Voices For Thompsonville

There is a fundraiser for the Enfield Police Officers participating in the Police Unity Tour Ride.  The fundraiser will be held on Friday, March 5, 2010 from 6:00 pm at the Ramada Inn in Windsor Locks.  There will be food, beverage, DJ, raffle, and door prizes.  Tickets are $20 per person and can be purchased from [...]

Thursday March 18th, 7:00pm, Polish Home on Alden Avenue.  Meeting the third Thursday of every month, March’s guest speakers are Darrin LaMore (Enfield Revitalization Strategic Committee), Peter Bryanton (Director of Community and Development) and Jack Lopes (Enfield Community and Development Corporation).  The Intermodal Transit Center and Community and Development plans will be discussed.

Meetings include an open forum [...]

http://www.remindernews.com/node/7/&town=enfield&url=ENF-2010-02-23-7-Ar00700
 
Enfield —  02/23/2010
Advice to T-ville ; ‘Brush off your shoulders, get up off the ground’
BY JENNIFER COE Staff Writer

With the hard work underway of restoring Thompsonville back to a destination neighborhood , a local expert met with the community to give them advice on what the next steps are to reaching their goals. [...]

Voices for Thompsonville February Meeting

Thursday February 18th, 7:00pm, Polish Home on Alden Avenue.  Meeting the third Thursday of every month, February’s guest speaker is Don Courtemanche.   Don previously led the revitalization efforts in New Britian’s downtown area..  Currently, Don is working for Springifeld, MA. as the Executive Director of the Springfield Business Improvement District.  Please take this opportunity to [...]

Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 7:00pm at the Polish Home on Alden Avenue, Enfield, CT.   The Voices group meet the third Thursday of every month.  January will be Police Chief Carl Sferrazza.  He will be giving us an update on Thompsonville public safety.   Meetings include an open forum for residents, business owners, landlords and community members [...]

Please come join Voices for Thompsonville as we march in the 2009 Enfield, CT. Torchlight parade!

We are gathering at the Enfield Street School at 5:00pm on Sunday December 6th.

Please dress warmly and bring as many people as you would like!

We look forward to seeing you!

Hello Carrie Robinson,

I came across your organization and felt compelled to send this email.

I moved to Thompsonville in 1959 with my family and was 3 years old at the time, so, obviously, my memories from that time are vague, but not nonexistent.  Now, we actually moved into a house on Spring Garden Road, across from [...]

Dear Voices for Thompsonville,

 This note is to commend you for all your group is doing to help revitalize downtown Thompsonville and to restore it’s vibrant history.   For the past three years, I’ve been living in Tucson, Arizona, but my brother Ron and I were born and raised in Enfield.  A good portion of our lives [...]

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By SHAWN R. BEALS

The Hartford Courant
October 4, 2009
ENFIELD —

When the carpet mills were booming, Thompsonville was a world unto itself.

Its streets were lined with stores, a post office, a Chinese laundry, markets, all crowded into handsome brick-and-wood buildings just spitting distance from the sprawling Bigelow mills beside the Connecticut River..

During shift changes and on [...]

Here is a fun opportunity to try ballroom dancing with a group of friends and also contribute to a group from Suffield going to the Gulf Coast to continue the building of Habitat homes for people whose homes were lost in Hurricane Katrina, sponsored by Second Baptist Church in Suffield
   The fundraiser is on Sunday [...]