Poets Find Words for What We Are Feeling Now
From “Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America’s Poets Respond to the Pandemic,” edited by Alice Quinn, Knopf, 2020
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125 years ago — January 1901
There seems to be more small pox than in years past. Small pox is a pretty scary disease, but it doesn’t kill half as many as grippe and consumption.
They say Tesla has received a message from Mars. This sort of beats Col. Stone’s Winsted tales in the New York papers.
CHAPINVILLE — The C.N.E.R.R. Co. has commenced filling their creamery ice house, from the Twin Lakes. Thomas O’Hara has the contract of sawing the ice which is about nine inches thick.
It is said there is a big scheme on foot to take the water from the Housatonic and Ten Mile rivers for New York City. The streams would be dammed and many miles of valuable farm land would be submerged and the Housatonic rendered useless for manufacturing purposes.
Adv.: For sale at a great bargain the following articles in excellent condition, but useless to owner because of alterations in house: — 2 pairs fine lace curtains, 1 brass bedstead (double), 1 parlor sofa (mahogany and silk). For further information apply at this office.
After the ice storm of last Friday, the view which ever way one might look was one of beauty. Every twig had been provided with the ice king’s diamonds and when the sunlight fell upon them they sparkled and shone in a dazzling fashion.
100 years ago — January 1926
The women are always ready to insist upon having their rights and generally get some that belong to the masculine element. About the only thing strictly masculine that is left to the male is his mustache.
FOR SALE — Seasoned chestnut wood sawed in stove lengths. $4.50 per 2 horse double box load. Edward O’Neil, Lakeville.
Editor Krouse of the Connecticut Western News has announced that he will resign his position at least for a time, owing to the fact that his health is not all that it should be. His many friends hope that he will soon be himself again at the helm of the News.
50 years ago — January 1976
Canaan Products Inc., makers of Wash ‘n Dry, have announced they will close out manufacturing operations in Canaan by the end of March. Approximately 40 employees will lose their jobs, according to plant manager James E. Shepherd.
The concept of cable television for northwest Connecticut is still alive but is a “close question as to investment,” according to Haystack Cablevision spokesman Nicholas Eddy. Mr. Eddy, one of three partners working to bring cable television to the area, said no progress has been made.
The Lakeville Journal was awarded third place for General Excellence among all weekly newspapers in New England of 5000-6999 circulation at the New England Press Association meeting in Boston last Friday. The Journal also took second place for the Best Editorial Page in its circulation group, Class III. Those two awards brought to 14 the number of citations for excellence achieved by The Lakeville Journal in the last five years.
Fingerprints lifted from the cottage where Barbara Gibbons was killed in 1973 have been matched to those of Timothy Parmalee of Falls Village, Peter Reilly’s attorney T.F. Gilroy Daly said Tuesday. Timothy Parmalee is the brother of Michael Parmalee, who has been identified through affidavits as a suspect no longer having an alibi for the night of the slaying.
25 years ago — January 2001
Nearly 60 years ago a Canaan limestone plant became a defense contractor. It was no secret the magnesium produced was shipped for use in military aircraft and incendiary bombs. It was 1943 in the midst of World War II, but it was not until the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima that it became common knowledge the majority of the mineral mined from Canaan Mountain was used in the Manhattan Project.
It came as no surprise that a report titled “The Health of Connecticut’s Hospitals” ranked Sharon as one of four “significantly distressed” in the state. The 285-page document is the result of a special act of the General Assembly in 1999 which called for the state’s Office of Health Care Access to study Connecticut’s hospital system and the factors that influence the financial conditions of hospitals.
KENT — The town hall meeting room was nearly filled to capacity Sunday as residents came to honor their “hometown hero,” former State Sen. M. Adela Eads. Mrs. Eads retired from the 30th District this month, after serving 20 years in the upper chamber. And while her area covered 15 towns, she always had a special place in her heart for the people of Kent.
Lake Wononscopomuc is home to two species of snail and two weeks that are of special concern to environmentalists, but it does not shelter any endangered species, according to a report from the state Department of Environmental Protection.
CANAAN — Librarian Norma DeMay came across some treasures. Two portraits — one an oil painting of a dignified, middle-aged man, the other an elegantly framed charcoal drawing of an older gentleman — await identification. Both pictures appear familiar, almost presidential. But a look through the book of presidents only provided the clue that the style of dress places both portraits in the mid-1800s. “It would be rather embarrassing if they turned out to be famous and we didn’t recognize them,” Ms. DeMay said. But both she and town historian Fred Hall believe the oil painting, at least, is of a local man.
These items were taken from The Lakeville Journal archives at Salisbury’s Scoville Memorial Library, keeping the original wording intact as possible.
