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OPINION What To Look Forward To In 2016; Columns A4
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Volume 20, Number 30 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2015 AND JANUARY 1, 2016
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GILBERT SCHOOL
Funds owed,
contract
needed
By SHAW ISRAEL IZIKSON
WINSTED Four months into

the 2015-2016 school year, Gilbert
School Superintendent Anthony Serio
said that the school is still running
without a contract and the town owes
money in tuition.
Earlier in the year, the Board of
Education went through a series of
negotiation meetings with the W.L.
Gilbert Trust for a contract for 20152016.
In March, the board disclosed
a controversial proposed plan that
would allow district students to attend
four different high schools around the
area except for Gilbert.
In April, board members voted to
PHOTO BY SHAW ISRAEL IZIKSON
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
See CONTRACT, page A7
The jolly old elf himself, Santa Claus, traveled thousands of miles from the North Pole to take part in the 12th annual Gator Parade on Saturday, Dec. 19. The event was organized by the Winchester Fire Department and included trucks and apparatus ablaze with Christmas lights
and decorations. To me, this is the best parade in the world, Santa said. For pictures and full coverage, turn to Page A3.
Winchester School District Receiver

Robert Travaglini recently sat down
with The Winsted Journal to give an
update on where the district stands.
Turn to page A7 for the story.
The Winsted Journal is taking a week off. The next issue is Jan. 8, 2016.
Centrella house sold

WINSTED At a short special
town meeting on Monday, Dec. 21,
residents approved the sale of the
house formerly belonging to the
Centrella family.
The house, located at 198 Gilbert
Ave., was co-owned by former Finance
Director Henry Centrella and his exwife, Gregg.
After pleading guilty to five charges
of larceny, Henry Centrella was sentenced to 20 years in prison, suspended
after 11 years and five years probation,
in January 2014.
As part of his plea deal, Centrella
surrendered interest in his house to

the town, with Gregg Centrella surrendering her interest in the property
in May 2014.
The town retained David Sartirana
of Northwest CT Realty to market the
property.
According to the towns online
assessor database, the property was
appraised this year at $157,400 and
assessed at $110,180.
The house sitting on the 0.48 acres
of land was built in 1929.
Farmington residents Patricia
McKernan and Kelsey McKernan offered $70,000 in cash for the property.
Economic Development Commis-
TOWN MANAGER SEARCH
sion Chairman Frank Berg, who is

also a real estate agent for Vision Real
Estate, represented both McKernans.
Mayor Candy Perez, who also
moderated the meeting, spoke at the
beginning of the meeting about the
history of the house, the process of
how the town has tried to sell the
house and the current condition of
the property.
This property has been in our
hands for over a year now, Perez
said. It has been listed on a real estate
brokers site. It is not something that
we just sent out to bid with an ad in
See SOLD, page A7
Sedlack gives update

WINSTED Selectman Steven

Sedlack gave a brief update on the
current search for a new town manager during the Board of Selectmens
meeting on Monday, Dec. 21.
Former Town Manager Dale
Martins final day was Nov. 18. In the
interim, Barkhamsted resident Robert
Geiger is serving as town manager.
A subcommittee has been formed
to review applications for the position.
The subcommittee is made up of
Selectmen Sedlack, Glenn Albanesius,
Jack Bourque and former mayor Candace Bouchard.
Sedlack said the application deadline for the town manager position was
Tuesday, Dec. 15.
We have 26 candidates at this particular point, Sedlack said. Ten of the
26 applicants are from Connecticut.
Five of the applicants are regional
candidates, a couple of them in Maine,
one in Massachusetts and two in New

York state. There are 11 candidates from
outside the area, some as far away as
Alaska, Florida and Oregon. I think
weve done a good job in getting the
word out via our various sources.
Sedlack said the subcommittee
eliminated between six to eight applicants for not being able to meet
certifications and qualifications for
the position.
He said that the subcommittee will
be conducting phone interviews with
the remaining candidates over the next
two weeks.
The hope is that in early January
we will sit down as a board and have
some discussions and we will decide
how many candidates do we want for
interviews, Sedlack said. Things are
on track and are happening to the
timeline as we set out.
Sedlack said that the boards intent
is to have a new town manager by early
February.
Resident arrested
for alleged thefts
The residence of Donna and Ted Sherman won the Recreation Departments annual lighting contest in
the multi-colored lights category.
Lighting contest winners announced

WINSTED The Winsted Recreation Department announced the
winners of its Christmas lighting
contest on Thursday, Dec. 17.
The judges of the contest were
members of the Recreation Department.

The winners for multi-colored
lights are Donna and Ted Sherman
of 275 Oak St.; for white lights are
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WINSTED Aleczaire Ryan

Berkemeir, 18, of 36 Rockwell St.,
was arrested by the Winchester Police Department at his residence on
Monday, Dec. 14.
According to a press release from
the department, Berkemeir was arrested on a warrant on three counts
of larceny in the sixth degree by possession.
The property consisted of several
stolen GPS units.
According to the states court database, the three charges occurred on
Oct. 3 and are considered to be a class
C misdemeanors which can carry up
to three months in jail and a fine of
up to $500 for each count.
The database lists that Berkemeir
was released from custody with a
promise to appear.
His next court date is listed as
Thursday, Jan. 21, at 10 a.m. at Bantam
Superior Court.
Winchester Police Chief William
Fitzgerald said there have been issues
with car break-ins since October.

We have had approximately 13
motor vehicle thefts, Fitzgerald said.
Right now, we have three counts of
larceny to this individual that we can
prove at this time. The investigation
is continuing as with the other thefts
we have experienced in town, so we
are making some progress with this
arrest.
Fitzgerald asks that any resident
who sees any suspicious activity to
report it to the police.
Also please remove valuables from
your cars, he said. These individuals
are usually looking for quick change
and unlocked doors. They are not
breaking windows to get into the cars
to steal. We do track all of these cases.
We have new software programs that
manages these cases and tracks them
by leads. We have had three more
arrests since Berkemeirs arrest, but
we do have a couple of leads on that.
We are not sure if it is one or several
individuals doing this.
To contact the Winchester Police
Department, call 860-379-2721.
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Area News
Christmas spirit at First Church

By ERICA TAYLOR
BARKHAMSTED The
First Congregational Church
of Barkhamsted held its annual
living nativity Christmas Pageant
during its regular worship service
on Sunday, Dec. 20.
The play is a re-enactment of
the birth of Jesus Christ and even
includes a live donkey brought
in by congregation member, Kay
Page Greaser.
Greaser said she lives just
down the street and enjoys
bringing her donkey, Patches, to
visit with the children and help
get everyone in the holiday spirit.
Its been tradition for 18
years, the Rev. Susan Wyman
said. The first time we did this
it was spontaneous. It was just
people in the congregation that
suddenly donned costumes, and
it eventually became a little bit
more organized. We have a nar-
By ALICIA KIRSCH
PHOTOS BY ERICA TAYLOR
From left, some of the members of the First Congregational Church of Barkhamsted who
took part in its annual living nativity Christmas Pageant on Sunday, Dec. 20.
rator who comes in every year,
and we try to always have a live
baby as baby Jesus.
Wyman was joined by her son,
Steven Blackburn, who participated as Joseph in the Christmas
Pageant.
The Christmas Pageant inspires recruitment of family and
friends of the congregation to fill
out the characters needed, and
members work together to make
it a unique show. It is usually

always held on the Sunday before
Christmas.
Its a family tradition in a
generation family church, Wyman said.
General Store celebrates first anniversary

By ALICIA KIRSCH
COLEBROOK On Sunday, Dec. 13, the Colebrook

General Store celebrated its first
anniversary since reopening
under new owner Jodi Marinelli.
The store, located at 559
Colebrook Road, celebrated
by throwing a pizza party for
the town, which employee and
Marinellis sister, Jesse Marinelli,
said had a really good turnout.
The Colebrook Store had
previously shut its doors in 2007.
At the time, the Colebrook Store
held the title of being the oldest
continuously operating general
store in Connecticut from 1812
to 2007.
The store was closed for two
years before the building was
purchased by The Colebrook
Preservation Society.
Book published on
historical murder case
The society made resident

Miriam Briggs the manager of
the store, and it reopened in
July 2013. However, Briggs shut
down the store in March 2014
due to a dispute between her
and the society.
Jodi Marinelli said she has
had to put in a lot of hard
work to get the store ready for
the reopening and said she has
continued to improve it over the
last year with things like new
shelving in the store section.
The decorations that grace
the walls range from things that
were left from previous owners
to new additions or things donated by the community.
Everyone has been very supportive, Marinelli said. There
is a constant flow of people of
all ages coming through the
store for breakfast and lunch
BARKHAMSTED
Five years ago, Barkhamsted
Historical Society member
and former First Selectman
Michael D. Fox presented a
program on the murder of
Hubert Case.
The case happened in 1914
in Barkhamsted Hollow.
After the presentation,
representatives of the historical society asked Fox if he
would write his presentation
down on paper to be sold as
a fundraiser for the society.
He obliged, and this led to
the publication of the book
Murder in Barkhamsted
Hollow.
Case was a prominent
figure in Barkhamsted who
was brutally murdered in his
own store in 1914.
Original accounts of
suspects named a tall man
and short man but when
no suspects, no clues, a
compromised crime scene
were all the police could come
up with, the trial seemed to
take a desperate turn. Two
new suspects were produced

seemingly from out of left
field.
Fox said that the trial
ended quickly but left a lot of
questions and uncertainty in
the community.
The story has been a story
passed down by three or four
generations of locals, Fox
said. By writing this book,
it brings closure to the case.
I worked very hard to collect
all the facts. For the book I
interviewed fellow Historical
Society members some of
them were only 3 or 4 at the
time of the murder.
Fox said he also scoured
U.S. Naval Observatory
weather reports, thousands of
pages of microfiche from the
Evening Citizen newspaper at
the Beardsley and Memorial
Library, and historical articles
from the Hartford Courant.
Copies may be purchased
through the Barkhamsted
Historical Society. All proceeds from the sale of the
book will go to the society.
For more information call
860 738-2456.
Helping Hands Chore Service

receives $500 grant
PHOTO BY ALICIA KIRSCH
Colebrook General Store employee Jesse Marinelli and her

sister, owner Jodi Marinelli.
or maybe just a cold drink and
a friendly game of checkers. We
have also started catering and
offering deli platters for any-
thing from business meetings

to school events.
For more information visit
www. colebrookstore.net.
Send news and photos to editor@winstedjournal.com
WINSTED Helping Hands

Chore Service, a 501(c)(3) community-based, in-home care
service, received a $500 year-end/
critical needs grant from The
Draper Foundation Fund, a fund
of The Community Foundation
of Northwest Connecticut.
The funding will support food
assistance for seniors who face
difficult, economic times this
winter.
Gift cards were purchased locally at Stop & Shop and Winsted
Super Saver and distributed to
clients in need.
Our staff made every effort
to deliver the gift cards in time
for the holidays, said Program
Director Irene Connole. We
wanted our senior clients to
know how much the community
cares about them.
Helping Hands is partially
funded by a grant from Western Connecticut Area Agency
on Aging. To learn more about
Helping Hands, call 860-3794900 or visit the website at www.
helpinghandschoreservice.org.
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We are thankful for those in our communities who support Sharon Hospital. We are here for you.
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Winsted
Gator Parade spreads town cheer

WINSTED The 12th annual

Gator Parade was held on Saturday,
Dec. 19.
The event started on Meadow
Street and covered many miles of
town roads.
Fire departments and other
town vehicles covered their trucks
with festive Christmas lights and
decorations.
The parade is organized annually
by the Winchester Fire Department
and is named after the late Gaeton
Gator Gangi.
Gangi was a longtime member
of the fire department who died
in 2004.
Departments from other towns
participated in this years parade,
including Colebrook, Harwinton
West Side, Wilson, Washington,
Danbury and Sandisfield, Mass.
Also participating in the event
was a float by The Elks Clubs Antlers
Youth Group.
This is one of the best parades
you will ever find, Winchester
Center Fire Department Chief Peter
Marchand said. No one should
ever miss it. Ive taken part in this
for the past 11 years and its great
to be here. I love it.

