Preston Jim Corley has spent his first month as the town’s new public works manager driving through town and getting to know its roads and bridges, making notes of road and drainage problem spots and overhanging trees that could come down in a storm.
Corley, 36, is the first to fill the newly created position of public works manager, an enhanced role for the head of the Public Works Department upon the retirement of former longtime highway foreman Bob Boyd.
“I am excited about the position, being new,” Corley said this week. “Anyone who got this position would have the opportunity to take the position and run with it and make it their own.”
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The coronavirus pandemic has increased the appeal of outdoor activities, and increased the need to support small local businesses. Maple sugaring in March is an opportunity to do both. Connecticut has 29 sugarhouses that are open to the public, for socially distanced family adventures.
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Roy Gundersen, beloved husband, father, and grandfather, died peacefully at his Edgartown home on Nov. 25, 2020, at the age of 89.
Roy grew up in a close-knit Norwegian community in East Hartland, Conn., and his first language was Norwegian. In his youth, he spent hours with his dog Lucky exploring the beautiful woods. Then when he was 10, his sister Diane came into his life. He loved listening to her play the piano, and together they created a lifetime of fun and loving memories. In Hartland, he was surrounded by tantes, uncles, cousins, and friends who often gathered at the fields for ball games, or at the Pedersen farm or the Lutheran Church. It was at the farm that he often played with his cousins, drove tractors, and baled hay. Tante Aasine was always busy serving food, and baking breads and pies. Roy returned each year to the town of his youth, keeping in touch with the Gundersens, Pedersens, Dalenes, Haags, and friends.