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Graduate
With the banners of the fieldhouse behind her, a Woodstock Academy graduate listens to the Manchester Pipe Band bagpipers and drummers play. More photos on page 6. Linda Lemmon photo.
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Graduation in the rain: Mackenzie Feen, top right and Rachelle Tomlinson, right.
'Make a
difference'
By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
WOODSTOCK --- Class President Matthew Rich called on his classmates to make a difference at the Woodstock Academy commencement June 21, 2015.
"Continue to challenge the old way of thinking," he said. And as a final challenge to classmates, he quoted David Frost, saying "Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally."
The members of the Class of 1965, celebrating their reunion, were welcomed.
Jenna Scout Haines, winner of the Kathryn Robertson Essay Award, read her essay "The Hidden Curriculum: What Books Couldn't Teach Us."
The winners of the Yale Honor Cups were Elizabeth Redfield and Ryan Heilemann.
Winners of the Williams Scholarships include Haines, Redfield, Heilemann, Rich, Canyon Hopkins, Vishal Cherian and Hunter Malboeuf.
Graduates include:
Brooklyn:
Reinert Angle, Erin Bagdoian, Elaina Becher, Haley Bessette, Alison Brennan, Nicole Cadro, Joseph Carbone V, Sara Chagnot, Vishal Cherian, Alec Clark, Christopher D’Aiello, Jacqueline Deary, Nicolette Deary, Samantha Demers, Ryan DeOliveira, Shane Eccleston, Shelby Eccleston, Lauren Evans, Shelby Fundin, Tiana Gagnon, Nicholas Gosselin, Michaela Green, Jenna Haines, Ryan Heilemann, Canyon Hopkins, Elizabeth Hoyt, Zachary Jean, Adam Jordan, Andrew Kausch, Briana Kowolenko, Meghan Labbe, Nicolas LaBossiere, Vinya Lamb, Angelique LaPrade, Noah Lehoux, Benjamin Lombardi, Eli Majek, Angelise Martin, Sara Miner, Kayla Munger, Sean O’Brien, Terria Phaneuf, Abigail Robichaud, Avery Rollins, Thapnigon Saengsouriyheth, Dajana Sejdiraj, Julia Shimer, Christopher Silvestro, Justin Skellett, Angelina Smith, Morgan Sorel, Harley Spring, Abigail Stevens, Maxwell Swenson, Lindsey Taylor, Elizabeth Williamson, Lindsey Young.
Canterbury:
Trent Appleton, Nicole Benoit, Courtney Bergman, Adam Blonshine, Jane Bodinger, Denis Bouchard, Evan Bright, Peter Button, Jordan Corey, Annette Costanzo, Holden Cote, Graysen DeLuca, Matthew Gignac, Linzee Glennon, Matthew Hare, Trevor Labbe, Angie LaFlamme, Jessica Lehtonen, Taylor Littell, Olivia Lyon, Abigail Mares, Abbey Marsalisi, MacArthur Roy, Samantha Sherman, Mishel Wight.
Danielson:
Ashley LeBeau
Dudley: Emma Howe
Eastford:
Jason AlbrechtAlexander Aleszczyk, Isabella Belanger, Rebekah Budd, Caitlyn Chapman, Jonathan Espada, Sierra Goodwin, Peter Howard, Kyle Lingard, Kiana Percy, Jordan Phaneuf, Melanie Phaneuf, Kara Singleton, Sarah Torcellini, Kyle Tyler, Daniel Whittenburg, Abigail Willis.
Pomfret:
Miranda Apicelli, Megan Bastow, Shaina Blain, Natalie Bourque, Ian Burgess, Daniel Butkevich, Abigail Catsam, Evan Clarke, Rosaleen Donovan, Anna Fagan, Sarah Haberbosch, Amythest Hamby, Conor Hanlon, Dylan Hearn, Mary Incera, Kelsie Iturrino, Tyler King, Nicholas Kowalchuk, Jamie Kristal, Max Logan, Anthony Lukas, Christopher Martin, Jose Trinidad Martinez, Grayson McCarthy, Nathan McCourt, Elena McCusker, Joseph Minard, Max Mullin, Abigail Murren, Kerri Palmer, Jeffrey Perry, Crystelle Ranhoff, Nicholas Rogerson, James Rowley, Claire Sconzo, Seth Semmelrock, Mikayla Sheldon, Oliver Simon, Kayla Slayton, Colleen Topliff, Kevin Vernon Jr., Avery Warford, Katelyn Wedegis, Kendall Wilcox, Mary Wishart.
