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Legal Notice
Town of Pomfret
Planning and Zoning
Commission
Public Hearing
Notice
The Pomfret Planning & Zoning Commission will hold the following Public Hearing at its meeting on February 20, 2019, starting at 7:00 PM at the Old Town House:
1. Jonathan Ricciardelli, 469 Taft Pond Road — Special permit application for a dog boarding and training facility
A copy of the application is on file in the office of the Planning and Zoning Commission, 5 Haven Road, Pomfret Center, Connecticut. The file is available for review during normal business hours.

Town of Pomfret
Dated this 23rd day
of January 2019

Lynn L. Krajewski,
Clerk
Planning & Zoning Commission

Feb. 6, 2019
Feb. 13, 2019


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PUTNAM — A thrilling week this past week for the Putnam Science Academy Prep girls’ basketball team that started with the Lady Mustangs hosting the #1 ranked team in New England, Worcester Academy. As intimidating as the Worcester Academy’s #3 ranked player was, the Mustangs pulled out a 70-67 win.
Worcester Academy came into the game with a perfect 16-0 record.
The Mustangs, on the other hand, had been struggling.
Putnam Science found themselves on the losing end the game before to Tilton Academy, a long ride home from New Hampshire. It was the third loss in the last four games for the Mustangs but they knew they could turn it around.
“We had a chip on our shoulder with Worcester Academy coming to PSA.” said guard Fatima Lee. “We were the underdog on our home-court and it was a real wake-up call for a lot of us.” Lee and company responded forcing overtime and holding on for a 70-67 victory that saw Lee record a game-high 33 points and add 9 rebounds.
Niya Fields got it going in the 2nd half scoring 10 of her 13 points that saw a back-and= forth game come down to the wire. Providence commit Fatima Lee knocked down a 3-pointer with under a minute remaining from the wing and would knock down another 3-pointer from the same spot just 23 seconds later that would seal the win for PSA. Boston fouled out one minute into the extra period after scoring a team-high 24 points.
“Fatima is special and she’s not afraid to hit the big shot” said Head Coach Derek Marchione. “She’s been a huge part of our success as a program the last two years and being able to coach a player like her has been such a pleasure, I can’t wait to see her play at the next level.”
Josh Sanchas
Sports Information Director
Putnam Science Academy

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Forget about it.
“Leave the game at the rink, leave it in the locker room, don’t go home and think about it,” said Woodstock Academy boys’ ice hockey coach Kevin Bisson.
That was the message that Bisson left his team with following a 3-3 tie with the East Haven Co-op Feb. 9.
It was a game where Bisson said his team felt like it had lost and the Yellowjackets probably went home with the feeling like they had won after tying the game with just four seconds left in regulation and then surviving the overtime period.
“It was nice to get the tie versus the loss,” Bisson said. “It was nice to come away with something for a lot of hard work. Our mental toughness was tested early on. In a game where you’re not getting the calls or the breaks that you feel you should, it’s very easy to turtle and go away and I don’t think the guys did that.”
The Centaurs took the 1-0 lead when freshman Kyle Brennan scored the first of his two goals,
“Kyle came up big for us,” Bisson said.
Brennan scored his first on a tip re-direct, finishing a play in front of the net.
Brennan added a power-play goal in the third period.
Bisson credited the five guys on the ice for making that goal happen which tied the game at 2 in the third period.
Austen LeDonne put the Centaurs up 3-2 when a teammate took a hit to leave the puck for the junior.
“It was on his stick, off his stick, no stick-handling, right to slot and he ripped it right past the goalie to give us the lead. It was a major momentum swing with about a minute and a half left,” Bisson said.
Unfortunately, the Centaurs were whistled for a penalty with about 40 seconds left.
The Centaurs (12-4-1) cleared the defensive zone on the ensuing face off, but the officials called icing not realizing the Centaurs were shorthanded.
When the mistake was finally noted, the decision was to have a faceoff at center ice. The problem was the clock was stopped the whole time.
East Haven made use of those valuable seconds when it knotted the game with four seconds left in regulation.
The Centaurs dominated the eight-minute overtime.
The Yellowjackets had only two moments when they skated the puck out of their own end, relying instead on sending the puck the length of the ice where it was quickly brought back due to icing calls.
The Centaurs, however, couldn’t break through.
“It was chance, chance, chance and I can’t be upset with our guys when we have that level of zone time and pressure. You know that they are doing the right things, but you know what, sometimes you run into that goalie who can make those amazingly tough saves,” Bisson said.
The Centaurs were coming off a pretty interesting contest from Feb. 4.
The Centaurs battled for a 7-4 victory over the Suffield-Granby-Windsor Locks cooperative team on Feb. 4.
The game was played at a high pitch.
And for a team coming off their best effort of the season just two days before – a 7-3 win over Burrillville, R.I., — it didn’t take much to light the spark.
Sometimes that’s good, but in some cases, it can be costly.
The Centaurs were dominant early against the Wildcats.
Doug Newton scored just 1 minute, 21 seconds into the game off an assist from Connor Starr. The Centaurs then went up 2-0 with a short-handed goal by Matthew Odom off the first of three assists from LeDonne.
The Centaurs successfully fought off a 5-3 two-man advantage for the Wildcats in the period and limited them to just two shots.
The Centaurs put three goals in the net, but Suffield answered with two.
LeDonne and Newton also scored for the Centaurs in the second period. Suffield made it close when it scored 3 ½ minutes into the third period to once again reduce the deficit to two, 5-3.
But LeDonne notched what proved to be the game-winner when he put home his eighth goal of the season. Bisson said he, being a first-year head coach, didn’t know anyone coming in the door which means everyone had a clean slate. LeDonne has taken advantage of the fresh start.
Thibault didn’t have to wait long for his second career goal. It came with 8:18 left and gave the Centaurs the cushion they needed.
Their next game is 6:30 p.m. Saturday night at home against the Eastern Connecticut Eagles followed by a game on the road at the Housatonic Co-Op at 1:30 p.m. on President’s Day. They will then have another week-long break before the Nutmeg Conference playoffs.
Marc Allard
Sports Information Director
The Woodstock Academy

