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Mailed free to requesting homes in Brooklyn, the borough of Danielson, Killingly & its villages Vol. III, No. 30 Complimentary home delivery (860) 928-1818/email:[email protected] Friday, May 15, 2009 THIS WEEK’S NECCOG QUOTE Budget moves to referendum ‘The best thing about $400K ADDED BACK TO SCHOOL NUMBERS proposes the future is that it BY MATT SANDERSON tions of teaching positions. be held from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. next comes one day at a VILLAGER STAFF WRITER After emotional testimony from Tuesday, May 19, at all of the five time.’ KILLINGLY — The annual town parents, and a back-and-forth district polling locations. regional meeting at the high school Monday debate between the audience and The Board of Education made night, May 11, was an eye-opener the moderator, the public voted to the cuts to its $33.9 million budget for some taxpayers and parents put $400,000 back into the Board of after the Town Council directed who had not yet heard of the mag- Education’s budget. members to eliminate more than $1 revaluations INSIDE nitude of the Board of Education’s Now taxpayers will be able to million after the initial budget pro- cuts to its 2009-’10 budget, which participate in a machine vote for BY MATT SANDERSON A8-9 — OPINION VILLAGER STAFF WRITER included more than 12 elimina- the budget referendum, which will Turn To XXXX, page A10 A7 — SPORTS A combined bill is currently B1 — HOT SPOT being debated in the state’s House of Representatives to delay the B5-6 — OBITS implementation of recent property B6 — RELIGION revaluations, or the phase-in of a property,until 2011. Legislators are B7-8 — CALENDAR Building up volunteerism also looking closely at an initiative crafted by the Northeastern Connecticut Council of LOCAL HABITAT COMPLETES PROJECT IN PUTNAM Governments and Senate President Pro Tempore Donald Williams’ BY OLIVIA BRAATEN office to bring regional revaluation VILLAGER CORRESPONDENT to land parcels in the 12-town PUTNAM — Walter Euskas region of the Quiet Corner, primar- isn’t usually the source of com- ily to bring municipalities what motion in his Marshall Street could be significant savings from neighborhood. The Putnam the traditional mandated hiring of man, elderly but spry, typically individual revaluation companies quietly tends to his plants, every five years. which, for a master gardener, is The bill passed the state Senate one of life’s greatest delights. last Wednesday, May 6, in a 31-3 One of his favorite spots to vote, and if it passes the House, it work used to be the sunporch at could reach the desk of Gov. M. the back of his house. Six years Jodi Rell for approval. This initia- ago, that sunporch was in such tive could be a first of its kind in Mansion at Balding serious disrepair that Euskas Connecticut, if approved. Hill celebrates 1 year hired a lone carpenter to fix it “This idea was brought to me by up. Eight hundred dollars later, members of the Northeastern the carpenter was gone and the Council of Governments as a way Page A3 sunporch still untouched. to help ease the burden on property So Saturday, May 9, more than taxpayers and lower the cost of a dozen helpers bustled into the revaluation for smaller towns,” neighborhood. Williams (D-Brooklyn) said in a Habitat for Humanity of statement. “This allows small SPORTS Northeast Connecticut had been towns to cooperate regionally and looking for a community project. save hundreds of thousands of dol- As one of three Habitats in the lars. I’m glad I was able to work state and one of 175 in the nation with selectmen of our local towns chosen to partner with Lowe’s and glad they came forward with for “National Women Build such a good idea.” Week,” the group was given a In the combined bill’s language, month to pull together a build towns that agree to delay their involving at least six hours of most recent round of revaluations work and a team of eight. and go into a regional effort with That was no problem for local NECCOG will give revaluation fig- Habitat President Lynn Brodeur. ures of all land parcels of real Sports Roundup “We’d been wanting to do a property encompassed within the women’s build for years,” she towns at the same time period and said. not less than once every five years, Page A7 Brodeur collaborated with Jeff Olivia Braaten photos or annually revalue approximately Lowe’s co-workers Angela White and Jenn Trayner, both of Dayville, signed up for one-fifth of all such parcels over a the Habitat project as soon as they heard about the opportunity. five-year period. Turn To HABITAT, page A12 OUR BETTER NATURE Turn To REVAL, page A11 BLUEBIRDS OF HAPPINESS PAGE A5 