Legal Notice - LEGAL WARNING
November 8, 2022 State Election
The Electors of the Town of Eastford are hereby warned to meet at their respective polling places in said town on Tuesday, November 8, 2022, for the following purposes:
I. To cast their votes for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, United States Senator, Representative in Congress, State Senator, State Representative, Secretary of the State, Treasurer, Comptroller, Attorney General, Judge of Probate, and Registrar of Voters.
II. To vote on the following question for the approval or disapproval of a proposed AMENDMENT to the Constitution of Connecticut, a vote of “YES” being a vote for approval, and a vote of “NO” being a vote for disapproval:
1. Shall the Constitution of the State be amended to permit the General Assembly to provide for early voting?
¿Debe enmendarse la Constitución del Estado para que la Asamblea General pueda facilitar el voto anticipado?
The full text of such proposed question with explanatory text, printed in accordance with Sec. 2-30a of the General Statutes, is available at the Town Clerk’s Office for public distribution.
The vote on the proposed question is taken pursuant to the Constitution of Connecticut.
Notice is hereby given that the location of the polling place is as follows:
Lower Level of the Eastford Town Office Building, 16 Westford Road, Eastford, CT  06242
Absentee Ballots are available as provided by law in the Office of the Town Clerk.
The Election Day Registration (EDR) location is the Lower Level of the Eastford Town Office Building, Office of the Registrars, 16 Westford Road, Eastford, CT  06242, open between the hours of six o’clock in the morning (6:00 a.m.) until eight o’clock in the evening (8:00 p.m.).
Voting tabulators will be used.  The polls will be opened at six o’clock in the morning (6:00 a.m.) and will remain open until eight o’clock in the evening (8:00 p.m.).

Dated at Eastford, Connecticut,
This 19th day  of October, 2022.
Johanna H. Wolfe,
Town Clerk
Town of Eastford
Oct. 27, 2022

Legal Notice
Town of Pomfret
NOVEMBER 8, 2022, STATE ELECTION
The Electors of the TOWN OF POMFRET are hereby warned to meet at their respective polling place in said town on Tuesday, November 8, 2022, for the following purposes:
I. To cast their votes for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, United States Senator, Representative in Congress, State Senator, State Representative, Secretary of the State, Treasurer, Comptroller, Attorney General, and Judge of Probate
II. To vote on the following question for the approval of disapproval of a proposed AMENDMENT to the Constitution of Connecticut, a vote of “YES” being a vote for approval, and a vote of “NO” being a vote of disapproval:
1. Shall  the Constitution of the State be amended to permit the General Assembly to provide for early voting?
The full test of such proposed question with explanatory text, printed in accordance with Sec. 2-30a of the General Statutes, is available at the town clerk’s office for public distribution.
The vote on the proposed question is taken pursuant to the Constitution of Connecticut.
Notice is hereby given that the location of the polling places is as follows:
Location of Polling Place: Pomfret Community School Auditorium, 20 Pomfret Street, Pomfret, CT
Voting tabulators will be used.  The polls will be opened at six o’clock in the morning (6:00 a.m.) and will remain open until eight o’clock in the evening (8:00 p.m.).
EDR (Election Day Registration and Voting) Location: Pomfret Town Hall, 5 Haven Road, Pomfret, CT
EDR Voting will be opened at six o’clock in the morning (6:00 a.m.) and will remain open until eight o’clock in the evening  (8:00 p.m.)
Absentee Ballots will be counted at the following central location: Pomfret Town Hall, 5 Haven Road, Pomfret CT
Dated at Pomfret,  Connecticut,
this 24th day of October 2022.
Cheryl A. Grist,
Town Clerk
Town of Pomfret
Oct. 27, 2022

Legal Notice
NOVEMBER 8, 2022  STATE ELECTION
The Electors of the Town of Putnam are hereby warned to meet at their respective polling places in said town on Tuesday, November 8, 2022, for the following purposes:
I.  To cast their votes for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, United States Senator, Representative in Congress, State Senator, State Representative, Secretary of the State, Treasurer, Comptroller, Attorney General, and Judge of Probate.
II. To vote on the following question for the approval or disapproval of a proposed AMENDMENT to the Constitution of Connecticut, a vote of “YES” being a vote for approval, and a vote of “NO” being a vote for disapproval:
1.  Shall the Constitution of the State be amended to permit the General Assembly to provide for early voting?
The full text of such proposed question with explanatory text, printed in accordance with  Sec. 2-30a of the General Statutes, is available at the town clerk’s office for public distribution.
The vote on the proposed question is taken pursuant to the Constitution of Connecticut.
Notice is hereby given that the location of the polling places, Election Day Registration (EDR) and Absentee Ballot Central Counting (if different from the polling place) is as follows:
PUTNAM:    District 1 - Municipal Complex, 200 School St., Putnam, CT
        District 2 - Municipal Complex, 200 School St., Putnam, CT
        EDR location:  Municipal Complex, 200 School St., Putnam, CT
Voting tabulators will be used.  The polls will be opened at six o’clock in the morning (6:00 a.m.) and will remain open until eight o’clock in the evening (8:00 p.m.)
Dated the 24th day of October, 2022.
Christine M. Bright, Putnam Town Clerk
Oct. 27, 2022