Wilson firefighter Tom Dillon
brought along with him the towns
rescue boat, decked out in Christmas lights.
Its a lot of fun, Dillon said. I
run the Windsor torch light parade
every year, so this is my opportunity
to come out to Winsted and have
fun and to be with friends. This is
my second year here in this parade.
I sell fire equipment in this area, so
most of the people in this parade
are my customers. Its nice to come
out and support them.
Another participant from a surrounding town was Reginald Avery
from the Burrville Fire Department.
This is the first time Ive taken
part in this, Avery said. We found
out about this at the last minute and
got this apparatus all decorated.
Santa Claus, who took part in
the parade by riding one of the
Winchester Fire Departments
vehicles, gave his approval to the
holiday tradition.
I love this parade, Santa said.
To me, its the best parade in the
world. We get a lot of support from
our community for this parade.
Everyone comes together to watch
this.
PHOTOS BY SHAW ISRAEL IZIKSON
Winchester Center Fire Department Chief Peter Marchand took part in the 12th annual Gator Parade on Dec. 19.
Some of the many fire trucks and emergency vehicles that were decorated for the annual Gator
Parade. In all, eight fire departments, along with the Winsted Elks Antlers Youth Group and
the Winsted Ambulance Department, took part in the event.
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took part in the parade.
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OPINION
Gotchas: some good, not so good
The Winsted Journal

EDITORIAL PAGE A4
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2015

AND JANUARY 1, 2016
Looking forward
to 2016
s we publish this last issue of The Winsted Journal for

2015, its time once again to write about what we expect
to be the big issues for next year.
Winsted had plenty to contend with this year, from losing a
town manager and a police chief, to having the state take over
the school district. In 2016, there will probably be quite a few
issues involving the direction of the town and its future.
The first matter that the town will have to deal with in 2016
is finding a new town manager.
Former Town Manager Dale Martin announced his resignation in late September, and his last day with the town was in
late November.
The town government started its search for a new town
manager almost immediately, hiring Barkhamsted resident
Robert Geiger as the interim town manager.
The question right now is what are the most important
qualifications the board will look for in a town manager. Will
the board choose someone who has had experience with Winsted or someone who is an outsider just like Martin, who
lived in Michigan before moving to town?
The discussions and debates on the questions surrounding a
potential town manager during the next few Board of Selectmens meetings should be interesting.
The second big issue the town will have to deal with is its
proposed fiscal 2016-2017 budget.
In an interview with The Winsted Journal in October,
Winchester School District Receiver Robert Travaglini said that
he plans to present a school budget higher than the state-mandated Minimum Budget Requirement (MBR). Since the school
budget makes up a big portion of the towns budget, this might
set off a few alarms with certain residents, specifically the
residents who have constantly come to meetings with their no
new taxes rhetoric.
In relation to the school district, another issue is if and when
the Board of Education regains power over the school district.
When Travaglini was chosen by the state to be the school
districts receiver in August, one of his first acts was to suspend
all further Board of Education meetings. Despite this, the town
went ahead with electing new Board of Education members in
November.
It should be interesting to see how much power Travaglini
eventually allows the board in overseeing the school district.
Finally, economic development will be a major issue in 2016,
just as it has been for many years.
In August, the Board of Selectmen chose to hire Craig
Stevenson from Connected to Connecticut as its economic
development coordinator. It will be interesting to see what
Stevenson brings to the table during the course of 2016.
In terms of economic development, what is needed is
stability. It seems as if for every one store that opens up there
are two that close down, and this year was no exception: A new
Dunkin Donuts opened near the west end of town, but longtime eateries Kellys Kitchen, aka NOSH, closed, along with The
Bear Claw Coffee House.
What is needed in this town is economic development that
will be around for the long term and is unique to the area. For
example, instead of the town looking for more restaurants and
eateries, maybe it is time to look for something different that
other towns do not offer.
During the past year we have suggested that the town pursue
opening a performing arts venue or a hotel to bring in tourists.
In any case, it should be interesting to see in what direction
Stevenson guides the town when it comes to economic development.
Also in 2016, The Winsted Journal will be celebrating its
20th year of publication. With this in mind, we would like to
take a moment to thank all of our readers, subscribers and
advertisers who have supported us over the past 20 years. We
are appreciative of all of them.
This issue of the Journal is the last of 2015. We will be going
on a short holiday break, and our next issue will be on Friday,
Jan. 8. From all of us at The Winsted Journal, we wish you a
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
ost of those seemingly

unfair gotcha questions this presidential
season appear to be aimed at
Republican candidates, but thats
because, like Lincolns common
people, the Lord made so many of
them. Meanwhile, the obscenely
few Democratic candidates are
ducking debates and even press
conferences that are gotcha producers. With all that in mind, a
little history and perspective are
in order.
A gotcha question can be defined as one that seems to trap a
candidate into giving an answer
that is damaging to his character,
his cause or both. Sometimes its
a hard question, other times, a
snarky one. The distinction can
be difficult to fathom, as the
gotcha part is often in the eye of
the beholder.
Its pretty clear, however, that
gotcha questions have been bipartisan. In fact, you can trace the first
truly gotcha questions theres a
tie to the 1988 campaign and
both targets were Democrats.
One destroyed Gary Hart, then
the front runner, and the second
helped defeat Michael Dukakis,
the nominee.
The Hart gotcha has been
overshadowed in political lore by
the famous photograph that illustrated it. You surely remember
If You Ask Me
Dick Ahles
the picture: There was candidate

Hart, sitting on a dock, dressed
in a T-shirt bearing the legend,
monkey business, with a lovely
woman, not his wife, aboard
his lap.
The photo didnt turn up until
after a sloppy stakeout by The
Miami Herald revealed Hart may
or may not have weekended with
the same woman. But The Washington Post was also working on
a story dealing with another Hart
affair of the heart, and it was a Post
reporter who asked the gotcha:
Have you ever committed
adultery?
Hart angrily refused to answer
but after the reporter privately
told him the paper knew about
a second woman, he quit the
campaign and the paper quite
properly dropped the story.
It was well known around
Washington that Hart liked
women and that all the women
he liked were not his wife, writes
Matt Bai in his book on Hart, All
the Truths Out: The Week Politics
Went Tabloid. But Hart assumed
his avocation would be tolerated,
In The
Public Interest
Ralph Nader
Ellen Rockwell Beardsley had

started this institution in 1901,
he told me, with a donation of
ten thousand dollars a princely
sum at that time. He then drove
up Spencer Street until we got
to the Litchfield Country Hospital the first such institution
in the county in 1902, when it
was built, and also a product of
private charity.
Down a few more roads to
the other end of town, and we
were at the Gilbert School, a high
school that for years was regarded
as among the best in the nation.
The Gilbert School was
launched by a local industrialist,
William Gilbert, who built the
turn, caused Ted Cruz to accuse

debate reporters of picking on
Republicans while asking the
Democratic candidates fawning
questions.
Actually, Anderson Coopers
first debate question to Hillary
Clinton sounded rather gotcha:
Will you say or do anything to
be president?
In between the first gotchas in
the 1980s and the present festivities, there were plenty of stupid
and petty gotchas. A reporter
asking George W. Bush to identify the presidents of Chechnya,
Taiwan and other exotic places
comes to mind.
But there was also Katie
Courics interest in knowing what
papers and magazines vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin regularly read. When Palin answered
by speaking of her great appreciation for the media, Couric tried
again and Palin revealed she read
all of them, any of them that have
been in front of me over all these
years.And Couric was accused of
being unfair.
Recently, Palin admirably told
an interviewer, I had a crappy
answer but it was a fair question.
And so it goes.
Simsbury resident Dick Ahles is
a retired journalist. Email him at
dahles@hotmail.com.
Infection and its control:

the first vaccines
Part 2
dward Jenner, a physician

in Gloucestershire in the
west of England, noted
that milkmaids and blacksmiths
got cowpox sores from cows and
horses and these quickly healed.
Even before Jenner took an interest, the milkmaids knew that
they could care for people ill with
smallpox and not get the disease
themselves. Jenner records this
acquired immunity in a 1798
publication and confirmed it by
experiment: he removed material from a milkmaids pustules,
pricked the skin of a boy, who
developed a sore, and then became immune to smallpox, which
Jenner also inoculated into his
arm. The ethics and other aspects
of the experiment deserve more
detailed explanation, but Jenners
results and their publication
led to the first effective vaccine
for a disease. It was used until
smallpox was eliminated in the
1970s. What was missing in the
years after Jenners discovery was
a science of microbiology and
what became the germ theory of
infection and disease.
Beginning in 1857, Louis Pasteur showed that all fermentation
was due to microorganisms.
Wine, for example, is the product
of a fermentation carried out
by yeast. The wine of his native
region, the Jura, was not very
good. Wondering why, Pasteur

looked at it under a microscope
and discovered yeast and bacteria.
Bacteria were ruining the wine.
The vintners had to avoid bacterial contamination, which he told
them how to do. In France, if you
can save the wine industry of a
region, you become a hero. Using
the principles of microbiology,
Pasteur improved French and
British beer and rescued the silk
industry in the south of France.
He also realized that bacteria
in a wound would grow at the
expense of the patient and cause
infection and disease. Reading
these reports in about 1864 led
Joseph Lister to develop antiseptic surgery.
Pasteur infuriated the medical
profession, which did not believe
that anything as small as bacteria could kill a human being.
Most physicians thought that
the bacteria found in animals or
patients were the result of disease
and not its cause. They chastised
Pasteur for being a chemist and
not a physician. Pasteur, who was
articulate and combative, almost
a warrior, barely concealed his
contempt. There were a few doctors who were exceptions like
Joseph Lister.
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u
u
Pasteur came to vaccines late
in his career. His laboratory was
working on chicken cholera,
which could kill all of the chick-
The tradition of charity in Winsted
he old saying Its better

to give than to receive is
often recited around the
holidays when it comes to the
tradition of gift giving. This type
of giving is usually centered on
small, personal gifts such as items
of clothing, books and delicious
food. But the saying can apply
to the rewards of giving beyond
friends and family.
Our generosity can also include long-lasting ways to benefit
society now and in the future.
We must ask ourselves what gifts
we want to give to future generations so that their lives can be
nourished.
In my book, The Seventeen
Traditions, I wrote about the
ideals my parents passed along to
my siblings and me. The chapter
on the tradition of charity contains the following story, which I
hope will inspire some reflection
and contemplation this holiday
season.
One bright summer afternoon, Dad took me for a ride
around town. I suspected there
was a purpose to this trip beyond
catching the breezes by the lake
or watching the teenagers playing
sandlot baseball near the high
school, and I was right.
First, we drove past the
Beardsley and Memorial Library.
or protected, by the media, as had

the peccadilloes of past pols. He
was wrong.
The second gotcha question
of the campaign was asked by
CNNs Bernard Shaw during a
debate between the Democratic
nominee, Gov. Michael Dukakis,
and his opponent, Vice President
George H.W. Bush.
Shaw, who liked to think of
himself as the asker of tough questions, knew Dukakis was opposed
to capital punishment, but found
a new way to ask about it:
Governor, if Kitty Dukakis
were raped and murdered, would
you favor an irrevocable death
penalty for the killer?
No, I dont, Bernard,Dukakis
quickly replied. And I think that
you know that Ive opposed the
death penalty all of my life.
Later, staff members argued
Dukakis responded so coldly
because he wasnt feeling well,
had a virus, was running a fever,
but Susan Estrich, Dukakiss campaign manager, ultimately admitted that, When he answered by
talking policy, I knew we had lost
the election.
You might agree these questions were a bit rougher than
asking Donald Trump to identify
his favorite Bible verses upon
hearing him boast that the Bible
was his favorite read, which, in
world-renowned Gilbert Clock

Co. in Winsted. His original gift
established Gilbert as a private
secondary school, the Gilbert
School, but it gradually became
more public over the years as
more tax dollars were used to supplement a declining endowment.
Turning left, my father drove
up a hill to Highland Lake. Nearby there was a small, inviting
park with some seats and tables
for having outdoor lunchesa
park established by another local
philanthropist. Then we made a
180-degree turn and drove down
toward the long Main Street
passing the Winchester Historical
Society, founded and nurtured
with charitable contributions.
u
u
u
He drove past some other
charities, including the imposing
Gilbert Home for orphans and
other needy children, and arrived
at the beautiful Soldiers Monument, so central to my childhood
imagination. The town had paid
a dear price in casualties during
the Civil War, and after the war
ended a volunteer veteran and
local philanthropist promoted
the idea of such a memorial; it
was finally dedicated in 1890.
With several donated acres of
hilltop land, the structure and its
grounds soon became a haven
for the townspeople, who still

conduct summer theater there,
and whose children frolic on
its grounds or run around the
perimeter.
When wed finished our tour
of the area, my father pulled up
to our house and turned the
ignition off.
See all those fine establishments in our little town?
he said to me. Think about
how important they are to our
community. Then ask yourself
this question: Since 1900, there
were and are at least a hundred
townspeople as wealthy as those
philanthropists were. What kind
of town would this be if those
people put some of their wealth
back into the community the
same way?
We sat there together in
silence, a light wind breezing
through the open windows.
While Ive since traveled many
miles to many places, Ive never
forgotten the lesson I learned on
that one trip.
Consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph
Nader grew up in Winsted and is
a graduate of The Gilbert School.
He is the founder of the American
Museum of Tort Law, located at
654 Main St.
The Body
Scientific
Richard H. Kessin
ens or rabbits on a farm. His
student, Charles Chamberland,
had learned to grow the cholera bacteria in chicken broth
and proved that these bacteria
would quickly kill chickens. In
the spring of 1879, Chamberland
went fishing and left a flask of
cholera bacteria on his lab bench
for weeks. When he returned, he
inoculated a batch of chickens
with this stale culture, but the
chickens did not become sick.
He was about to start over with
a fresh culture of bacteria and
a new batch of chickens when
Pasteur told him to inoculate
lethal cholera bacteria into the
chickens that had survived the
stale culture. They survived,
while the new batch of chickens
all died. The cholera bacteria that
had been left on the bench had
become weakened, but could still
cause immunity in chickens.
During the same period, the
lab was working on anthrax,
which killed many cattle and
sheep in Europe. Pasteur sent
Chamberland and Emile Roux,
a physician who had joined the
lab, to a farm near Chartres where
they observed that anthrax was
killing cattle and sheep, but not
chickens. Pasteur reasoned that
birds have a higher temperature
(about 105F) than mammals
(98.6F) and perhaps that was
what protected the birds. It
turned out to be true anthrax
bacteria could grow at 105F, but

would not kill the animals. Here
was a way to create another weakened bacteria for another vaccine,
which Chamberland and Roux
created and published. There was
derision about the effectiveness
of anthrax vaccination from
veterinarians; after a dispute, a
challenge was arranged at a village outside Paris called Pouillyle-fort. Under a strict protocol,
25 sheep were inoculated with the
vaccine (there was one booster
shot for them) and 25 left as
unvaccinated controls. On May
31, 1881, all of the animals were
infected with lethal anthrax. Two
days later, the animals that had
not been vaccinated were dead
or dying.
Today there is a plaque on a
stone barn in Pouilly-le-fort, but
this very public trial, based on the
ideas that microbes cause disease
and that they can be weakened to
make vaccines, introduced a new
era to medicine. Soon hundreds
of thousands of cattle and sheep
across Europe were vaccinated
for anthrax and losses dropped.
This short account leaves out
a lot of detail, drama, doubt and
even a little skullduggery, but it
celebrates a milestone. Pasteur
had not yet attacked a human
disease, but the laboratory was
working on rabies, a difficult and
dangerous proposition.
Richard Kessin is professor of
pathology and microbiology emeritus at Columbia University. He
lives in Norfolk. This series of columns on Infection and its Control
(and all previous columns) can be
found at www.tricornernews.com/
search/node/Richard%20Kessin/.
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Library receives state grant

