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[email protected] FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2009 THIS WEEK’S NECCOG QUOTE Building up volunteerism ‘The best thing proposes about the future is HABITAT that it comes one day COMPLETES at a time.’ PROJECT IN regional INSIDE PUTNAM revaluations BY OLIVIA BRAATEN VILLAGER CORRESPONDENT A8-9 — OPINION HBY MATT SANDERSON PUTNAM — Walter Euskas VILLAGER STAFF WRITER A16 — SPORTS isn’t usually the source of com- A combined bill is currently being B1 — HOT SPOT motion in his Marshall Street debated in the state’s House of neighborhood. The Putnam man, B3 — CALENDAR Representatives to delay the imple- elderly but spry, typically quietly mentation of recent property reval- B4 — OBITS tends to his plants, which, for a uations, or the phase-in of a proper- B5 — RELIGION master gardener, is one of life’s ty, until 2011. Legislators are also greatest delights. looking closely at an initiative craft- One of his favorite spots to ed by the Northeastern Connecticut work used to be the sunporch at Council of Governments and Senate LOCAL the back of his house. Six years President Pro Tempore Donald ago, that sunporch was in such Williams’ office to bring regional serious disrepair that Euskas revaluation to land parcels in the 12- hired a lone carpenter to fix it up. town region of the Quiet Corner, Eight hundred dollars later, the primarily to bring municipalities carpenter was gone and the sun- what could be significant savings porch still untouched.