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Soccer seniors
C-Team
Senior Day for CRHS boys’ soccer took place Thursday, Oct. 20. Photos by Karen Kean
They tried a number of plays to get the offense running behind the blocking of Toth, Wallen, Aidan Sarcia, Jacob Haglund, Erik Pitruzzello, Owen Griffin and Will Kammerer, but after successfully driving down the field, a costly fumble occurred, and the Falcons landed back on defense. But it was not going to be the Panthers’ day today as on the next drive they coughed up the ball, and Kammerer came up with the
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Friday, October 28, 2011 prize, giving the Falcons great field position once again. Again the Falcons drove down the field, and this time Huscher found an opening in the line and scored a touchdown on an eight-yard run. QB Grant added the extra point on a keeper and the Falcons now led 20-0.
headed to the CTYFL Bowl Championship Series. The Falcons were selected to play in the Orange Bowl Tournament against the Simsbury Raiders at Simsbury High School at 10 a.m. next week. We would surely appreciate all our fans making the trip!
Skelps then recovered another fumble, and the Falcons chose to run out the clock to end the game.
Powder Ridge
The C-Team Falcons had a great regular season, and for the first time ever are now
approaching municipal elections on Nov. 8. Based on a quick review of citizen comments posted on various media websites, including our own, that appears true. Everyone from state Representative Matt Lesser to the national and world economy to First Selectman Jon Brayshaw to former owner Ken Leavitt is given a share of the blame by someone for Alpine Ridge pulling out. Resident Marianne Corona, who has been involved with many of the negotiations on Powder Ridge, provided some perspective. She said, “The town should finish the permit process, and after the election go out into the marketplace again. “I’m a plodder,” she added. “Everything takes at least 10 years here. Powder Ridge is still a wonderful asset, and we should dedicate the energy wasted on finger-pointing to finishing the project.” Antin explained that, after the town meeting in March 2011 that approved the sale of Powder Ridge to Alpine Ridge by a nine-to-one margin, a 90day period of due diligence began, during which the town waited for Abplanalp to investigate whether the deal would ultimately turn out to be in his company’s best interests. “Presumably the engineering work on what it would take to get water out of Lake Beseck for snowmaking would have occurred during this period,” Antin added. However, after the 90-day due diligence was up in midJune, the town began having surveys performed and otherwise trying to help Abplanalp get his ducks in a row, and they asked to have the date for the closing postponed until the end of August. According to town officials, Abplanalp raised no
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