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North Canaan’s Doughboy restored

North Canaan’s Doughboy restored

The Doughboy memorial monument spent the spring of 2024 being restored by master mason Karl Munson. The completed statue was unveiled at the end of the parade on Memorial Day.

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NORTH CANAAN — Delaying the parade paid off in North Canaan as the sun made an appearance to shine down on a day of observances.

Veterans, emergency service volunteers, local businesses, students, and athletes marched through town, departing from Town Hall and walking to the Doughboy statue on Route 44.

The statue was the site of a remembrance ceremony and the unveiling of the recently restored monument.

Master mason Karl Munson worked to carefully clean and repair the statue over the spring. Names of missing veterans were added.

World War II veteran Lou is A. Cecchinato Sr.’s name was added, fulfilling a longstanding wish of the family.

First Selectman Brian Ohler dedicated this Memorial Day “to remembering those brave men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of our country.”

Riley Klein

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Boogie into fall

Boogie into fall
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On Saturday, Oct. 3, at 7:30 p.m., Stissing Center for Arts and Culture in Pine Plains, hosts its first Pumpkin Patch Dance Party. Dance band Jungle Love returns by popular demand for an autumn evening of music, dancing and community. Tickets at thestissingcenter.org

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Affordable housing gains highlighted at Kent summit

Affordable housing gains highlighted at Kent summit

Attendees at the Litchfield County Housing Affordability Summit on Sept. 24 in Kent.

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KENT — Since 2019, 583 affordable homes have been completed or are under construction in Litchfield County, state housing officials said Thursday, Sept. 24, at the fifth Litchfield County Housing Affordability Summit.

The summit brought volunteers from affordable housing groups in 12 towns to the Kent Community House. Exhibits ringed the room as volunteers described their projects.

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Salisbury commits $113,000 to Holley Place cleanup

Salisbury commits $113,000 to Holley Place cleanup
The Holley Place affordable housing site.
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SALISBURY — The Board of Selectmen voted Tuesday, Sept. 22, to put $113,000 in available Small Cities grant funds toward cleaning up contaminated soil at the Holley Place affordable housing site in Lakeville.

Construction of the planned 14-apartment building at 11 Holley St. stopped after crews digging the foundation detected the smell of heating oil in June. First Selectman Curtis Rand told the board early last month that the cleanup was expected to cost between $165,000 and $175,000.

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P&Z weighs hotel moratorium after Wake Robin controversy

P&Z weighs hotel moratorium after Wake Robin controversy
Wake Robin Inn is located on Sharon Road in Lakeville.
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SALISBURY — The Planning and Zoning Commission is considering a nine-month moratorium on new hotel applications in the town’s Rural Residential Zone while it reviews the controversial zoning regulation that allowed the expansion of the Wake Robin Inn.

“The idea is to give you three-quarters of a year to work on new language related to hotels in residential zones,” said Jeremy DeCarli, a land use professional who has consulted for the town since the departure of former Land Use Director Abby Conroy, during the commission’s Sept. 21 meeting.

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Salisbury portrait heads to New York museum

Salisbury portrait heads to New York museum

Caleb Von Gardey (kneeling) and Paul Guerino carefully fit the 1844 portrait into a custom-built crate.

Patrick L. Sullivan

SALISBURY — The Salisbury Association is loaning a painting to the American Folk Art Museum in New York, but first the portrait had to come off the wall of the Academy Building.

On Tuesday, Sept. 22, Caleb Von Gardey and Paul Guerino of Northeast Transit Fine Art Services of Waterville, New York, arrived to collect the 1844 portrait of Maria Birch Coffing and Jane Elizabeth Winslow, painted by Edwin White.

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Region One widens public role in school study

Region One widens public role in school study

FALLS VILLAGE — Seeking broader community input on Region One’s organizational study, the ABC Committee plans to recruit residents from each of the region’s six towns to take part in the process.

At the committee’s Sept. 23 meeting, Sharon’s Philip O’Reilly said he had heard concerns from constituents that the study needed greater public involvement. The ABC Committee is made up of the chairs of the region’s seven boards of education.

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