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POMFRET CENTER --- After months of fund-gathering and construction, Pomfret is ready, Oct. 9, to welcome the newest member into its assertive open-space family.
The Airline Trail Pavilion and Informational Kiosk's grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 9. A guided trail walk is part of the ceremony.
The pavilion sits on the curve of Rt. 169, at Railroad Street.
Attendees include the state Department of Environmental Protection, town officials, the Connecticut Audubon Society and the Northeast Connecticut Council of Governments. The public is also welcome to the ceremony and light refreshments will be served.
The center, funded by a state Small Town Economic Assistance Program grant of $100,000, sits in the spot where the original Pomfret railroad station once stood. That station burned several years ago.
The town used the Northeast Connecticut Council of Governments’ engineering services for the site plan. The small brick center, with peaked roofs, was designed by architect Frank Dziki of Dziki Associates in Brooklyn. In addition, Rivers said, the town donated some services. The center’s location is in the center of everything in northeast Connecticut. It’s near the Airline Trail and the Wyndham Land Trust. The Connecticut Audubon Society at Pomfret Center’s 700-plus acres is nearby, as is the town’s original Town Hall, the Old Town House.
“It’s in the center of Pomfret and the center of the whole northeastern Connecticut area,” said Rivers.