WINSTED The states Library Board has approved a Public

Library Construction Grant for
the Beardsley and Memorial Library at 40 Munro Place.
According to a letter sent to
State Rep. Jay Case (R-63) on
Monday, Dec. 7, co-written by
State Library Board Chairman
John Barry and State Librarian
Kendall Wiggin, the grant is in the
amount of $67,500 for a facility
maintenance project.
The letter states that, once the
library has matching funds, the
State Library Board will submit
a request to the Office of Policy
and Management for State Bond
Commission approval
Once the grant is approved by
the bond commission, the library
will have 18 months to sign with
a building contractor in order to

get the project started.
According to Library Services
Director Karin Taylor, the library
already has the matching funds
for the grant.
We dont have any contractors
yet because we cant sign anyone
until the grant gets approved by
the Bonding Commission,Taylor
said. Thats always a process. We
hope to get on the commissions
agenda in May. Any work will start
next year.
Taylor said that the project will
be to build more parking spaces
for the library.
Currently we have 22 parking spaces and only one that is
handicapped parking, Taylor
said. That is one of the big issues.
We need to increase handicapped
parking capacity. We also need to
add some outdoor space to the
library, which has been needed

for some time.
Taylor said she does not know
how many spaces will be added to
the librarys parking lot.
However, in order to add more
space, Taylor said that the library
purchased the property next door
this year.
The property at 734 Main St.
is listed in the town assessors database as being owned by Michael
and Nancy Connole.
This year, the property was
assessed at $84,770 and appraised
at $121,100.
Taylor said the property was
purchased by the library through
several grant funds.
The house currently on the
property itself will be demolished
to make way for the parking
spaces.
This will be our big project for
us next year because the project is

big enough to handle right now,
she said.The idea for our strategic
plan is the eventual expansion
of the librarys building, but we
didnt want to sacrifice the parking
for that. This is why the strategic
plan will be completed in phases.
In a press release issued on
Wednesday, Dec. 16, Case said
he is happy that the library will
receive the grant.
Seeing tax dollars come back
to help our local resources, such as
the one allocated for our library,
is what good state government
promotes, Case said. I opposed
the proposed library cuts put forth
by the majority party last session
because I believe that our libraries
serve the community in several
ways from technology access to
research. I will continue to advocate for their funding.
Creative connections at Hurley Business Park

By ERICA TAYLOR
NEW HARTFORD The

Northwest Connecticut Arts
Council hosted its annual Holiday CultureMIX networking and
food drive event at Hurley Business Park on Thursday, Dec. 17.
The building, previously the
home of an Ovation Guitar factory, is now a venue for artists
and their studios.
The studios in the artists wing
of Hurley Business Park were
open for tours on Dec. 17, with
some open after the event for extended browsing and shopping.
The event showcased local
artwork including illustration,
photography, handmade and
fashion.
The council hosts several CultureMIX events yearly, based on
the idea of business after hours,
for those working during the
day to be able to come network
with other cultural community
enthusiasts.
Maggie Cady, program coordinator of the Council, said the
event was a first for Hurley.
This was a holiday event, so
it was a little more festive, Cady
said.We had a lot of door prizes,
which was really special because

it really shows the contribution
and involvement of the residents
of the Hurley Business Park.
With the rainy weather of
Dec. 17 evening and the upcoming holiday, Cady was surprised
at what she said was excellent
turnout.
The unusual space on the second floor of the building buzzing
with artists and friends enjoying
cocktails, donated goodies and
making connections.
Its a free event, and it pushes
the creative community to get
out of their studios to really get
to know each other and whose
around Cady said. You dont
often know that your neighbor
is an artist, or that somebody
down the street is doing that, so
when you come out to something
like this you learn and make
connections.
People really enjoyed going
to the studios during the event,
Cady said.
Olga Zvezdina of Olga Z Design Studio exhibited Custom
Fashion for Every Day, including
a meticulously hand-sewn wrap
for women.
Zvezdina provided a tour of
PHOTO BY ERICA TAYLOR
Olga Zvezdina of Olga Z Design Studio at the holiday CultureMIX at Hurley Business Park held on Thursday, Dec. 17.
her studio on the third floor of
Hurley Business Park, which
was alive with creative energy.
Zvezdina had pictures of pricey
name brand and current fashions
on the wall, many of which she
scrupulously reproduced, and
re-worked.
First ever Christmas farmers market

By ERICA TAYLOR
WINSTED The first ever

Winsted Farmers Christmas
Market was held at the Winsted
Recreation Department Building
on on Saturday, Dec. 19.
Local consumers attended
the market to stock up on last
minute gifts and food for holiday
festivities.
According to organizers, more
than 100 shoppers checked out
booths at the market including
vendors such as Howling Flats
Farm, Ridge Runner Soaps and
Sweet Pea Cheeses and participated in a free light bulb swap.
Weve had a wonderfully successful day today, co-organizer
Phillip Allen said. Thanks especially to the light bulb swap that
was paid for by the Winchester
Energy Commission grant with
Eversource. That brought in lots
and lots of people to our market.
According to Allen, the vendors were all pleased, as Sweet
Pea Cheeses sold out of stock, and
Ridge Runner soaps had to make
an emergency run for extras.
Explorations
Charter
School receives
contribution
WINSTED Northwest
Community Bank has provided
Explorations Charter School
with a contribution for school
office panic buttons as well as
two-way radio sets to be used
both inside the school as well as
during outside programs.
Jill E. Johnson, Explorations
executive director and principal,
states, Upgraded security and
communication capabilities are
not in our budget. Northwest
Community Banks $1640 gift
boosts our safety measures for
students and staff in our school
as well as in our many offsite
activities. The banks support
over the last several years has
made a significant impact on our
overall success.
We are looking forward to

an even bigger and better holiday
market for next year, Allen said.
Musician Chris Kiliano provided holiday favorites on the accordion and Frosty the Snowman
came to greet visiting families and
children.
Reese Piper, owner of Ridge
Runner Soaps, said he was impressed with the turnout.
There were a lot more people
than expected, and the last minute
shoppers really helped us out,
Piper said.
Alison Jackman, representative of Eversource Energy, worked
at the markets light bulb swap.
The town of Winchester has
earned a $5,000 grant through the
states Clean Energies Communities program, which is a part of
Energize Connecticut, Jackman
63
said. Because of residential, municipal and business participation

in energy efficiency programs, the
town has received 100 points in
the Clean Energies Communities
programs, which is how they
earned this grant. The town has
chosen to do this as a partnership
between the Energy Commission
and Eversource. They purchase
the LED bulbs and then, we come
out and host this event.
Residents swapped out up to
five incandescent or LEDS bulbs
for free.
Its a really good way to get
residential awareness of energy
efficiencies, and make conversation about it, Jackman added.
Jackman hopes that Winsted will
see another light bulb swap in
the near future, possibly at the
Farmers Market.
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I choose my favorite pieces

and experiment with texture,
color, proportions, and ideas,
Zvezdina said. Design ideas
and fabric samples are always on
display in the studio. Its a great
way to express yourself.
Saga of tourist
information gazebo
continues
WINSTED After a long

debate among town officials,
Northwestern Connecticut
Community College (NCCC)
has taken ownership of the
long-neglected tourist information gazebo.
At the Economic Development Commission meeting
on Tuesday, Dec. 15, member
Dick Labich said the town was
informed that NCCC wanted
the gazebo moved by Dec. 4.
Apparently the school has
made the decision that they
would take it, Labich said.
Where they are going to put it,
I dont really know. In talking
with Jeanne Hinman, it turns
out that the gazebo is owned by
the town because the Economic
Development Commission,
many years ago, purchased it.
Labich said that the gazebo
was moved to Gene Berlinskis
property located at 141 Torrington Road and the move
cost NCCC $800.
Im not saying that the
college is looking for any money
back, Labich said.The college
has notified the Friends of Main
Street, who had previously been
stocking it and taking care of it,
that the gazebo has to be moved
out of the property. So I dont
know what to do.
Commission Chairman
Frank Berg asked Labich if the
college has made any effort to
contact the town.
I dont think so, Labich
said. All I am reporting on is
the fact that this happened. I
have had no discussion with the
college as to who got involved. I
just wanted to notify you folks
because the town owns the
gazebo. Whos doing what? I
dont know. I dont think its
emergency. Nobody I know of
is asking for any money.
Labich said it was probably

not up to the commission to
take any action, despite the fact
that a previous commission
purchased the gazebo.
It seems to me that they
didnt know who to reach out
to, Berg said. Now theyre
reaching out to Friends of Main
Street. Friends of Main Street is
saying they are not responsible.
Berg said it would take
forever for the town to figure
out what to do with the gazebo.
I have heard of some discussion that the town would
give it to somebody if they
can move it, Labich said. I
dont think anybody is going
to move it.
The gazebo was used for
several years as a manned welcoming center, providing tourist information and brochures
as well as other information
about the town.
However, for the past several
years the gazebo has been abandoned and in disrepair.
Despite this, a sign that said
tourist information was still
in front of the gazebo.
It was built in 2001 and was
formerly located in front of a
building owned by NCCC at
100 South Main St.
In a previous interview,
Friends of Main Street member
Jeanne Hinman said the gazebo
was paid for and erected by the
towns Economic Development
Commission and NCCC.
As part of the construction
of a new building for the colleges allied health and veterinary technology programs,
NCCC officials in November
asked town officials to remove
the building from its property.
This left town officials
debating on where the gazebo
should be moved, how it should
be moved and who exactly
owned it in the first place.
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Sports
Highlanders basketball season starts
By JESSE WILLIAMS
PHOTO BY JESSE WILLIAMS
Gilberts Marcela Moreira looked to the post against Lewis Mills on Monday, Dec. 21.
Yellowjackets fight hard in close game

