DAYVILLE —  United Services, Inc., Connecticut’s largest private, nonprofit behavioral health center celebrated its 50th Anniversary recently with its Annual Dinner.

The event featured a keynote address from A. Kathryn Power, Regional Administrator, Region One for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), an operating division of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). United Services also inducted two new board members and recognized the contributions of its community partners and long-serving staff at the annual celebration.

United Services President/CEO Diane L. Manning said United Services outpatient mental health caseload is now 248 percent of what it was in 2007, yet the agency’s resources to meet this rising demand remain near the level of seven years ago. Board  leadership includes Chairman Jeff Kramer of Storrs,  James Clark of Canterbury,  Mary Bromm of Ashford. 

New members elected to the United Services Board of Directors were Anne Konczakowski of Windham, a Connecticut Department of Labor Adjudications Specialist, and Maximo Garcia of Willimantic, owner of U Drive 2 Driving School in Willimantic..

Returning Board members include immediate past president Attorney Sheldon Mossberg of Willimantic; Robert Leonard of Dayville; Linda Loretz of Ellington; Dr. John Duers of Chaplin; Barbara Presson of Pomfret; Romeo Blackmar of Pomfret; Jeanne Nuhfer of Columbia, Terri Pearsall of Putnam; Cheryl Lewis of Putnam; Michael Turano of Canterbury; and John Deary of Pomfret.

Recognized were:  Dr. Roland Lupien of Pomfret, Maggie Martin of Eastern Connecticut State University’s Social Work program, and Chief Mark Palmer and Sgt. Michael McDonagh of the Coventry Police Department.

United Services staff were honored for their long-standing service: Celebrating 25 years were Kathryn Mikel, a case manager; Elba Sostre, a bilingual senior case manager; and Aimee Terwilliger, a Positive Parenting Program counselor. Dr. Ven Thangada, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, marked 20 years with the agency while Intensive Services Division Director Heather Victoria, Clinical Coordinator for the Client Access Team Jim Garland, Human Resources Recruitment Manager Talia Lyon and Controller Barbie Soler all celebrated 15 years. The agency also honored 18 employees who have been with the agency for 5 and 10 years.

 

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The following charges were listed in the Putnam Police Department logs.  The people charged are innocent until proven guilty in court. The Town Crier will publish dispositions of cases at the request of the accused. The dispositions must be accompanied by the proper documentation. The Putnam Police Department confidential Tip Line is 963-0000.

Nov. 24

Westly Henry, 32, Cedar Street, Meriden; sixth-degree larceny.

Randy Bergeron, 23, Sabin Street, Putnam; operating an unregistered motor vehicle.

Brian Hanlon, 56, Margaret Circle, Pomfret; failure to renew registration.

Nov. 27

Paul Pfosi, 50, Dodge Road, Woodstock; disorderly conduct, criminal trespassing, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia.

Nov. 29

Jessica Hale, 35, Farrow Street, Putnam; operating under the influence, failure to obey control signal, possession of less than ½ ounce of marijuana.

 

 

 

$1,000 donated

WOODSTOCK — Charter Oak Federal Credit Union donated $1,000 from their Community Partnership Program in support of the Town of Woodstock’s request for funding to replace current defibrillator units that are no longer being supported by the manufacturer. 

 

WOODSTOCK — The Woodstock Academy honor roll for the first quarter includes:

