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Volume 23, Number 21
Friday, August 23, 2019
Powder Ridge gears up to host music festival By Everett Bishop Town Times
Powder Ridge will host Bring It To The Light, a music festival looking to entertain people while also educating them on the dangers of opioid abuse.
Alyssa Branday picks peaches with her family, Aug. 17, at Lyman Orchards. Photos by Everett Bishop, Town Times
A peachy day at Lyman’s By Everett Bishop Town Times
Lyman Orchards hosted its annual Peach Fest, Saturday, Aug. 17. Festival goers were encouraged to wander out into the orchards to pick peaches with friends and family as well as partake in activities such as the sunflower maze and a pie-eating contest. “This is just a chance for the kids to get out for some fun,” said Alyssa Branday, who had gone to the orchards to pick peaches with her family. Though he didn’t have any concrete numbers on how many peaches were sold over the weekend, John Lyman, owner of the business, said that he was “very pleased with the turnout.” “We had a very strong day
The festival, set for Saturday, Aug. 31, is organized by Bill Reaney, who founded Bring It To The Light in 2018. The event is Reaney’s way of bringing people together for a day filled with music, while also providing a platform for him to talk about opioid abuse, an issue that is personal to him.
“We’re here to have some family time to enjoy God’s fr uits,” said Alex Rodriguez. The orchards were separated into different sections, each “And we’re hoping to make with its own type of peach. some peach cobbler,” said The Rodriguez family were Melina Rodriguez, Alex’s busy at work filling a paper wife. bag with peaches with some ebishop@record-journal.com mouthwatering plans in 203-317-2444 mind. Twitter: @everett_bishop
Reaney had to do something rather than sit around “waiting for a phone call” saying that his son was dead. So he turned to music. See Festival, A12
Towns get representation on transit board By Everett Bishop Town Times
and sold more peaches than last year,” he said.
“About seven years back, eight years back, I started dealing with a problem with addiction with my son,” Reaney said. “When it first started happening I didn’t know how to deal with it. There was anger at first, I tried to control him, none of this works. It ended up where it made me a trainwreck. It totally drained me.”
board members were always appointed by and represented Middletown. After paying into Dial-AIt was discovered that that Ride services through construct was incorrect,” Middletown Area Transit she said. “All the towns for over a decade, Durham that are served by that disand Middlefield will finally trict should have had a receive direct representarepresentative member.” tion on MAT’s board of diThe district that the MAT rectors. covers includes MiddleDurham First Selectwom- town, Portland, East an Laura Francis was Hampton, Durham and named Durham’s repreMiddlefield. Out of these sentative to the board at towns, only Middletown the town’s Aug. 5 Board of had been directly repreSelectman meeting. sented. “What is new is that the Middletown Area Transit See Transit, A14