By JESSE WILLIAMS
WINSTED A furious lategame rally and a heroic effort by
freshman Jill Wexler could not
lift The Gilbert School (0-3) over
Lewis Mills (1-2), which used a
commanding, imposing post-up
game to grind out a hard-fought
win against a Yellowjacket team
that refused to go quietly on
Monday, Dec. 21.
Despite an outstanding scoring effort by Wexler and after
clawing their way back from 10
points down in the second half,
Gilbert was never able to stymie
the inside power of the Spartans
and fell 54-46 for their third loss
of the season.
They made it a real close
game, said Gilbert head coach
Gerry Hicks. The girls responded, they still tried their best to
win.
After taking an early 12-10 lead
late in the first period, the Yellowjackets got bullied in the paint and
on the boards by the two physical,
relentless Spartan forwards, 62
junior Samira Abdelrihim and
58sophomore Gabby Bagdonas,
who continuously beat Gilbert
juniors Ali Brochu and Deanna
Delacruz in 1-on-1 matchups
below the foul line, scoring at will
and snatching rebounds.
Need better defense
We have to do better on our
rebounding, said Hicks. We
have to do better shutting them
down on their offense. Thats the
whole thing.
After starting the game looking
evenly matched, the Spartans
opened up on a 7-0 run that began
at the end of the first period and
lasted until a frustrated Wexler
sank a three with five minutes
left in the half.
Hooked on
sports books
presentation
WINSTED Moe Morhardt, former Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball player, past
coach and Gilbert School athletic
director, will discuss 10 of the
greatest sport books written at
Beardsley and Memorial Library,
Saturday, Jan. 16, at 11 a.m.
This program is free and
open to the public. It is made
possible by the support of the
Draper Foundation through
the Community Foundation of
Northwest Connecticut.
Although the Yellowjackets

kept the score close behind
consistent and often spectacular
efforts by Wexler, and received
contributions from another
freshman, Marcela Moriera, who
came off the bench to help spark
the Gilbert comeback, they were
never able to grapple control of
the paint from Lewis Mills.
Playing stronger
Its about really taking pride
in our defense, trying to get our
defense to play stronger, more
aggressively, not just letting the
girls drive past them, said Hicks.
Weve got some young players
here, some freshmen, and if youre
not used to playing man-defense
too much, its kind of a learning
process.
Gilbert also suffered from a
lack of production in their pickand-roll game, which failed to
generate points or momentum,
as Brochu was walled out of the
paint and Wexler had to find her
own space.
After falling behind 35-25, the
Gilbert comeback started as Hicks
sprang a full-court press on the
Spartans with four minutes left in
the third. A Yellowjackets defense
that had looked overmatched for
much of the game suddenly came
alive, as Brochu,Wexler and junior
guard Grace Valickis pressured the
Spartans with traps and forced
bad passes with constant pressure.
Well use that [defense]
against everybody, said Hicks.It
was effective here, and were going
to try and get it better.
Wexlers offensive drive
seemed to shift into a higher
gear at this point. She scored in
nearly every possible way in the
second half, from decisive drives
and circus layups to perimeter
shooting.
Late in the third after driving

through two Spartan defenders
for a tough layup, Wexler immediately ripped the ball out of the
hands of a Spartan player on the
inbounds, getting a quick pass to
Brochu who drew a foul. On the
next possession she again caused
another turnover and ran up the
court for an uncontested layup
that brought the Yellowjackets
within two.
A floater by Wexler from the
foul line with 29 seconds in the
third put Gilbert up 41-39, their
first lead of the half, bringing the
Yellowjackets bench to its feet and
firing up the home crowd.
Wexler is very strong-minded, said Hicks, and shes very
intense in there, we need that intensity. She wants to win so badly.
But none of this solved the
Yellowjackets problems at the
post. Despite flashes late in the
game, where Brochu and Delacruz showed they were able to
contest the towering Spartan
forwards, it was never quite
enough. Fighting through the
Yellowjackets pressure, Lewis
Mills drew fouls and grabbed
offensive rebounds, and Gilbert
seemed helpless even with all the
momentum on their side.
After a three-point play and
another foul, Lewis Mills essentially secured the game with a
put-back by Bagdonas that made
the score 52-46 with 1:30 to go.
It comes with experience,
said Hicks.Brochu and Delacruz
can be a force as we go on in
the season. A lot depends upon
those two.
The Yellowjackets were scheduled to take on Shepaug Valley
(2-1) on Wednesday, Dec. 23,
before winter break, after this
issue went to press.
Winsted Recreation Department

Mens Winter Basketball League
Season Begins Sunday, January 10th, 2016

Team Fee based on Eligibility Regulations,
league fee and referees Cost is $550.00 per team.
Registration and Captains meeting
will be held on Tuesday January 5th at 7pm
at the Playground Building.
All teams must have a Captain Present
with $275.00 deposit and roster form filled out.
Any questions please contact Tanya in Recreation
at 860-738-6964 or email
recreationdirector@townofwinchester.org
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boys varsity basketball team
showed off a domineering
new-look pressure defense in
a preseason scrimmage against
Derby on Friday, Dec. 18.
The team overwhelmed the
Red Raiders, despite a very
inconsistent showing by the
Highlanders offense.
In a matchup that featured
an aggressive full-court press
by Northwestern challenging
a run-and-shoot Derby squad
that Highlanders coach Doug
Seabach described as having a
lot of quickness, the Highlanders discipline, chemistry and a
bevy of fast-break points left the
Red Raiders dazed while giving
Northwestern a lot of positives
to take into the season.
The overall take away is
that all the players that played
contributed, said Seabach. We
played as a team, we didnt have
like a domination of any player.
It was a good sign, because thats
how we need to play.
Derby flustered
Derby seemed unprepared
for the Highlanders immediate
and consistent aggression spanning the entire court, which flustered the Red Raiders into poor
passes and bad decision-making.
The Highlanders were ruthless
in taking advantage, including
scoring five points in under 20
seconds early in the first period,
all off of turnovers.
Despite the success, Seabach
said this new style was not
something that the team was
committing to.
We just didnt have a chance
to practice it, so we were practicing it, not necessarily anything
that were working at right now.
We practiced pretty much anything we could, he said.
Northwestern led 14-4 at the
six-minute mark, and 20-4 at
the end of the first period, as the
Derby players were confounded
The Northwestern Regional High School boys basketball team

in action against Derby on Friday, Dec. 18.
over and over from even getting
the ball across half-court, and
were forced into wild shots by a
collapsing, invasive Highlander
defense.
On the offensive side, however, Northwestern ran into
trouble, partly due to a tough,
fast-reacting zone by the Red
Raiders, but aggravated by a slew
of unforced errors committed
by the Highlanders. When it
did work, the Highlander attack
looked crisp and savvy, with
senior forward Tucker Kreh and
sophomore guard Chris Nanni
remaining patient on drives and
cuts to find space and get points
in the paint. But turnovers,
offensive fouls and plain bad
passes gave Northwestern fans
something to worry about.
At one point in the first
period, the Highlanders went
five consecutive possessions
without even getting a shot off,
a sequence that included three
turnovers and two offensive
fouls.
Good fast breaks
Where Northwestern excelled
was in fast breaks, as Kreh, Nanni
and sophomore forward Jayson
Reola put on a clinic. Nearly
every turnover the Highlanders
created became a headlong dash
up the court, and the Derby players looked positively sluggish

and confused as the charging
Highlanders flung perfect passes
and made powerful, aggressive
moves to the basket to draw fouls
or create easy layups. Nanni in
particular showed a willingness
to take the ball to the rim, including a flashy move on a break that
sent two Derby players reeling
and gave Northwestern a double-digit lead midway through
the first period.
The game slowed down in the
second period, as Derby finally
began figuring out the pressure,
and found some room in the
paint. After giving up only four
points in the first period, the
Highlanders allowed 17 in the
second period, although a more
settled offense made sure Northwestern never felt threatened,
with the final score after two
10-minute periods being 40-21
in favor of the Highlanders.
With the regular season fast
approaching, Seabach was optimistic, while still emphasizing
continued improvement.
All the teams this year are
going to be strong. We have to
play our best game every night.
Across the league, all the teams
are strong, he said.
Receiver talks about status of district
CONTRACT

negotiate solely with The Gilbert
School and halt negotiations
with other area high schools.
On June 30, Gilberts contract
with the town expired and was
not renewed.
In early August, the state appointed a receiver for the school
district, Robert Travaglini.
As the receiver, Travaglini
has assumed the rights and duties of the Winchester Board of
Education.
After he was appointed, Travaglini suspended any further Board
of Education meetings.
In September, despite the lack
of a contract, Gilbert opened
its door for a new school year,
operating on the contract for the
2014-2015 school year as negotiations continued.
In an interview with The Winsted Journal on Monday, Dec. 21,
Serio said that the school is still
running without a contract.
He said that after Travaglini
took over as the districts receiver,
the state has taken over contract
negotiation.
The fact is, from the beginning of this fiscal year, we have
been shortchanged $8,060 a
month in tuition because the
tuition bill has not been paid for
as we established it, Serio said.
Serio said that he estimates

that $96,720 is currently owed to
Gilbert in tuition fees.
We never finished contract
negotiations, he said. It was
supposed to be the first priority
of Receiver Travaglini, but we
have not heard back from the
state at all.
Serio said that Gilbert last
heard back from the state regarding contract negotiations in late
September.
Our attorney has reached out
to them but they have not been
responsive, he said.Im now going to have to take a look on how to
cut back on things we thought we
would be able to do this year. We
would like to finish negotiations
for this years contract.
Serio said he is very disappointed in the situation.
I thought we could sit down
and talk about the contract for
this school year then talk about
the contract for future years,
he said. Ive had no indication
when we will begin negotiations
again. We wanted to start negotiating the contract for school year
2016-2017 in the beginning of
January. I have had no response
from the state. We have a right
to educate the children of this
school district.
SOLD
the newspaper. It has been out
there to be shown. We have hired
a real estate broker for it.
Perez went on to speak about
the condition of the property
and went through a very brief
Powerpoint presentation which
included pictures of the property.
According to Perez, the house
has multiple issues, including
pipes wrapped in asbestos in the
basement, a lack of proper support in the basement, a large gap
and cracks in the ceiling, tarps
covering the roof of the garage
on the property and a driveway
filled with numerous potholes.
Resident Art Melycher, who is
also a licensed general construction contractor, spoke about the
condition of the property.
That whole back deck has
to be ripped off, Melycher said.
The reason that a cabinet is
hanging down from the ceiling
and that there are jacks everywhere in the basement is because
floor joints across the whole back
of the house, when that deck was
put on 20 years ago, they never
flashed it.
Berg was the next to speak and
he said a home inspection was
conducted on the property the
weekend before the town meeting by RJD Home Inspections of
Thomaston.
The inspector made mention of the structural defects
in the framing, Berg said. He
also verbalized to me that once
you start working on something
like that, you may run into other
problems. There might be some
more settling one way or another
and you will have the possibility
of windows popping. frame walls
cracking and ceilings cracking.
So, theres a little bit of a risk in
these repairs. I would think that
it would be a little bit expensive
to do.
The final vote to approve
the sale, according to a count
by Town Clerk Sheila Sedlack,
was 25-0.
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Congratulations are in order, Perez said to the McKernans,

who were sitting in the audience.
Welcome to the town. Hopefully, nobody scared you out of
this town. Its a great street to
live on and a great community.
So, roll up your sleeves and get
going.
The second item on the
agenda, a proposal for the town
to accept the donation of vacant
land located on Ledge Road, was
tabled by a vote of the audience.
The land, also known as
Ledge Trail, is listed in the towns
assessor database as being coowned by Harmon and Albert
Tompkins.
The .06 acre property was
purchased by both Tompkins
in 1990.
According to the database,
the land has been appraised at
$1,900 and is assessed at $1,300.
According to the towns tax
collector database, the Tompkins have unpaid tax bills of
$332.31 dating back to 2011 on
the property.
Resident Dick Labich, who is
also a member of the Highland
Lake Watershed Association and
the Economic Development
Commission, said that there were
four co-owners of the property
besides Tompkins.
He did not specify who the
co-owners were.
Im curious as to who is going to pay the legal fees for the
title search and any other closing
fees, Labich said. These four
people could be relatives, but
they have to all sign [the sale
agreement]. Im curious to what
the fees would be when it comes
to the title search and other legal
issues.
Perez said that the issues
would be referred to Town Attorney Kevin Nelligan and that
a special town meeting would
be scheduled in the future on
whether or not the town should
accept the property.
Death Notices
Virginia Frances Bardino
Virginia Frances Bardino, of Winsted, died Dec. 18, 2015. Calling
hours were held Dec. 21 at Montano-Shea Funeral Home. A Mass
of Christian burial was held Dec. 22 at St. Joseph Church and burial
followed in St. Joseph Cemetery.
Ellen Case Griswold

Ellen Case Griswold, of Winsted, died Dec. 19, 2015. MontanoShea Funeral Home has care of arrangements.
Reginald J. Smith
Reginald J. Smith, 77, of New Hartford, died Dec. 13, 2015.
Calling hours were held Dec. 20 at Montano-Shea Funeral Home,
New Hartford.
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WINSTED Winchester
School District Receiver Robert
Travaglini recently sat down with
The Winsted Journal to give an update on where the district stands.
Travaglini was appointed as the
receiver in early August by the State
Department of Education.
Since his appointment, Travaglini has tackled several issues,
including finance concerns in the
school district.
At a special Board of Selectmens meeting on Nov. 19, where
department supervisors gave
updates on the state of municipal
departments, Travaglini spoke
about the state of the school district finances.
Travaglini reflected on the
meeting during a recent interview.
While the other departments
at the meeting gave 15-minute
presentations, both [Director of
Business Services and Finance]
Nancy ODea-Wyrick and I gave
a 50-minute presentation, Travaglini said. It was very telling to
both of us that, when we finished
our presentation, members of the
board looked at us and thanked us.
They told me that the 50-minute
presentation was more information that we have received in the
last three years.
Im saying this because thats
an example of the change that
needs to occur in this town. The
problem is that we are a public
organization where people need
to understand how we operate and
how we are structured, especially
around budgets and finances.
People need to really understand
how things operate within our
school district. To give that information and to the Board of
Selectmen like that and for them
to tell me what they said, I was
State Police
The following information was
provided by the Connecticut State
Police at Troop B. All suspects are
considered innocent until proven
guilty in a court of law.
Two-car collision
Frederick Rollenhagen, 79, of
Orwell, Vt., was driving Town
Hill Road/Route 219 in New
Hartford Dec. 4. At about 5:37
p.m., his 2004 Jeep Cherokee
collided in the Route 202 intersection with a 1994 Honda Accord driven by George Hegedty,
46, of Torrington. There were
no injuries to the drivers or
Rollenhagens passenger, Ellen
Delano, 86, of the same address.
The vehicles were driven from the
scene. Rollenhagen was charged
with failure to grant the right-ofway. Hegedty was charged with
evading responsibility.
Collision in intersection
Tyler Adams, 17, of Barkhamsted was driving on Reservoir
Road/Route 219 in New Hartford
Dec. 4. At about 9:17 p.m., the
1998 Mitsubishi Eclipse collided
in the Route 44 intersection with
a 2015 Toyota Tundra driven by
Michael Deak, 54, of Torrington.
There were no injuries to the
drivers or Deaks passenger,
Steven Deak, 33, of the same
address and Adams passenger
Cody Dannolfo, 17, of New
Hartford. The Toyota was towed
with passenger side damage. The
Mitsubishi, registered to Crystal
Berg, of Canton, Conn., was
towed with front-end damage.
Adams was charged with failure
to grant the right-of-way and
failure to obey a traffic control
signal.
Motor vehicle
and drug charges
Stephen Digiacomo, 19, of
New Hartford was stopped by
state police for speeding on Route
44 in New Hartford at 8:28 p.m.
Dec. 9. He was charged with
traveling unreasonably fast for
conditions, driving under the
influence, possession of alcohol
by a minor, possession of drug
paraphernalia and possession
with intent to sell. Bond was set
at $3,000. He was to appear in
Bantam Superior Court Dec. 21.
U-Haul hits guardrail
Ronald Nichisti, 57, of Plainville, Conn., was driving a Ford
E450 registered to U-Haul northbound on Route 8 in Winsted
Dec. 13. At about 11:19 a.m.,
about .6 miles north of Exit 45,
the truck veered off the road
from the left of two lanes. It hit
18 guardrail posts. It continued
shocked. It was amazing to me that

