Volume 19, Number 46
By Ashley Kus Citizen staff
The Worthington Meeting House on Worthington Ridge could get an upgrade as the town looks into renovating the 18th-century building. “It’s been on the back burner for a long time,” said Lorraine Stub, president of the Friends of the Worthington Meeting House.
Razing of former train depot begins By Ashley Kus Citizen staff
Portions of the former Depot Road train station have been knocked down after a fire tore through the century-old building in December. The rest of the building was expected to be demolished this week, officials said. “The tattered shell that remains is structurally unsafe and not sound,” said Kevin Nursick, spokesman for the state Department of Transportation. “It’s beyond being salvageable.” The DOT had been working to reno-
Firefighters respond to a fire at the old Berlin train station.
In 2004, the Town Council voted to appropriate $610,000 in bonding. After stabilizing the building, the project came in around $80,000 under budget. See Upgrades, A14
| Bryan Lipiner, Record-Journal
See Station, A8
Cancer patient has hope in a new year
The town has been looking at renovating the meetinghouse for years. In 2000, a group of volunteers developed a plan for the building with Visiting Nurses Association offices on the second floor and museum space on the first floor.
Thursday, January 5, 2017
It was also the year Podermanski was diagnosed By Mary Ellen Godin with breast cancer, which Record-Journal staff rapidly spread to her liver and bones. After receiving In 2016, Larissa Podermanski a diagnosis in March and a got married, left the United double mastectomy in April, States for the first time, met she was in a wheelchair her biological family, and during much of her fulfilled her lifetime dream honeymoon in June. With Larissa and Martin Podermanski at their residence in of meeting pop star Mariah the help of her husband, Kensington, Friday, Dec. 23, 2016. Carey. | Dave Zajac, Record-Journal
See Hope, A15
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