Brock
promoted
at bank
PUTNAM — Tonya Brock was recently promoted to assistant vice president and branch manager of the Pomfret Office. Tonya has more than 20 years of banking experience and has been with Putnam Bank for 17 years.
“We are pleased to promote Ms. Brock to the position of assistant vice president,” said Thomas A. Borner, president and CEO of the bank. “She exemplifies the best of community banking; and it is rewarding to be able to promote from within as the staff develops and grows along with the bank,” added Borner.
Tonya attended UConn, where she received the Outstanding Academic Achievement Award from the President’s Commission on the Status of Women. She has a long history of community involvement with numerous charitable organizations and events, including: Past Board Member and Family Services Committee Chair for Habitat for Humanity of Eastern CT, Founding Member and Past Board Member of the Theatre of Northeastern CT, Founding Member and member of the Steering and Grants Committees of the Northeast Chapter of the Community Foundation’s Women & Girls Fund, Top Walker for March of Dimes WalkAmerica, long-time participant in the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life, and a member of the philanthropic singing group Voices, which has raised well over $500,000 for local charitable organizations in the last 15 years.
Drive successful
PUTNAM — The Project Northeast Food Drive, sponsored by the Daughters of Isabella, held on June 25 brought in $250 worth of nonperishable items and $610 in monetary donations.
Happy Birthday!
This week the Putnam Town Crier & Northeast Ledger begins its 23rd year! Unbelievable.
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Onward and upward! Thank you, Linda Lemmon
Then
This is a photo of Providence Street looking east from St. Mary's Church, taken around 920. From 1840 the north end of Putnam was called Rhodesville. The tenement house on the left held Massey's Clothing Store on the street level (currently the VFW Hall). The fourth building on the left (formerly Labonte-Mercik) housed the Canadian Athletic Club on the second floor. St. Jean the Baptist Hall, right, occupied the space where St. Mary's Circle of Fun is now held. The next building on the right burned as a result of an alleged and bizarre love triangle. Information from the Aspinock Historical Society.
& Now
This is the same area today.