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PUTNAM — Putnam police are seeking information after an accident about 2 am June 1 at the corner of Grove and Tatem streets.
Putnam Police Captain said a 2023 Jeep Wrangler was traveling eastbound on Grove Street when the vehicle lost control negotiating the corner near Tatem Street.  The vehicle  struck a utility pole, fence, and tree.
Witnesses told police two people were seen running from the scene and have not yet been identified.
The Putnam Fire Department responded to the scene as well as Eversource.
Police ask  anyone with information to contact Sgt. Kevin Cardonne at the Putnam Police Department,  860-928-6565.  Tips can also be sent in via the website at www.putnampolice.com  or through the tip line at 860-963-0000.

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captions, left to right:
Maya Orbegozo
Sophie Gronski
Ella Musumeci
Liliana Bottone. Photos by Marc Allard

Every shot counts.
“That’s the stinging nature of golf,” said girls’ golf coach Earl Semmelrock. “We lose the individual medalist by one shot and we lost the team trophy by two shots. Some days the ball bounces your way and some days it doesn’t.”
Semmelrock said he emphasized the point of not giving up on any shot on the short bus ride over from Woodstock Academy to the Connecticut National Golf Club in Putnam for the ECC tournament championship last week.
The Centaurs had already found out just how much every shot means.
“I told them that we had missed qualifying for States by a cumulative 13 shots over the season so every shot counts,” Semmelrock said.
The Centaurs had just played on the Connecticut National course in their last regular season meet the day before and posted a 225 total. It was enough to defeat Killingly which had only three players and didn’t meet the minimum requirement for a team score to be posted.
The win over Killingly meant the Centaurs finished the regular season with a 12-3 overall record and a 10-2 mark in the ECC, good enough for a second-place finish.
That meant most expected a showdown between Norwich Free Academy (12-0 in the league) and the Centaurs in the league championship tournament.
That party, however, was crashed by East Lyme who came out of nowhere to finish with a 214 total, two strokes better than the Centaurs who improved by nine strokes over the day before with a 216 total and three better than NFA at 217. The sting may even have been a bit worse when it came to the individual medalist.
Senior Maya Orbegozo was in the first of the nine groups that played in the tournament.
She came into the clubhouse with an eight-over par 43 and was the leader for a lengthy amount of time.
But Killingly freshman Mackenzie Pothier went into the ninth hole tied with Orbegozo.
The senior peered down from a hill above the ninth green at Connecticut National as Pothier’s tee shot landed on the back of the ninth green and trickled into the rough.
Had the two tied, a playoff would have ensued and Orbegozo, who had been sitting for awhile, was advised to go and get ready for such an event.
Orbegozo chose to stay and watch. Pothier was just off the green but was a good 50-feet from the pin.
Her chip, however, was on line and did a 180-degree victory lap around the cup before it fell in.
As the ball fell, so did Pothier who knew what it meant due to the new scoring system adopted by the CIAC this season that allows players to know their status in a match at all times. The birdie gave the youngster the win.
The Centaur senior had a good first seven holes in the 9-hole match.
She was just three-over par going into the eighth hole. She got a couple pars and a birdie on the par-5 sixth hole.
“I hit a three-wood down the middle just to play it safe into my seven-wood to the back of the green and my second putt went right in the hole,” Orbegozo said.
But things got a little more difficult after a par on the seventh hole as Orbegozo triple-bogeyed the eighth and double-bogeyed the ninth.
Ella Musumeci added a 56 and Liliana Bottone finished with a 57 for the Centaurs to help them earn the second-place finish as a team in their final competition.
Orbegozo, Musumeci and Bottone were all named ECC All-Stars with Shannon Cunniff named as the team’s ECC Scholar-Athlete and Sophie Gronski getting the team’s ECC Sportsmanship Award.
The Centaurs will lose Orbegozo, Musumeci and Cunniff to graduation.
There was a glimmer of hope that the team had made the CIAC Div. II state tournament which took place on Monday.
On Thursday, Semmelrock was informed the Centaurs were a part of the field.
Unfortunately, a scoring error was discovered and the invite to the tournament was rescinded on Friday bringing an end to the Woodstock Academy season.
Marc Allard
Director of Sports Information
The Woodstock Academy

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Eversource has People Power too! Board members at the Windham Country Foundation can attest to that fact after spending a day with volunteers from Eversource and Tennett Tree Service at the Windham-Tolland 4-H camp in Pomfret.   Under the supervision of Senior Supervisor, Chris Baxter, Operations Manager Kyle Hazard and Ana Alfaro, Corporate Citizenship Program Manager, 18 employees along with lots of heavy equipment and expertise made a big difference around the camp.  At the end of the day, two cabins and a half dozen new benches were stained, posts and fence rails were replaced going up to time for thought, dead limbs and trees over camp roads and near buildings were trimmed and dropped and a new light pole was installed in the cabin area at Horse Camp, which will give them light up there for the first time.  Forester Justin Sherman helped the giant tree truck to safely navigate the bridge and stay out of the brook.  This partnership goes back more than 10 years and is one that is much appreciated by the all-volunteer Board of the Foundation.

 

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N. GROSVENORDALE — Rev. Charles F. Seivard, 85, died May 30, 2023. Born in 1937 in Stocksville, N.C., he was the son of the late Charles L. and Margaret (Cheek) Seivard.
Rev. Seivard attended Mt. Airy Seminary in Philadelphia and received his doctorate in divinity from Princeton. He was the current pastor at Emanuel Lutheran Church in N. Grosvenordale, prior to he was stationed at St. Stephen Lutheran Church in Marlborough, Mass., Trinity Lutheran Church in Worcester, Calvary Lutheran Church in Philadelphia, and Zion Spies Lutheran Church in Reading, Penn.
Charlie will also be remembered as a very talented local musician who played the bass, guitar, flute, and clarinet with the East Woodstock Cornet Band and at the Bradley Theater.
He leaves his children, Christopher B. Seivard (Karen) of Dillsburg, Penn., Michelle R. Murphy (Gary) of Warwick, R.I., and Grant C. Seivard of Encinitas, Calif.; and his grandchildren, Alexandra Murphy-Chappell (Daniel), Kevin Murphy, Joanna Seivard, and Jackson Seivard.
The Funeral Service was June 3 in the Emanuel Lutheran Church, N. Grosvenordale with burial in Swedish Emanuel Lutheran Church Cemetery. Donations: Emanuel Lutheran Church, P.O. Box 221, N. Grosvenordale, CT 06255. Valade Funeral Home & Crematory, 23 Main St., N. Grosvenordale.

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