hundreds of miles apart.
Sunday senior Jared Eaton competed in the Nike Indoor Track Emerging Elite Nationals at the Armory in New York City.
Eaton put together a personal best 51-feet, 11 ¾-inches to medal in the shotput event as he brought home a fifth-place finish out of 32 competitors in the division.
“That was awesome, I had no idea that he would get that far up there.” said coach Josh Welch. “The improvement since the New England’s is really pretty impressive.”
Welch said Eaton fell about 6 inches shy of a school record.
“Just a little while ago, we were hoping he would just get near the 50-feet mark, qualifying for Nationals was a big leap, and he’s added a distance of four-to-five feet in the past couple of weeks alone. He’s had some throws in practice that, we didn’t measure, but we were sure were over 50 feet. To be able to deliver that, under pressure, at the Armory, with all those people and the competition that was there- he responded very well,” Welch said.
Earlier in the weekend, the sprint medley quartet of Braedon Emerson, Jeff Phongsa, Vince Bastura and Christian Menounos competed in Boston at the New Balance Indoor Nationals Rising Star competition.
The Centaurs bettered their own school record by more than 4 seconds on Friday, finishing the 1600m event in 3 minutes, 42.06 seconds, to place second in their heat and 25th out of the 55 teams who competed in the event. They were less than five seconds off the first-place finisher. Welch said it was a standing-room only crowd with people standing in the hallways and any area they could find but it didn’t faze his team.
Emerson started the Centaurs off on the right foot and Menounos put together an equally impressive finishing performance.
He flew through the first 200 meters in 22.8 seconds, well below the Woodstock Academy outdoor track school record, something Welch feels will be Emerson’s before the end of the spring season.
Menounos is likely to do the same in the 800-meter.
He finished the anchor leg in 1 minute, 59 seconds, which would also be an outdoor track record for the school.
Marc Allard
Director of Sports Information
The Woodstock Academy
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No one likes to fall behind with “things”. These “things” can be as simple as forgetting to dust off a bookshelf for a couple of months or as complex as deferring maintenance on your house.
“Things” can also include the piling up of household bills or paperwork. I mean, who wants to spend a Saturday morning sifting through updated insurance documents or filling out the US Census? I, like most people, tend to make a stack of these to-dos and tackle them only when I realize that NOT tackling them may bring about negative consequences. Plus, I, like most people, don’t always have the time to take care of everything that needs to be taken care of BEFORE it actually needs to (has to, MUST) be taken care of. As the paperwork pile grows and the dust collects, I soon realize that I feel badly that I have fallen behind and, therefore, need to catch-up on my to-do list. But what happens when we fall behind with our personal relationships?
In this post-COVID world, extended personal relationships, for many, seem to be in a perpetual state of catch-up. COVID lockdowns were long, and when we finally started to emerge, socially, most people focused on reconnecting and catching-up with family. For example, for me, Christmas of 2020 was a takeout menu and drive by schedule between each of my sisters and my parents. By Christmas 2021 we celebrated a new baby in the family and so we all took COVID tests, sanitized our hands and wore masks. It was only this past Christmas that it started to feel more like it always had been. And now, I am starting to feel that with some of my friends, I am in a place of needing to play catch-up. I recognize that I am busy with my studies and that I travel for extended periods of time, but I can no longer let my busyness be an excuse for deferring social connections with people that I care about. Simply stated, it is time to start catching-up with my friends!
However, I recognize that for many, this may not be so easy as it may feel disingenuous to suddenly suggest that you and your friend should immediately reinstate your monthly lunches. It may also feel challenging to call up your favorite group and invite them to dinner. BUT- who cares? They won’t because chances are, they may miss you and your regularly scheduled chats together just as much as you miss them. And once you reengage, you may not even remember that you even needed to focus on reengaging in the first place… Because regardless of the nature of the “thing” you fall behind with, it ALWAYS feels better when you can finally absolve yourself from FEELING burdened by having to play catch-up… HOWEVER, as I sit writing this column I do realize that there IS currently a pile of “things” that I actually enjoy playing catch-up on: My People magazines…
Gossip! Gossip!
Kathy Naumann, possessor of NATURALLY curly hair and the understanding that you can’t control everything!
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Town of Putnam
Inland Wetland Commission
Legal Notice
The Town of Putnam Inland Wetland Commission held a hybrid meeting on Wednesday March 8, 2023 at 7:00 P.M at the Municipal Complex in Community Room 201 located on the second floor. The following action was taken:
Application #2023-01 John M. Dean Co, LLC -Stormwater Drain Replacement - APPROVED
Adam Paquin, Chairman
March 16, 2023
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