DANIELSON — The Frog Rock Trio, a group of local musicians that performs acoustic rock, blues and folk music, will be featured at the evening Veterans Coffeehouse on the First Friday in December.
The evening Coffeehouse will meet at 7 p.m. Dec. 2 in Fellowship Hall at Westfield Congregational Church, corner of Main and Reynolds in Danielson.
Frog Rock Trio consists of Kevin Collins (ukulele, harmonica, percussion and vocals) and Jayne Collins (guitar and vocals), both of Woodstock, and Nanci Emmi (vocals) of Brooklyn. They are regulars on the eastern Connecticut and Rhode Island entertainment scene. Veterans and one guest will be welcomed. Several holiday tunes may also be part of the program.
Parking is available adjacent to Davis Park plus in the Key Bank parking lot across Main Street from the church.
The RSVP Veterans Coffeehouse, primarily funded by the Corporation for National and Community Service, provides resourceful and entertaining programs for veterans. Since opening in 2015 as the first RSVP Veterans Coffeehouse in Connecticut, this TVCCA program has served more than 260 individual veterans among a total attendance exceeding 1,000.
Please contact Greg Kline at TVCCA’s RSVP office in Killingly (860-774-9286) with questions about the Veterans Coffeehouse.
Christmas
Pierogi Sale
WEBSTER — St. Joseph Basilica Parish in Webster will be sponsoring a Pierogi Sale for Christmas. Orders for fresh, homemade, cabbage and cheese pierogis, made on the premises, are being taken until Dec. 5 with pickup from 2 to 5:30 p.m. Dec. 17 and from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Dec. 18.
Cost is $16 for a dozen, or $8 for half dozen. To order, call 508-943-0467.
PUTNAM — The Holiday Dazzle Light Parade committee has named former Brooklyn superintendent of schools Louise Berry, Ph.D., as this year’s parade grand marshal.
According to parade chairman Gary Osbrey, ’’The committee is proud to honor such a distinguished, longtime educator and role model who has served her community selflessly for decades.”
The 15th annual Holiday Dazzle Light Parade will step off at 5 p.m. Nov. 27 at the Grove Street monument
The parade will follow Grove Street merging right onto South Main Street, left on Front Street (through the center of downtown Putnam), right onto Kennedy Drive (at Cargill Falls) and will travel by Rotary Park and Riverfront Commons on Kennedy Drive taking a right onto Providence Street and will end at the Owen Tarr Sports Complex at the corner of Providence and School streets.
Rain date is Dec. 4.
Once again this year, the parade committee will present a “litter free parade”.
Before the parade begins, an army of volunteers from High Pointe Church in Thompson will hand out trash bags donated by The Last Green Valley. At the conclusion of the parade, volunteers will walk the parade route picking up trash bags from the crowd and depositing the bags into a town of Putnam Public Works truck.
Entry forms are available at WINY Radio, the Putnam Town Hall and online at www.winyradio.com. For more information, contact parade organizer and chairman, Gary Osbrey at 860-928-1350 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Then
This is the former Citizens National Bank branch in Putnam. The signs were changed this weekend and the branches are now known as bankHometown. Putnam Town Crier file photos.
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This is the branch today.
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