Swim season kicks off

Swim season kicks off
Riley Klein

Northwestern Regional High School hosted Housatonic Valley Regional High School for a swim meet Friday, Jan. 10. In team totals, Northwestern won 92-38. Northwestern is the reigning Berkshire League swim champion. HVRHS’s next home meet is scheduled for Jan. 22 against Shepaug Valley High School at 7 p.m. in The Hotchkiss School’s Mars Athletic Center.

Riley Klein

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Rowing to recovery: Healing journey begins with shared strokes

Members of the We Can Row team that will be part of the Head of the Charles Regatta on Oct. 18 are, from left: coach and coxswain Anne Kelly, Donna DiMartino, Silvia Mueller, Michael Kelly, Benjamin Freund, Jacolyn Brown, Shelly Whitlock-Pope, Cicely Hajek and Jean Anderson.

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What began as a frightening common experience has brought together a group of residents who have achieved an amazing feat.

In 2004, Noreen Driscoll needed to do something to remember the friends she had lost to cancer and help others facing the disease. She’d held some memorials but decided to do more. She applied for and received a $5,000 Peloton Award for $5,000 and used that money to create Women Enduring Cancer, which transitioned into the Tri-State chapter of We Can Row.

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East Twin Lake tackles hydrilla, shares what worked

Russ Conklin, vice president of lake management for the Twin Lakes Association gave an update on hydrilla during an Oct. 8 meeting of coalition members at O’Hara’s Landing Marina. Looking on, from far right: Bill Barton, TLA vice president, Kitty Kiefer, Salisbury selectwoman, Andrew Cahill of the Mudge Pond Association and Josh Burnside (standing), field technical resource for SePRO.

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“Forevermore we are going to have to be hyper-vigilant. It came in once and it could come in again.”
—Grant Bogle, president of Twin Lakes Association

SALISBURY — An aggressive and costly three-year battle to rid East Twin Lake of a genetically unique strain of hydrilla that chokes lakes and obliterates native plants appears to have finally paid off.

“The good news is, the hydrilla is pretty much gone. We have not found anything,” George Knoecklein of Northeast Aquatic Research (NEAR), the Twin Lakes Association’s limnologist, reported during its fall coalition meeting of local, state and federal scientists, environmentalists and stakeholders on Tuesday, Oct. 8, at O’Hara’s Landing Marina.

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Cornwall Bridge crosswalk plans on hold due to DOT concerns

CORNWALL — Connecticut Department of Transportation cannot sign off on a new sidewalk and crosswalk in Cornwall Bridge until the parking lot used by Cornwall Market is reconfigured.

The plan to improve walkability on Route 7 received grant approval from the Transportation Rural Improvement Program more than a year ago but remains but to date little progress has been made. The project aims to build a sidewalk from the firehouse to Cornwall Market and a crosswalk to the other side of the road with accessible landings on both sides.

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Domestic violence vigil brings community together
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A strong show of solidarity is seen at Project Sage’s annual Community Vigil on Thursday, Oct. 9, at Community Park in Lakeville. The event is aimed at bringing attention to the issue of domestic violence.