JEWETT CITY — The Board of Directors of Jewett City Savings Bank (JCSB) selected Michael L. Alberts as the bank’s next president and CEO. It’s effective Sept. 8 upon the retirement of Kevin Merchant – the current President and CEO.
Since 2015 Mike has served as the Senior Commercial Loan Officer and member of the bank’s senior management team. He helped develop a strong commercial lending/credit team with collaboration and forward-thinking strategies; this team has been a critical factor in the bank’s financial success.
Alberts holds an MBA and BA from UConn and is a licensed Certified Financial Planner®. He was a captain in the U.S. Air Force and a major in the Connecticut Air National Guard.
Formerly first selectman of Woodstock, he served 12 years as a state legislator in Connecticut’s General Assembly where he helped lead the Banking Committee; with nearly 35 years of banking experience, he has been a strong industry advocate and a dedicated supporter of the Connecticut Bankers Association’s mission to well-serve consumers.
A resident of Woodstock for more than 30 years, he is married to Cindy Alberts. Together they have four children: Zachary and Cleo Alberts, and Kelly and Tyler Huhtanen.
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Legal Notice
Public Hearing Notice
Town of Pomfret
Planning and Zoning
Commission
The Pomfret Planning & Zoning Commission will hold the following Public Hearings at its in-person meeting on July 21, 2021, starting at 7:00 PM.
1. Robert & Joan Macneil, 73 Cooney Road, re-subdivision
2. Robert & Joan Macneil, 73 Cooney Road, special permit for re-subdivision with rear lot
A copy of the applications is on file in the office of the Planning and Zoning Commission, 5 Haven Road, Pomfret Center, Connecticut. A copy of the files will be posted with the agenda on the Town website.
Town of Pomfret
Dated this 28th day
of June 2021
Planning & Zoning Commission
Lynn L. Krajewski,
Clerk
July 7, 2021
July 14, 2021
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We all travel differently depending on not only where we go, but also, who we go with. Travelling with your spouse on a honeymoon to Europe is different from traveling with your girlfriends to Newport for the weekend. Likewise, traveling with your adult children and their small children to Walt Disney World is a far different experience than if you traveled to Hawaii with your elderly parents.
This is why, for me, I often get just as much pleasure out of planning a trip as I do in taking the trip. Deciding what excursions to take; which hotel will be best; what to pack; where to eat and how to get there, are completely dependent on what the goal of the journey is. For a honeymoon, the goal of the trip is a getaway after the stress of a wedding in celebration of one another: Excursions should be minimal, the hotel comfortable, pajamas optional, room service amenable and travel to the destination as stress-free as possible. On the contrary, the goal of a girls’ trip is to experience something new with supportive friends: Excursions should be emotionally or physically challenging, a hotel with double beds, suitcases filled with cute PJs, restaurants with a wine list and carpooling with a planned music playlist. But what happens when the reason for a trip is not yet known?
My sisters and I enjoy traveling together. Although we live in different houses, states and with different people, we grew up together and manage to, after all of these years, find our travel groove in that we don’t mind sharing a bathroom or even (if its king sized) a bed. However, although we have been to places together with other people, In the past 10 years we have managed to take only one special trip together. It was a trip filled with so much laughter and wonderful memories that we knew we wanted another adventure soon.
But soon didn’t come quickly and then, just as we started to talk about it again, COVID hit. Finally, with the halt of any other separate and distractionary travels last summer, we realized that we absolutely needed to think about where we wanted to go next and shift our aspirations for a trip together into an action plan for an actual trip together. Allowing for a good long while for a return to travel normalcy, we set a goal for a domestic trip in the summer of 2022. We just needed to decide on where.
The United States is a vast and beautiful country, offering many locations for adventure and we seemed to stumble a bit in our decisiveness on a specific spot. Should we stay nearby and drive? Should we fly? South? West? What we needed was a unified reason for selecting a destination so that the rest of the planning would fall into place. This past spring, the reason came… During a movie night gathering, Mom, whose prognosis is not good, said she wished that she had seen the national parks out West…In the end, it will have taken three sisters two years to plan one trip. Wyoming! Wyoming!
Kathy Naumann, possessor of NATURALLY curly hair and the understanding that you can’t control everything!
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Bridge Repair
Forms are in place along the wings of the bridge that crosses the Five Mile River on Five Mile River Road. Concrete will be poured and that will stabilize the wings of the bridge. Linda Lemmon photos.
By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
PUTNAM — Two East Putnam bridges are currently being repaired and water permitting — the rains and the rivers — should be finished in another six weeks.
Highway Superintendent Travis Sirrine said the bridge on East Putnam Road crossing Cady Brook and the bridge on Five Mile River Road crossing the Five Mile River are two weeks into repairs. Most of the work is being done by Arborio Corp. of Cromwell. The work is being checked by the town’s engineering firm and when it’s finished, the state will come out and inspect it and upgrade the bridges’ ratings.
Mayor Barney Seney said the repairs are being funded by a half-million dollar grant.
The East Putnam Road bridge, Sirrine said, is probably about 30 years old and is experiencing “scouring,” and “spalling”. Scouring is erosion of the banks, the edges. Rip rap – large crushed rock, is installed to allow the flow of water while reducing erosion.
Spalling is cracks in concrete which allows oxygen and water in, causing the rebar to rust, weakening it. It is sealed with special underwater grout and concrete. “You have to get the oxygen and water away from the rebar,” he said.
In addition, some work is being done on the underside of the East Putnam Road bridge. Sirrine said the bearings — plates which allow for expansion and contraction in the bridge — and the ends of the steel beams are rusting. The bearings can be replaced and the ends of the beams can be removed and new beam ends welded on. “Then it’s sealed up and you’re off and running,” he said.
The Five Mile River Road bridge is somewhat older than the East Putnam Road/Cady Brook bridge and it also has some spalling and scouring to be fixed. New concrete wing walls will be poured and attached (by drilling) into the old wing walls, thereby creating a thicker and stronger wing wall.
Sirrine said the two projects were slated to be finished in six weeks total. Crews have been working on them for two weeks but because of the delays/challenges with the weather, he said he thought it looks like “six weeks give or take” from now for them to be finished.
More bridge projects are on the horizon. Seney said the town is looking for grants to repair the East Putnam Road bridge crossing Mary Brown Brook and the bridge on Danco Road. He had said that the Danco Road is truly in need as it was inspected this year and the weight limit had to be reduced to 5 tons. Currently large trucks cannot cross, he said, so deliveries are offloaded with fork lifts and taken to Danco Road businesses.
Bridge work has been on the back burner for a while. Sirrine said the town is looking to create a solid schedule for repairs and regular maintenance.
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