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Volume 29, Number 24
Friday, June 16, 2023
Germany-bound graduate receives proper send-off Town Times report
New Coginchaug graduate Ethan Bufford-Cournoyer. Middlefield Volunteer Fire Company, Facebook
Also, Bufford-Cournoyer — a member of the Middlefield Coginchaug Regional High Volunteer Fire Company’s School senior Ethan Bufford- Explorer program — reCournoyer was scheduled to ceived a tip of the hat from leave for Germany on the local fire department. Wednesday as part of a local Each spring, the MVFC esdelegation headed to the corts CRHS graduates to Special Olympics World their post-commencement Games in Berlin. ceremony party, Project Because Bufford-CournoyGraduation. Realizing that er’s travel plans would keep Bufford-Cournoyer would him from attending gradua- miss out on that experience, tion on June 14, the CRHS the fire department decided community pulled together to give him a ride to his prian early, individual comvate graduation ceremony at mencement for him on the high school. Monday.
“Ethan has been incredibly active in the community, serving as the leader of our Explorer Post, a member of Boy Scout Troop 33, working on completing his Eagle Scout Project, and participating in an internship program at South Fire District Middletown,” the MVFC stated in a social media post. “Anyone who knows Ethan knows he has a sense of dedication, hard work, and positivity that is hard to beat.” See Send-off, A5
Around Town Honoring the fallen
the library said it expected to be open with regular hours June 12 to 17. “During this time, our new study Earlier this month, Scouts rooms are being installed from Middlefield/Durham and we will begin to re-inPack 33 helped collect flags stall shelving and materials which had been placed at the State Veterans Cemetery in their new locations,” the library stated. “We expect in Middletown in recognithe library to be noisy durtion of Memorial Day. “To those that never came home, ing construction. You may Pack 33 extends its most sin- find a quieter browsing excere gratitude for what these perience between 4 and 8 p.m., after workers have men and women have done,” Middlefield/Durham gone for the day.” Pack 33 stated on social me- The Durham library was dia. awarded a grant for the renewal project in the amount Located on Bow Lane, the of $146,957 by the ConnectiState Veterans Cemetery in cut State Library Board. Middletown is the largest state-operated veterans cemetery in Connecticut.
Project moving along As part of a multi-faceted renewal project, recently, new carpet was installed at the Durham Public Library. In a social media post this week,
Donuts for veterans In celebration of National Donut Day on June 2, Lyman Orchards partnered with The Salvation Army in donating 700 donuts to veterScouts from Middlefield/Durham Pack 33 joined veterans and other volunteers recently to ans. collect flags from burial sites at the State Veterans Cemetery in Middletown.
See Around Town, A5
Middlefield/Durham Pack 33, Facebook