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One of the biggest advantages to getting older is that you gain knowledge from your experiences that you want to pass along to others. This makes perfect sense because when you do something once, you are (typically) better at it when you do it again and again and again. As humans, we start learning from our experiences as babies and will eventually figure out that holding the bucket upright will keep the water in until we are ready to pour it out. But there are many things in life that we might only learn how to do when someone else shows us, such as riding a bike, driving a car or … flying a kite!
Recently, we visited the North Sea and had the real pleasure, on a pleasantly warm-ish, sunny and breezy day, to sit and sip tea while watching people walk by and families enjoy the beach. This is when we noticed a young couple with their young child (maybe 4 years old) who were trying to fly a kite. The child was bouncy and playful while mom kept an eye on him as dad focused on the kite string. It struck both of us as a bit odd that dad was so focused on the kite string that we, at first, thought he must be getting out a knot or maybe the string broke and he was tying it together? It was only after several long minutes of watching dad that we realized that there was neither a knot nor a broken strand which was consuming his focus, but rather a lack of kite flying knowledge in general. We arrived at this conclusion after witnessing dad fling the kite into the air only to have it immediately fall to the ground. He repeated this procedure 2 or 3 more times until he settled into the original string investigation stance we observed. What was that all about? Did he think the string was faulty? I mean, doesn’t everybody know that to get a kite in the air you either need to run with it and slowly let the wind get hold of it or have another person (a distance away) let it go? After about 10 minutes, mom, growing tired of watching their ‘moving on to other activities’ child, took over the kite flying duties. We both figured that certainly mom would know how to fly a kite. Right? That is until we saw her performance. It was even worse than dad’s as she tried, with all her uncoordinated might, to throw the kite into the air, for more than 15 minutes. It was then that I had to refrain my husband from getting up, going over and showing the family how to actually fly a kite.
I refrained my husband for two reasons: I didn’t want him to diminish the parents’ abilities in front of the child and I was hopeful that the parents would work to solve their problem on their own. It was clear that perhaps no one had ever showed them how to fly a kite, but it was also clear that they both had cell phones and could have simply looked on the internet to see how to do it. In the end, my only hope was that, in the absence of having someone show them how to do it, they would, on another windy day, try again…
Run! Run!
Kathy Naumann, possessor of NATURALLY curly hair and the understanding that you can’t control everything!

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Bugler Tyler Eddy and two members of the American Legion Post 13 color guard pause at the end of the Beirut Barracks Bombing remembrance ceremony Oct. 23 in the Veterans Memorial Park in Putnam. Linda Lemmon photos.


Christopher Steinbrick places a white rose at the memorial wreath as one of the six Connecticut servicemen killed in Beirut in 1983 is read.



By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
PUTNAM — Ten years ago, as Kat Voght was walking 200 miles in remembrance of those American soldiers lost in the Beirut Barracks bombing in 1983, it occurred to her that “no one was walking.”
Voght decided she needed to do something. It didn’t deserve to be forgotten.
She asked Willie Bousquet, director of the town’s Parks and Recreation Department, for advice. He thought some sort of remembrance was a great idea and connected her with the late Don Steinbrick. “I remember walking away (after talking with Steinbrick) and thinking ‘he’s cranky and a curmudgeon’ but he was wholeheartedly behind the idea. We became fast friends,” she said. The late Richard Tremblay was also a huge help. She called them “guardian angels on my shoulder.”
Initially, 10 years ago, the remembrance was a candlelight vigil at Rotary Park. She said the American Legion Post 13 and others have taken up the ceremony which is now a solemn event at the town’s Veterans Memorial Park on Bridge Street.
“It’s not just a remembrance but an education,” she said. The bombing killed 241 and wounded 150 other Americans. “It was the single largest attack on our military since Iwo Jima,” she added. She said she asked her son, Marine Robert Voght 2nd, if he knew about the bombing from school. His answer was no. It’s not taught in schools. He learned about it in Marine training.
Steinbrick’s son, Christopher, picked up the gauntlet, spearheading this year’s ceremony. Because he had the flu, Ronald P. Coderre stepped in as emcee and read Christopher’s speech. Veterans from Putnam read all 241 names and when they read of the six veterans from Connecticut who were killed, Christopher placed a white rose. Putnam is one of only two towns in Connecticut which honors those killed/wounded in the Beirut Barracks bombing.
In his address to the 75 in the park Oct. 23 Putnam Mayor Barney Seney, himself a veteran, said that Steinbrick had already had a Beirut monument created and it’s being held “waiting to be placed in the veterans park in about two years when the park is revamped.
“We can never forget. You can remember them,” he said.

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