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The Woodstock Academy Centaurs Gold prep basketball team continued to rack up the wins last week.
The No. 2 team in the country in the 2ndtoNone prep basketball poll raised its record to 31-1 with a couple of victories this past weekend.
“So far, so good,” said Woodstock Academy Gold prep basketball coach Tony Bergeron. “The kids are playing well. A lot of the kids have committed to colleges, a lot of kids have traction. All of our early goals we have already achieved, now it’s just the conference tournament and nationals.”
Feb. 8, the Centaurs traveled to Granby, Mass., and posted an 88-66 win over MacDuffie School.
Tre Mitchell scored 26 points and pulled down 16 rebounds for the Centaurs in the win while Matt Cross added 17 and T.J. Weeks finished with 13.
Weeks was the high scorer Feb. 10 when the Centaurs went even further north.
The guard scored 27 points to lead the Gold to a 112-85 win over Lee Academy in the Frank Monahan Basketball Showcase at Bishop Brady HS in Concord, N.H.
The Centaurs hit 21 3-pointers in the game.
Mitchell again had a double-double in that contest with 20 points and 11 rebounds.
Earlier in the week and for the first time in almost a month, the Centaurs Gold Prep basketball team stepped on its home floor to play a game.

The Centaurs, in their first home game since Jan. 17, did just that against Hoosac School, handing the Owls a 101-58 loss at the Alumni Fieldhouse Feb. 6. The Centaurs, as per normal, jumped out to an early lead.
Fernandes, who led the team with 17 points, had a hand in the early advantage.
He hit a pair of 3’s in the first 1 ½ minutes of the game and Cross (14 points) added a pair of buckets to get the Centaurs out to a 10-0 lead.
Woodstock Academy extended its lead to 20-4 six minutes in before another normal occurrence took place.
The Centaurs let Hoosac School back into the game. The Owls outscored the Centaurs, 20-18, over the remainder of the half and Woodstock Academy went into the locker room with a 38-24 lead.
The Centaurs heard about it in the locker room and answered the bell, with some help from the Owls, at the beginning of the second half.
Hoosac School had one player foul out and another ejected in the first few minutes of the second half.
The Centaurs added the dagger with four 3-pointers in a minute and a half that expanded their lead to 26, 57-31.
“The scouting report was that they play really hard in the first half, but slow down in the second. We knew that. Coach Bergeron told us that (Tuesday) so we tried to jump on them early in the second half,” Fernandes said.
Weeks added 13 points and Jacob Toppin scored 10 for the Centaurs in the win.
7 in a row for Blue
The Woodstock Academy Blue prep basketball team had to fight hard Feb. 9 to raise its record to 23-7.
The Blue just got past New York International Academy, 74-73.
The Centaurs went up by 14 points in the second half, but began to struggle defensively.
The visitors took the lead with 10 seconds to play.
But Woodstock Academy wasn’t done yet.
Dyson Frank missed a shot as did Isaiah Jones on the rebound.
But John Korte was there and with two-tenths of a second left, he put it into the basket for the win.
“It wasn’t expected, but he tipped it in,” said Woodstock Academy Blue coach Nick DeFeo.
Frank finished with 13 while Jeff Planutis added 12 and Jones eight.
The Centaurs Blue team also traveled to West Point, N.Y., earlier in the week and captured a pair of victories over two Army Prep teams.
The Centaurs knocked off the JV team Feb. 4, 96-76, behind a 23-point effort by Kaleb Thornton. Frank added 15 in that contest and Ahmad Jeffries tossed in 15.
The Centaurs played the Army Prep varsity Feb. 5 and the result was almost identical, the Centaurs posted the 96-77 win.
Jeffries scored 20 in that game and Korte added 14.
“We kind of hit a rough patch before Christmas but when we got back from break, I thought we were refreshed, looked good in practice. It’s paid off. We’re 9-1 in 2019, we’ve been looking good.”
Marc Allard
Sports Information Director
The Woodstock Academy

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