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updated: Sat Jul 05, 2008 03:28 pm

Kent News

Local news for Kent, CT continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.

Saturday Jul 5 | Poughkeepsie Journal

Save unruly garden with mass planting

I've been feeling like I've come awake from a too-long nap, not really sure whether I've just been sleeping or if I've missed a decade or two.

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Related Topix: Home Gardening, Home

Thu Jul 03, 2008

Hartford Courant

'Mahogany Memories': Antique and Classic Boat Society In Essex

Mahogany Memories' is the title of 24th annual Antique and Classic Boat Society show Saturday at the Connecticut River Museum in Essex.

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Related Topix: Essex, CT, Movies, Entertainment

Sun Jun 29, 2008

NewsTimesLive.com

Three injured in Kent crash

Three people were taken to area hospitals after a head-on collision on Route 7 Saturday night.

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Related Topix: New Milford, CT

Fri Jun 27, 2008

Poughkeepsie Journal

Exhibit, book chronicles actress' cancer battle

Golden Globe-winning actress Lynn Redgrave is a breast cancer survivor. Her journey through treatments and recovery is documented in personal, yet relatable, photographs taken by her daughter, Annabel Clark.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Breast Cancer, Cancer

Mon Jun 23, 2008

NewsTimesLive.com

HVRHS cites top students for Class of '08

Housatonic Valley Regional High School in Falls Village, which serves the town of Kent, has announced its valedictorian and salutatorian for the Class of 2008.

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Related Topix: Falls Village, CT, Cornwall Bridge, CT, New Milford, CT

Sat Jun 21, 2008

Richard's Notes

Pod and Recliner

Kent, Connecticut. Another view of two of Joy Brown's ceramic sculptures. The pod is a large, hollow ball that joins dozens that Joy has made over the years.

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Tue Jun 17, 2008

WTNH

Thousands without power after storm

Norfolk _ Over 13,000 utility customers throughout Connecticut still don't have power following a powerful storm last night.

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Related Topix: Norfolk, CT, Colebrook, CT, Canaan, CT, New Haven Metro

Wed Jun 11, 2008

Kent Good Times Dispatch

Russells move toward rebuilding home

In late February trouble came knocking at the modest door of the Alan Russell family.

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Mon Jun 09, 2008

The Hartford Courant

Boy, 4, Drowns; Man Dies In River

Trumbull police say the boy was visiting a home on Old Hollow Road from Pennsylvania and died shortly before 5 p.m. Saturday.

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Related Topix: Trumbull, CT

Sun Jun 08, 2008

Kent Good Times Dispatch

Kent going green?

The selectmen Tuesday night unanimously endorsed a plan to enroll the town in the Connecticut Clean Energy program provided by CL&P. Under the proposal, the town would be get a 1 KW solar panel for Kent Center ...

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Related Topix: Cornwall, CT, Science / Technology, Alternative Energy

Fri Jun 06, 2008

Hartford Courant

Happy trails can be yours this summer

One of the state's major hiking trails can be found within 20 miles of almost everyone in Connecticut, and usually the distance to a good trail is much shorter than that, a few miles, at most.

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Related Topix: Granby, CT, Entertainment

Wed Jun 04, 2008

Kent Good Times Dispatch

Veterans memorial closer to a reality

Plans to construct a memorial to honor Kent veterans from the latter 20th century have moved forward with the unveiling of a proposed design and an imminent fund-raising campaign.

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Related Topix: Memorial Day, Holidays

Mon Jun 02, 2008

Kulturblog

LOST: There's No Place Like Home

Now we finally know why the creative team nicknamed the season finale "frozen donkey wheel." Okay, maybe not.

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Related Topix: Action TV, Lost, Entertainment, Drama, Television

Sat May 31, 2008

Kent Good Times Dispatch

IWO Jima was Osborne's baptism by fire

Monday flags waved, people cheered and bands played along the festive streets of Kent.

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Thu May 29, 2008

Kent Good Times Dispatch

Testy meeting finally passes budget

Kent has a municipal budget for the next fiscal year but the process of getting it was not easy.

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Mon May 19, 2008

The Greater New Milford Spectrum

Kent museum to showcase historic fashions

The Kent Historical Society is gearing up for a costume exhibit this summer, which will look at the theories behind fashion changes.

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Sat May 17, 2008

The Greater New Milford Spectrum

Merryall Chapel to kick off services Sunday

The Merryall Union Chapel on Chapel Hill Road in the Merryall section of New Milford has announced its schedule of services for the rest of the year. via The Greater New Milford Spectrum

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Related Topix: New Milford, CT, Religion, Presbyterian

Thu May 15, 2008

Hartford Courant

Sprucing Up Storefronts

The workshop will be from 9 a.m. to noon on Tuesday, at the ITBD Conference Center, 185 Main St. via Hartford Courant

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Related Topix: New Britain, CT

Mon May 12, 2008

The Greater New Milford Spectrum

May good for bird watching

“They like large stands of forest and we still have them here”

It's springtime, and the birding is easy and brilliant. It's the time of the year when the great annual flood of warblers -- small bright-colored birds that seem to never rest for more than a few seconds -- ... via The Greater New Milford Spectrum

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Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, Bird Watching, Charitable Organizations, Sharon, CT, Connecticut, Southbury, CT

Sat May 10, 2008

WTIC-TV Hartford

Chester Couple Planning Book On Outhouses

“Outhouses have some of the same appeal that covered bridges and old barns have - they're rustic, they're pre-modern, and so they help contribute to the image of New England as a land of quaint small towns and farms with deep roots in the past”

An outhouse, on the other hand, probably won't appear in a chamber of commerce brochure. via WTIC-TV Hartford

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Related Topix: Haddam, CT, Chester, CT

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