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KILLINGLY VILLAGER Mailed free to requesting homes in Brooklyn, the borough of Danielson, Killingly & its villages Vol. X, No. 18 Complimentary home delivery (860) 928-1818/email:[email protected] Friday, May 5, 2017 Killingly votes on budget Tuesday BY JASON BLEAU require towns to contrib- positions and programs NEWS STAFF WRITER ute to the state’s teach- included in the spending KILLINGLY — Voters ers’ retirement fund. plan for voters’ consider- in Killingly will decide Other increases ation. Due to changes at the fate of a $53 million include a 4.13 percent the state level, 2017 pres- proposed spending plan increase in the general ents a shift for how educa- this Tuesday, May 9, government budget for tion money from the state after no changes were town operations as well is handled in Killingly made to the proposal at as $175,000 for the hir- and other communi- the annual town meeting ing of an assistant town ties. Governor Dannel on Monday, May 1. manager with a part-time Malloy’s proposed state The Killingly Town office assistant becoming budget separates special Council, which acts as full-time in the process education and education the finance authority in to help manage the posi- cost sharing funding into the town, sent forward tion. Dept service, the two different funding the spending plan on solid waste subsidy bud- sources, with ECS money April 19 for consider- get, and other items all being appropriated to the Courtesy photo ation at the annual town decreased on the general education budget from From left, Fire District President John Dinsdale, Fire Company President and State meeting. The budget pro- government side. the town and the special Representative Pat Boyd, Mattern Construction President George Mattern and Pomfret First poses no increase to the For the education education funding going Selectman Craig Baldwin. mill rate, but presents spending plan the Board directly to the Board of a budget higher than of Education originally Education from the state the current year. On proposed a $43.7 million instead. With that said, the general government budget, and over four the proposed budget sees side the proposal totals percent increase, that the town appropriating Ground breaking at $15,770,757, an increase was slashed by $546,000 $37,539,803 to the Board of $1,116,540 or 7.62 per- by the Town Council to of Education. cent over the current just under $4.2 million. The total spending plan year. One of the main That still stands as a 4.11 sits at around $59.4 mil- drivers of the increase percent increase with lion with no increase to Pomfret Fire Station is $800,000 dedicated to contractual obligations the mill rate. Currently the potential change on and plans to fund expir- the state level that will ing state aid-supported Turn To BUDGET page A10 POMFRET — State Representative Pat Boyd (D-50th District representing Brooklyn, Eastford, Pomfret, and Woodstock) accompanied Pomfret community members on April 27 to celebrate the groundbreaking of the new addition to the Pomfret Fire Station. The station extension will provide more room for training and store firefighter equipment. The space will also act as a home base for volunteer firefighters during Richman joins their time between emergency calls. The structure itself will connect to the back of the firehouse and will be an estimated size of one-third of the station’s current size. The project addition should be completed over the summer. Villager news staff Villager Newspapers Richman’s cultural PLAY AT THE PLATE announced this week that expertise enriching the veteran reporter Olivia paper’s coverage of the Richman has joined arts in the area. the editorial staff in “Richman brings an Northeast Connecticut. astute eye and voice Richman arrives in the to the Villagers, along Quiet Corner after cov- with a broad knowledge ering South Central of music and the arts,” Massachusetts for the Lentz said. last three years. She Richman, who lives in has worked for the Putnam, looked forward Sturbridge Villager and to shining a light on local Charlton Villager. artists and newsmakers “It’s so wonderful in Putnam, Woodstock, to see Olivia continu- Thompson, Killingly and ing to flourish in our Olivia Richman their surrounding towns. publishing company,” “I’m really excited. said Frank Chilinski, Academy. She continued I think it will be fun to President and Publisher her studies at Southern show the different talents of Stonebridge Press. Connecticut State and creativity within “She’s a hard-worker University in New Haven each town, and writing and a