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Northwest Corner communities gather to mark 25th anniversary of Sept. 11 attacks

Northwest Corner communities gather to mark 25th anniversary of Sept. 11 attacks

Members of the Kent Volunteer Fire Department salute the American flag during the town’s Sept. 11 remembrance ceremony at Kent Town Hall.

Lans Christensen

Among the observances held across the Northwest Corner, communities in Kent, Sharon, North Canaan and Cornwall marked the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks with ceremonies honoring those killed.

In Kent, residents gathered at Town Hall, where Peter Gadiel spoke about his son, James, a Kent native who was 23 when he was killed in the World Trade Center’s North Tower. The ceremony included prayers, bagpipes and remarks from officials, firefighters and veterans.

Sharon’s observance featured firefighter Todd Anderson, who traveled to Ground Zero after the attacks, former ABC News correspondent Brian Ross and resident Roger Liddell, who recalled his experience that day. The names of the first responders and a police dog killed in the attacks were read aloud.

In North Canaan, volunteers at the Canaan Fire Company read the names of nearly 3,000 victims. A large American flag hung from a fire truck’s ladder.

Cornwall held a brief remembrance Saturday during the Cornwall Agricultural Fair.
Click here for more Sept. 11 coverage.

Ruth Epstein
Reporter
Patrick L. Sullivan
Senior Reporter
Patrick Sullivan has been a reporter for The Lakeville Journal since 2004, covering everything from town meetings to local characters and the outdoors. He grew up in Northern Virginia but spent summers on Mount Riga in Salisbury, giving him a lifelong connection to the Northwest Corner. A graduate of Denison University, Patrick is also the author of Tangled Lines, the newspapers’ popular fly-fishing column—making The Lakeville Journal, as far as anyone knows, the only newspaper in Connecticut with a regular fly-fishing columnist. He once received a fan letter from England, which he considers sufficient evidence that his work has achieved international acclaim.
Christian Murray
Executive Editor

Christian Murray is executive editor of The Lakeville Journal and The Millerton News. A graduate of the Columbia Journalism School, he is a veteran journalist, founding the Queens Post and its network of neighborhood news sites—including the Sunnyside Post, Astoria Post, LIC Post and Jackson Heights Post—and helping pioneer hyperlocal digital journalism in New York City. Before joining LJMN in 2025, he served as managing editor at Schneps Media, overseeing amNewYork, the Queens Courier, the Bronx Times and other local publications. Earlier in his career, Murray was a political reporter for Newsday and a business reporter for Reuters. A native of New Zealand, he says northwest Connecticut reminds him of the landscapes where he grew up—a connection that made the region feel like home from the start.

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