KENT—The Park and Recreation Commission voted recently to purchase a new 10-by-10-foot shed to replace the deteriorating one at Kent Common. Park & Rec Director Jared Kuczenski said he had […]
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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Touch-a-Trade Brings Real-Life Experience to Kids
KENT—It could have been a wash-out, but it wasn’t. Predicted rain did little to deter visitors to last weekend’s Touch-a-Trade presentation on the grounds of the Connecticut Antique Machinery Association. […]
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Park & Rec Brings Back Bridge
KENT—Kent Park & Rec is bringing back the Kent Bridge Club, featuring the once ubiquitous card game popular with the ladies who lunched. Bridge, a mainstay of the first half […]
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Annual Pumpkin Run is Sunday
KENT—The 47th annual five-mile Pumpkin Run will be held Sunday at noon, starting from Kent Green. Tickets purchased are $35 and the first 300 registrants receive a commemorative t-shirt. A Kids […]
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Quilt Walk in Final Weekend
KENT—It is the last weekend for the Kent Quilters third annual Quilt Walk. The quilts will be on display through Saturday at merchants around town. Maps are available throughout town […]
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A New Addition at the KGTD
KENT—The Kent Good Times Dispatch has a new future editor. Felicity Hope Balassone-Schoeny, an eight-pound baby girl, was born Tuesday, Oct. 24, to Kent News, Inc., board member Andrea Schoeny […]
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Warren Summit Presses Need for Affordable Housing in Region
KENT—A Housing Affordability Summit was held this week at the Warren Town Hall, sponsored by the Litchfield County Center for Housing Opportunity (LCCHO). It was attended by different housing organizations representing 15 towns […]
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To Be Free, or Not to Be Free?—That is the Question
KENT—The Conservation Commission recently had a feisty discussion about planting street trees in the village center and whether the trees would be installed on private property without cost to the […]
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Young Artists at House of Books
KENT—The House of Books and the Kent Historical Society will sponsor a “Places of Kent Young Artist Landscape Competition” in the gallery above the House of Books, 10 North Main […]
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Good Gallery Plans Gala Weekend
KENT—The Good Gallery will have a gala weekend on Oct. 21 and 22 as it opens a new exhibition by Robert Lenz on Saturday, followed by a concert by The […]