LEGAL NOTICE — TOWN OF POMFRET
ANNUAL TOWN MEETING – MAY 17, 2021
The legal voters and citizens qualified to vote in Town Meeting of the Town of Pomfret are hereby warned to meet at the Pomfret Community School Gymnasium, 20 Pomfret Street, Pomfret, Connecticut – or virtually by following link below - on Monday, May 17, 2021, at 7:00 P.M. to act upon the following articles:
Opening remarks by First Selectman Maureen Nicholson and presentation of Municipal Service Awards to staff and volunteers.
Article 1: To choose a Moderator for said meeting.
Article 2: To see if the Town will consider and act upon the following resolution:  “Resolved” that the Board of Selectmen is hereby authorized and empowered to enter into an agreement with the Commissioner of Transportation and the Office of Policy and Management, State of Connecticut, for the expenditure of all Highway funds under the provisions of Chapter 240 and the expenditure of all Local Capital Improvement Funds under the provisions of Chapter 7-536, CT General Statutes, for fiscal year beginning July 1, 2021.
Article 3: To see if the Town will consider and adopt the Five-Year Local Capital Improvement Plan for fiscal year 2021–2022 as proposed by the Board of Selectmen.
Article 4: To hear and act upon the report of the Selectmen, Town Treasurer, Treasurer of the Local School Fund, and Board of Education, as published by the Board of Finance, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020.    
Article 5: To see if the Town will accept the following cemetery funds for perpetual care: Pomfret Cemetery Corporation:  Michelle & William Cole, Yard 3, Lot 100, $100.00; Lisa A. Dyer, Yard 3, Lot 103, $100.00; Marshall L. & Virginia S. Eaton, Yard 3, Lot 101; C. Michael Fredrickson, Yard 3, Lot 102, $100.00; and Julie A. Myslenski, Yard 3, Lots 104 & 105, $200.00; Abington Cemetery Association:  Tina Gaetani, Grave #473 deTallyrand Annex, $100.00; and Leo Mayo, Grave #457 deTallyrand Annex, $100.00.
Article 6:  To see if the Town will approve an amendment that allows for the disengagement as a partner town with the Quinebaug Regional Technology Park as approved at a Special Town Meeting on October 7, 2014.
Article 7:  To see if the Town will approve a Resolution to accept grant funding from the State of Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Open Space and Watershed Land Acquisition Grant Program in an amount not to exceed $187,250 to be used toward the purchase of property located at 456 Mashamoquet Road and approved at a Special Town Meeting on March 28, 2019.
Article 9: To see if the Town will adopt a total appropriation in the amount of $13,345,252 for the 2021-2022 fiscal year budget with $2,979,002 of said amount to be the General Government Appropriation and $10,366,250 of said amount to be the Board of Education Appropriation, the same to be funded by estimated revenues as recommended by the Board of Finance.    
Article 10: To do any other business proper to come before said meeting.

Dated at Pomfret, Connecticut, this 12th day of May, 2021
Maureen A. Nicholson
Patrick R. McCarthy
Ellsworth E. Chase Jr.
Its Board of Selectmen

Attest:
Cheryl A. Grist,
Town Clerk

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May 12, 2021

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Ella Richardson, "almost 4" of Rhode Island dances to the tunes of Wayne Sinclair and guitarist Kevin Pearl who entertained during the first Pop-Up-Putnam. Linda Lemmon photo.



By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
PUTNAM — The Pop-up-Putnam arts and crafts series got off to a great start May 8 with 17 vendors filling Rotary Park.
Sheila Frost, coordinator for the Putnam Business Association, said she heard great things from both the vendors and the customers. “The vendors were very pleased with the number of people in attendance and all reported excellent sales.” She added, “Passers-by were very pleased with being out in the fresh air and happy to support local artists and crafters.”
Vendors last Saturday offered jewelry, crocheted items, baked goods, Boy Scouts popcorn and candy and more!
Pop-Up-Putnam will continue on June 26, July 24 and Aug. 21 and each date will feature new vendors, she said.
Frost said the June event has more than 30 vendors booked. It will be in Rotary Park, along Main Street and on the lawn of the Congregational Church of Putnam.
Musical guest Wayne Sinclair and guitarist Kevin Pearl entertained and will appear again from noon to 1:30 p.m. June 26 with their upbeat country rock melodies.
Pluck-A-Duck tickets were on sale at the event and are still being sold. The event, to be held Aug. 22 at a secret location, offers more than 60 prizes. Tickets are $5 each and are available online at www.discoverputnam.com
A Children’s Art Mural was created with handprints courtesy of The Windows Art Gallery and will be displayed downtown in honor of Mother’s Day.
A Pop-Up Vaccine Clinic from Northeast District Department of Health offered free Johnson & Johnson (aka one and done) COVID-19 vaccines and 15 people availed themselves of the free vaccine. The district’s Linda Colangelo said 15 was a number the district was pleased with.
Frost said the Putnam Business Association offered special thanks to the Putnam Parks and Recreation Department and its director, Willie Bousquet, and to the Putnam Fire Department for the donation of PPE for vendor and community use.

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By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
POMFRET — The town is hoping it’s on track to get the Taft Pond Road bridge open by summer.
In March the state ordered the bridge closed. State inspectors said the substructure had deteriorated since the last inspection, in January 2020.
Detours were set up around Taft Pond Road.
First Selectwoman Maureen Nicholson said the town hired Hammonasset Construction LLC of Clinton to get the bridge to a point where it could be reopened. And the company has made good progress.
Nicholson said the town hopes the bridge can be reopened by the end of May.
She said the contractor is done with the welding and is putting on guard rails. After that, it will be painted.
The town hopes that this fix will gain the town more time — maybe more than a year — to continue to pursue state Department of Transportation local program grant money.
Nicholson said the state had done a light inspection of the 25-foot bridge in January 2020 and had told the town it was in bad shape, adding that the town had years to repair/replace it.
The bridge was posted to a 3-ton limit and reduced to one lane.
The 25-foot bridge (No. 05664) is approximately 1 mile north of Route 97.
Crossing Mashamoquet Brook, the bridge was last rebuilt in 1993.

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