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Garden will help Family Services to grow

SALISBURY — Maybe you don’t have one. Maybe you’re just a gardener wanna-be. Your house is in the woods. Or you rent. Or you don’t really know how to get started.

Salisbury Family Services (SFS), the town’s social service agency, wants to change all that by offering plots to interested area residents in a newly built community garden on Salmon Kill Road.

Kim Fiertz, president of the board of SFS, said, “Our mission is to help feed people. And this way they can help themselves, and others.”

Excess produce will be donated to area food banks, Fiertz said. Clients of SFS...

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Garden will help Family Services to grow

Wed, 05/22/2013 - 3:58pm
By
Tara Kelly
tarak@lakevillejournal.com

SALISBURY — Maybe you don’t have one. Maybe you’re just a gardener wanna-be. Your house is in the woods. Or you rent. Or you don’t really know how to get started.
Salisbury Family Services (SFS), the town’s social service agency, wants to change all that by offering plots to interested area residents in a newly built community garden on Salmon Kill Road.
Kim Fiertz, president of the board of SFS, said, “Our mission is to help feed people. And this way they can help themselves, and others.”

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Mill rate rises to 10.4

Wed, 05/22/2013 - 3:57pm
By
Patrick L. Sullivan
patricks@lakevillejournal.com

SALISBURY — The proposed budgets for the fiscal year 2013-14 from the Board of Education and Board of Selectmen passed by a vote of 44-2 at the annual town budget meeting Wednesday, May 15.
Voters also approved publishing a summary page of the new code of ethics instead of the entire document.
The Board of Finance met immediately after the town meeting and set the mill rate at 10.4, up .2 mills from 10.2. This represents a 2 percent increase in property taxes, finance Chairman Bill Willis said.

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Fire on Riga Lane May 18

Wed, 05/22/2013 - 3:54pm
By
Patrick L. Sullivan
patricks@lakevillejournal.com

SALISBURY — A fire destroyed a bathroom and caused significant smoke damage at 11 Riga Lane Saturday morning, May 18.
The house is owned by Donald and Rachel Lamb at 13 Riga Lane. Rachel Lamb said Monday morning, May 20, that her daughter and grandson were living in the house.
“We were all at T-ball, and I just happened to come home early,” she said.
She said she heard the smoke alarms going off at 11 Riga Lane, just up the hill from her home, and went up to investigate.
“I thought the batteries were dead,” she said.

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Child Care Center has a new director

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 9:39am
By
Darcie Drew

SALISBURY — Marcie Boutin, a native of Winsted, became the new director of The Housatonic Child Care Center in February.
She started working at the center in 2009 as a preschool teacher. Before becoming director, she acted as assistant director.
“When the director role opened up, Marcie was a clear fit,” said Kim Cannon, the president of the center’s board of directors.
Having worked her way up through positions at the center, Boutin feels she has a good understanding of all aspects of the job, which focuses primarily on overseeing the teachers.

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Old firehouse, up for sale, will benefit from zone change

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 9:37am
By
Patrick L. Sullivan
patricks@lakevillejournal.com

SALISBURY — After a public hearing, the Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) approved changing the LI20 (light industrial) zone to CG20 (general commercial) on Wednesday, May 8.
The hearing was brief. The issue was whether or not to change the zoning in the area, which is defined by Routes 41 and 44, Village Lane and Ethan Allen Street.
Notably, the zone includes the old firehouse and adjacent building at 9 and 9A Sharon Road.

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Board of Selectmen putting the code of ethics to work

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 9:37am
By
Patrick L. Sullivan
patricks@lakevillejournal.com

SALISBURY — The Board of Selectmen held two special meetings Wednesday, May 8, both in response to the town’s May 3 vote to adopt a code of ethics written by Charlie Vail and Bill Morrill.
The first meeting, at noon, was quick. The selectmen added to the call of the May 15 town budget meeting an item asking for approval of publishing a summary page of the code of ethics, rather than all seven pages, in local newspapers.
The second meeting, at 3 p.m., included Vail and Morrill, plus Comptroller Joe Cleaveland.

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Getting closer to clarity with town’s new zoning regs

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 9:36am
By
Patrick L. Sullivan
patricks@lakevillejournal.com

SALISBURY — The Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) unanimously approved revised zoning regulations for the town after a public hearing on Wednesday, May 8.
It was the end of a process that began in December 2009, when land-use consultant Donald Poland submitted a report on the town’s land-use regulations and procedures.
Poland wrote: “The Salisbury zoning regulations provide almost no policies, standards or requirements for the administration and enforcement of the regulations, processing of applications or issuing of permits.”

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Klemens gets state appointment

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 9:36am
By
Patrick L. Sullivan
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SALISBURY — Planning and Zoning Commission Chairman Michael Klemens has been appointed to the Council on Environmental Quality by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.
Klemens said, “It is an honor to be asked” to serve in the unpaid, volunteer position.
The council acts as an independent environmental watchdog for the state and issues a yearly report. It has nine members, five appointed by the governor (including the chairman) and four by the state Legislature.

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Summer intern is student in Ontario

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 9:18am

LAKEVILLE — Darcie Drew of Great Barrington, Mass., has joined The Lakeville Journal as a summer intern.
Drew, a psychology major, will be a junior when she returns to Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, in the fall. She spent her first year of university abroad at the Bader International Study Center in East Sussex, England.
Drew loves reading and enjoys cooking and swing dancing when not busy with school work. When at Queen’s University, Drew is a research assistant at the Culture and Cognition psychology laboratory, and she volunteers for Telephone Aid Line Kingston.

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Vail/Morrill code chosen in May 3 referendum

Thu, 05/09/2013 - 9:44am
By
Patrick L. Sullivan
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SALISBURY — Voters rejected Selectman Mark Lauretano’s proposals for a code of ethics and an ethics commission in a referendum vote Friday, May 3.
The voters instead chose an alternate code of ethics written by attorneys Charles Vail and William Morrill.
Eight hundred ballots were cast. People eligible to vote were those who already vote in Salisbury, plus anyone owning property valued at $1,000 or more.
The vote on the Lauretano code was 132 in favor, 643 opposed, with 25 abstentions.
The vote on the Lauretano ethics commission was 127 in favor, 638 opposed, with 35 abstentions.

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