High Honors

Seniors: Courtney Bergman, Shaina Blain, Katelyn Brady, Courtney Butts, Nicole Cadro, Caitlyn Chapman, Alec Clark, Shannon Creedon,  Jacqueline Deary, Nicolette Deary, Graysen DeLuca, Sarah Douglas, Shane Eccleston, Mackenzie Feen, Corlis Fraga, Shelby Fundin, Michaela Green, Galina Gruder, Amythest Hamby, Conor Hanlon, Cameron Hartland, Dylan Hearn, Ryan Heilemann, Megan Houlihan, Peter Howard, Nicholas Kowalchuk, Briana Kowolenko, Jamie Kristal, Meghan Labbe, Zoe LaVergne, Hunter Malboeuf, Angelise Martin, Wenshan Meng, Rebecca Messier, Kayla Munger, Shealyn Musumeci, Weston Ogle, Sarah Oleksiak, Jacquelyn Orlowski, Kerri Palmer, Kiana Percy, Adam Piche, Elizabeth Redfield, Morgan Reynolds, Matthew Rich, Stacy Rickey, Abigail Robichaud, Seline Smith, Abigail Stevens, Quinlan Taylor, Katelyn Wedegis, Paige Willard and Kexin Xu 

Juniors: Michael Audet, Tessa Cannon, Angela Caponi, Cheukling Cheng, Cheng Chi, Kylie Couture, Hunter Foisy, Deanna Guilani, Emily Hedin, Kara Heilemann, Lingyi Jiao, Sang Joo Kim, Tyler Lavoie, Yiluo Li, Lela Miller, Anna Perry, Leeann Rauls, Caroline Schad, Ashley Stephens, Jonathan Trinque, Shunhao Wu, Wenzhuo Yang and Peixin Yu 

Sophomores: Audrey Chase, Vivek Cherian, Maya Fraga, Cameron Grube, Dylan Grube, Patrick Houlihan, Emily Hughes, Grace Jocson, Shealyn Kelley, Jonathan Mustis, Jake Owens, Clara Sarantopoulos, Kendyll Smith, Yichang Su, Joseph Thompson Jr., Cassidy Thorpe, Ying Ye and Yingnan Zhu 

Freshmen: Jessie Anderson, Mary-Margaret Andrulot, Simon Becher, Caitlin Cannon, Gabrielle Cavagnet, Brendan Chapuis, Christopher Cheney, Eleonora Chervenkova, Dani Collins, Abigail Dustin, Griffin Edwards, Nora Guszkowski, Denali Johns, Ivan Karlsen, Eden Law, Hannah Matsas, Ciri Miller, Kiara Monahan, Jacob Murphy, Ashley Roy, Stephanie Roy, William Schad, Samantha Sheldon, Ian Sohan, Makara Sorel, Sophia Stoll and Hannah Walley 

Honors

Seniors: Cleo Alberts, Reinert Angle, Erin Bagdoian, Kaitlyn Baron, Megan Bastow, Elaina Becher, Nicole Benoit, Dylan Berridge, Adam Blonshine, Rachel Bober, David Bohanan, Natalie Bourque, Alison Brennan, Evan Bright, Ariana Bunker, Peter Button, Joseph Carbone IV, Vishal Cherian, Evan Clarke, Adam Converse, Gavin Corey, Jordan Corey, Marina Defocy, Alexis Dehler, Samantha Demers, Ryan DeOliveira, Rosaleen Donovan, Shelby Eccleston, Zachary Enderle, Jonathan Espada, Anna Fagan, Yirou Fan Fan, Haley Farley, Ryan Gadoury, Tiana Gagnon, Matthew Gignac, Taylor Gilbert, Sierra Goodwin, Paisley Gothreau, Kaeleigh Gould, Anna Grudzinski, Sarah Haberbosch, Jenna Haines, James Hamelin, Matthew Hare, Canyon Hopkins, Emma Howe, Mary Incera, Kelsie Iturrino, Tyler King, Edward Lanzoni, Jessica Lehtonen, Hao Li, Alexis LiDonde, Taylor Littell, Sitong Liu, Max Logan, Hannah Mainhart, Eli Majek, Abigail Mares, Abbey Marsalisi, Christopher Martin, Grayson McCarthy, Elena McCusker, Evert McKee, III, Christopher Melville, Tess Migliaccio, Max Mullin, Abigail Murren, Melanie Phaneuf, Terria Phaneuf, Veronica Phillips, Benjamin Piche, Courtney Pollock, Crystelle Ranhoff, Allison Rosaci, James Rowley, Patrick Salisbury, Claire Sconzo, Asa Scranton, Dajana Sejdiraj, Zu En Seow, Annabel Shackett, Mikayla Sheldon, Samantha Sherman, Kara Singleton, Morgan Sorel, Ashton Stephens, Roger Stohlberg, Zhiqi Tang, Sarah Torcellini, Kyle Tyler, Nicholas Waterhouse, Lan Wei, Mishel Wight, Kendall Wilcox, Jamie Wildgoose, Abigail Willis, Mary Wishart, Nicholas Wolslegel, Zackery Wood, Jiaying Xue, Jennifer Zeiger and Xinyin Zhang

