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Volume 18, Number 45
Friday, November 10, 2023
Republicans top vote getters across the board Citizen staff
incumbent William J. Pieper will once again serve as Second Selectman, winNorth Haven First Selectman Michael ning his race over current Third SelectFreda ran unopposed this year, assured man Sally J. Buemi by a vote of 3,149 of winning another term. According to to 1,742. For the Board of Finance, Reunofficial results from the Connecticut publicans Timothy Doheny Secretary of State, Freda will be joined and Robert C. Zambrano outdistanced by several other fellow Republicans for their Democratic challengers, Nancy the next two years. Barrett and Kieran Ahern. On the Board of Education, it was RepubliInitial returns show that Republican
cans Joseph M. Solimene and Goldie Adele easily winning over Democrats Amanda Gabriele and Lori Mansur.
Selectman
Below are the unofficial results, as of Wednesday, Nov. 8:
Board of Finance
The Trumbull House in North Haven has been undergoing work in order to preserve the historic structure for years to come. Photos courtesy of Ron D'Aurelio
The Trumbull House in North Haven has been undergoing work in order to preserve the historic structure for years to come.
First Selectman Michael J. Freda (R) – 4,434
William J. Pieper (R) – 3,149 Sally J. Buemi (D) – 1,742 Timothy Doheny (R) – 3,273 Robert C. Zambrano (R) – 3,176 See Election, A2
Trumbull house undergoing structural work By Heather Sillins Special to The Citizen
The historic Benjamin Trumbull House has undergone some recent structural changes that aim to maintain the integrity of the home for hundreds of years to come. The home was owned by Benjamin Trumbull (1735 1820), who served the town of North Haven as a teacher, pastor, and farmer. He wrote well-respected texts on the history of Connecticut, the
origin of holy scriptures, and the history of American churches. He was a patriot serving in the Revolutionary War and assisted with Beacon Hill fortifications during the War of 1812. Over his time as a minister, he composed 4,000 sermons and married 464 couples. Trumbull was a Yale graduate who studied theology and taught for a year in Columbia, Connecticut before being offered a settlement to teach in North Haven in 1760. At only 25-
years- old, he was given the role of Minister of the North Haven Congregational Church, replacing the late Rev. Isaac Stiles. In 1761, he purchased 16 acres of land just east of the meeting house.
just a present. He even went so far as to promise to teach the school kids himself if the town would build a schoolhouse. And they did, so he did.”
He lived out the rest of his days serving the town in North Haven in these “I think the house represents uniquely meaningful ways long-term dedication,” noted before he passed in 1820 – North Haven Historical Soci- just 10 days after delivering ety’s Archives Manager, Suhis last sermon. san Iverson. “Rev. Trumbull was dedicated in everything The second owner of the that he did. He was dedicat- house was schoolteacher, ed to this community. He state representative, and probate judge Ezra Stiles wanted a future for it – not
(1804-1891), who was Trumbull’s immediate predecessor in the pulpit of the Congregational Church of North Haven. The house remained in the Stiles family until 1939. Much of the information the North Haven Historical Society has on The Trumbull House was uncovered through copies of papers located in the Archives at Yale University by the late Gloria Furnival, who not only spent See Trumbull, A2