Residents concerned with future of Brickyard Road OPINION GET YOUR BY MATT SANDERSON with Route 6. Chambers owns five sition to the proposal. said that after Route 6 was VILLAGER STAFF WRITER POINT ACROSS acres of land across the street from Resident Kerry Lambert said she widened, it became even more diffi- PAGE A8 BROOKLYN — Closing the east- Hank’s Restaurant, which is adja- did not want her street to become a cult to exit onto Route 6, and added ern section of Brickyard Road near cent to the suspect road portion. dead end, and that since Route 6 that she does not feel there is any WHAT TO DO Route 6 was discussed last Chambers said Sandstone was widened, the driving condi- more land to give for a cul-de-sac. Investments conducted a visibility tions have improved there. She also LaCharite said her business A CALENDAR Thursday,May 7, at a special Board of Selectmen’s meeting. study and found that the east exit to said that it might be even better already has limited parking spaces OF AREA EVENTS First Selectman Roger Engle said Route 6 from Brickyard Road was after Wal-Mart is developed. and is concerned with losing more. PAGE B8-9 he would like to see the eastern end at an acute angle and made it diffi- However, Engle said the proposal The selectmen ended the meeting cult for a driver when attempting to has nothing to do with Wal-Mart, without taking action, saying they ILLAGE RIVIA of the road closed and a cul-de-sac VILLAGE TRIVIA put in, citing that it currently pre- turn west. but he has long known that the east need to do more study on sents a safety hazard intersecting Another reason for Chamber’s exit of Brickyard Road has been Brickyard Road. What problem did Leonardo da with Route 6 westbound. request that the board craft a reso- dangerous. Vinci, Winston Churchill, Albert Terry Chambers, of Sandstone lution to amend the safety hazard Most residents agreed that a Matt Sanderson may be reached Einstein, Thomas Edison and Investments, made a presentation is because his company may devel- looping traffic light might be the at (860) 928-1818, ext. 110, or by e- Gen. George Patton have in com- to the board that night regarding op land across the street. best solution to the problem, mail at mon? the unusual angle the eastern por- Several residents spoke during instead of closing down the street. [email protected]. Answer on page 2. tion of Brickyard Road intersects the meeting in favor of or in oppo- Lyn LaCharite, owner of Hank’s, A2 • Friday, May 15, 2009 KILLINGLY VILLAGER 1938 hurricane took area by surprise VILLAGER ALMANAC ecently I wrote of the 1936 flood. were closed. Residents had not completely “It was very scary for a young kid. It QUOTATION OF THE WEEK Rrecovered when the region was was unbelievable,” she said. unexpectedly slammed with a much KILLINGLY (Telephone interviews, May 5 and May worse storm Sept. 21, 1938. Referred to 9, 2009.) as the Long Island Express and the AT 300 Fab (DuBois) Cutler of Putnam was “You can’t beat up the Board of Great New England Hurricane, it only a little older.She lived at 50 Walnut Education if you don’t want to spend caught both the Weather Service and St., was not exposed to such life-threat- money. The sad thing is everyone needs to inhabitants of New England unaware. MARGARET ening damage and considered it a great Instead of following the projected adventure. She remembered that her WEAVER dig into their pockets a little bit. You can’t path that curved easterly into the father, Isidore DuBois, who operated eliminate sports.” Atlantic, this hurricane zoomed north Putnam’s new sewage disposal plant, along the coast of the United States. came by car to St. Mary’s School to take was a lot of damage around Moving unusually rapidly at 70 miles a group of about five children home. — Killingly resident Joe Bove, Alexander’s Lake. per hour, the storm was not staying Trees were coming down, and a huge speaking during public comment at the annual town meeting George reminded me that for the over colder water long enough to signif- one came down up her street and last Monday night at the high school cleanup, there was only manpower, no icantly decrease the wind speeds. crossed the road. The next day, they chainsaws in those days, and it wasn’t Although winds were estimated at 115 spent climbing all over it and having long before Meach’s Hardware Store to 120 miles per hour, they were clocked “an adventure.” Either in 1938 or 1936, had sold all the two-man saws and axes as high as 160 miles per hour.The eye of the bridges on Providence Street were in stock and residents had cleaned out ALMANAC the storm followed the path of the out, and Fab could remember that in everything needed for repairs.