Juniors: Jack Archambault, Hailey Ballou, Nathalie Bessette, Miranda Bonnette, Connor Bright, Noah Brisson, Sabreina Brunelle, Alyson Calabrese, Jacob Campbell, Sean Campbell, Shane Campbell, Nicholas Chan, Shreya Chaudhari, Rhiannon Choate, Bailey Cummings, Mia D’Amico, Danielle Duquette, Madeline Ferreira, John Fox, Kevin Froehlich, Wenhao Fu, Jourdan Fulchino, Douglas Gerrity, Hannah Godfrey, Benjamin Gormley, Noah Gould, Grace Gregory, Amanda Haines, Autumn Hug, Emma Johnson, Robert Johnson, Corrinne Jones, Mikayla Jones, Allison Kelleher, Matthew Lefemine, Katherine Loos, Katelyn Minski, Matthew Mlyniec, Heather Mowry, Abigail Newton, Lauren Perry, Dominic Ponte, Ethan Rogers, Sean Sabad, Bruce Sakindi, Samantha Salisbury, Brooklynn Saracina, Kassidy Stewart, Hallie Tedeschi, Jonathan Thompson, Azhur Viano, Alexandra Whitehead, Kyle Wigmore, Yichuan Yin, Shauri Young and Zihan Zhang

Sophomores: Hannahrose Andrews, Ryan Black, Christian Bombara, Jr., Zachary Boshka, Alexander Bosio, Jason Brule, Elise Bulmer, Silas Bunnell, Hunter Campbell, Linxian Chen, Michael Cheney, Jr., Christopher Claprood, Katherine Dalimonte, Carly DeLuca, Nathan Deluca, Bruce Dexter III, Liam Dyer, Emily Faist, Rebecca Feldman, Qi Gao, Cody Goodwin, Molly Harrington, Delane Hartland, Zidie He, James Hemeon, Allen Horn, Ya-Chien Hsu, Tyler Huhtanen, Steve Karue, Kaley Kasacek, Jack Kelley, Mikko Koivisto, Jessica Kratochvil, Kylie Kusnarowis, Sylvia Lawrence, Alyssa Lee, Devin Leroy, William Liscomb, Grace Logan, Laura Looby, Yuanchen Ma, Alexandra Matthews, Christian Mayotte, Lara McClelland, Samuel Nichols, Matthew Papp, Olivia Pappas, Victor Paulhus, Franchesca Pescatello, Claudia Plummer, Zachary Ramos, David Redfield, Julia Roemer, Carli Schimmelpfennig, Zu Le Seow, Collin Singleton, Mia Slevinsky, Coleen Solitro, Jordyn Staveski, Kyle Strandson, Paige Stuyniski, Graham Sweetnam, Jacob Trudeau, Sydney Trudo, Caleb Wilcox, Jordyn Woodland, Brandon Yater and Wei Zou

