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State poet laureate to read poems
PUTNAM — At 1:30 p.m. April 20 Antoinette Brim-Bell, Connecticut’s Poet Laureate, will read her poems in celebration of National Poetry Month at the Putnam Public Library.
Brim-Bell, the state’s eighth laureate and a Cave Canem fellow, is a poet, printmaker, and author of These Women You Gave Me, Icarus in Love, and Psalm of the Sunflower. Her work has been featured in various journals and magazines and has appeared in numerous anthologies including the Whiskey of our Discontent, an anthology of essays commemorating poet Gwendolyn Brooks. Her greatest aspiration is for connections and collaborations between poets across the state, for diverse populations to come together to share their poetic stories, and for poets, visual artists, musicians, and stage performers to engage in poetic expression.
In addition to her literary accomplishments, she hosted a series of Black History Month television programs for the OneWorld Progressive Institute and is a former guest host of Patrick Oliver’s Literary Nation Talk Radio (KABF 88.3, Little Rock) for which she interviewed a variety of entertainers, literary figures, political pundits and community developers. She is a professor of English at Capital Community College in downtown Hartford.

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Legal Notice
Pomfret Board of Finance
PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE
APRIL 25, 2024 @ 6:30 PM
Pomfret Community
School Cafeteria

The Pomfret Board of Finance will hold a Public Hearing on Thursday, April 25th at 6:30 PM in the Pomfret Community School Cafeteria, 20 Pomfret Street, Pomfret, CT.  The purpose of said hearing will be to receive public comment on the proposed FY 2024-2025 General Government Budget and Education Budget.  SPECIAL MEETING FOLLOWING PUBLIC HEARING.

Town of Pomfret
Dated this 8th day
of April 2024

Lynn L. Krajewski,
Clerk
Board of Finance

April 17, 2024
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Putnam Elementary/Middle
Monday: Orange popcorn chicken rice bowl, broccoli. Tuesday: Pasta, meatsauce, harvest medley, fruit. Wednesday - Wolf Meal: Beef  burger with cheese, sherbet. Thursday: Chicken nuggets, broccoli, fruit. Friday: Pizza, salad.
Putnam High
Monday: Macaroni and cheese with pulled pork or spicy chicken sandwich. Tuesday: Mozzarella sticks, marinara sauce or bacon cheeseburger. Wednesday: Nachos Grande or chicken Caesar wrap. Thursday: Buffalo chicken tenders or "Wild Mike's" cheese bites. Friday: Pizza or chicken tender fry basket.
Woodstock Public Schools
Every day: Fruit. Monday: Chicken patties on buns, celery sticks. Tuesday: Bosco stix, marinara sauce. Wednesday: Chicken nuggets, dipping sauce, brown rice, black beans. Thursday: Cheeseburgers, carrot sticks. Friday: Pizza, corn.
Pomfret Community
Every day: Sloppy Joes, Yogurt fun Lunch. Sunbutter & Jelly. Monday: Cheese quesadilla. Tuesday: Walking Tacos, black beans. Wednesday: Spicy or plain chicken patties, carrots. Thursday: Popcorn chicken bowls, green beans. Friday: Stuffed-crust pizza, salad.

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Trash plan bears down on May 1 changeover

By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
PUTNAM — Fast and furious. Might be the name of a movie, but in Putnam it’s the speed with which the new Casella Waste trash program is shaking out.
Delivery of the bins to eligible residential households started April 15. By lunchtime April 15 some 500 bins had already been delivered.
Michael Saucier, president of Waste Support Systems of Windham, N.H., said he believes all the bins will be delivered to eligible residents by Friday.
His company was at the old armory building today with thousands of bins. Workers took the two wheels and the axle out of each bin and attached them to the bottom of the bin. Then they put a Casella brochure on how the system works inside each bin.
There are 4,500 95-gallon bins and 500 65-gallon bins. The 95-gallon bin count includes the 95-gallon recycling bins.
Each bin has a serial number on it and that number is assigned, in the computer, to a specific resident. The order that Waste Support Systems delivers bins this week is determined by a computer.
Beginning May 1 residents are asked to use their trash stickers on the garbage bag inside the new bin. Casella Waste will begin May 1 collecting trash using automated side arm trucks; therefore, no bags with stickers alongside the trash can nor any trash in “regular” trash cans of folks who are not signed up for the new program will be collected,
As of July 1, the changeover will be complete and there will be no stickers.
The “overlap” of using the stickers on trash bags in the new bins is to help pay for the bins and service before the bills for the new bins go out with tax bills in June, according to officials.
The town will be in charge of the data base and payment collection. Casella will be in charge of service concerns.
At an informational meeting, Marc Morgan of Casella said the company has an app that will tell you when the next collection day is (trash and recycling). He said the app allows for setting notifications (i.e. “a text the day before reminding you to put your trash out.”). The app can also notify of holiday or weather-related changes to pick up — “if there’s trees down or a bridge out, etc.” And the app is easily updated.
That app has already been fired up. Check the Google Play Store for “Recycle Better with Casella” with a Casella logo (dark blue and white). It already has schedules for trash collection (once a week) and recycling collection (every other week). It will also remind you about a change in schedule because of a holiday.

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