Reval gears
up again
PUTNAM --- Rande Chmura, tax assessor, said the reval team is becoming active again. Letters are being mailed to real estate owners whose properties were not inspected last spring/summer.
The letters ask the owner to call and schedule an appointment for an interior inspection. These properties were visited twice, but no one was home to let them in. The window envelopes are printed with Tyler Technologies, c/o Putnam Assessor's Office, 126 Church St., Putnam, CT 06260.
According to the town's contract with Tyler, only 50 percent of all the parcels in Putnam will be inspected. The other 50 percent will be getting, in the next week or so, a "Data Mailer." This form lists certain items to be confirmed by the property owner such as number of bedrooms, bathrooms, room count, finished basement area. Owners will be asked to verify the information the town currently has on their property. If an owner receives a data mailer this year, they will not be inspected again until the next revaluation takes effect in 2019.
Chmura said plans are to mail the new assessment notices in November.
She urges anyone with questions or needing more information to call the Assessor's Office at 860-963-6802.
CorePlus installs
ATM at Backus
NORWICH — CorePlus Federal Credit Union has recently installed a full-service, 24-hour access ATM at the Backus Hospital’s main campus. It’s en route to the cafeteria, on the ground floor of the hospital’s A-Wing.
Members of other credit unions, including Hartford Healthcare Federal Credit Union, Charter Oak and Scient FCU’s, and others, are invited to use the machine to perform transactions, as if they were at their home credit union, through the CO-OP Shared Branching Network. Transactions are fee-free to CorePlus members, and ATM cardholders of other SUM Network participants.
The new ATM has advanced capabilities to perform complex transactions, such as envelope-free bulk cash and check deposits using Remote Deposit Capture, transfer funds between accounts, loan payments, and cash disbursement in $10 and $20 denominations. The ATM features the latest technology in counterfeit detection, will allow users to change their PIN for added security, and will print images of checks deposited on the member receipt.
CorePlus Federal Credit Union, founded in 1936, currently has 10 full service branches locally in Norwich, Taftville, Backus Hospital, Groton, East Lyme, Waterford, Plainfield and the recently opened Putnam and Brooklyn Walmart Supercenter branch offices.
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Honored
The Windham-Tolland County 4-H Foundation recently honored two volunteers. Left to right are: Louise Pempek, Foundation President Jane Rider, Sandra Ahola. Courtesy photo.
BROOKLYN — Two local volunteers were honored recently by the Windham County 4-H Foundation. Sandra Ahola and Louise Pempek received the newly created Founder’s Spirit Award for exemplary foundation volunteers who have gone “above and beyond” in their support of the foundation’s mission.
The announcement came from foundation president Jane Rider.
The 2014 camp season will be the 60th year that the camp has been in operation. Rider noted that it is a remarkable achievement for an all volunteer operated foundation to have been able to operate a business successfully for all of those years. 2014 will hopefully bring a very tangible symbol of that success as we plan to start our much needed lodge renovation project at the end of this camp year. The Founder’s Spirit Award was created to honor the work of members whose commitment to the organization exemplifies the spirit of those founding individuals.
Ahola and Pempek have served on the board for many years in a variety of capacities and Louise’s father, Loid Cutler was one of the Foundation’s original members. They were recognized for their service to the Foundation over the years, but especially in recognition of their fund-raising efforts for the lodge project
Officers elected include: Jane Rider, president; J. Marlies Thomen, vice president; Eileen Fritz, secretary and Sandra Ahola, treasurer. Rider said the support from state government, business leaders and private citizens in fund-raising for this project reflects the grass roots support that the Foundation has enjoyed from the very beginning when each of the 17 original Foundation members contributed both time and money and raised enough funds to buy the original 25 acres with a pond of what is now a 257-acre property and then proceeded to build the camp on mostly volunteer labor, much of it theirs.
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New Sat. hours
DAYVILLE — Charter Oak Federal Credit Union will offer Saturday lobby hours (9 a.m. to noon) at its Dayville Branch beginning Feb. 1.
“Our Dayville branch is one of the busiest in our network of 13 branches,” said Brian A. Orenstein, Charter Oak’s CEO. “Based on the continuing growth in transactions, it became very clear to us that we needed to offer Saturday lobby hours,” he said. Both the Dayville and Putnam Charter Oak branches will continue to offer Saturday drive-up services. Driveup hours on Saturdays are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Dayville and 9 a.m.to noon at the Putnam branch.