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Boukus to lead program Tuesday with Malloy
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On Tuesday, Dec. 20, at 11 a.m., Gov. Dannel P. Malloy will give remarks at a news conference in Hartford hosted by state Rep.
Mother Nature's friends
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Photo courtesy of Sue Holcomb
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Friends of Tomasso Nature Park volunteer their time and muscles to help clean up debris from Storm Alfred. “The park was hit pretty hard in some areas and the volunteers got a great deal of the bush cut and piled up,” said Sue Holcomb, volunteer coordinator. The Roadways Department crew picks up the brush. The nature park will reopen March 15. Volunteers, from left, are Leslie Sundell, Dan Kulas, Paul Marsan and Mark Swanson.
Babysitting Night Saturday at Wheeler YMCA
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Senior center bowlers of the month for November
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The Plainville Senior Center Bowling League announced that Carter Casida, Helen Tessier and Gil Theriault won the title of bowlers of the month for November 2011. The league meets at Laurel Lanes, 136 New Britain Ave., Plainville, on Mondays at 1 p.m. There is a cost per person, per week and includes three games of bowling, open bowling discount card, automatic scoring and free weekly beverage. Bowlers of all abilities, including beginners, are welcome to join this league. For more information, contact Frank Robinson, bowling league president, at (860) 747-2918.
Naming committee to consider names for Wall of Honor
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There will be a special meeting of the Plainville Community Schools’ Naming (Selection) Committee on Tuesday, Dec. 20, at 5:30 p.m., in the Plainville High School Library, 47 Robert Holcomb Way, to discuss the nominations for the Memorial Wall of Honor.
The Wall of Honor, established last year, is in recognition of meritorious service to education.
PHS WINTER SPORTS PREVIEW
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The following takes a look at the Plainville High School varsity sports teams competing this winter:
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Welcome, new principal
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Linden Street School Principal Paula Eshoo, left, welcomes visitors at the “Meet and Greet" held in her honor, in conjunction with the school Gingerbread Shop event held Dec. 7. Eshoo began as Linden Street School Principal in October.
Planning and Zoning to meet Tuesday night
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PLAINVILLE, CONNECTICUT
DECEMBER 13, 2011
Komisarjevsky sentenced to death
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NEW HAVEN – Joshua Komisarjevsky was sentenced to death, Friday, after nearly 20 hours of deliberation by the same jury that convicted him on six capital felony counts for the 2007 murders of a Cheshire woman and her two daughters.
In October, Komisarjevsky was convicted of killing Jennifer Hawke-Petit, 17-year-old Hayley Petit and 11-year-old Michaela Petit.
Native American experience
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Photo courtesy of Plainville Public Schools
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Students in Diana Benza's third grade class at Linden Street School recently visited the Indian Rock Nature Preserve in Bristol as a wrap-up to their Native American unit. The students went on a hayride, learned about tools, sat in two wigwams and made arrowhead necklaces. Sitting in the wigwam, from far left, are Corey Rexinger-McConnell, Presley Carman, Talia Fileccia, Christian Colling, Tyler Bonney, Zoser Hazel and Hannah Ferris.
