25k pg 5 9-28-23
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$25,800+ raised
More than 250 motorcycle and car enthusiasts gathered together recently for the 19th Annual Cruisin’ for Cancer Care Motorcycle & Car Cruise to benefit the NE CT Cancer Fund of DKH and raised over $25,800 to provide crucial cancer-related screening and treatment support for the residents of northeastern Connecticut. Led by their fund-raising team, presenting sponsor SPIROL International and its employees raised over $6,500 for the event. Kristen Willis, director of Development at DKH, center, with event volunteers and members of SPIROL’s fundraising team, from left: Will Greene IV, Matthew Bartlett, Tara Meinck Swan and Nicole Caron.
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costumes pg 5 9-28-23
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PUTNAM — The Putnam Rotary Club’s Interact Club is now collecting new Halloween Costumes for TEEG at the Hale YMCA Youth and Family Center until Oct 13.
The Interact club meets every second and fourth Tuesday from September through May from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Putnam Public Library. For more information contact Advisor Roberta Rocchetti - 860-933-8603 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
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savings pg 5 9-28-23
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Loan Providers
From left: Ernie Muccio, Chief Credit officer; Michael Alberts, president and CEO; Marcus Rehbein, Commercial Loan officer; Mark Light, Senior Commercial Loan officer; John Couillard, Business Loan officer; Bill Couture, Commercial Loan officer.
JEWETT CITY — Jewett City Savings Bank has been ranked as one of the 50 fastest-growing commercial loan providers in Connecticut by the Commercial Record.
“Since our founding, Jewett City Savings Bank has focused on helping our neighbors achieve their goals, including their business dreams.
"We are honored to be recognized and are proud of our commercial lending team and all of the support they provide our community,” said Michael Alberts, president and CEO of Jewett City Savings Bank. This year, Jewett City Savings Bank was ranked ninth for Growth in Commercial Loan Volume and 18th for Growth in Number of Commercial Loans.
Using real estate data from the Warren Group’s public mortgage market share module, the Commercial Record calculates the list by comparing the number and volume of loans between the first six months of 2022 and 2023, and includes all loan providers operating in Connecticut.
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stone pg 5 9-28-23
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POMFRET — A program on stone walls will be presented from 7 to 8 p.m. Oct. 4 at the Connecticut Audubon Society Center on Day road. Admission is $5 for CAS members and $10 for nonmembers.
Registration requested. Call 860-928-4948.
Dry stone walls are the most noticeable features of the larger domain of stone objects that also includes cellar holes, cairns, piles, lines, scatters, and individual notable stones.
UConn professor of earth sciences and author, Dr. Robert Thorson will outline the history of our quintessentially New England fieldstone walls, provide several key clues to interpreting them, link them to modern habitats, and make recommendations for their conservation and management.
Thorson is the author of “Stone by Stone: The Magnificent History of New England Stone Walls,” the 2003 Connecticut Book Award winner for nonfiction, and “Exploring Stone Walls,” the first field guide to stone walls. We will be giving away one copy of the latter title. He coordinates The Stone Wall Initiative (https://stonewall.uconn.edu/) website, an online resource for those interested in the historic stone walls of New England.
Beginning with his field guide, Thorson has worked out a naming and classification system for relict stone walls. His thinking is that an objective tool and scientific approach to their study will lead to better documentation, inventorying, and environmental management. He suggests there are parallels between wetlands conservation and stone wall conservation.
If you have spent any time in the woods, you are more likely than not to have come across an old stone wall. Maps produced by aerial imaging systems, such as LiDAR (Light Direction and Ranging) which “look” through the forest canopy, reveal an abundance of them. They are indicative of early agricultural and industrial impacts on the landscape.
When European colonists first came to Connecticut, the land was heavily forested with huge chestnut, oak, and pine trees. By the mid-1800s, only 20 percent of the state was forested. The trees had been cut, and stone walls built to clear the land for agriculture and construction, pen livestock, and mark boundaries. For several reasons, in the second half of the 19th century, the cleared land was abandoned, and the forests and woods reclaimed it. Like pottery and tools, the walls remained as artifacts of times past.
CAS Northeast Corner Director Sarah Heminway said: “Our hope is this program helps to foster a deeper awareness of and appreciation for the many stone walls in our Quiet Corner towns.” At Trail Wood in Hampton, donated to CAS by Edwin Way Teale and Nellie, his wife, Edwin measured 5 miles of “stone fences” on the property. He wrote about them in his book, A Naturalist Buys an Old Farm. The best walls at Trail Wood are made of schist from the Hebron Gneiss formation, a stone that naturally splits into tablets and slabs and was especially good for capstones. Teale also considered the natural history of his stone walls – a hunting ground for long-tailed weasels, food storage for squirrels, a travel route for a red fox, shelter for a blue jay, homes for field mice...
While advocating for a scientific approach to their management, Thorson deeply appreciates the old stone walls for enhancing our lives and he hopes to see them conserved. When he moved to Connecticut, he came to understand “the … cultural bond between New England’s stone walls and its regional identity.” Thorson sums it up this way, “The soul of New England perches on a rock.”
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