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Make your
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Grant available
Attention woodland landowners: Funding is available to improve your woodland habitat for important bird species and to manage your woods for wildlife and people. The Last Green Valley (TLGV), the MassConn Sustainable Forest Partnership (MassConn) and the Northern Rhode Island Conservation District (NRICD) are offering the next round of funding for woodland landowners to obtain forest management plans with bird habitat assessments.
The program is part of the $6.1 million Southern New England Heritage Forest conservation effort, an unprecedented three-state collaboration made possible through the Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) of the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). The NRCS funding is being matched, bringing the economic infusion into the region to $12.2 million.
A professional forester will walk your property and coordinate with the Audubon society in your state to produce a high-quality forest management plan with a bird habitat assessment of your woods. The plan will recommend measures you can take to improve the health of your woods. The plan will meet federal and state requirements and may be used to apply for property tax reductions at the local level (where applicable).
Grant funds are available to pay for most of the forester’s costs and to completely fund the bird habitat assessments. Landowners will be responsible for choosing a forester from an approved list and paying for a percentage of the total cost of the forest management plan.
This program is ideally suited for landowners who have never had a forest management plan and own more than 10 acres of woodlands.
Program requirements vary by state. To get started, contact the lead partner for your state. The partners can assist with the application process. The application deadline for Connecticut and Rhode Island is Dec. 17 but it’s recommended beginning the process early to ensure the application is complete before the deadline. Massachusetts is accepting applications on a rolling basis so you may apply at any time.
Visit www.thelastgreenvalley.org for links to the application materials, including a list of communities in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island that are included in this program.
Contacts:
For Connecticut Projects – Bill Reid, 860-774-3300, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
For Massachusetts Projects – Christopher Riely, 401-225-6135; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
For Rhode Island Projects – Marina Capraro, 401-934-0840, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Supporting partners for this project include: MA Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Providence Water, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, CT Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, Hull Forest Products, Thames River Basin Partnership, New England Forestry Foundation, Eastern CT Conservation District, Norcross Wildlife Foundation, RI Division of Forest Management, RI Woodland Partnership, Harvard Forest, Yale Sustaining Family Forests Institute, Audubon Connecticut, Mass Audubon and Audubon Rhode Island.
The Southern New England Heritage Forest is a 1.49 million-acre unfragmented forest corridor stretching along the Connecticut and Rhode Island border to the Quabbin Reservoir in Massachusetts. Bounded by more heavily urbanized areas, with more than one million nearby residents, the SNEHF has an astonishing 76 percent forest cover and offers one of the last viable wildlife corridors from southern to northern New England.
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For Putnam Science Academy men’s soccer player Adam Azman, the captain’s armband he wears can be a burden.
He is the team’s most talented player and one of its most demanding. But he is also one of the most humble on the roster and doesn’t want to be viewed as any different.
“To be honest I’m not a fan of it because it shouldn’t feel like one person is higher than the other. Everybody should want to take that responsibility and be a leader,” Azman said last week. “But when you are made a captain, you have to hold yourself to a higher standard. If you don’t take anything seriously and you’re messing about in training and your teammates see you doing that, they’re going to have the same attitude. So as a captain, I want to be, as much as I can, the example for everybody else and hold myself to a higher standard.”
A native of Selangor, Malaysia, the 18-year-old reported a few weeks late to campus in early September because he was called up to train with the U23 national team. PSA coach Ryan Dunnigan knew even before he got to campus that he was going to be one of his three captains.
“He’s just a really exciting, really talented, really good young man,” Dunnigan said. “He commands the game from the back and is really that final piece to the puzzle in terms of what we’re doing in the back.
“He’s someone who has high standards for himself and his teammates, and those feed into each other. Adam has been very good for us as we’ve started our season.”
Following a 0-0 draw with Woodstock Academy’s prep team on September 29 wasn’t a terrible outcome considering the strength of that Woodstock team. But for Azman, it wasn’t good enough.
“It’s a hard-fought game and I think people just naturally want to reward themselves with ‘I did well today.’ I think everybody likes to hear compliments,” said Azman, who credits his two brothers with sharpening his competitive spirit. “As a captain and as a brother to these guys, I want to hold them to the highest standard and push them to be the best they can be. I think we can only do that when we demand the most from each other and not be content with draws or losses.