we gave more information in that
short time than other members of
the school district had previously
given in three years.
Travaglini said that, for the
school district and himself,Communication is huge.
We need to develop in this
town a different system of communication that is more open,
he said. Not only when it comes
to parents and the community. I
am going to be planning a calendar
when I get back to meet with the
Board of Selectmen regularly.
Travaglini said he has been in
contact with various town officials
on a regular basis since he was
appointed in August, including
Mayor Candy Perez, Department
of Public Works Director Jim Rollins, town Building Inspector and
Fire Marshal Steve Williams and
Police Chief William Fitzgerald.
Jim is suffering the same
challenges we are suffering, both
around budget and staffing,
Travaglini said.These are all challenges for the town and not just for
the school district. My hope is that,
as a town, what I would like to see
when we present our upcoming
budget is that we work together
as a town. If we are going to move
Winsted forward, its a matter of
changing the economic structure
as well as the school districts
structure. These things all have to
work together.
Travaglini said that the school
district started the 2014-2015 fiscal
year with a $1.3 million deficit, but
that the deficit has been reduced
to $750,000.
The reduction was through
difficult decisions and reorganization, Travaglini said. It involved
reallocation of expenditures. The
message to our principals and staff
this year was that this was not the
year to havenice to haves and that

we have to target our expenses on
priorities.
Travaglini said that the district
has closed the books on finances
for school year 2013-2014 and
will soon close the books for the
2014-2015 school year.
My hope is that we will be on
an even playing field, Travaglini
said. The goal is that when this
fiscal year ends in June that we
will be in the black, even if it only
by one cent.
Travaglini said that the state
scheduled for earlier this week an
audit for Batcheller Early Education Center and Hinsdale School
and an audit will be conducted
on Pearson Middle School in late
January.
There will be at least three
team members from the state who
will come in and look at specific
components of our schools concerning curriculum support, climate culture, data team processes
and teacher collaboration,he said.
Basically all of the elements that
go into a school day. These audits
will generate reports that will be
able to tell us information that we
need to focus on when it comes to
move forward.
Travaglini said the reports will
be able to be seen and reviewed by
the public at the school districts
office.
I would like to set up an opportunity where people can sit
down at the district office to review
the information and to answer
the questions they may have, he
said. We owe people to not only
understand what they are looking
at, but also to have a conversation
in regards to asking questions to
the district.
As for the Board of Education,
Travaglini said that the board will
start to meet again during the
new year.
However, he did not have an
exact date for the meetings.
When Travaglini took office in
August he canceled the meetings
scheduled for the board for the
rest of the year.
The board has not met since
July.
Since that time, new members
were elected to the board during
Novembers municipal elections.
After the election I met individually with every single new
Board of Education member, he
said. After we get back from the
holiday break, I will be working
with Nick Caruso from the Connecticut Association of Boards of
Education (CABE). We will be
setting up support and professional development for our Board
of Education. I will also be passing the invitation to The Gilbert
School to be included in training
so we can build a relationship and
work together. We will begin this
process in January.The process will
include training board members
to give them an understanding in
the districts budget, curriculum
instructions and everything in the
educational instructional process.
Travaglini said that, as 2016
progresses, his plan is to have the
board have control over the school
district again.
You dont want the Board of
Education to be a rubber stamp
group and be completely dependent on a superintendent, so you
want to build a system of capacity
and support for your board, he
said. Ill still be here as the board
retains control of the district. Ultimately, we have to start moving
and getting them into a position
to be able to move forward into
implementing their roles and
responsibilities of a Board of
Education.
onto the median. The truck was

towed with major left side and
undercarriage damage. Nichisti
was not injured. He was cited
with an unspecified charge.
Car hits signs, lands in ditch
Clifford Jones, 36, of Colebrook was driving near his residence on Stillman Hill Road Dec.
15. At about 12:42 p.m.,he began
to turn onto Pinney Street. His
2009 Kia Optima hit a stop sign
and street sign on Pinney Street.
It came to an uncontrolled rest
on a ditch of the right side of
Stillman Hill Road. Jones stated
he saw a deer on Pinney Street
and turned to avoid it. He was
not injured. The car was towed
with front end damage. Jones was
given a verbal warning for failure
to drive to the right.
Drug charges
Ralph Rice, 56, of Barkham-
sted was arrested Dec. 16 after

probation officers did a check
of his East Hartland Road home
and found several types of narcotics and drug paraphernalia.
He was turned over the custody
of state police. He was charged
with narcotics not in the original container, possession of a
controlled substance, possession
with intent to sell and use of
drug paraphernalia. Bond was
set at $15,000. He is to appear in
Bantam Superior Court Dec. 28.
Larceny
Brittanie Vontell, 19, of Bristol, Conn., turned herself in Dec.
17 on a warrant held at Troop B
stemming from a Feb. 16, 2015,
incident on Ratlum Road in New
Hartford. The victims were two
juveniles, ages 14 and 17. Vontell
was charged with fifth-degree
larceny and sixth-degree larceny.
Bond was set at $5,000. She is

to appear in Bantam Superior
Court Dec. 28.
Car hits embankment
Thomas Korzynski, 19, of
New Hartford was driving
south on Cedar Lane in New
Hartford Dec. 19. At about 1:52
a.m., he lost control. The 2008
Buick Lacrosse, registered to
Carole Korzynski, of the same
address, hit an embankment
off the northbound shoulder. It
was towed from the scene with
left front damage. Korzynski was
not injured. He was charged with
traveling too fast for conditions.
The Winsted Journal will publish the outcome of police charges.
Contact us by mail at PO Box 835,
Winsted, CT 06098, Attn: Police
Blotter, or send an email, with
police blotter in the subject line,
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Sports
Family, friends and football

Last week, 11-5; for the season,
134-90. Pick of the Week, 1-0; for
the season, 10-5.
nother good week, and

that makes three in a
row. I will admit that
at this point of the season the
games do get a bit more predictable, but there are always those
games that are anything but
predictable. The Steelers, who
were my Pick of the Week, kept
it interesting in the last couple
minutes in their win over the
Broncos, but they managed to
escape with a much-needed win.
If anyone thinks that if Peyton
Manning was at the helm the
outcome would have been different, theyre right. If that was
the scenario, Mannings career
might well be over considering
the devastating pass rush he
would have been facing in that
fourth quarter.
This week we sandwich the
games around Christmas Day.
Thats a good thing. I think most
people would agree that its a day
you should direct your attention
to family and friends. However,
the NBA does not take the holiday off, so if youre in need of a
sports fix, the return matchup of
the Stephan Curry-led Warriors
vs. the Lebron James-led Cavs
might well do the trick for you.
Each week the field of contenders for a Wild Card birth
in the playoffs continues to
dwindle, but there are still two
division races up for grabs,
so there are still a number of
important games to be played.
Enough said, lets get on with it.
As always, good luck with your
picks, and I hope everyone enjoys a wonderful holiday season.
Merry Christmas!
Thursday, Dec. 24
San Diego at Oakland
Not much to play for in this
game but pride. This is another
old AFL rivalry, and they will play
it accordingly. I like the upstart
Raiders in this one, 30-27.
Saturday, Dec. 26
Washington at Philadelphia
In the NFC Least anyone of
three teams can win the division
(Giants are the third). Im pulling
for the Redskins to win this one,
24-17.
Sunday, Dec. 27
Carolina at Atlanta
The Panthers will move one
game closer to a perfect regular
season record with a hard fought
33-29 victory.
Chicago at Tampa Bay
Both teams are out of it, but
I see the Bucs as a team on the
rise. Ill take Tampa Bay in this
Pinks
NFL Picks
C. Pink Bunel
one, 24-19, and thats my Pick
of the Week.
Cleveland at Kansas City
Again the Browns will play
tough, but the Chiefs are on a
roll. Kansas City wins, 20-13.
Dallas at Buffalo
Not much to say about this
one, but I do think the Bills are
better than their record. Buffalo
wins, 29-23.
Houston at Tennessee
An absolute must-win for
the Texans, and they manage
to squeeze by the Titans, 20-16.
Indianapolis at Miami
The Colts absolutely must win
to have any hope of making the
playoffs. With that said, Ill take
the Dolphins at home, 30-20.
Jacksonville at New Orleans
There is not much defense
being played by the Saints these
days, but they still have QB Drew
Brees to guide the offense. The
Jags have shown they may very
well be a team on the rise. Sentiment takes over in this pick.
Saints win shootout, 37-33.
New England at NY Jets
It would be nice to see the
Jets win this one, but Im not
sure thats going to happen. Ill
stick with the Patriots because
they need the win to keep home
field advantage in the playoffs.
Pats win, 33-24.
NY Giants at Minnesota
I would like nothing better
than to see the Giants win this
game and stay alive in the NFC
Division race. However, the Vikings can clinch a playoff spot
with a win and I think they do.
Vikes win, 27-24.
San Francisco at Detroit
Nothing at stake here so Ill go
with the Lions at home, 24-16.
Green Bay at Arizona
Huge game for the Packers,
especially if the Vikings win their
game. Unfortunately, I dont
think the Cards are going to
lose. Arizona wins in a shootout,
30-24.
St. Louis at Seattle
It may be close because the
Rams can play defense, but the
Seahawks will prevail in the end,

24-13.
Pittsburgh at Baltimore
The Steelers are alive and well
in the playoff hunt and cant
afford a let down against the
Ravens. Pittsburgh prevails in
this one, 30-20.
Monday, Dec. 28
Cincinnati at Denver
Its still a marquee game, even
though both starting QBs are
injured. I think the game is a
toss-up, but in the end Im going
with Denver at home, 23-19.
Vacation predictions
Because our paper takes a
week off, I will go ahead and make
my picks for the last week of the
regular season now. Bengals over
Ravens, Bears over Lions, Houston over Jacksonville, Green
Bay over Vikings, Patriots over
Dolphins, Saints over Falcons,
Bills over Jets, KC over Raiders,
Giants over Eagles, Steelers over
Browns, Panthers over Bucs,
Titans over Colts, Redskins over
Cowboys, Broncos over Chargers, Seahawks over Cards and
St. Louis over Niners.
The Bear Claw Coffee House at 314 Main St. recently closed after three years in business.
Bear Claw goes out of business

WINSTED After three
years of business, The Bear Claw
Coffee House, located on 314
Main St., has closed its doors.
For many years the location
was The Donut Station until
Roberto Rodriguez opened the
store with his wife, Heather.
The store offered pastries,
donuts and coffee to customers.
Being one of 20 or more
restaurants in Winsted and
sandw iched between two
Dunkin Donuts, it became obvious that we wouldnt survive

another winter, Heather Rodriguez said. We have enjoyed
being on Main Street and we
love all of our customers.
A second Dunkin Donuts
store opened in late September
at 760 W. Main St.
When asked about what she
will miss about her customers,
Rodriguez said, Everything.
Bot and I have lived here for
almost a decade, and in the last
three years we have made some
of the best friends either of us

have ever had, Rodriguez said.
The shop made us more conscious of the needs of our community and helped us become
more involved. Unfortunately,
on more than one occasion,
too involved. We are looking
forward to the next adventure
and just taking the holidays to
spend with our kids and family.
It seems odd, but we really havent had time to properly mourn
my mother-in-laws passing.
Now we will.
Happy holidays from The Winsted Journal