good writer who and earned a Bachelor’s about events that are truly shares our passion Degree in Journalism. coming up in each town,” for celebrating the people Richman wrote for the Richman said. “And who make up our local university newspaper at showing the readers what communities. People like Southern and worked for people in their towns talking to Olivia, and she the school’s radio station. are putting together and does a terrific job writing Richman covered the cul- doing. It seems that there Charlie Lentz photo about the people who we tural scene at Southern, is a lot of creativity and are so fortunate to serve.” reporting on musicians, talent in these towns and WOODSTOCK — Stonington High’s Erin Craig scores in the first inning as Richman returns concerts and visual art- I can’t wait to meet some the throw to home plate gets away from Woodstock Academy catcher Clara to her roots by joining ists. of the artists and musi- Sarantopoulos on April 27 at Bentley Athletic Complex. Stonington 11-9 won the Villager. She grew Charlie Lentz, editor of cians in the area.” in extra innings. Villager sports coverage begins on page B-1. up in Woodstock and the Villager Newspapers, Richman is a recre- went to Woodstock looked forward to Turn To RICHMAN page A10 A2 • Friday, May 5, 2017 KILLINGLY VILLAGER Woodstock Historical Society celebrating 50 years BY JASON BLEAU as the Center for Woodstock Woodstock Historical Society, NEWS STAFF WRITER History. said the event was meant to WOODSTOCK — The The society held its first ever draw attention to the society’s Woodstock Historical car boot sale, boot being a term home facility and to provide Society held a special event for “trunk” in England, bring- a community-based event to on Saturday, April 29, in an ing vendors from through- raise awareness of the society’s attempt to bring awareness out the town. Anthony Reed, mission. to their organization as well the Vice President of the “This event is partly being done because we want to noto- riety and we want people to know we’re here. We thought this would be a fun way to draw some attention to what we have here. It’s slow for the first event, but we hope this Affordable and Dependable Garage Door Professionals will be something we do annu- ally,” Reed said. The car boot sale is actual- 8x7-9x7 Steel Free Garage Door & Garage 2 Sided Insulated ly part of a larger celebration Door Opener Inspection by the Woodstock Historical Garage Door Society that spans the entire r-value 9.65 Inc, standard hardware & and Lubrication track, 8 color & 3 panel design options Free estimates on repairs or year of 2017. Reed said the soci- Jason Bleau photo ety is rolling out new programs FREE replacement if needed with this ad. Heather French works with a few customers during the first car boot sale and even a new label for it’s ESTIMATES $570 sponsored by the Woodstock Historical Society. includes Installation (Normal business hours. Exp 5/30/17) facility on Route 169 in order to celebrate a milestone. Sales • Service • Installation “It’s our 50th anniversary building name to the Center we’re just something of the 800-605-9030 508-987-8600 this year and as such we want- for Woodstock History while past. History is what you do ed to change how we were doing the organization remains the every single day,” Reed said. www.countrysidedoors.com e: [email protected] things. We’ve often been seen Woodstock Historical Society,” The Woodstock Historical as a bunch said Reed. “We’re also trying to Society is planning a slew of of old histor- become a bit more electronic additional events in the com- ical people and on top of that everyone in ing months to further celebrate and we want Woodstock will be considered 50 years of serving the local to change and automatic member and community. A masquerade our atti- we’ll embrace different levels ball based on the 60s is being tude of how of support depending on how planned for the fall while sci- we’re viewed people have helped supported ence fiction theater events, from the us.” guest speakers, and other spe- town. We’ve The car boot sale was con- cial presentations are all in the done several sidered an unofficial kick-off of pipeline to help raise aware- things. One, the 50-year celebration for the ness of the society and its mis- we’re making society and while it was a small sion throughout the year. a big deal of crowd Reed said it was still a the fact that good way to draw some aware- Jason Bleau may be reached it’s our 50th ness to the newly renamed at 508-909-4129, ext 110, or by anniversary. 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