“I don’t think anybody is perfect. I know I’m definitely not. I know I’m still learning. There are days where you’re going to have a bad game. Everyone has a bad game. The most important thing to do is push yourself to get better. If you make a bad play, do better the next play. If you make a bad pass, do better the next pass. If it’s a bad game, same thing. Always push to have the mindset that you can do better and then do it. Don’t let it get to you. I think that then having that mindset translates to how you play in the games, and the results will come from that.”
Azman sat and cheered on his teammates Friday afternoon in a 4-2 win over Indian Mountain School. He and most of the Mustangs’ regular starters didn’t play as IMS fielded a team of just ninth-graders. Leo Uren, Gustavo Melo, and Valentino Labella all scored in the second half to lead PSA to the win.
Tomas Melon, who along with Rafael Machado and Landon Pettigrew were named honorary captains for the game, tallied a goal in the first half for the Mustangs (2-0-1).
“This was a good opportunity for me to evaluate some of our players who normally don’t play as much,” Dunnigan said of his reserves playing the entire game. “We did some things well, some things we need to do better. But overall, I think it was good.”
Uren, who had only played a handful of minutes so far this season, scored in front off a feed from Melo.
“I saw him dribbling on the endline, it was an amazing play by Gustavo,” Uren said. “I asked for the ball and when he passed, I was like ‘I have to score this goal, I have to score this goal.’ I didn’t even see it go in but I heard everybody shouting so I ran to celebrate. It was good.”
By Stephen Nalbandian
Sports Information Director
Putnam Science Academy
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Choosing a bathroom stall to use in a public restroom is no easy task. This is true if you are a man or a woman and care about toilet cleanliness. It is not as if I expect that a public bathroom is going to maintain the same standard of cleaning that I perform in my own home, but I at least want to think that in some small way, cleaning happens rather than have it be ULTRA OBVIOUS, that it does not.
I would make this assumption if all the stalls from which I must choose, are, simply put, gross. However, more often than not, there are isolated stalls which are gross and some which are not, indicating that either cleaning happens with some regularity and select individuals are just gross, or cleaning happens infrequently, and most individuals tidy up after themselves. I’d like to think that it is a combination of both.
For example, consider an airport bathroom in the United States. Although I have not visited all of the airport bathroom across all of the airports in all of the USA, the public bathrooms in Boston will suffice as a generalized example. Given that I may consider my theory correct in that the bathroom is cleaned on a regular basis and there are a certain number of bathroom users who are tidy and a certain number who are not, when facing a long row of stalls, I often consider, how many doors do I have to try before finding the stall which was either just cleaned or just used by a tidy person?
Do I try the first stall and work my way down or do I start with the last stall and work my way up? I am a tidy bathroom goer so then I think, which one would I naturally be inclined to use; one in the middle? Unfortunately, I have not yet found the magic formula of bathroom stall selection which results in the fewest door tries. Perhaps, this is because when I find that one end of the row of stalls is consistently cleaner than the other end, there seem to be shortages of toilet paper in these stalls, rendering use of them, tricky for another set of reasons…
Since I cannot control the cleaning frequency of public bathrooms, I would rather use this space as a forum to make a plea to untidy bathroom goers so that they may become tidier. Please, I would implore you to remember that this is a public bathroom. If you want to have a dirty bathroom, do it at home. Aim for the toilet and don’t throw your trash in it. When you are finished, maybe consider wiping up after yourself, or at a minimum, press the flush button. Or wave your hand in front of it. Or simply pull the lever! Whatever and however it is, try to leave no trace of evidence that you were there because I don’t like having to try 6 or 8 stall doors before I find one that I can use!
Ugh! Ugh!
Kathy Naumann, possessor of NATURALLY curly hair and the understanding that you can’t control everything!
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Legal Notice
Public Hearing
Notice
Town of Pomfret
PLANNING AND
ZONING
COMMISSION
The Pomfret Planningtac & Zoning Commission will hold the following Public Hearings at its in-person meeting on October 20, 2021, starting at 7:00 PM.
1. Town of Pomfret Planning & Zoning Commission, 5 Haven Road, text amendment to the regulations regarding Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs), with possible action
A copy of the application is on file in the office of the Planning and Zoning Commission, 5 Haven Road, Pomfret Center, Connecticut. A copy of the file will be posted with the agenda on the Town website.
Town of Pomfret
Dated this 4th day
of October 2021
Lynn L. Krajewski,
Clerk
Planning & Zoning Commission
Oct. 6, 2021
Oct. 13, 2021
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