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Your Guide to Tri-State Events
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PHOTO BY MARSDEN EPWORTH
CHAMPAGNE, or any sparkling wine,

brings a little joy any time at all. 4
BOOKS
Taming, nearly
wrecking, Litchfield
County, 5
THEATER
Sex, and
magic, in
the city , 6
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WINE: MARSDEN EPWORTH
What Makes
Champagne
Champagne?
hen I was 15, my

grandmother, a
forceful and eccentric woman who loved travel,
took me to Paris, and in the
soft evening of our first day,
she walked me across La Place
Vendme and into the Ritz.
She ordered us each a Champagne cocktail with the little
lump of sugar dabbed in Angostura bitters driving a flurry
of bubbles to the surface.
This was a heady moment.
Paris. The Ritz. Hemingway.
Champagne. Adventure. A
universe away from East 91st
Street.
So, when my first son had
his 15th birthday, I made him
the same Champagne cocktail.
He was not impressed. Nor
was my second at that same
age two years later. And the
reason is simple. Its not the
Champagne. Its the setting.
A glass of Champagne in the
kitchen at home in Lime Rock,
I thought, is nothing like a
glass of Champagne at the Ritz
in Paris.
Which brings me to a point
made by Ira Smith, who owns
and, with considerable adroitness, operates Kent Wine and

Spirit on Main Street. If you
believe in the cachet of Champagne, if the label is meaningful to you, and the event
attached to the drinking of
Champagne is grave or splendid or joyous, well, you will get
your moneys worth.
But Champagne, he says,
and sparkling wines from
around the world are not just
for special occasions, New
Years Eve for one. There are
pleasant sparkling wines to
accompany a meatloaf dinner,
Smith says, and more exalted
sparkling wines for a holiday
goose. But be aware, he adds,
that sometimes a great name,
does not mean a great wine.
Champagne is made mostly
from Chardonnay and Pinot
Noir grapes grown in the
chalky soils of the Champagne
region of France northeast of
Paris. The name, Champagne,
and the reputation of these
sparkling wines are guarded
with zeal. And the force of law.
Smith has a good supply of
Champagnes from the much
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A lump of sugar and a dash of Angostura bitters turns champagne, or any sparkling wine,
into a cocktail, and not one just for special occasions, either.
How to choose one? Simple: Do you like it? Does

it make you laugh? Does it go good with food?
exalted houses: A Taittinger
Comte de Champagne Ros
2004 goes for $255. A Champagne Krug Vintage Brut 1998,
$275. And a half bottle of Verve
Cliquot wrapped in golden foil,
$79.99. These are among the
big houses in the Champagne
region of France where the
soil is chalky; where roses are
planted to draw insects from
the precious grapes, and geese,
hundreds of them, root among
the vines weeding and fertilizing the soil. These houses
employ organic, earth friendly
best practices, and the prices,
especially for good years, soar.
In the same region, growers

who once merely provided the
big houses with grapes, are
now making their own Champagnes. These grower providers are making wines with
the same soils and light and
climate as the famed houses.
They are good, Smith says,
displaying a Gaston Chiquet,
an Andre Clouet and a Pierre
Gimonnet, three Champagnes
that the organization of 29
grower-producers chose
this year as their best. And,
though still pricey, $65 for the
Gaston Chiquet vintage 2007,
they certainly run less than
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the big labels.

Now Smith is the kind of
fellow who steers clear of the
idea that Champagne, or any
sparkling wine, is destined for
celebrity alone. He says they
are good as aperitifs or dinner
wines any day of the year. And
for an ordinary evening, he
suggests a Cava, Segura Vindas
Brut, a Spanish sparkling wine
for $10.
Back at home I take his advice, and open it up for a Tuesday night dinner, a mushroom
omelette, and though we are
in the kitchen where our sons
disdained their glass of Champagne so many years ago, my
husband and I thought the
Cava was delicious, and that it
added a little spark to a quiet
evening.
But as Smith sees it, a glass
of Champagne, or any sparkling wine, can be an everyday
pleasure. How to choose one?
Simple: Do you like it? Does
it make you laugh? Does it go
good with food? And dont get
caught up in all the mystery,
he advises. Its just grapes.
BOOKS: MARSDEN EPWORTH
About Taming, and Nearly

Wrecking, Litchfield County
mong the six people

recognized by the
Northwest Connecticut
Arts Council this year for contributions to Litchfield County
was historian Peter C. Vermilyea. He teaches at Housatonic
Valley Regional High School
and Western Connecticut
State University, and he writes
books about history that are a
pleasure to read.
His most recent, The
Hidden History of Litchfield
County, is a breezy and entertaining account of a part of
Connecticut that struck early
colonists as a rocky wilderness,
a perfect safe haven for Patriot
supplies during the Revolution.
Settlers moving into these
Northwest Hills encountered
mountains, swamps and rivers, Vermilyea wrote. And as
communities gathered, people
clearly needed more than
Indian paths to move goods
across the landscape. Hacking
through the woods just did not
cut it anymore.
Isolated and wild, it was a
scary, scary place to live, Vermilyea says. There was crime,
there were tales of witchcraft,
and it was a hotbed of counterfeiting.
And there was development, first with farming, cattle

and mills, then highways,
which aided an iron industry
and the factories that turned
out clocks and musical instruments.
That iron industry, however,
laid bare thousands of acres
of forest. By 1800, Vermilyea
says, the air was so polluted
people could not see the sun.
And by 1840 We would not
have seen any trees from the
high school. Were it not for
repeated forays into the hills
by the Civilian Conservation
Corps in the 1930s and early
40s renewing the countrys
natural resources, by planting
many, many thousands of red
pine, European larch, white
spruce and Scotch pine, these
great hills would look very different now.
Vermilyea is pleasant and
open, with the lean look that
athletes have. He grew up
reading history books from
his grandmothers library, and
most memorably he recalls
Time-Lifes History of World
War II, histories of the Civil
War and a National Geographic with pullout maps of the
Civil War. His parents liked to
Arts & Entertainment

James Barron Art
Winter Solstice / Little Sun
Opening Reception:
Saturday, 19 December, 4-6PM
James Barron Art / Kent is pleased to announce

a group exhibition entitled, Winter Solstice / Little Sun, honoring the achievement of Olafur
Eliassons Little Sun during the winter solstice, the suns low ebb.
Works will include paintings, drawings, and photographs by:
Angela Dufresne
Beverly Pepper
Cameron Martin
Cy Twombly
Dawn Clements
Jacob Kassay
James Siena
Gallery Hours:
Saturday & Sunday / 11-5

& by appointment
Jeannette Montgomery Barron

Jose Lerma
Jules Olitski
Kenneth Noland
Little Sun
Lynn Davis
Margherita Marchioni
Martine Bedin
Roberto Caracciolo
Ralph Gibson
Shirana Shahbazi
Sol LeWitt
Tristano di Robilant
Yun-Fei Ji
4 Fulling Lane Kent, CT 06757

19 December - 6 March
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mine an old foundation with

a metal detector and Vermilyea would help unearth old
wrenches, scissors, a butter
knife, nuts and bolts. I bet
they are still in my parents
garage.
After high school, Gettysburg College was a perfect
fit, and there he learned that
history is not facts; its about
ideas and different ways to
view the past.
He knows not everyone
loves history, but he finds that
most people love local history.
Learning that Route 7 started
out as an Indian trail intrigues
people, and his book is full of
references to local landmarks
and their significance. He
also writes about the Congregational Church and how, at
one time, residents could join
another church, but they still
were obliged to financially
support the Congregational
church in town.
Author Peter C. Vermilyea discussing his latest book in

Housatonic Valley Regional High Schools library last week.
He writes about the Great
Awakening, the Underground
Railroad, the rise and fall of
various industries from iron
making to chair making; he
writes about ways Litchfield
County towns took care of the
impoverished; how children
were educated. And he reports
on activities surrounding the
Civil War and of the 30 young
men drafted to serve from
Sharon, all but one hired his
replacement.
He wrote Hidden History of

Litchfield County, hoping that
it would sell 50 to 100 copies,
enough to cover the cost of the
photo rights used as illustrations. He has done much better than that, he says.
Hidden History of Litchfield
County is printed by The History Press, www.historypress.net.
It is available on Amazon, and
the Scoville Memorial Library in
Salisbury has a copy.
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THEATER: MARSDEN EPWORTH

Bell, Book & Candle
Gillian is far more accomplished at witchcraft than

the rest rules to follow and places to congregate.
Sex, and Magic,

In the City
ts magic, the way TheatreWorks all-cerise set for its

Christmas production of
Bell, Book & Candle, staged
and directed by James Russo,
morphed this weekend into
a refined Art Deco drawing
room complete with Mondrian-like windows and elegant,
subdued furnishings.
Thats because Hartford
Stage claimed Russos setting
of John Van Drutens tale of
magic and sex in Manhattan
looked much too much like
Hartford Stages 2012 version (one reviewer at the time
wrote that Alexander Dodges
all red set and aluminum
Christmas tree back then

might hurt audiences eyes at
first.)
So, responding to an accusation of infringement, and
embarrassed in such a small
theater community, TheatreWorks plunged, mid run, into
a redesign of the entire production by Richard Pettibone.
Russo resigned from the TheatreWorks board; the TheatreWorks board apologized and
promised tighter control in the
future, and the show, amazingly, went on this weekend
with a new set, new direction
and determined lan.
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witty enough to overcome its

vaporous plot. Gillian (Jenny
Schuck) smartly demonstrates
her witchy powers as she
walks onstage, turning on
the set lights first and then
the stage lights with flicks of
the wrist. In black and silvery
sequins she is lean and leggy
and shiny, and from the start
its clear that she possesses
special powers, and that she
aims to possess Shep (James
Hipp) the tenant upstairs as
well. He is, however, engaged
to be married, and to a woman
Gillian disliked so much in college that Gillian used her powers to terrify the poor woman
with horrendous thunder
storms for a whole year.
Shep appears at Gillians
door, wanting to know why
her aunt, Queenie (Jody
Bayer), has been rummaging

about in his apartment. And
the romance begins. Shep is
beguiled. Gillian is beguiled.
And the audience is beguiled
by two beautiful characters so
stuck, literally, on each other.
But theres a problem. Van
Druten makes very clear
that the two live in separate
worlds. Shep is a buttoned
down, kind of square, bespectacled book publisher. And
witches like Gillian, Queenie
and Gillians brother Nicky
(Matt Austin who also restaged this production) live in
a secret and separate world.
Its a tight community with
levels of competence Gillian is far more accomplished
at witchcraft than the rest
rules to follow and places to
congregate. But Shep knows
none of this, which gives the

plot some plot.
So magic (and libido) drive
events with telephones put
out of commission and spells
cast and attractive actors
making very smooth moves.
But there is one problem, and
its a big one. Written in 1950,
this play is in three acts. Plays
are rarely presented in three
acts anymore. And with an
airy tale like this, breaking
the spell over and over sets
audiences adrift. Refigure this
play into two acts and the
ennui that sets in midway will
evaporate. Like magic.
Bell, Book & Candle runs at
TheatreWorks in New Milford,
CT, through Jan. 10. A fundraising gala is set for New Years
Eve at 8 p.m. before the performance with hors doeuvres,
wine and beer. For tickets and
information, telephone 860-3506863 or go to theatreworks.us.
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BOOKS: DARRYL GANGLOFF
Dont Worry, Its

Star Wars Forever
m a diehard Star Wars

fan. Ive seen the original
trilogy dozens of times. Ive
seen the prequel trilogy ... well,
lets not talk about the prequel
trilogy.
It probably goes without
saying, but I saw Star Wars:
The Force Awakens on opening night at The Moviehouse
in Millerton, NY. I was firmly
planted in the Nerd Zone, as
Patrick L. Sullivan referred to it
in his review (see page 8). The
film was everything I hoped
it would be and more. It was
the perfect mix of action and
humor, and it combined the
nostalgia of the original films
with new characters, planets
and aliens galore.
If you enjoyed the movie as

much as I did, you may want
to read more stories about a
galaxy far, far away. Disney and
Lucasfilm recently launched
a publishing program called
Journey to Star Wars: The
Force Awakens which features
at least 20 books and comics
that you guessed it tell
tales tied to the film.
Adults can start with Aftermath, a novel by Chuck Wendig that takes place between
Return of the Jedi and The
Force Awakens. I havent read
it yet, but its on my Christmas list. The book is part of a
trilogy, and the second installment Aftermath: Life Debt
is scheduled to be released
in July 2016.
Young adults can pick up
Lost Stars by Claudia Gray,
which shows readers important events in the Star Wars
universe through the eyes of
two friends who end up on opposite sides of the war.
For junior readers, there
are three books featuring the
main characters of the original
movie trilogy: Moving Target:
A Princess Leia Adventure,
Smugglers Run: A Han Solo
& Chewbacca Adventure and
The Weapon of a Jedi: A Luke
Skywalker Adventure.
Comic book fans have
plenty of new Star Wars titles
to browse, but you should
definitely look for Marvels
Shattered Empire, a fourpart miniseries set between
Return of the Jedi and The
Force Awakens. Without giving away any spoilers, youll
meet some family members of
a Force Awakens character.
Also keep an eye out for
Marvel's fourpart "Shattered

