Past Issues of the Putnam Town Crier
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grows 1.88%
By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
PUTNAM --- Thanks in part to the expansion of the Putnam Walmart, the town's new grand list shows a new net taxable list of $640,264,705, a 1.88 percent increase over last year.
Tax Assessor Rande Chmura presented the grand list details this week. The total increase over last year is $11,807,120.
She said the swing this year was Walmart's 50,000 square foot addition and a lot of new equipment in that store.
Real estate increased by $4,459,410 for a total of $536,963,744. Motor vehicles increased by $515,450 for a total of $53,368,070. Personal property increased by $6,832,260 for a total of $49,932,891.
The largest growth was seen in East Putnam, she said, with an increase of $8,082,561 or 3.2 percent.
Chmura said the top 10 taxpayers are: Putnam Acquisition LP (Walmart) - $13,062,730; Putnam Downtown LLC (shopping center) - $11,092,100; Connecticut Light & Power - $8,849,930; Staples - $8,569,270; Putnam LLC (Stop & Shop) - $7,031,360; Kmart Corporation - $5,667,360; Yankee Gas - $4,444,090; Putnam Parkade Inc. (shopping center) - $4,103,330; International Paper Co. - $3,758,610; Valley Village Assoc. (apartments) - $3,652,150.
Chmura said the increase last year was .29 percent.
She added that Putnam's increase is somewhere in the middle of grand lists reported in Windham County. She said Hampton decreased by .43 percent and Brooklyn saw a 3.3 percent increase (due to the brand new Walmart being constructed).
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MARLBOROUGH — Alan R. Bates, NHA, was named recently administrator at Marlborough Health & Rehabilitation Center, a National Health Care Associates Inc. facility.
He will work with a staff of 153 employees who care for residents needing short-term rehabilitation and long-term skilled nursing care.
Most recently Bates was an associate administrator at one of National Healthcare Associates Inc.’s sister facilities in Connecticut.
“I am excited about the opportunity to lead Marlborough Health Care Center and continue, with our highly trained and dedicated staff, to ensure that each of our residents receive dignified, compassionate, and quality care,” said Bates.
Bates earned his bachelor’s in business administration from Nichols College.
He continued his graduate studies in Long Term Care – Nursing Home Administration at the University of New Haven.
He has extensive business management experience in financial development, corporate leadership and customer service.
Bate’s past and current community and professional involvement include Corporator, Day Kimball Hospital.
He also has membership with the Putnam and East Hartford Rotary clubs, American College of Health Care Administrators, and the Northeastern Connecticut Chamber of Commerce.
Bates and his wife Janet live in Putnam and have two adult children.
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Greetings. This recipe includes ingredients which you may not normally have in your pantry: almond flour, rye flour, and quinoa flour. A large grocery store most likely will stock these items. If you substitute regular unbleached flour, use 1 cup, and increase the oats to 3 cups.
Oatmeal Cookies
¾ cup butter, at room temperature
¼ cup molasses
½ cup sugar
½ cup brown sugar, not packed
1 egg 1 tablespoon vanilla
1 cup almond flour
½ cup rye flour ½ cup quinoa flour
1 tablespoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
2 cups oats 1 cup raisins
1 cup chopped pecans
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Fit parchment paper to cookie sheets, or lightly coat with butter.
Beat butter until creamy. Beat in molasses, sugar, and brown sugar, until creamy. Beat in egg and vanilla.
Combine almond flour, rye flour, quinoa flour, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt in a separate bowl. Stir into butter-sugar mixture, leaving some streaks of flour.
Combine oats, raisins, and pecans in the empty bowl from the flour mixture. Add oat mixture to the cookie batter, and stir until evenly blended.
Scoop up batter into golf ball-sized portions (recipe makes about 4 dozen cookies) and drop onto cookie sheets, spacing 2 inches apart. With damp fingers, press down on each cookie to flatten to about ½ inch thickness. Cookies will not spread during baking.
Bake for 10-12 minutes. Allow cookies to remain on cookie sheet for a few minutes before removing to cool on a rack.
Makes about 4 dozen.
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Then
This is the mural on the side of 88 Main last April, as the scaffolding started to go up. Putnam Town Crier file photos.
& Now
This is the same area a couple weeks ago. The fencing is now confined to the front entrance and sconces
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captions, page 1: Private Harvey Stevens
caption, page 6:
Purple Heart
Left: Members of the Stevens and Thurlow families gathered for a family portrait after WWI Private Harvey Stevens' Purple Heart medal was presented to his two surviving children. Below: U.S. Congressman Joe Courtney presents the Purple Heart medal and certificate to Phyllis Thurlow (in black) Stevens' daughter, and William "Bill" Stevens. Stevens' wife Floris Stevens sits to her husband's left.
By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
PUTNAM --- The fact that some 95 years had intervened between Private Harvey M. Stevens' service and the presentation of his Purple Heart to his two surviving children was of no consequence. His son, William Stevens, and his daughter, Phyllis Thurlow, both cried. As did many Stevens/Thurlow family members watching with pride as U.S. Congressman Joe Courtney presented the Purple Heart certificate and medal to the pair.
Stevens was wounded by shrapnel while fighting in France in World War I. Daughter Phyllis Thurlow said her father was very proud to serve his country. He often told stories about the war but scarcely discussed his being wounded.
Courtney, clearly thrilled at the prospect of presenting a medal for a World War I hero, told those attending that he was proud to listen to the stories of service of the family, from even before the Revolutionary War.
"These are amazing stories of our history," he said. He said the Purple Heart, created by George Washington, has always been the thread between present day and our past.
Ryan McKenna, who began as a veterans rep at Courtney's office in August, is a military man himself. He served three years in the 82nd Airborne and is currently in the Air Force Reserve. He said the paperwork for the Purple Heart for Stevens had been submitted to the National Personnel Records Center by his predecessor.
Carl Thurlow, a nephew, approached McKenna to ask if there was any word about his grandfather's Purple Heart. McKenna tracked down the paperwork, reworked it so that the medical evidence was conclusive and resubmitted the packet. This time it came through.
McKenna said he did the work in October/November and the medal arrived around the beginnin