Road repaving projects to begin eek

CORNWALL — Ah, summer. Swimming, picnics, road work. The latter may not be very welcome now, but it will be when next spring arrives.Expected to begin this week is repaving of Cream Hill Road, from the school to the Cherry Hill Road intersection. Popple Swamp Road and roads south of the center of Cornwall Bridge will be resurfaced in various ways — asphalt, chip seal and sand and oil — in August.First Selectman Gordon Ridgway reminds drivers to expect some delays and road closures, and to be cautious on newly resurfaced roads, especially those with a layer of sand. Sanded roads will, once again, be an experiment. The state Department of Environmental Protection now prohibits the use of oils that outgas toxins as they dry. It has been left to private companies to come up with formulations that meet the new specifications — and are effective.Oiling roads is a fast and relatively inexpensive way to smooth out minor cracks and preserve paved roads. The practice of oiling began when (all) roads were dirt, as a way to keep dust down. It eventually became apparent it was a good way to harden and minimize the need to regrade roads.The oil emulsions used on Cornwall roads last year did not work well, drying too slowly. They seemed to work elsewhere, however, and it may have been that Cornwall got a bad batch. The town will try a different product this year — one that is hoped to be an improved generation.

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Robert J. Pallone

NORFOLK — Robert J. Pallone, 69, of Perkins Street passed away April 12, 2024, at St. Vincent Medical Center. He was a loving, eccentric CPA. He was kind and compassionate. If you ever needed anything, Bob would be right there. He touched many lives and even saved one.

Bob was born Feb. 5, 1955, in Torrington, the son of the late Joseph and Elizabeth Pallone.

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The artistic life of Joelle Sander

"Flowers" by the late artist and writer Joelle Sander.

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The Cornwall Library unveiled its latest art exhibition, “Live It Up!,” showcasing the work of the late West Cornwall resident Joelle Sander on Saturday, April 13. The twenty works on canvas on display were curated in partnership with the library with the help of her son, Jason Sander, from the collection of paintings she left behind to him. Clearly enamored with nature in all its seasons, Sander, who split time between her home in New York City and her country house in Litchfield County, took inspiration from the distinctive white bark trunks of the area’s many birch trees, the swirling snow of Connecticut’s wintery woods, and even the scenic view of the Audubon in Sharon. The sole painting to depict fauna is a melancholy near-abstract outline of a cow, rootless in a miasma haze of plum and Persian blue paint. Her most prominently displayed painting, “Flowers,” effectively builds up layers of paint so that her flurry of petals takes on a three-dimensional texture in their rough application, reminiscent of another Cornwall artist, Don Bracken.

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On April 23, Race Brook Lodge in Sheffield will host “Feast of Mystics,” a Passover Seder that promises to provide ecstasy for the senses.

“’The Feast of Mystics’ was a title we used for events back when I was running The New Shul,” said Rabbi Zach Fredman of his time at the independent creative community in the West Village in New York City.

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