David Bohanan, Sutton, Mass.
Union:
Christopher Fahey, Stacy Rickey, Jennifer Zeiger.
Woodstock:
Nicholas Alberini, Cleo Alberts, Kaitlyn Baron, Jacob Beaudry, Austin Beaupre, Paige Belhumeur, Patrick Berk, Dylan Berridge, Jacob Blain, Luke Blodgett, Rachel Bober, Justin Bouten, Lee Boyd, Katelyn Brady, Ariana Bunker, Courtney Butts, Tori Butts, Adam Converse, Alexander Corden, Gavin Corey, Shannon Creedon, Jacob Cremers, Austin Dean, Jordan Deary, Marina Defocy, Alexis Dehler, Sarah Douglas, Jasmine Dubois, Violet Dussault, Zachary Enderle, Marco Epifani, Haley Farley, Mackenzie Feen, Corlis Fraga, Madison Frost, Ryan Gadoury, Taylor Gilbert, Kacey Gilchrist, Amanda Goddard, Vincent Goernert, Paisley Gothreau, Kaeleigh Gould, Galina Gruder, Anna Grudzinski, Cameron Hartland, Lucas Hoffower, Megan Houlihan, Warren Johnson, James Jordan, Stone Jurczyk, Benjamin LaFleche, Cody Lajoie, Edward Lanzoni, Daniel Larson, Dmitri Larson, Jared Latour, Zoe LaVergne, Alexis LiDonde, Riana Lincoln, Jessica Madden, Hannah Mainhart, Hunter Malboeuf, Andrew Mancini, Evert McKee III, Christopher Melville, Rebecca Messier, Tess Migliaccio, William Minkema, Aemilia Mullin, Shealyn Musumeci, Bailey Napierata, Jeffery Neely, Weston Ogle, Sarah Oleksiak, Jacquelyn Orlowski, Veronica Phillips, Adam Piche, Benjamin Piche, Jacqueline Pillo, Shannon Place, Courtney Pollock, Elizabeth Redfield, Morgan Reynolds, Matthew Rich, Allison Rosaci, Nicholas Roush, Jeremy Roy, Marissa Roy, Chelsea Rush, Patrick Salisbury, Asa Scranton, Kelsey Seabold, Zu En Seow, Annabel Shackett, Conrad Sheldon, Colin Sheldon, Paul Sivertsen Jr., Seline Smith, Michaela Solitro, Roosevelt Sowka, Ashton Stephens, Roger Stohlberg, Quinlan Taylor, Rachelle Tomlinson, Marcus Trudeau, Nicholas Waterhouse, Jamie Wildgoose, Paige Willard, Nicholas Wolslegel, Zackery Wood, Sawyer Woodland, Nicholas Wootton.
International:
Weigang Cao, Shashwat Chaudhari, Huayu Chen, Lu Chen, Kehua Chen, Liyi Dai, Hongrui Deng, Yirou Fan Fan, Zongheng Anberlin Fu, Jiawei Huang, Chen Jiang, Hao Li, Sitong Liu, Wenshan Meng, Junda Mu, Zhiqi Tang, Zifeng Wang, Qian Wang, Lan Wei, Kexin Xu, Jiaying Xue, Yichun Yang, Xinyin Zhang, Xianyi Zhao, Zijian Zhu.
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American
Legion action
heats up
By Ron P. Coderre
High school graduations and the entire hullabaloo that’s associated with Pomp and Circumstance has run its course and the boys of summer in American Legion Baseball are now swinging into serious action.
Moosup and Danielson engaged in a weekend series, the first time this season that two locals faced off. It was a full week for both teams with five games on the slate. Danielson went 2-3 on the week, while Moosup reversed those numbers, going 3-2.
TriTown engaged in a three game series with Waterford, playing a doubleheader on the road and a Sunday singleton in Thompson was washed out by the weatherman. The Towners faced Jewett City earlier in the week, splitting a pair of games. On the week TT was 1-3.
In the first two weeks of play, Moosup is the only area team in the top of the standings, solidly in third place in the 10-team Zone VI. TriTown and Danielson are below the .500 mark.
TriTown Searching for Its Identity
TriTown baseball composed of players from four different schools is still searching for consistency as coach John Foucault and his staff attempts to put the pieces of the puzzle together.