Freshmen: Tristan Anderson, Tanner Bentley, Luke Bourque, Julia Christensen, Kennedy Davignon, Mya Deshaw, Isabelle Dubois, Caroline Eaton, Nicolas Fernandez, Erica Frost, Ryan Gravier, Zekai Guo, Aaron Hallene, Brandon Hallene, Casidhe Hoyt, Connor Huda, Grace Jones, Alexis Lathrop, Abigail Lefemine, Heidi Lotter, Jared Macdonald, Steven Madenjian, Lillian Mandeville, Noah Mcnamara, Molly Millix, Anna Murphy, Lindsey O’Dea, Charlotte Powell, Xinchi Qian, Leah Randolph, Erin Raymond, Jordan Renaud, Joshua Resnick, Ryan Rossi, Elizabeth Roy, Hailey Schofield, Jared Sroczenski, Corey Stanley, Tyler Stuba, Ruyuan Tan, Jacob Webber, Breana Weidele, Ethan Werstler, Chelsea Wise, Rose Wood and Michele Wysocki

Recognition: 

 

Seniors: Austin Beaupre, Isabella Belanger, Haley Bessette, Luke Blodgett, Ian Burgess, Annette Costanzo, Marco Epifani, Zachary Jean, Andrew Kausch, Riana Lincoln, Aemilia Mullin, Bailey Napierata, Sean O’Brien, Jordan Phaneuf, Shannon Place, Nicholas Rogerson, Marissa Roy, Seth Semmelrock, Oliver Simon, Kayla Slayton, Roosevelt Sowka, Maxwell Swenson, Lindsey Taylor, Rachelle Tomlinson, Colleen Topliff, Elizabeth Williamson, Yichun Yang, Xianyi Zhao and Zijian Zhu

Juniors: Shaylin Albert, Sarah Andrews, Jewelia Aubin, Elizabeth Babbitt, Alyson Baron, Jacob Belanger, Cassidy Bonin, Peter Calabrese, Sydney Correia, Jacob Delashmutt, Angelique Desjardins, Sarah French, Christian Gonzalez, Ethan Hellwig, Meaghan Hunter, Tucker Johns, Aaron Lambert, Autumn Lewis, Jacqueline Low, Jeff Mathieu, Jr., Fallon Michalski, Ian O’Sullivan, Ashley Palmerino, Michael Pio, Cahan Quinn, Michael Rainville, Xhesika Sejdiraj, Abigail Short, Justin Smith, Courtney Trahan, Liam Walsh, Brian Witter, Victoria Zagrodny and Yiwen Zhang

Sophomores: Carley Beshaw, Kaylea Bessios, Caleb Bowen, Allison Brady, Alden Brennan, Isaac Burrell, Lindsay Cartier, Keeling Chiu, Shane Congdon, Meghan Corey, Brittany Eber, Zirui Fang, Hunter Garceau, Roxanne Garceau, Kathia Gonzalez, Daniel Harrington, Brian Hemeon, Huiyi Huang, Yanling Huang, Jack Jellison, Tyler Lajoie, Emily Lengyel, Haoen Li, Yuanqi Ma, Kerry-Jewel Martin, Myles Murren, Payton Muzyczka, Angela Nigro, Kaylin Oloff, Madison Palmerino, Zhibo Peng, Carol Phaneuf, Conor Quinn, Toni Ramos, Shayna Robinson, Ian Sauco, Jessica Semancik, Nicholas Short, Cuinn Stevenson, Mackenzie Stewart, Chloe Tew, Alyssa Tracy, Kelly Trivella, Jesse Viteri and Jackie Wedegis

Freshmen: Daniel Antunes, Seth Benoit, Julia Bibeault, Robert Boisvert, Anna Boshka, Madison Brennan, Kennady Brown, Jessica Brunelle, Taylor Castano, Mackenzie Cayer, Elias Child, Harrison Cowher, Wyatt Cummings, Kalianna Dingui, Samantha Gelinas, Cylus Gould, Carson Hadley, William Hamill, Gabrielle Larrow, Jacob Mainhart, Grace Mcwilliam, Nathaniel Merlo, Bailey Nault, Shealyn O’Connor, Andrew Pedersen, Olivia Perry, Yingru Qu, Kristina Rice, Jaden Rosselli, Madison Rzeznikiewicz, Tyler Williams, Krista Wolslegel and Brandon Yanko

 

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