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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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Progress on all fronts at Kent Center School

Thu, 02/28/2013 - 11:17am
By
Asher Pavel
asherp@lakevillejournal.com

KENT — Kent Center School’s eighth-grade class was the first in the state to implement the state-mandated Student Success Program (SSP). At the Board of Education meeting held Feb. 21, Principal Florence Budge reported that the new program was begun the first week of January.
The program seminars will continue through the months of March and April, she said. In the next school year, the SSP program will be implemented in the sixth grade.
SSP is a program designed to help students develop a plan of action for achieving their goals.

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Hands, money raised for Resident State Trooper plan

Thu, 02/21/2013 - 11:08am
By
Asher Pavel
asherp@lakevillejournal.com

KENT — The 60 people who attended Friday night’s public hearing overwhelmingly and enthusiastically expressed support for bringing back the Resident State Trooper (RST) program.
Former State Troopers Scott Harvey and Andy Ocif had circulated a petition asking the Board of Selectmen to call the hearing.
First Selectman Bruce Adams opened the meeting by saying he had just met with Lt. Barbara Brown, commanding officer of the State Police barracks at Troop L in Litchfield as well as the troop’s Master Sgt. Kevin Refferty and Sgt. Jeffrey Norkus.

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In the shadow(box) of your smile

Thu, 02/21/2013 - 11:07am
By
Asher Pavel
asherp@lakevillejournal.com

KENT — The Housatonic Youth Service Bureau (YSB) offered one of its popular F.Y.I. workshops in Kent on Saturday, Feb. 16.
The workshops, led by artist and teacher Joseph Brien, are held in different towns in the region. Children accompanied by an adult do hands-on projects such as carving spoons or making birdhouses.
At the workshop in Kent (which was held at the First Congregational Church), participants learned how to build shadow boxes out of wood.

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KCS turns into Candyland for Choco Fest

Thu, 02/14/2013 - 11:03am
By
Asher Pavel
asherp@lakevillejournal.com

KENT — Every year people of all ages eagerly line up for admission to the cafeteria at Kent Center School — not for school lunches, but for the annual Chocolate Fest, which benefits the school’s scholarship fund.
The fund provides scholarship assistance to Kent Center School graduates, who completed seventh and eighth grades at the school and went on to college. Charlotte Lindsey of the scholarship fund said there are 20 different named scholarships that are awarded each year.

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Park and Rec report

Thu, 02/14/2013 - 10:59am
New classes, pay raises
By
Asher Pavel
asherp@lakevillejournal.com

KENT — David Dunleavy was unanimously elected chairman of the Park and Recreation Commission (P&R) for a one-year term at a special meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 29.
Jesse Rundall and Brian Casey were elected as alternate members of the commission.
Director Lesly Ferris gave an update on Park and Recreation news at the meeting. She noted fencing classes had been offered but were canceled due to a lack of interest from the public. The classes may be rescheduled at a later time if there is evidence of interest from the public.

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Hearing on resident trooper Feb. 15

Thu, 02/14/2013 - 10:59am
By
Asher Pavel
asherp@lakevillejournal.com

KENT — In response to a petition circulated by Kent residents and retired State Troopers Scott Harvey and Andy Ocif, there will be a public hearing at Town Hall on Friday, Feb 15, at 7 p.m. to discuss reinstating the resident state trooper program.
Harvey and Ocif circulated a petition in Kent calling for a meeting to discuss the program. Both men attended the Feb. 5 Board of Selectmen’s (BOS) meeting, where Harvey asked First Selectman Bruce Adams if State Police would be present at the meeting.

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Regrets all around as Fuchs leaves Kent Library

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 10:48am
By
Asher Pavel
asherp@lakevillejournal.com

KENT — In the year that he was director of the Kent Memorial Library, John Fuchs and his wife, Kathy, fell in love with the town. And the feeling seems to have been mutual. When library patrons and staff talk about him, they praise the job he did.
During the past year he oversaw 300 different programs at the library. He was also instrumental in helping the library embrace digital books, in addition to expanding the collection of printed books.
So when Fuchs announced a few weeks ago that he was resigning, it seemed clear that there were not personal or performance issues involved.

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Youth hoops changes discussed

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 10:46am
By
Asher Pavel
asherp@lakevillejournal.com

KENT — At a meeting of the Park and Recreation Commission on Jan. 29, Director Lesly Ferris had several updates and questions about the town’s basketball program.
Coming up on Saturday, Feb. 23, she said, is the annual HotShots basketball shooting contest at Kent Center School.
The competition, open to boys and girls ages 9 to 15, will begin at 1 p.m. Players have three one-minute rounds to shoot from “hotspots” around the court. Prizes are awarded to first-, second- and third-place winners in several age groups.

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Buy Ice Watch fundraiser tickets by Feb. 15

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 10:45am
By
Asher Pavel
asherp@lakevillejournal.com

KENT — The Housatonic River isn’t completely frozen but large sections of it, in Kent at least, are thickly iced. Which means of course that conditions are much better this year than they were last year for the annual Ice Watch fundraiser for the Kent Volunteer Fire Department.
Susie Rundall shared an update with The Lakeville Journal on plans for this year’s competition (tickets will be sold this year until Feb. 15).
Rundall’s son, Bill Rundall, has been Ice Watch chairman for the past 10 years (the Ice Watch has been held here for more than four decades, she said).

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Jumping for strong hearts

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 10:44am
By
Cynthia Hochswender
cynthiah@lakevillejournal.com

KENT — Students in grades two through six took part in the annual Jump Rope for Heart event held at Kent Center School on Friday, Feb. 1.
Jump Rope for Heart is a national educational event and fundraiser sponsored by the American Heart Association. Physical education teacher Marci Saunders took the children through a variety of fitness activities.
The youngest students, in grades two and three, did Jump the Snake, Ocean Waves, Hopscotch, Twirl ’n Jumps, Long Rope, Climb the Mountain, Hula Hoops, regular jump roping and jumping through an agility ladder.

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