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Garden Club Installs More Benches in Town Center

Kathryn Boughton

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The Kent Garden Club installed a second batch of benches around the village center Wednesday. The benches replace those installed in 2000. Photo by Gail Tobin

KENT—Never let it be said that Kent is unwelcoming. A well-known destination town for day-trippers, it makes its visitors comfortable while they peruse the town’s shops and art galleries.

Visitors are a little more comfortable this year as a result of the Kent Garden Club’s efforts to provide new benches upon which to rest. A first order of 12 benches was placed along Main Street in May and a second batch of 13 arrived in town Wednesday. 

Twenty-five sponsorships underwrote the benches from Kenneth Lynch in Oxford, CT. The benches replace the original teak ones installed in 2000.

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Kathryn Boughton, a native of Canaan, Conn., has been a regional journalist for more than 50 years, having been employed by both the Lakeville Journal and Litchfield County Times as managing editor. While with the LCT, she was also editor of the former Kent Good Times Dispatch from 2005 until 2009. She has been editor of the Kent Dispatch since its digital reincarnation in October 2023 as a nonprofit online publication.

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