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Light rain doesn’t mar a bloomin’ good sale

KENT — Gardeners are a hardy bunch and were not discouraged by the light rain on Saturday morning. They came out early to shop for plants, yard tools and decorative items at the sale for the Kent Garden Club.

Everything for the sale was donated, said club member Sabine Gibson, and all the proceeds will be used by the club for beautification projects around town.

The club maintains the planters at the Civil War Monument, and provides American flags for holidays such as Memorial Day.

Christmas wreaths in winter for town buildings and monuments are provided by the club...

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Music on the Mountain open to all

Thu, 04/18/2013 - 10:08am
By
Cynthia Hochswender
cynthiah@lakevillejournal.com

KENT — Marvelwood School will host an open mic event on April 26 and everyone is invited.
This is the school’s second open mic. Organizer Bing Bingham (who is also a teacher, director of college counseling and tennis coach) said the overflow of joy and confidence in the students from the first is remarkable to see.
Marvelwood has an abundance of students who excel at singing and playing music. The open mic gives them a chance to perform in the intimacy of the school’s dining hall and to present music and readings and poetry that are personal to them.

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Town meeting May 3

Thu, 04/18/2013 - 10:07am
Board accepts budgets
By
Asher Pavel
asherp@lakevillejournal.com

KENT — On April 9, the Board of Finance (BOF) voted to accept the proposed fiscal year 2013-14 budgets presented by the Board of Selectmen (BOS) and Board of Education (BOE).
Total proposed municipal expenses for the coming year total $4,785,137, including debt service, a transfer to the Capital Fund of $744,900 and $30,000 for a legal fund in anticipation of new activity by either the Schaghticoke Indian Tribe or the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation.
Also included in that total is the proposed Board of Selectmen’s operating budget of $2,931,299.

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Insights into houses from author Leary

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 10:16am
By
Asher Pavel
asherp@lakevillejournal.com

KENT — More than 80 people came to Town Hall to hear author Ann Leary talk about her new book, “The Good House,” on April 6. The talk was sponsored by the Kent Memorial Library.
The novel is set in the fictional town of Wendover on Boston’s North Shore.
“It’s really supposed to be like the Essex-Ipswich area,” Leary said.
The author’s family moved to nearby Marblehead, Mass., when she was a teenager, after having moved around the Midwest.
She was struck, she said, by how many families had been there for multiple generations.

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Using their noodles!

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 10:15am

Simon Winter and Maddie Sheldon were among the eighth-grade students who served dinner to guests at the Kent Center School pasta dinner on Friday, April 5, at the school. The dinner was a fundraiser for the class’s spring trip.

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Budget delayed, will go to finance board on April 9

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 10:14am
By
Asher Pavel
asherp@lakevillejournal.com

KENT — At a regular meeting of the Kent Board of Selectmen (BOS) on Tuesday, April 2, plans to vote on a budget to be submitted to the Board of Finance (BOF) later that evening were changed.
The budget was scheduled to be presented Tuesday, April 9.
Selectman Susi Williams raised an unexpected issue concerning how part-time employee salary budget numbers are calculated. The change would have made an approximately $7,000 difference in the budget’s bottom line.

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Not enough ice for Ice Watch

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 10:13am
By
Asher Pavel
asherp@lakevillejournal.com

KENT — Without enough solid ice in the Housatonic River to erect the Ice Watch tripod, there was no Ice Watch contest this year.
Susie Rundall of the Kent Volunteer Fire Department said, “The rules stipulate there must be enough solid ice in the river for a 300-pound man to walk out on it and erect the tripod.”
The tripod sits on ice in the middle of the river, Rundall explained. It holds the needed mechanisms and ropes to measure the exact moment in time when enough ice melts for the tripod to flow downriver and stop the clock (about 100 feet).

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BOE moves budget to finance board

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 10:12am
By
Asher Pavel
asherp@lakevillejournal.com

KENT — The Board of Education (BOE) voted April 4 to move the proposed 2013-14 education budget to the Board of Finance.
The proposed budget shows a 3.81 percent increase ($152,187) for Kent Center School (KCS), to $4,149,565.
Kent’s contribution to the Region One School District budget is $2,339,081, a 9.62 percent decrease from the 2012-13 budget (a savings of $248,870). That decrease is primarily due to fewer Kent students attending Housatonic Valley Regional High School.

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School adapts former Outpost

Thu, 04/04/2013 - 9:59am
New home for engineering program
By
Asher Pavel
asherp@lakevillejournal.com

KENT — The headquarters of the former online retailer Cyberian Outpost (www.outpost.com) has been purchased by a Kent School alumnus for use by the school, according to Headmaster Richardson Schell.
The building was purchased by Waring Partridge, class of 1962, who is president of the school’s board of trustees. At press time, there was no paperwork filed with the town clerk yet on the sale, so the sale price was not publicly available.

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New business helps open computers’ treasures

Thu, 04/04/2013 - 9:57am
By
Asher Pavel
asherp@lakevillejournal.com

KENT — Are you having trouble mastering the iPad, laptop computer, smart phone or other electronic device your grandchildren gave you last Christmas? A new business in Kent can help you overcome your fear of 21st-century gadgets.
Computer coach Emma Lozman founded Tech One On One last fall to provide help to people in the Northwest Corner who need a little assistance understanding the operating basics as well as how to get the most out of their electronics.
Lozman said, “As much as technology is ubiquitous these days, not everyone has jumped on the bandwagon.

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Work begins on entrance at Kent Falls State Park

Thu, 04/04/2013 - 9:55am
By
Asher Pavel
asherp@lakevillejournal.com

KENT — On March 18 the state of Connecticut began construction of a new entrance to the Kent Falls State Park on Route 7.
First Selectman Bruce Adams said the project involves a redesign of the entrance to the park, to improve traffic flow and vehicular and pedestrian safety.
On popular spring, summer and fall weekends, there are often long lines of vehicles waiting for admission to the park.
Two years ago, “no parking” signs were erected on Route 7 both north and south of the entrance, to discourage drivers from parking their vehicles on that heavily traveled road.

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