Cornwall

CORNWALL — In an unusual move, the Cornwall Board of Education has put together a spending plan for the 2018-19 fiscal year that shows a 6.08 percent reduction in spending, or $152,934 less than was budgeted for this year.
The spending plan was presented to the Board of Finance onThursday, March 8. The education plan and the municipal spending plan submitted by the Board of Selectmen will be discussed at the finance board meeting on Thursday, March 15, at 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall.

CORNWALL — Following submission of a 2018 vegetative spraying plan by the Housatonic Railroad Company, the Cornwall Board of Selectmen discussed what the plan said and what it did not say, at their regular meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 20.
“It explains why it needs to be done,” First Selectman Gordon Ridgway said, noting that it conforms to the legal requirements that towns be notified and given a copy of the management plan.  The railroad company is responsible for the right-of-way along their tracks. 

CORNWALL — The life of a hobo was the subject of a program led by two Cornwall adventurers on Saturday, Feb. 10. Their topic was so tantalizing that the Cornwall Library meeting room was filled to capacity.
“It’s easy to romanticize, but there was nothing romantic about it,” recalled Dick Sears as he introduced the program, which included his own experiences and those of Jerry Doolittle. While they never traveled the rails together, the risks they described were similar.

CORNWALL — Since Bryan Nash Gill’s unexpected death in 2013 his wife, Gina, has made it her mission to find galleries to exhibit the work. 
Creating art “was a form of breathing for him,” Gill said, standing in front of an impressively large print by her late husband. The flat cross-section of a tree’s center, rings expanding outward toward the frame and printed in a bright barn red boldly greeted visitors to the opening of “Reflections” at the Cornwall Library on Saturday night, Feb. 3.