Computers, old curiosities at recycling event

FALLS VILLAGE — The turnout was steady midway through the electronics recycling drive at Housatonic Valley Regional High School Saturday, May 7.Teacher Doug Weisman said in the first two years of the drive people brought in 25,000 pounds’ worth of obsolete and defunct computers and other electronics. This is the fourth year of the drive.Area residents paid a small fee to dispose of their unwanted electronics. Funds raised were donated to the high school’s Peace Club.He anticipated the tonnage would be less this year. “The stuff’s a lot smaller now,” he said, gesturing to a chest-high stack of laptops next to a smaller pile of PCs and Macs.One lady brought in an old stereo system, the kind with the amplifier, turntable, tuner and tape player in one unit.“She said she finally got her husband to give up the eight-track.”

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Cornwall Consolidated School seventh graders Skylar Brown, Izabella Coppola, Halley Villa, Willow Berry, Claire Barbosa, Willa Lesch, Vivianne DiRocco and Franco Aburto presented a group research project on the life of Naomi Freeman Wednesday, April 23. In attendance were U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes, D-Conn., John Mills, president of Alex Breanne Corporation, Cornwall First Selectman Gordon Ridgway, Cornwall Selectman Jennifer Markow and CCS social studies teacher Will Vincent.

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