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There have been NY Times and Lakeville Journal CT headlines about abuse at private schools such as Indian Mountain School and Hotchkiss School and in some church circles nationally. Not reported but also known by some is that likely locally there have also been scary incidents kept secret whether among ministers or others abusing or threatening harm to those in their care if compliance was not maintained even to rules of behavior.

Supposedly some local churches have issued a letter to remind pastors and ideally all congregants and the public at large that threats to harm people are not

Here's to keeping abreast of the many great ways to enjoy summer, and really each season of the year, with neighbors and newcomers at local events and growing in community networking efforts.

A few folks have asked me, "Well, what does Community Networking mean..what will happen or who does that involve?" What I've been doing since very young in these small CT towns as well as in larger ones (New Haven and Fairfield CT, at Vassar College and then back in the hill towns of the northwest corner CT and more recently for a couple of years in Brooklyn NY) is getting to know who is doing what in