A Gathering of Sportsmen in Northwest Connecticut
By Chris M. Marino, Goshen
     The Northwest CT Sportsman’s Council hosted its second annual fundraising banquet on Friday, February 8 at the Crystal Peak Banquet Facility in Winsted. Proceeds from this event are used to benefit and support the NWCSC in its efforts to represent the interests of sportsmen and to fund conservation and education projects. Over three hundred sportsmen and women; many attending with their families, filled the hall to capacity.
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Spring Will Come …
By Brady Brown, Ashley Falls
     Stick with me. I'll get back to the point. But, first, an interestingly analogy … I once read a pathetic account about a 12-year-old girl who was traumatized by a natural occurrence because she did not know the cause. Reared in a remote area by very strict parents, she was kept sheltered from the "outside world" and was lectured constantly by her self-taught preacher father about her sins and the retribution of an Old Testament God. Without having been forewarned, this young girl was devastated by her first onset of menses, thinking it to be God's punishment for sins that she may have committed. As I said: "pathetic."
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