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NCES releases honor roll
Jan 21, 2026
North Canaan Elementary School
File photo
NORTH CANAAN — Principal Beth Johnson released the honor roll for North Canaan Elementary School’s first trimester.
Grade 5
Highest Honors
Rebecca Morey
Salome Perez Rangel
Sienna Visconti
High Honors
Maria Erreyes Espinoza
Mackenzie Foley
Wren Helminiak
Valerie Hinman
Bako Holder
Berkley Karcheski
Reagan Marchi
Kodiak Trotta
Honors
Everett Hamilton
Carlos Hernandez Perez
Grade 6
High Honors
Kane Ackerman
Charlene Crane
Ella Joseph
Kylie Kayser
Bailey King
Elijah McClelland
Jackson Odell
Myles Shippa
Honors
Chase Andrews
Bowen Wilson
Leia Wohlfert
Grade 7
Highest Honors
Grady Morey
Rylan Soule
High Honors
Toni Bascetta
Milo Ellison
Zander Gwinn
Ronin Hinman
Finley Lemon
Stella Richard
Honors
Jasey Cooper
Anthony LaFreniere
Harper Lemon
Colin Sherwood
Levi Simmons
Grade 8
Highest Honors
Marrisa Christiansen
Taylen Leonard
Henry Perotti
Eden Rost
High Honors
Sergio Cruz Rodriguez
Marius Flunory
Ayden Gow
Paige Holst-Grubbe
Honors
Greyson Brooks
Sarah Devino
Jheric Espinoza Romero
Taylor Gulotta
Hayden Larsen
Brayden Meach
Paityn Silvernail
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Living history
Jan 21, 2026
Donna Drew
The 250th anniversary of Henry Knox’s 300-mile march of cannons from Fort Ticonderoga through South Berkshire to Boston was celebrated with great hoopla Saturday in Alford and Great Barrington. Shown, from left, are Bernard Drew of Great Barrington, author of “Henry Knox and the Revolutionary War Trail in Western Massachusetts” (McFarland, 2012) and former associate editor of The Lakeville Journal and Millerton News. Center is Tim Abbott of North Canaan, executive director of Housatonic Valley Association and an enthusiastic re-enactor. Right is Leigh Davis of Great Barrington, Berkshire 3rd District representative to the General Court in Boston.
Cornwall real estate
Jan 21, 2026
Trees are already coming down at 14 River Road, a former church built in 1900 and converted into a 2 bedroom, 2.5 bath home. Overlooking the railroad tracks and Housatonic River, the house sold for $300,000 in November, below the listing price of $350,000.
Christine Bates
CORNWALL — The Town of Cornwall recorded six property transfers in the final quarter of 2025, typical activity for a town that averages 15 to 20 sales per year.
All recorded transfers were single-family residences, with three homes closing below $400,000 and three above, including 175 Dibble Hill Road, which sold for $1,075,000.
In December, the 12-month median price for a single-family residence was $750,000, well below the January 2025 median of $1,120,000—an all-time high for Cornwall driven by several high-end sales in 2024.
Transactions
36 Furnace Brook Road — 3 bedroom/2 bath ranch on 3.93 acres sold by Jane Cass Jackson and Roger Jackson to Ashleigh Marie Clare and Jacob Tyle Willis for $415,000.
15 Cemetery Hill Road — 3 bedroom/3 bath home on 3.05 acres sold by David and Jennifer Tucker to Benjamin and Allison Lesch for $750,000.
175 Dibble Hill Road — 2 bedroom/2 bath home built in 1938 on 18.31 acres sold by Aaron Landman to Alexandra Bogdanovich and Pax Wassermann for $1,075,000.
14 River Road — 2 bedroom/2.5 bath former church on 0.5 acres sold by Amy Shanler and Estate of Asher Pavel to Mark Ingall and Leone Siegrist for $300,000.
174 Bunker Hill Road — 1 bedroom/1 bath ranch built in 1930 on 1.7 acres sold by David E. Voelpel to Isaac Castro Viloria for $285,000.
6 Rocky Cove Lane — 1 bedroom, 616 square foot seasonal waterfront cottage on Cream Lake sold by Hebridean Hideaways LLC and David J. Hubbard to Cornwall Cabin LLC for $395,000.
* Town of Cornwall real estate transfers recorded as transferred between Oct. 1 and Nov. 30, 2025, provided by the Cornwall Town Clerk. Transfers without consideration are not included. Current market data courtesy of Smart MLS and InfoSparks. Compiled by Christine Bates, Real Estate Salesperson with William Pitt Sotheby’s International Realty, Licensed in Connecticut and New York.
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