Join your family, friends, and neighbors in sprucing up The Last Green Valley National Heritage Corridor – join a cleanup and make a difference!
Funding for many of these cleanups has been provided in part by The Last Green Valley, Inc. (TLGV).
Visit www.thelastgreenvalley.org for more details about each cleanup.
Putnam Beautification Day – The Putnam Business Association will be holding its 9th Annual downtown cleanup from 8 a.m. to noon May 6 from 8 am – noon.
Meet at US Button Parking Lot on Kennedy Drive.
Trash bags, gloves, water, snacks and lunch will be provided for all volunteers.
Fun trophies awarded for “the most unusual thing found” and more.
Putnam Nature Trail Cleanup – The Greater Putnam Interfaith Council and the Town of Putnam will be hosting a cleanup of the Putnam Nature Trail from 10 a.m. to noon April 22.
The trail is located behind the National Guard Armory at 15 Keech St.
The work will involve picking up trash and debris, cutting invasive vines, applying trail signage, widening paths, and planting flowers.
Thompson Together’s Month-Long Town-Wide Cleanup – Step up and help out during the 12th annual town-wide roadside cleanup for the entire month of April.
Contact Thompson Together for a section of town to clean.
Cat Hollow Park Cleanup – The Killingly Conservation Commission will host a cleanup of Cat Hollow Park on Dog Hill Road from 9:30 to 11;30 a.m. April 22.
Volunteers will be removing trash and debris from the road, established trails, and the old mill race way. Gloves and lunch provided.
Thompson Recreation & Middle School Team Clean Up – Each spring, 8th grade students and their teachers pitch in to help with cleanups at Riverside Park and Heritage Way Park.
This year they will be out from 11:45 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 2.
For more information about these cleanups or about The Last Green Valley National Heritage Corridor, please visit www.thelastgreenvalley.org. Check out TLGV’s Facebook page, too.
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Fishing along the Quinebaug at the annual Putnam Rotary Club Noe Poulin Fishing Derby. By Rande Chmura
Drawing winners.
Along the shore. By Rande Chmura
Bentley Williams with his winning fish. By Rande Chmura.
PUTNAM — The Annual Putnam Rotary Noe Poulin Fishing Derby had 65 participants — but unfortunately only two fish showed up! Fishing started at 9 a.m. April 15 and ended at noon. After the heavy rains and high water on the river during the first two weeks of April, it was a beautiful sunny day to enjoy fishing along the Quinebaug River. It was great to see so many families participating in the Derby, said Doug Porter, Fishing Derby Committee chairman.
The fisherman ranged in age from 2 to 15 and fished both sides of the Quinebaug River and on the Woodstock Avenue bridge. Porter thanked the Putnam Police Department for shutting off the bridge for the fisherman and thanked Willie Bousquet and the Putnam Recreation Department for their help with the Derby.
Mackenzie Bertrand, 8, caught the first fish of the day, a 3-inch crayfish. The largest fish and the only other fish of the day was caught by 2-year-old Bentley Williams. The fish measured 13 inches and weighted in at three-quarters of a pound.
With only two fish caught, the Rotary Club raffled off the prizes, fishing rods, tackle boxes, lures and fishing line.
Baseball
Killingly ace
pitcher
continues hot
streak
By Ryan Rumrill
Town Crier Sportswriter
With Killingly’s senior ace pitcher Bryan Albee back on the mound, he looked to continue his hot streak with double digit strikeouts. He took the mound against Plainfield in a close game the whole way and went out and struck out 11 Panthers batters. Killingly bested Plainfield 4-2. Killingly had help from Evan Zanauskas who ripped a double and drove in the game-tying run. Jacob Jones had a double to the wall, and Tyler Cournoyer added an RBI for the Redman. Hunter Yaworski laid down a bunt perfectly to reach base, and then scored on some miscommunication on a flyball behind second base. Plainfield got everything they could out of Izaiah Thompson who went perfect 3-3 with two runs batted in and a solo homerun to dead center. Killingly improve to 3-2, while Plainfield falls to 4-2.
Tourtellotte 1
Putnam 0
The Clippers and the Tigers faced off in yet another local rivalry game as both starting pitchers were dueling. Mitchell Barylski threw a complete game, striking out 12 batters but lost because Will McGlynn had two hits for Thompson and the Tigers scored in the sixth inning to win 1-0. Devin Dalpe also threw a complete game striking out five Clipper batters, and both teams are now 1-3.
Waterford 11
Killingly 0
Waterford’s ace pitcher took the hill and was dominate from the opening pitch where he was literally unhittable where he struck out 21 of the 22 batters that he faced in the game and did not give up a hit to the Killingly Redman. Waterford got great help from Dylan Bosco who had three hits in four at-bats and drove in five RBIs. Sonny Pezzello added two hits and drove in two runs for Waterford, as the Lancers move to (3-1) and the Redman move to 2-2.
Norwich Tech 7
Ellis Tech 2
Norwich Tech took the field against the Golden Eagles and Zach Jackson went a perfect 3 for 3 from the plate and hit a grand slam and two doubles which contributed for five runs, and Devin Tate also had two hits in three at-bats and drove in a run for the Warriors, who put up six runs in the fifth inning to seal their first game of the season.
Plainfield 13
Putnam 2
The Panthers traveled to Murphy Park to face the Clippers and Kegan Marcoux hit a homer to center, drove in three runs, and scored three times himself. Izaiah Thompson also contributed to the mix getting three hits in four at bats with two runs batted in, and scored three times. Plainfield has 4 wins and one loss on the year. For Putnam, Zack Cutler had a pair of hits and drove in both runs for the Clippers.
Woodstock 6
Calvary Christian School 0
Down in Myrtle Beach, S.C., at the Cal Ripkin Experience, the Centaurs won two games. Jacob Straub was dominating on the mound as he struck out nine batters, and Luke Mattewson had two runs batted in for Woodstock.
Woodstock 7
Avon High School 6
In the second game of the double header, the game was a lot closer but Woodstock came away with another win with the help from David Redfield who brought three runs across the plate with his bat as he tripled, and also got a triple from Eric Preston, who came across to score two runs himself. Woodstock moves to 3-1 on the year.
Lyman Memorial 12
Tourtellotte 1
The Bulldogs faced off with the Tigers of Thompson and Colton Bender had three hits in four at-bats while scoring two runs for Lyman. Kory Lazur had four runs batted in for Lyman, and Wyatt Sihvonen had a hit and scored twice for the Bulldogs and they move to 4-1 on the season and 3-0 in ECC Div. 3
Putnam 13
Grasso Tech 0
The Clippers faced off against the Mighty Tigers and was led behind Mitchel Barylski whose two hits drove in four RBIs, John Espinosa also had two hits producing two runs, and Scott Davagian struck out six batters through six scoreless innings to pick up Putnam’s first win of the year.
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Ryan Black, a senior at Woodstock Academy, was named to the CIAC Hockey All-State First Team and was named All State MVP for the second year in a row. He was also named to the New Haven Register All State Boys' Hockey Team for the second straight year as well as being named Connecticut High School Coaches Association Senior All Star Game MVP. Next year he will be attending The Winchendon School in Winchendon, Mass., as a post graduate, to continue his education and continue playing ice hockey. Courtesy photo.