KENT–Kent Affordable Housing has only a matter of weeks to find a suitable parcel on which to build an affordable single-family home, according to Bill Bachrach, a member of the […]
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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Kent Backs Plan for High School Upgrades
KENT—Kent residents voted enthusiastically Jan. 8 in support of a $5.64 million project to upgrade facilities at Housatonic Valley Regional High School in Falls Village. The town cast a total […]
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“Our Town” Picked for One Book, One Town Community Read
KENT—The Kent Memorial Library will revisit its One Book, One Town program between now and the end of March to engage local readers in reading Thornton Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Our Town. […]
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Robert Bauer Dies on Dec. 27
KENT—Robert “Bob” Hallock Bauer, 98, of Kent, entered into the gates of Heaven on Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023, at Candlewood Valley Health & Rehabilitation Center in New Milford. He was […]
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Kent Mourns a ‘Wonderful Man’
KENT—It is not often that a small, rural town has a brigadier general in a church pulpit. But that is what Kent enjoyed for 16 years under the ministrations of […]
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Sense of CommUNITY Growing in Kent
KENT—The state of the world may be parlous, the geopolitical universe spinning out of control, but Kent business leaders refuse to let divisiveness trickle down into their community. The Chamber […]
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School Board approves armed guard policy
KENT—The Board of Education has quickly approved three amendments to a policy governing an armed security guard in Kent Center School. The decision came Jan. 2. In August 2023, the […]
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Second Resident Trooper is urged
KENT—As the budget season dawns, former resident state trooper Andy Ocif has renewed his plea to the Board of Selectmen for a second resident state trooper for the town. Ocif, […]
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Referendum Monday on $5.6 Million HVRHS Project
KENT—Referendum voting to approve or deny $5.6 million in improvements and renovations at Housatonic Valley Regional High School will be held Jan. 8 from 6 a.m. go 8 p.m. at […]
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Republican Caucus is Jan. 12
KENT—The Kent Republican Town Committee will hold a caucus for all enrolled Republican electors in the town Friday, January 12, at 7 p.m., in the large meeting room at Town […]