Empire" comic
book series is set
between "Return
of the Jedi"
and "The Force
Awakens."
PHOTO COURTESY MARVEL COMICS
Marvels special C-3PO oneshot comic in February, which

will explain how the droid
received his red arm.
If you want some reference
books for your coffee table,
you can pick up Star Wars:
Absolutely Everything You
Need to Know or Star Wars:

Ships of the Galaxy.
All these books and comics will keep us busy until the
standalone film Rogue One: A
Star Wars Story hits theaters
on Dec. 16, 2016, followed by
Episode VIII on May 26, 2017.
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MOVIES: PATRICK L. SULLIVAN

Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Fun, Long, With

Spectacular Effects
here was an honestto-God hubbub at The

Moviehouse in Millerton, Thursday, Dec. 17, for
the opening of the latest Star
Wars film, J.J. Abrams The
Force Awakens.Moviegoers
lined up in the lobby of the
upstairs theater, and chattered
excitedly as they filed in and
found their seats. I headed for
the back of the house, as is my
custom, and was comfortably
set up, on the aisle, and as far
away from the Nerd Zone as
possible.
Until a young fellow standing about six feet four and
sporting a size nine head
plunked himself in front of me.
If I were to fully appreciate
the film from my seat, I would
be obliged to use my X-ray
glasses, and I had neglected to
bring them. So I trudged down
to the front, which remained
almost nerd-free until a family
with two small boys piled in
just before the curtain. The lad

next to me was 7, he informed
me through a mouthful of
peanuts.He was very excited
to see the film, he said.
Oh yeah, the film. Without
getting too deep into the intergalactic weeds, the nub of the
thing is that its been a while
since Luke Skywalker (Mark
Hamill), Princess (now General) Leia (Carrie Fisher)and Han
Solo (Harrison Ford) defeated
the evil Galactic Empire. In the
interim, Skywalker has gone
walkabout, the sinister First
Order has risen to take the
place of the Empire, and there
is a determined Resistance.
So its up to Poe Dameron
(Oscar Isaac), Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Finn (John Boyega),
as a reformed stormtrooper, to
save the day.
Lining up on the evil side
are Kylo Ren (Adam Driver),
General Hux (Domhall Gleeson), and Supreme Leader
Snoke (Andy Serkis).

Theres a new droid, BB-8,
and some excellent pirates,
saloon keepers and nasty oneeyed squid-like things that just
wont take no for an answer.
There are two things going
on the hunt for Skywalker,
and, a little more urgent, the
fact that the First Order has
improved upon the Empires
Death Star. They have built a
Death Planet.
The first half hour bopped
along quite entertainingly.
As familiar characters were
introduced, the audience applauded. Lots of action and a
minimum of plot kept things
moving until it bogged down a
bit around the one hour mark.
The 7-year-old proved an excellent barometer. During the
slow bits, he squirmed. During the action sequences, he
sat, transfixed except when
it got a little too intense, at
which point he buried his head
in his fathers shoulder.
Its a good show, overall. It
has its moments of humor and
of tension, and answers one
nagging question what do
the stormtroopers wear under
that white armor? (Answer:
black cotton pants.)
The weakest scenes are
Daisy Ridley and John Boyega in Star Wars: The Force Awakens
between Ford and Fisher, who
look meaningfully into each
others eyes on several squirmworthy occasions.
As a stand-alone film, The
Force Awakens is fairly useless. But its not a stand-alone.
Its Episode VII.So it would be
a good idea for the non-nerd to
refresh the memory banks on
the personnel of the extended
Solo-Skywalker-Organa-Vader
family before venturing forth.
The film is infinitely supe-
rior to the three plodding films

that precede it (in release date,
if not story line). There are no
Siths, Clones or Jar Jars.
Its fun, if a little long. The
effects are spectacular without
being showy, the acting is fine,
and the audience clapped at
the finish, which doesnt happen too often these days.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is rated PG-13 for sci-fi
action violence. It is playing
widely.
At The Movies
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Auditions
The Sharon Playhouse, 49 Amenia
Road, Sharon, CT, 860-3647469, www.sharonplayhouse.
org Auditions for 2016 season,
by appointment only, Jan 10, Feb
27, callbacks, Feb 28. Email info@
sharonplayhouse.org or call and
speak to Wendy to schedule.
Warner Theatre, 68 Main Street,
Torrington, CT, 860-489-7180,
www.warnertheatre.org Auditions
for Neil Simons Lost in Yonkers,
by appointment only, Jan 4, 7
pm, Jan 6, 7 pm. To schedule
an appointment go to www.
warnertheatre.org/auditions or
email auditions@warnertheatre.
org. Performances beginning Mar
5, rehearsals begin Jan 10.
Books
The Cornwall Library, 30 Pine
Street, Cornwall, CT, 860-672-6874,
www.CornwallLibrary.org A talk
and reading by Janice Nimura,

author of Daughters of the
Samurai: A Journey from East to
West and Back, Jan 9, 5 pm.
North Cornwall Meeting House,
Cogswell Road, Cornwall, CT
Weve introduced
Annual Boxing Day Reading

with Tom Walker reading Marcel
Pagnols Memories of Childhood,
Dec 26, 4 pm.
Oliver Wolcott Library, 160 South
Street, Litchfield, CT, 860-4225142, www.owlibrary.org Book
discussion series led by Mark
Scarbrough featuring author Willa
Cather, Jan 10, Feb 7, 1-2 pm.
Classes/
Workshops
High and Mighty Therapeutic
Riding and Driving Center 501(C)
(3), 71 County Route 21C, Ghent,
NY, 518-672-4202, High-n-mighty.
org Registration now open for
fall program. Riding, driving and
other equine assisted activities
for children, teens and adults
with special needs. For info, email
info@high-n-mighty.org or go to
website.
Kaatsbaan International Dance
Center, 120 Broadway, Tivoli, NY,
845-757-5106, www.kaatsbaan.
org Kaatsbaan Academy of Dance,
Winter session, Jan 4-Mar 10, (10
weeks) Childrens Classes: Ballet
II & III, 2nd & 3rd Grade, Tuesday,
3:55-4:55 pm; Ballet IV and V, 4th
& 5th Grade, Tuesday, 5:00-6:15

pm; Creative Dance, 3-4 yr. olds,
Thursday, 3:10-3:40 pm; PreBallet I, Pre-K, Thursday, 3:45-4:30
pm; Pre-Ballet II, Kindergarten,
Thursday, 4:30-5:15 pm; Ballet I, 1st
& 2nd Grade, Thursday, 5:15-6:15
pm; Flamenco Classes: Beginning
Flamenco, 13 yrs and up, Monday,
5:30-6:30 pm; Adv. Beg. & Interm.
Flamenco, Adult, Monday, 6:307:45 pm; Castanet Class, Adult,
Monday, 7:45-8:15 pm; Adv. Beg.
& Interm. Flamenco, Adult,
Friday, 10-11:30 am; Castanet
Class, Adult, Friday, 11:30-noon.
For information and registration
please call or email Prudence
Garcia-Renart, 845-757-5106 x10,
email, pgrkaats@bestweb.net.
North East Community Center, 51
South Center Street, Millerton,
NY, 518-789-4259, www.

neccmillerton.org Gwen from My
Tree is teaching yoga at NECC,
Tuesday, 7:30-8:30 am, Sunday,
9:30-10:30 am. For more info, email
Mytreepoweryoga@yahoo.com.
Noble Horizons, 17 Cobble Rd,
Salisbury, CT, 860-435-9851, www.
noblehorizons.org Noble Horizons
Fall Prevention Series with
Balance Assessments, Tuesdays,
through Dec 29, 10-11 am. For
more info. and registration call or
go to the website.
Yoga at Space, 228 Sharon Road,
Lakeville, CT, www.yogaatspace.
com Daily yoga classes for all
levels; new classes starting in
January.
Dance
Mahaiwe Theatre, 14 Castle St,
Great Barrington, MA, 413-5280100, www.mahaiwe.org Bolshoi
Ballet, Taming of the Shrew, Jan
31, 1 pm.
Sheffield Contra Dance, Dewey
Memorial Hall, 91 Main Street,
Sheffield, MA, 860-672-6101,
sheffieldcontradance.wordpress.
com Mid-winter contra dance,
calling by Kathryn Wedderburn,
music by Eclectic Map, Dec 26,
7:30-11:00 pm.
Warner Theatre, 68 Main Street,
www.warnertheatre.org Moses
Pendelton and the dancerillusionists troupe, MOMIX,
10
present Opus Cactus, Jan 9-10.

Go to website for tickets and
times.
The Gallery at Naples Studio, 3

Landmark Lane, Kent Green,
Kent, CT, 860-592-0700, www.
naplesrestoration.com/gallery
Galleries
Pentimento by Kathy Wismar,

through Jan 12.
Argazzi Art, 22 Millerton Road,

Lakeville, CT, 860-435-8222, www.
argazziart.com Holiday Tree,
featuring works on paper by Rudy
Vavra, through Jan 3.
The Good Gallery, 13 Railroad

Street, Kent, CT , 860-927-5065,
www.thegoodgallerykent.com Art
Collective Extravaganza 2015, a
group show, through Jan 3.
Berkshire Museum, 39 South St,

Pittsfield, MA, 413-443-7171, www.
berkshiremuseum.org American
West, a dual exhibition with
National Geographic Greatest
Photographs of the American
West, through Jan 3.
Good Purpose Gallery, 40 Main

St, Suite 1, Lee, MA, 413-394-5023,
www.goodpurpose.org Holiday
Glow, with artwork by Terry Wise
and Susan Himmel and others,
through Jan 12; Selected Works by
CATA artists, 40 x 30 x 8, 40 x 30
refers to the size of the paintings
and 8 refers to the number of
artists in the show, Jan 12-Feb 16,
opening reception, Jan 12, 5:307:30 pm.
Lauren Clark Fine Art, 25

Railroad Street, Great Barrington,
MA, 413-528-0432, www.
LaurenClarkFineArt.com 17
Painters and a Sculptor, annual
invitational featuring new work
by sculptor Joe Wheaton and
the work of 17 artists from the
Berkshires and beyond, through
Jan 10.
Cornwall Library, 30 Pine Street,
Cornwall, CT, 860-672-6874, www.
cornwalllibrary.org Sightings,
collages by John Perry, through
Dec 31.
The Equis Art Gallery, 15 West
Market Street, Red Hook, NY, 845758-9432, equisart.com Paintings
by Joanna Keller Quentin.
Five Points Gallery, 68 Main Street,
fivepointsgallery.org Victor Leger,
Avery Danziger, through Dec 26.
Gregory James Gallery, 93 Park

Lane Road, New Milford, CT, 860354-3436, gregoryjamesgallery.
com 2015 Holiday Group Art Show,
through January.
The Harts Gallery, 20 Bank
Street, New Milford, CT, 917913-4641, thehartsgallery.com
Transgeneration, featuring the
photographs of Peruvian Christian
Fuchs and the vintage collages
of Italian Francesca Belgiojoso,
through Jan 7.
The Silo, Hunt Hill Farm Trust, 44
Upland Road, New Milford, CT,
860-355-0300 hunthillfarmtrust.
org Wonderment exhibit curated
by Jessica Jane Russell, featuring
seven women artists whose work
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is focused in the craft medium,

through Jan 3.
Kent Memorial Library, Kent Town
Hall, 41 Kent Green Boulevard,
CT, 860-927-3761 www.
kentmemoriallibrary.org Kinetic
Fields, paintings by Heather
Scofield, through Dec 28.
The M Studio Gallery, 48 Main
Street, Millerton, NY 12546, 518789-3408, www.themoviehouse.
net Vanishing America, oil and
watercolor paintings by Jeffrey L.
Neumann, through Jan 9.
MASS MoCA, 1040 MASS MoCA
WAY, North Adams, MA, 413-6622111, massmoca.org Francesco
Clemente: Encampment, through
Jan 3.
Millbrook School, Hamilton
Math and Science Center Gallery,
Millbrook School, 131 Millbrook
School Road, Millbrook, NY,
millbrook.org Metal on Metal, A
Toolmakers Tool, photographs by
Helen Hamada, through Jan 29.
Montage, 25 Main Street,
Millerton, NY, 860-485-3887, www.
jenningsandrohnantiques.com
Moira Kelly, Frescoes, through
January.
Morrison Gallery, 25 North Main
Street, Kent, CT, morrisongallery.
com Wolf Kahn, pastels, through
Jan 31.
Noble Horizons, 17 Cobble Road,
Salisbury, CT, 860-435-9851, www.
noblehorizons.org Housatonic
Camera Club exhibit of new works,
Jan 15-Feb 14, opening reception,
Jan 15, 5-7 pm.
Noelke Gallery, 15 Water Street,
noelkegallery.com Jeremy J. Starn,
satellite images, Mirrors In The
Sky, through Jan 21.
Norman Rockwell Museum, 9
Glendale Road, Stockbridge,
MA, 413-298-4100, www.nrm.org
Norman Rockwells Spirit of the
Holidays, through Jan 8; Masters of
the Golden Age: Harvey Dunn and
his students, through Mar 13; Love
a Vet: Honoring Our Veterans,
through Jan 5; Meet Rockwells
Models, Jan 8, 2:30 pm; Norman
Rockwell in Detail, Jan 15, 2:30 pm;
An Evening in the Classroom with
Illustrator Harvey Dunn, Jan 16,
5:30 pm.
North Elm Home, 5938 North Elm

