Volume 16, Issue 17
Serving Durham, Middlefield and Rockfall
In this issue ...
Buggy facts:
Baby ................................23 Calendar...........................4 DMYFS ...........................10 Durham Briefs ..........16-18 Girl Scouts .....................21 Libraries ................15 & 18 Middlefield Briefs .....14-15 Obituary .........................19 Road Trip ...................12-13 Spotlight .........................23 Sports......................26 & 29
There are 4,300 known species of ladybugs in the world.
Friday, August 7, 2009
Fun at Camp Farnam in Durham
You’re more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any other weather. Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, and blondes to brunettes. A dragonfly flaps its wings 20 to 40 times a second, bees and houseflies 200 times.
Every Thursday on the Durham Green from 3-6 p.m.
There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are humans on the entire earth.
Something delicious
Campers at Durham’s Camp Farnam are enjoying the newly renovated swimming pool for their relay race on July 29. See more photos of Camp Farnam’s summer program and its recent upgrades on page 25. Photo by Stephanie Wilcox
Powder Ridge Committee interviews second applicant By Sue VanDerzee Town Times
Joann Souchuns, of Wallingford, lets her grandson Henry Walker, 2, of Meriden, pick out a treat at the Durham Farmers’ Market. Photo by Stephanie Wilcox
At a meeting held in executive session because it dealt with the sale of property, the ad hoc Powder Ridge Committee interviewed Dennis Abplanalp, eastern regional director of Alpine Associates, Inc., an international ski industry consulting firm that is involved in projects around the world. Despite its international flavor, principals of the company have skied at Powder Ridge in the past. Their vision for Powder Ridge is to re-open it as a ski area in the winter of 2010-2011 and work with the town and interested parties to develop a plan that would provide recreational opportunities year round. They left the question
of buying or leasing the property open to further discussion with the town of Middlefield, its current owners. The committee took no votes after the interview and are working on financial due diligence with regard to both applicants – Alpine Associates Inc. and CDF Associates LLC and Snow Time, Inc. working in partnership. CDF and Snow Time were interviewed earlier, and their plan is to start with a snow tubing venture, perhaps as early as this coming winter. One of the issues that is important to both applicants is the ability to divert water from Lake Beseck and from the Powder Ridge pond to use for snow-making. That ability is controlled by a diversion permit issued by the state De-
partment of Environmental Protection (DEP). That permit was granted to former owner Ken Leavitt in 2003 and transfers with the transfer of the property. Both applicants, however, are interested in having control of the diversion permit since access to water for snow-making is at the center of any successful plan for Powder Ridge. Water diversion permit To expedite this important ability to transfer, the Board of Selectmen met on Wednesday, Aug. 5, with environmental attorney Gregory Sharp from Murtha Cullina of Hartford and town planner Geoff Colegrove. Sharp was instructed to approach Nicholas Lenge, owner of the Green See Powder Ridge, page 20