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Ellington Ellington Senior Center Offers Senior Chess Mates Program ELLINGTON - The Senior Center in Ellington will be sponsoring a new program for seniors to exercise their brain cells. Senior Chess Mates will meet weekly on Mondays, starting June 6 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The program is coordinated by Alex Cardoni, a retired University of Connecticut professor and Ellington resident. This program is geared for beginners who want to learn how to play chess and for people who know how to play, but haven’t touched a pawn in some time. The first 20-30 minutes of each session will be used for teaching and the remainder of the time will be used for playing games. Anyone with questions should
contact Erin Graziani at the Ellington Senior Center at 860-870-3133. The Better Age Club of the Senior Center will be winding down its season with a business meeting to be held on Thursday, June 9, at 1 p.m. Presenter Mary Ertel will entertain with “Drum Circle.� Better Age will reconvene in the September time frame offering new and informative programs. Musical Insights brings composer and performer Rachmaninoff to the senior center on Monday, June 13 (6 p.m. to 8 p.m.), a request presentation by Jack Cohen. Sign-up is requested. The final presentation of Musical Insights will be held on June 27 at 6 p.m. with a presen-
Town Approves Budget with Small Increase By Linda Tishler Levinson ELLINGTON — The town has adopted a 2011-12 budget. Residents voted by a 670-581 count in a May 17 referendum to adopt a $46,028,926 budget. “I’m clearly very well pleased at that,� First Selectman Maurice Blanchette said of the budget approval. He added it was a difficult budget year. “This year all cuts were hard to make.�
The budget brings a 2.2 mill increase, with the mill rate set at 27.5. A mill represents $1 in tax for every $1,000 of assessed property value. The budget is a $325,857 increase over the current budget, a 0.71 percent increase. It includes $31,682,596 for the Board of Education, a 1.85 percent or $574,513 increase, and $14,346,330 for the general government budget, a decrease of 1.7 percent or $248,656.
tation by guest artist Mary Regan. Signup is requested for this program as well. Musical Insights will be on vacation during the months of July and August. We look forward to seeing you again in September. The Ellington Senior Center is located
at 16 Church St., Ellington. Erin Graziani is Director. The Senior Center’s hours are Monday, 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m., Tuesday-Thursday, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.; and Friday, 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. For more information, call 860-8333133.
McKnight Museum Open For Season ELLINGTON – The Nellie McKnight Museum at 70 Main St., Ellington, will be open for tours from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. every Thursday through the end of September. The museum, staffed and maintained by the Ellington Historical Society, was the home of Ellington librarian and historian Nellie McKnight. The house will be 200 years old next year and work is being done to add a bedroom to the area open to the public. During this work the second floor will not be open for tours, but the first floor with toys and tools from the turn of the century, Indian artifacts and Victorian furniture and clothing will be on display. This season we are featuring an exhibit about ice harvesting, including a horse-drawn ice cutter and other tools of the trade. Admission to the museum is free. For more information about the museum or society, call 860-875-7160.
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