Category: Featured
Posted inFeatured
Town meeting okays three burning ordinance changes
KENT, Conn.—It took only 16 minutes for a handful of townspeople to repeal and replace three ordinances relating to the Fire Marshal’s Department Friday, July 11. The ordinances changed provisions […]
Posted inFeatured
Housatonic Heritage: still no federal funds nine months into fiscal year
SALISBURY, Conn.—Upper Housatonic Valley Heritage Area administrators remain on tenterhooks this week as they await funding that was authorized by Congress in March. Nine months into the federal fiscal year, […]
Posted inFeatured
Housatonic takes another life
NEW MILFORD, Conn.—The Housatonic River has taken another life. Simon Hernandez, a 43-year-old man from Yonkers, N.Y., drowned Sunday, July 13, in the Housatonic River near Kent Road in New […]
Posted inFeatured
BREAKING: Kent mutual aid underway in Gaylordsville
GAYLORDSVILLE, Conn. — Emergency crews from Kent and Sherman have been dispatched to assist in mutual aid for an incident along Route 7 in the Gaylordsville area of New Milford. […]
Posted inFeatured
PZC sees preliminary plan for 76 units of workforce, affordable housing
KENT, Conn.—Relief for the housing crunch in Kent may be on the horizon. The Planning and Zoning Commission heard a presentation Thursday, July 10, by James Millstein, managing member of […]
Posted inFeatured
Former South Kent student is Fulbright finalist
KENT, Conn.—Caleb Ockman, a 2021 graduate of South Kent School, has already seen more of the world than many people ever will. Now, he stands poised to further expand his […]
Posted inFeatured
Kent’s Main Street is one of ’20 Most Beautiful’
KENT, Conn.—The accolades keep rolling in for Kent. Named the “Best Fall Foliage Town” by Yankee magazine in 2010 and twice listed by Country Living magazine as one of the […]
Posted inFeatured
Town ends fiscal year in good shape
KENT, Conn.—Town Treasurer Barbara Herbst recently reported to the Selectmen that the 2024-25 fiscal year ended in good order with only a total of $186,000 in line-item transfers needed. She […]
Posted inFeatured
Emergency responders handle ‘quicksand’ incident
KENT, Conn.—Two 14-year-old girls and a 10-year-old boy had a scary experience when they tried to cross a beaver dam off Segar Mountain Road the night of Saturday, July 5, […]