Liquor store open
in E. Putnam
By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
PUTNAM --- It's more like Putnam picked him. Gary Trombley, owner of the newly opened Big Gary's Discount Liquors, said he got a call the owner of Wine Cellars Spirit Shop who asked if Trombley would be interested in buying his business.
Trombley bought the stock and permit from Dave Paguga and opened Big Gary's Discount Liquors on Rt. 44, next to Tractor Supply.
The 5,000-square-foot shop opened in mid April and Trombley said the response so far has been "tremendous."
He picked the Rt. 44 location in East Putnam because it was basically a need he saw for the area. "I saw a need for it in this area," he said.
Trombley said he's had many liquor stores including stores in Norwich and Griswold. He currently has the Putnam location and one in Uncasville.
"This is my 28th year being self employed," he said. This is the seventh store he said he's "built by hand."
"I'm very happy with the response in Putnam," he added.
Fund-raisers
Team Putnam Bank raised $1,161 for DKH Deary Memorial Cancer Fund April 27. The team held a yard sale and the community was very generous with their donations. The members of the yard sale team were Katie Kovacik, Co-Captain Tara Perron, Lynn Bourque, Joyce McOsker, Co-Captain Barbara Rasmussen, Cheryl Lewis and Olivia McOsker, the team mascot. Courtesy photo.
PUTNAM — The Board of Directors of the Citizens National Bancorp Inc. and The Citizens National Bank announce the election of a new chairman and vice chairman.
Elected chairman of both boards is Peter D. Deary. Deary became a director of the bank in September 2004 and recently served as its vice chairman. He is the president of Sunnyside Farms and Deary Bros., Inc. He is active in the community and is currently serving on the Quinebaug Valley Community College Foundation Board and the Board of Northeastern Connecticut Chamber of Commerce. He also chaired the Day Kimball Hospital Board from 2005 to 2008. Mr. Deary is the head deacon at the First Congregational Church of Pomfret. He and his wife, Kimberly, live in Abington.
Elected vice chairman of both boards is Kevin S. Shaw. Shaw has been a board member since 1999. He is the former owner of Shaw’s Office Center, in downtown Putnam for more than 50 years. Shaw is currently an active member of the Living Faith Methodist Church, director of The Putnam Cemetery Association, and director of the Putnam Baptist/Little Rivers Areas complex. A devoted grandfather, he and his wife, Linda, live in Woodstock.
Citizens National Bancorp Inc. is a one-bank holding company which owns The Citizens National Bank headquartered in Putnam, CT, with branch offices in Thompson, Woodstock, Killingly, and Brooklyn. The annual stockholders’ meeting for the holding company was held on April 23 at the Thompson Speedway in Thompson. The organizational meeting of the board was held immediately thereafter.
Cafe has new owner
PUTNAM — The cafe at the corner of Providence and Marshall streets reopened recently with a new owner and a new name.
Quiet Corner Cafe, owned by Adam Dowd, purchased the former Penny’s.
Dowd was most recently the executive chef of the Colonial Club Restaurant in Webster. That restaurant closed recently after 65 years.
Dowd began cooking in his youth making jelly rolls for his teachers and functions at St. Mary School. He started working at 15 as a dishwasher at the former Vernon Stiles Inn, then worked at State Line Restaurant and the Pub 99. He is a graduate of Tourtellotte Memorial HIgh School and lives in Thompson.
He features homemade potato chips, handcut French fries, homemade clam chowder and cole slaw and fish, desserts and the soup of the day and more.