There was a glimmer of hope in the second game of a two-game series against Jewett City , when Ryan Gadoury threw a complete game one-hitter at the JC crew. Gadoury, who is headed to Assumption College in September, disposed of Jewett City 7-2. The lone hit was a scratch single of the infield variety in the first inning.
Gadoury received offensive support from second baseman Benny Brissette who smashed a three-run home run. Brissette along with Zach Cutler and Nick Foucault each had two hits in the nine-hit TriTown attack.
In the first game of the series, Jewett City pitching stymied the TriTown bats, completely shutting them down 7-0. Brissette with two hits was the lone bright spot.
In a doubleheader against Waterford on the road the Towners dropped a pair 3-1 and 9-0. Josh Allard pitched a whale of a game in the opener but his mates were only able to tally a single run. Allard and Brissette each had two hits in the loss. In the second game TriTown was limited to one hit, while Waterford pounded the Towners for 13 hits. TriTown is 2-5 entering the third week of the season.
Moosup – Danielson Split Weekend DH
Moosup and Danielson engaged in a twinbill on Saturday in Plainfield with each team walking away with a victory. Moosup came back from a 5-0 deficit to capture the first game 9-5 as Jordan Federer weathered early pitching woes to go the distance for the win. Jason Biesiadecki drove home three runs for Post #91 and Dylan Horn scored a pair in the win.
In the second game Drew Daley went the distance stemming the Moosup bats in a 6-3 victory. Charlie Innes was the hitting star for Danielson as he was 3-for-4 at the plate.
Danielson started its week with a three-game series against Norwich and dropped two-of-three. Norwich captured the first two games of the series 7-0 and 2-1 before Danielson bounced back with a 6-5 victory that went eight innings before the outcome was decided.
In the win, Tre Belanger, who’s been knocking the cover off the ball all spring, drove in the winning run with a walk-off single in the extra frame. Kolby Reggione had three hits and Innes had a pair of hits for Danielson.
Cory Sipos was the hard luck loser in the first game of the series. The Danielson offense continued to sputter in the next game when it was only able to produce a single run off Norwich pitching. Danielson is 3-5 on the season.
Moosup won the opening and closing games of its three-game series with Willimantic. Post #91 rode the pitching of Mike Esposito in the 5-2 victory. David Carpenter, who was 3-for-3 with three runs-batted-in, was the main offensive weapon for Moosup.
Carpenter took the hill in the final game and emerged a 6-1 victor with a complete game performance. He allowed five hits while setting down eight Willi batters via the strike out route. Federer had a pair of doubles and scored two runs for Moosup. Sandwiched in between the victories was a 5-0 shutout loss to Willimantic. Moosup is 5-3 in the early going.
TriTown Jrs. Dropped by Jewett City
The TriTown Jr. Team at 3-3 on the season lost its only game of the week 4-2 to Jewett City. The Towners Jacob Brule went 5 2/3 innings in the loss.
Scholarship Winners
The Putnam Rotary Club recently awarded scholarships. Front row, left is Rande Chmura, Rotary president. Winners include: Jennifer Zeiger (Woodstock Academy), Maurice Beaulac Scholarship; Allison Tupaj (Tourtellotte); Haylee Olson (Tourtellotte); Lynsay Dashnaw (Putnam High) Raymond Brousseau Scholarship; Vladimer Krivosheev (Putnam High) Vie and Ray Brousseau Scholarship; Zoe LaVergne (Woodstock Academy); Shealyn Musumeci (Woodstock Academy); Milica Sari (Putnam High); Mikayla Van Dam (Putnam High) Leon Archambault Scholarship; Quinlan P. Taylor (Woodstock Academy); Jacob Guertin (Putnam High); Mariela Kridzelis (Putnam High) John O'Brien Scholarship; Christopher Dundon (Putnam High). Not pictured: Sarah Oleksiak (Woodstock Academy). Linda Lemmon photo.
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.
June 8
Jazmine Tyler, 22, Memory Lane, Westerly; second-degree failure to appear.
June 9
Christopher Doty, 46, Powhattan Street, Putnam; violation of probation.
June 12
David Labeck, 23, Chapman Street, Putnam; possession of a controlled substance.
Brad Krasnecky, 25, Woodstock Avenue, Putnam; third-degree assault, breach of peace.
June 13
Thomas Bisson, 28, no certain address; two counts of possession of narcotics, possession of drug paraphernalia.