Avenue, Route 22, Millerton, NY,
518-789-3848, northelmhome.com
The Art Wall presents photographs
by Nadia Block, through Jan 29.
Ober Gallery, 10 North Main Street,
Kent, CT, 860-927-5030, www.
obergallery.com Leonid Sokov,
sculpture and drawings, Dec 26Feb 28; Robert Andrew Parker and
Geoffrey Parker, Father and Son,
paintings, prints and sculpture,
through May 1.
Sohn Fine Art Gallery, 69 Church
Street, Lenox, MA, 413-551-7353,
www.sohnfineart.com Muse,
through January.
Souterrain Gallery of The Wish
House, 413 Sharon Goshen Tnpk.,
West Cornwall CT, 860-672-2969,
www.wishhouse.com Magaly
Ohika, Art Evolves, through Jan 3.
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum,
600 Main Street, Hartford, CT, 860278-2670, wadsworth.org Andy
Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe,
Warhol & Mapplethorpe: Guise &
Dolls, through Jan 24; Miniature
World in White Gold: Meissen
Porcelain by Johann Joachim
Kaendler, Jan 16 through January
2017.
Holiday
Events
Crystal Peak, 164 Torrington Road,
Winsted, CT, 860-379-2303, hlwa.
org Highland Lake Watershed
Associations dance, Putting on
the Glitz, featuring seven-piece
band, Apricot Brandy, Jan 2, 6 pm
appetizers, 7 pm sit-down dinner.
Go to website or call for tickets.
Kent Gingerbread Festival, Main
Street, Kent, CT, 860-592-006,
http://kentct.com/events Dozens
of gingerbread creations will be
revealed in participating shops,
through December.
Kent Historical Society, Kent Town
Hall, 41 Kent Green Boulevard,
Kent, CT, 860-927-4587, www.
kenthistoricalsociety.org Annual
Holiday Boutique, through Dec 31.
Go to website for times.
Washington Art Association
& Gallery, 4 Bryan Memorial
Plaza, Washington Depot,
CT, 860-868-2878, www.
washingtonartassociation.com
Holiday Home Gift Fair, through
Dec 24.
Kids
St. Andrews Episcopal Church,
5 North Main Street, Kent, CT
06757, 860-927-3486 Tanglewood
Marionettes present Hansel and
Gretel, Dec 29, 2 pm.
Kent Memorial Library, Kent
Town Hall, 41 Kent Green
Blvd., CT, 860-927-376, www.
kentmemoriallibrary.org
Afternoon Chess for Students
with Chess Experts, Grades 3 and
above, first Friday of every month,
3:30 pm; Checkers, Chess, and
other board games with Barrie! all
ages, Dec 26, 10 am-noon; LEGO
Free Play, all ages, Dec 30, 1-2:30
pm, please register; Annual New
Years Eve Story Hour, ages 2-9, Dec
31, 10:30 am, please register; Teen
Quiz Night! grades 5 and up only,
Jan 2, 7 pm, please register. Weekly
events for children: Rhythm and
Rhyme, birth to age 3, Tuesdays,
Dec 29, 10:45 am; Lunch Bunch, all
ages, Thursdays, Dec 24, 30, 12:30
pm, bring lunch.
Scoville Memorial Library, 38 Main
St, Salisbury, CT, 860-435-2838,
www.scovillelibrary.org Lets Get
Curious Storytime, investigative
storytime featuring books and
music, art and activity, adventures
for children ages 3-6. All ages are
welcome, every Saturday, 11amnoon; Kids New Years Party, count
down to the New Year exactly 12
hours before 2016 begins. Food
and drink, arts and crafts, bells
and whistles, Dec 31, 8 am-5 pm.
Village Center for the Arts, 12 Main
Street, New Milford, CT, 860-3544318, www.villagecenterarts.org
Artsy Holiday Cookies - Create
Beautiful Cookies, Family, Dec 24,
Session One: 10 am-noon, Session
Two: 1-3 pm; Turtle in Trouble Clay Sculpting a Usable Bowl; Bigs
& Littles, Age 3-7. Adult (Big) is
free if assisting, Dec 27, 1-3:30 pm;
Make your own Elsa or Anna, Ages
9-17, Dec 28, noon-5 pm; Fabulous
Fountains - Create a working
Fountain, Ages 8- Adult, Dec 2830, 10 am- 5pm; Art Exploration,
Step by Step instruction in a
variety of medium & techniques,
Children & Adults, Dec 29,
noon- 4 pm or 4-6 pm; Winter
Wonderland - Diorama Workshop,
Create a Beautiful Winter World,

Families, Dec 29, 1-4 pm; Mine
Craft, Building Competition,
Ages 8- Adult, Dec 29, 10 am - 3
pm; Art Exploration, Step by Step
instruction in a variety of medium
& techniques, Children & Adults,
Dec 30, noon-4 pm or 4-6 pm;
Imaginative Clay Sculptures ...
Bring your favorite character... The
one from your imagination...The
one you doodle all the time... To
life in clay! Ages 10-15, Dec 31, 10
am-2 pm.
fishercenter.bard.edu Sarah
Rothenberg, The Marcel Proust
Project, Jan 24, noon; Acoustic
Informatics featuring Dan
Tepfer and the International
Contemporary Ensemble, Jan 29,
8 pm.
Movies
The Center for Performing Arts

at Rhinebeck, 661 Route 308,
Rhinebeck, NY, 845- 876-3080,
www.centerforperformingarts.
org Sounds of Celebration with
guitarist David Temple, music
of the Renaissance, Baroque,
Classical, Romantic and modern
periods will be featured, Dec 27,
3 pm.
Connecticut Academy for the

Arts (CAFTA), 190 Water Street,
www.cafta.info CAFTAs Friday
film forum, through Dec 31, 6 pm.
www.CornwallLibrary.org Winter
Film Series, It Should Happen to
You, Jan 30, 7:30 pm.
Digiplex Torrington, 89 Farley
Place, Torrington, CT, 860-4894111, www.cinerom.com
Gilson Cafe Cinema, 354 Main St,
Winsted, CT, 860-379-5108, www.
gilsoncafecinema.com
Kent Memorial Library, Kent
Town Hall, 41 Kent Green
Blvd., CT, 860-927-376, www.
kentmemoriallibrary.org
Minions, Dec 28, 1 pm, popcorn
will be served, please register.
Bardavon, 35 Market Street,

Poughkeepsie, NY, 845-473-2072,
www.bardavon.org Met Opera Live
in HD: Bizets Les Pcheurs de
Perles, Jan 16, 1 pm.
Club Helsinki Hudson, 405

Columbia St., Hudson, NY,
518-8284800, helsinkihudson.
com Jon Cleary and the Monster
Gentlemen, Dec 31, 9 pm; Bully,
Jan 8, 9 pm; The Living Roots Trio,
Jan 9, 8 pm; Darlingside, Jan 14,
8 pm; Elvis Birthday Bash with
the Lustre Kings, Jan 15, 9 pm;
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Cabin
Fever Cabaret, Jan 16, 9 pm.
The Moviehouse, 48 Main St,

Millerton, NY, 518-789-3408, www.
themoviehouse.net
Hotchkiss Library of Sharon, 10

Upper Main Street, Sharon, CT, 860
364-504, www.hotchkisslibrary.
org Composer and musician
Andrew Thomson will bring
several lesser-known instruments
from around the world to share
with the audience, accompanied
by brief insights into the culture
from which they came, Dec 29, 10
am, following the presentation,
all members of the audience are
welcome to comeforward to have
a closer look at and play with the
instruments. Please call to register.
Triplex, 70 Railroad St, Great

Barrington, MA, 413-528-8885,
www.thetriplex.com
The Hotchkiss School, 11

Interlaken Road, Katherine M.
Elfers Hall, Esther Eastman Music
Mahaiwe Theatre, 14 Castle St,

Great Barrington, MA, 413-5280100, www.mahaiwe.org Home
Alone, Dec 26, 4 pm.
Warner Theatre, 68 Main

Street, Torrington, CT, 860489-7180, www.warnertheatre.
org Downton Abbey Season
6 premiere, Jan 2, 6 pm; Dirty
Dancing, Jan 22, 7 pm.
Music
Fisher Center, Bard College,
60 Manor Ave, Annandale-OnHudson, NY, 845 758-790, www.
Center, Lakeville, CT, 860-435-4423,

www.hotchkiss.org/arts Veteran
jazz guitarist and composer
Michael Musillami and his flagship
trio, featuring bassist Joe Fonda
and drummer George Schuller
and special guests: Peter Madsen,
Jimmy Greene, Jon Irabagon and
Jason Rigby, Jan 8, 7 pm.
Infinity Music Hall & Bistro, 32
Front Street, Hartford, CT, 866666-6306, www.infinityhall.com
Mike DelGuidice & Big Shot - An
Evening Celebrating The Music
of Billy Joel, Dec 27, 7:30 pm;
Tower of Power (1st Show), Dec
31, 7 pm; Tower of Power (2nd
Show), Dec 31, 11 pm; The Cast of
Beatlemania, Jan 2, 8 pm; Maceo
Parker, Jan 8, 8 pm; Howie Day, Jan
9, 8 pm.
Infinity Music Hall & Bistro, 8232
Route 44, Norfolk, CT, 866-6666306, www.infinityhall.com
Mike DelGuidice & Big Shot - An
Evening Celebrating the Music
of Billy Joel, Dec 26, 8 pm; The
Allman Neville Pitchell Band with
Saagar Ace, Dec 31, 9 pm; Open
Mic Big Stage Competition, Jan 7,
8 pm; The Slambovian Circus of
Dreams, Jan 8, 8 pm; Young Studs
of Comedy, Jan 9, 8 pm.
Kellogg Music Center, Bard
College of Simons Rock, Great
Barrington, MA, 860-435-2627,
worldclassmusic.org Crescendo Trumpets and Angels: A Baroque
Christmas Story, H. Schtz
Weihnachtshistorie and Motets by
M. Praetorius for choir and brass,
Jan 2, 3 pm.
Warner Theatre, 68 Main
Street, Torrington, CT, 860489-7180, www.warnertheatre.
org Lucinda and Michael, 2016
No Boundaries tour with a CD
release performance and live
DVD taping, Jan 9, 8 pm; Met
Opera Live in HD: Bizets Les
Pecheurs de Perles, Jan 16, 12:55
pm, a complimentary pre-opera
lecture will be presented by

Nunzio DeFilippis, 10:55 am.
Talks
www.CornwallLibrary.org Antique
Oriental Rugs Is it Art Just
Because Its Old? A talk by Kristen
Bedell, Jan 23, 5 pm.
The Womens Forum of
Litchfield, Litchfield Community
Center, 421 Bantam Road,
Litchfield, CT, 860-605-7207,
womensforumoflitchfield.org
Jan Lyon will be speaking about
Homeless Mothers and Babies.
What are we doing about It?, Jan
7, 2:30 pm.
Theater
The Center for Performing Arts
at Rhinebeck, 661 Route 308,
Rhinebeck, NY, 845- 876-3080,
www.centerforperformingarts.org
The Music Man, Jan 8-31. Go to
website for tickets and times.
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The Ghent Playhouse, 6 Town Hall

Place, Ghent, NY, 518-392-6264,
www.ghentplayhouse.org The
Weir, Jan 22-24, 29-31, Feb 5-7.
The Sherman Playhouse, 5 Route
39 North (next to the firehouse),
Sherman, CT, 860-354-3622,
shermanplayers.org Alices
Adventures in Wonderland,
through Dec 27. Go to website for
times and tickets.
TheaterWorks, 233 Pearl Street,
Hartford, CT, 860-527-7838,
theater- workshartford.org Tom
Lenk in Buyer & Cellar, Jan 7- Feb
14. For tickets and times go to the
website.
TheatreWorks, 5 Brookside Avenue,
New Milford , CT, 860-350-6863,
theatreworks.us Bell, Book &
Candle, through Jan 9; New Years
Eve Gala Fundraiser, Dec 31; PayWhat-You-Want Night, Jan 7, 8 pm.
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The Winsted Journal

WINSTED Four months into

PHOTO BY SHAW ISRAEL IZIKSON

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

See CONTRACT, page A7

Winchester School District Receiver

Centrella house sold

surrendered interest in his house to

TOWN MANAGER SEARCH

sion Chairman Frank Berg, who is

Sedlack gives update

WINSTED Selectman Steven

one in Massachusetts and two in New

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Lighting contest winners announced

members of the Recreation Department.

Rikki and Justin Lorenteen of 123

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WINSTED Aleczaire Ryan

with car break-ins since October.

Christmas spirit at First Church

PHOTOS BY ERICA TAYLOR

it a unique show. It is usually

General Store celebrates first anniversary

COLEBROOK On Sunday, Dec. 13, the Colebrook

The society made resident

new suspects were produced

Helping Hands Chore Service

PHOTO BY ALICIA KIRSCH

Colebrook General Store employee Jesse Marinelli and her

thing from business meetings

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Gator Parade spreads town cheer

WINSTED The 12th annual

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2015

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