PUTNAM — The Board of Directors of the Citizens National Bancorp Inc. and The Citizens National Bank announce the election of a new chairman and vice chairman.  
Elected chairman of both boards is Peter D. Deary.  Deary became a director of the bank in September 2004 and recently served as its vice chairman.  He is the president of Sunnyside Farms and Deary Bros., Inc. He is active in the community and is currently serving on the Quinebaug Valley Community College Foundation Board and the Board of Northeastern Connecticut Chamber of Commerce.   He also chaired the Day Kimball Hospital Board from 2005 to 2008.  Mr. Deary is the head deacon at the First Congregational Church of Pomfret.  He and his wife, Kimberly, live in Abington.
Elected vice chairman of both boards is Kevin S. Shaw. Shaw has been a board member since 1999.  He is the former owner of Shaw’s Office Center, in downtown Putnam  for more than 50 years.  Shaw is currently an active member of the Living Faith Methodist Church, director of The Putnam Cemetery Association, and director of the Putnam Baptist/Little Rivers Areas complex.  A devoted grandfather, he and his wife, Linda, live in Woodstock.
Citizens National Bancorp Inc. is a one-bank holding company which owns The Citizens National Bank headquartered in Putnam, CT, with branch offices in Thompson, Woodstock, Killingly, and Brooklyn.  The annual stockholders’ meeting for the holding company was held on April 23 at the Thompson Speedway in Thompson.  The organizational meeting of the board was held immediately thereafter.

Cafe has new owner
PUTNAM — The cafe at the corner of Providence and Marshall streets reopened recently with a new owner and a new name.
Quiet Corner Cafe, owned by Adam Dowd, purchased the former Penny’s.
Dowd was most recently the executive chef of the Colonial Club Restaurant in Webster. That restaurant closed recently after 65 years.
Dowd began cooking in his youth making jelly rolls for his teachers and functions at St. Mary School. He started working at 15 as a dishwasher at the former Vernon Stiles Inn, then worked at State Line Restaurant and the Pub 99. He is a graduate of Tourtellotte Memorial HIgh School and lives in Thompson.
He features homemade potato chips, handcut French fries, homemade clam chowder and cole slaw and fish, desserts and the soup of the day and more.

Then
This is the silo at Troll Knoll farm on Joy Road in Woodstock in September 2011 before it was moved to the Woodstock Fairgrounds. Putnam Town Crier file photos.


& Now
After the move to the fairgrounds, in 2012.