Legal Notice
Board of
Assessment Appeals
NOTICE OF MEETING
September 12, 2022
— 5:00pm
The sole purpose of this meeting will be for the hearing of appeals to assessments of motor vehicles on the Grand List of October 1, 2021. All persons claiming to be aggrieved by the doings of the Assessor, with respect to motor vehicle assessments, are hereby warned to make their appeal at the above listed place and time, via joining the video meeting or coming in person.
Location will be the Municipal Complex, 200 School St.  We are also offering the meeting via Zoom for your convenience.

Topic: Board of Assessment Appeals
Time: Sep 12, 2022 05:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Sept. 1, 2022

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Just the other day I thought I would take a quick break from working on my dissertation and decided to run to CVS to pick up a prescription. I felt that a quick outing in running an errand would do my brain some good. I anticipated that I would be gone for only about 20+ minutes and left my water bottle behind.
I was deeply delighted to discover, as I pulled into the parking lot, that it was virtually empty. I was sure that there wouldn’t be anyone in front of me in the line and given the frizzy state of my hair reflecting back at me in the rear-view mirror, that I should also buy hairspray. As I entered the store and approached the aisle that would bring me to the pharmacy pick-up spot, my satisfaction seemed to fade. Something seemed amiss within my view, and I wondered if they had recently painted the pharmacy white, or checkerboard white, or retiled it with little white see-through squares? And that’s when I realized that what I was looking at down the aisle toward the pharmacy was the window wall of a daily 30-minute closure between 1:30 and 2 p.m. I tapped my phone to see what time it was. It was 1:31…
I was immediately disgusted at myself. I know that the pharmacy closes everyday between 1:30 and 2, but I had been so engrossed in my schoolwork that I hadn’t even considered that my well-timed mental break might have coincided poorly with a prescription pick-up.
I had 29 minutes to kill and wasn’t sure how best to accomplish it. I touched my head and quickly remembered that I needed hairspray. Surely there were other things I needed but I hadn’t planned on shopping and didn’t take my list. My overworked brain was mushy and I couldn’t remember anything else I should buy. I spent more than 5 minutes in the hairspray aisle, perusing all the hairspray options before selecting the one I always buy. I decided that I could buy a snack, so I spent another 5 minutes selecting a bag of sea salted popped in olive oil corn, which proudly displayed that there were only 35 calories per cup. It was 1:41 when I decided to head to the checkout counter to pay for my goods.
I didn’t want to drive home so I returned to my car to wait it out. I wanted to eat my popcorn but then I remembered that I hadn’t brought my water and what if I choked on a kernel. I checked emails. I turned up the radio and sang but then someone pulled up near me and so I turned the radio down and closed my windows. It was hot. I was  frustrated that I hadn’t grabbed my water. At 1:52 I began to worry that if I didn’t return to the store and get in line that I would have waited all this time in vain, so I returned to the store and got in line. I was still the first (and only person) in line and so I texted with my daughter. Soon, I heard the sound of the white checkered wall of closure being pulled up. 2 PM! 2 PM!

Kathy Naumann, possessor of NATURALLY curly hair and the understanding that you can’t control everything!

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New Hire
Hailey Griffin is congratulated by Putnam Police Chief Christopher Ferace after she is sworn in at Putnam's newest police officer. Courtesy photo.


Police hire
new officer
PUTNAM — Putnam Police Department Chief Chris Ferace announced the hiring of the newest officer at the Putnam Police Department. Officer Hailey H. Griffin was sworn in Aug. 29. Officer Griffin comes to the Putnam Police Department as a lateral hire who previously served five years with the Plainfield Police Department.
Officer Griffin brings a wealth of experience and knowledge with her and will be an outstanding addition to the Putnam Police Department, Ferace said. She is a 2012 graduate of Plainfield High School and in 2016 earned a bachelor’s in criminal justice from Post University where she graduated Cum Laude and was a two-sport Division II athlete.
While studying in college she completed her required student internship at the Putnam Police Department. Officer Griffin comes highly trained and holds a POSTC Detective Certification, she is a certified Field Training Officer (FTO) and Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) trained. She is the second female officer hired by the Police Department.
Officer Griffin becomes the 17th sworn member of the Police Department. This position is funded by the Town of Putnam, resulting from the overwhelming decision by townspeople to increase the department and have a School Resource Officer (SRO) assigned to the Putnam School District starting this school year.
Officer Griffin lives in Brooklyn with her fiancée. After completing a familiarization and orientation training with the Police Department, she will be assigned to the department’s Patrol Division.