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Sophomore volleyball player Paula Hernandez was named to the Class L All-State team by the Connecticut High School Coaches Association and sophomore field hockey player Avery Jones was chosen for the Futures program in the sport.
Hernandez, despite coming to Woodstock Academy halfway through the season, guided the Centaurs to the Class L championship match where they lost to RHAM, 3-0.
It was the first state title match for the Centaurs since 1967.
Hernandez finished the season second on the team in kills with 295, had 212 digs and 154 service points with 48 aces.
“She’s a gamer,” Bottone said about the sophomore following the state championship match where Hernandez carried the team. “She’s all business, she’s serious and she knows how the game is played. She knows what we need to do to win and it’s good for the other girls to see that level of competitiveness and, hopefully, it will rub off even more next year.”
Woodstock Academy coach Lauren Gagnon said Jones’ acceptance into Futures will help her take her game to a new level.
According to USA Field Hockey, the Futures program allows athletes to sharpen their skills in the offseason, allowing them to work toward their dream of playing the sport at the next level.
Jones will take part in seven three-hour sessions and will have the opportunity to play her way into the Futures regional tournament which will take place in May at UMass-Lowell.
“Avery’s hard work and determination are truly starting to pay off. She stays after practice nearly every day to work on her skills and makes an effort to teach her peers whatever cool new hit or trick she is attempting to master. She can watch a skill once and have it mastered by the end of practice, having worked on it whenever she is waiting her turn for a drill or during water breaks,” Gagnon said.
Jones finished with five goals and six assists for the Centaurs this season.
Marc Allard
Sports Information Director
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The following charges were listed in the Putnam Police Department logs. The people charged are innocent until proven guilty in court. The Town Crier will publish dispositions of cases at the request of the accused. The dispositions must be accompanied by the proper documentation. The Putnam Police Department confidential Tip Line is 963-0000.
Nov. 7
Amy Desourdy, 31, Market Street, Thompson; operating under the influence, traveling too fast for conditions, failure to maintain proper lane.
Nov. 12
Jade Walker, 21, Farrow Street, Putnam; disorderly conduct, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia.
Anthony Falzone, 20, no certain address; third-degree conspiracy to commit robbery, criminal attempt to commit sale of narcotics, possession of narcotics, possession of drug paraphernalia, second-degree failure to appear.
Giuseppe Falzone, 56, no certain address; third-degree conspiracy to commit Robert, criminal attempt to commit sale of narcotics, possession of narcotics, possession of drug paraphernalia.
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Arrested for robbery
PUTNAM — A 35-year-old woman was arrested Nov. 16 after robbing the Price Chopper on Kennedy Drive, according to Putnam Police.
Nicole Taylor, 35, of no certain address, handed a note to the cashier about 3 a.m., demanding money from the cash register. She then ran out of the store and was pursued by the night manager who then called Putnam Police.
The Putnam Police found Taylor hiding in the bushes and took her into custody without incident.
She was charged with third-degree robbery, second-degree larceny and second-degree threatening.
Anyone with information relevant to this incident is asked to contact Sergeant Sezenias from the Putnam Police Department at 860-928-6565.
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KILLINGLY — A Danielson man was arrested on cocaine charges after a motor vehicle stop.
John Goyette, 46, of Broad Street, Danielson, was charged with possession of cocaine and possession of cocaine with intent to sell.
Nov. 15 members of the Troop D – Quality of Life Task Force conducted a motor vehicle stop on a black Mazda MX-5 for a motor vehicle violation (expired registration). During the interview, consent to search the vehicle was requested and granted. K9 Ambrie, a narcotic sniffing Labrador, strongly alerted to the Goyette’s waist band area. Police said Goyette admitted he had drugs in his pants and turned over a plastic bag containing approximately ¼ of an ounce of cocaine.
Members of the Connecticut State Police are committed to combating drug activity in the “Quiet Corner” and anyone with information regarding the illegal sale of narcotics are encouraged to call the Troop D QLTF anonymous Tips Hotline at 860-779-4950 or message the QLTF Facebook page.
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Scholarship Set
The Sarnowski family tour the college’s Advanced Manufacturing Technology Center. Back row, left to right: Walter Sargent, Bill Brower, Steve LaPointe (director of the Advanced Manufacturing Technology Center). Front: Sandy Sargent, President Carlee Drummer, Monique Wolanin (director of institutional advancement), Lois Brower. Courtesy photo.
DANIELSON — The Quinebaug Valley Community College Foundation recently announced that an endowed scholarship fund has been set up by a sister and brother to honor the memory of their father, his career in manufacturing, and his military service.
The John J. Sarnowski Memorial Scholarship is the gift of Lois Sarnowski Brower of Woodstock and her brother, Walter L. Sargent of Farmington. Their father, born in 1916 in Bridgeport was a graduate of New Britain Trade School. In 1940 he started work as a machinist at the Wallace Barnes Division of Associated Spring in Bristol. He enlisted in the Navy in 1942 and served as a machinist mate on the USS Shadwell, which was torpedoed in the Pacific Theater during WWII, but not destroyed. Upon his honorable discharge as a machinist mate 2nd class in 1944, he returned to Wallace Barnes, retiring in 1983 after 38 years with the company. He also served in his local Veterans Association and on various town committees.
“The two things that meant the most to my father, in addition to his family, were his military service and his job,” said Lois Brower. Walter Sargent remembers as a child going to machining events with his father. “He loved machines,” said Sargent, commenting that the current equipment in the college’s Advanced Manufacturing Technology Center were just being thought about in his father’s day.
“All three Sarnowski children spent their careers in the field of education,” said Monique Wolanin, director of institutional advancement at QVCC. “This endowment reflects their belief, as well as their father’s, in the importance of education. That is one reason why they decided to endow this with the QVCC Foundation, whose mission is to provide access to education,” she added.