The selectmen have yet to endorse relocation of the veterans memorial to Town Hall.
Author Archives: Kathryn Boughton
Kathryn Boughton has been editor of the Kent Dispatch since its digital reincarnation in October 2023 as a nonprofit online publication. A native of Canaan, Conn., Kathryn has been a regional journalist for more than 50 years, having been employed by both the Lakeville Journal and Litchfield County Times as managing editor. While with the LCT, she was also editor of the former print Kent Good Times Dispatch from 2005 until 2009.
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Selectmen deny IWC request for Osborne as alternate
KENT, Conn.—The Board of Selectmen Wednesday night declined to appoint Public Works foreman Rick Osborne to the Inland Wetlands Commission. The Inland Wetlands Commission had twice formally nominated Osborne as […]
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Food trucks: To be or not to be? That is the question
The selectmen continue to mull over the question of whether to permit food trucks.
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Swift House’s fate to be taken to referendum
Selectmen vote to ask townspeople whether to sell or keep the ancient building.
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Architectural Review Board weighs church’s bid for nighttime lighting
Environmental factors come into play.
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Sewer District grapples with how to pay for capital projects
Estimates are on the horizon.
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Committee will look into signage regulations
How far should enforcement of existing rules go in the interim?
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Capricorn Trio to perform Mozart, Haydn and Fauré
A reception will follow the Roxbury concert.
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Officials release name of man killed in St. John’s Ledges fall
Officials have released the name of the 30-year-old man killed Thursday in a rock-climbing fall.
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25 years later, Kent pauses to remember 9/11
About 50 residents joined town officials, clergy and first responders Friday in commemorating 9/11.
