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Sharon’s recent real estate sales
Mar 19, 2025
Two condos sold on Upper Main Street of similar size and price — $210,000 and $225,000.
Christine Bates
SHARON — Real estate transfers received from the Town Clerk of Sharon got off to a slow start in January and February of 2025 with a total of only five sales recorded including two condos on Upper Main Street. These five residential properties all sold for under $500,000. The 12 month median price of Sharon has been steadily falling from its historic high of $880,000 in August of 2024 to $530,500 in February 2025 according to Smart MLS Info Sparks. As of March 10, 11 single family homes were listed on the MLS with five over a million dollars and one under $300,000. Sixteen land parcels are available and nine seasonal furnished rentals are listed.
January Transfers
209 West Cornwall Road — 2 bedroom/1 bath home built in 1960 on 1.93 acres sold by Sebastian Faena to Alexandra Gilbert and Patrick Parrish for $469,000.
7 Holland Road — 2 bedroom/1 bath home built in 1935 on 1.08 acres sold by Riley and Jennifer McJilton to Melissa Babin for $480,000.
8 Upper Main St., Unit 14 — 2 bedroom/2 bath condo sold by Roger W. Elwood to Roger W. Elwood and Candace M. Tuthill for $225,000.
February Transfers
4 Upper Main St., Unit 7 — 2 bedroom/2 bath condo sold by Edward Bixler Trustee to Kurt Ludwig Heissmeyer for $210,000.
270 Cornwall Bridge Road — 3 bedroom/2 bath split level sold by Justin M. and Jane M. Downs to Jose Gonzalez for $465,000.
*Town of Sharon real estate transfers recorded as sold between Jan. 1 and Feb. 28, 2025, provided by the Sharon Town Clerk. Transfers without consideration are not included. Current market listings from Smart MLS. Compiled by Christine Bates, Real Estate Salesperson with William Pitt Sotheby’s International Realty, Licensed in Connecticut and New York.
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FALLS VILLAGE — The Board of Selectmen established two committees at the board’s regular meeting Monday, March 10.
On a motion from Selectman Judy Jacobs, the Village Historic District Committee, which will be advisory to the Board of Selectmen, will include Tracy Wilson, Cheryl Aeschliman, Bill Beebe and Caitlin Jenkins as members, and Richard Brezine and Scott Jack as alternate. Jacobs will be an ex-officio member and liaison to the Board of Selectmen.
On a motion from First Selectman Dave Barger, the board established the Affordable Housing Task Force, also advisory to the Board of Selectmen, and appointedMary Priestman, Kathy Clark, Lara Haffner and Carmella Barger, with Barger acting as ex-officio member and liaison to the Board of Selectmen.
The selectmen also discussed making a committee of the Falls Village Grant Group but took no action.
The selectmen sent a request from the Fire Commission for $10,000 to cover the costs of physicals to the Board of Finance.
The finance board subsequently approved the expenditure.
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The railroad track comes close to water bodies in the Northwest Corner, as seen here at Hatch Pond.
Bruce Bennett
KENT — At its March 12 meeting, the Conservation Commission discussed next steps regarding a recent herbicide plan submitted by the Housatonic Railroad Co., which many commission members felt to be incomplete or even defiant of legislation.
Submission of the plan was first announced at the March 5 Board of Selectmen meeting when the commission discussed the Vegetation Management Plan it had received from TEC Associates Consulting Engineers, the firm the railroad employs for its herbicide program.
Selectman Lynn Mellis Worthington noted that the plan seemed to be lacking information required by new regulations passed in July 2024 that requires much greater transparency and specificity regarding herbicide use by railroads in Connecticut.
The document then came under scrutiny by the Conservation Commission, which found similar shortcomings. The group noted the document is almost identical to plans submitted in previous years, while the new regulations call for several other auxiliary plans and much greater detail.
“I don’t want to make you dizzy,” said commissioner Connie Manes while flipping between the 2025 document and earlier iterations on the Zoom screen, “I just want to show you that it looks pretty much the same.” Other members of the commission agreed, with Commission advisor Jos Spelbos declaring that it “doesn’t do anything different.”
Worthington was also present at the meeting and noted that the issue was personal to her as her property contains a well close to the railroad. “I don’t think they’ve given us what we’re supposed to have,” she asserted.
The 2024 legislation, which was originally posed by the Housatonic Herbicide Working Group, was meant to align Connecticut’s regulations with much stricter railroad herbicide oversight in Massachusetts.
The group was formed in an attempt to work with the railroad to come up with a sustainable plant management plan but presented the issue to state government after the railroad failed to respond to any attempted communication.
State Rep. Maria Horn, D-64, and State Sen. Stephen Harding, R-30, who brought the bill to the floor, maintained that the railroad has been difficult to work with.
There was speculation among some on the Conservation Commission that the railroad was continuing this pattern by seeking a loophole in the new regulations which might immunize itself from the law for another year. The commission decided the wording of the legislation needed to be reviewed with Horn and Harding, as well as Bruce Bennett, co-founder of the Housatonic Herbicide Working Group.
Bennett confirmed in a separate correspondence that the review is ongoing, as the group is “looking into some questions that we have concerning when the law/bill is going into effect.”
Housatonic Railroad Co. did not reply to request for comment on its Vegetation Management Plan.
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Empowered assembly
Mar 19, 2025
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In recognition of Women’s History Month, celebrated throughout March, female politicians from the Northwest Corner gathered in Waterbury Wednesday, March 12. Lieutenant Governor Susan Bysiewicz, pictured right, and 44 other legislators and local officials were invited to the event including Sharon Selectman Lynn Kearcher, pictured left.
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