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This blog is designed to enable viewers to post their comments on various subjects related to The Torrington Company's demise as a separate corporate entity. We will try to answer the question "Why?" and hopefully provide guidance to other Companies who might find themselves in a similar situation. We will also try to be a vehicle for alumni to express their thoughts
About Me
- Norm M
- North Reading, Massachusetts, United States
- Now retired, I was employed by The Torrington Company / Ingersoll Rand from 1963 through 1987. Recently widowed, relocated from TX to MA
4 comments:
Ken & Carol Keane <>
Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 12:38 PM To: NDM <> Hi Norm,
I just read the articles in the Waterbury Sunday Republican regarding the Torrington Co and your blog.
Please add this former Torrington Company "College Recruiter"/H.R retiree to the alumni list you are maintaining. I would love to hear from the old gang!
Thanks, Ken Keane
NM <> Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 4:37 PM
Ken, We have added you to our mailing list
Trust you will enjoy the blog, Norm Massicotte
From y.akiyama <> To NM <>
Date Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:23 AM
Massicotte san
Thank you very much for your occasional information related to Torrington Blog.. As I can not still send my writing onto your blog because of my entirely poor ability of computer operation, I am telling you a news of Japan on this.
We have had an unusual very hot weather for long this summer. The temperature has been around 100 degree F almost every day. It was the hottest summer in Japan in the record. Usually, our hottest season is from mid-July to mid-August but we had the very high temperature until the mid of this month.
Our prime minister, Kan, could keep the position, having beaten his rival Ozawa. The new cabinet looks to be better than that of old Liberal Democrat Party. Japanese people now pay attention to how much he can rectify the bad political/administration systems which have been accumulated for long.. Although politicians/public-officers think for themselves first, for their friends second and for citizens third, we expect much better ones under present difficult situation of this country.
Japanese economy is so far so good at the big companies and at a few big cities like Tokyo/Nagoya. It is not good at all at most of local cities and people are difficult to find their jobs. However, Japan may be relatively better than some European countries still and our current level of life may be common, as the life of human-being may fundamentally not be easy.
Japanese society is getting worse to have many crimes and dark news still and there a few good pleasant news. A very high tower is being built in Tokyo (650 meters high) and it is becoming to be a very popular sight-seeing place. Ichiro of Seattle Mariners is making a new MLB record, which is more than 200 hits every year since 10 years ago. Hakohou of Sumou wrestling is winning 55 days continuously, which will be soon a new record.
NTC needle bearing business has been getting recovered to be almost same level of the peak time. It is due to our government's tax strategy and NTC's busier operation in foreign countries such as China and Europe. Although their plants are well arranged and automated, I worry a bit that there are almost no new development of the products, equipments and applications. NTC's former president, Kaneko, died this month at his age 84 years old. He worked for NTC for 21 years as a top management.
These are all about recent Japanese news. I understand that you have a very hot weather in Texas, too. Please be careful of your health and enjoy your life sufficiently. Sending very best wishes from Takasaki.
Y. Akiyama
PS. If you can send "very easily", please send the piece on Bob Wassung by Jim, as I can not find it
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To "y.akiyama" <> From NDM <>
Date Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:09 AM
Akiyama san
Thank you for the news of Japan and particularly of NTC's progression.
You are quite right in describing the information from the blog as occasional and very much apreciate your input.
I wish we had more activity or more news other than Obituaries. Your thoughtful note will be published in the Comments under "2010 Recent EMails".
Also, attached, is the article on Bob Wassung.
Best Regards, Norm Massicotte
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From NM <> To "y.akiyama" <>
Date Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:14 AM
Sorry, forgot to attach article
BobWassung.doc
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Hi Norm:
I guess we forgot to inform you of our new e-mail address, changed last October:
New = tmfran99@gmail.com
Old = tmfran@optonline.net
I see you have moved to Massachusetts.. We moved also, to a condo last September..
Our new address is: 4 Bow Center Road, Cottage F-3, Bow NH 03304.. The phone there is 603-230-2180
We have a "camp" in NH also and will be moving there for the summer next week..
Camp is NH speak for cottage.. It's at: 56 Massasecum Lake Road, Bradford NH 03221, phone: 603-938-2352
We have internet service there also.. Same address..
Thanks for keeping the Torrington blog going.. We much appreciate your effort..
Tom Francis
TORRINGTON - A state-owned building once planned for use as a judicial complex is scheduled for demolition this fall as plans to build a new Litchfield County courthouse on Field Street in Torrington move ahead.
The state hopes to have construction on the new courthouse finished by 2015.
Jeffery Beckham, spokesman for Department for Administrative Services, said on Tuesday that the building located on 50 Field St. is scheduled for demolition in the coming months.
“I think they are beginning to do some work to prepare for that,” Beckham said about the demolition.
Work crews have been at the building in recent days and a sign is posted to a dumpster outside indicating that asbestos is being removed from inside.
The building is being torn down to make more parking spaces for the courthouse being built across the street, Beckham said. The courthouse will be located on the southwest corner of what once was a parking lot for the Torrington Company on Field Street.
The judicial complex project was first proposed around 2000, city planner Martin Connor said in email, after then-Mayor Owen Quinn helped stop the courthouse from being built on undeveloped property in Litchfield.
The complex received $1.1 million from the Office of Policy Management’s bond commission in June 2012. The state had said it planned on spending $65 million on purchasing the property, renovating existing properties and constructing the new courthouse.
“We don’t yet have a design built firm in place. The design for the courthouse will be happening over the next several months,” Beckham said.
Beckham said the lot where the building is currently located will also be redeveloped for public parking once the building is torn down.
The 40,300-square foot building was sold by the Torrington Company to the state for $2.3 million in 2009.
Connor said in an email that the building was originally planned to be used as part of the courthouse complex.
“I understand now they are going to tear that down and build a whole new courthouse,” Connor said on Monday.
Mayor Ryan Bingham’s administrative assistant Tim Waldron said on Tuesday that the courthouse has been in the works for some time.
On Monday, he said some community members feel the project has gone dormant.
“That’s certainly not the case,” Waldron said.
The last update they received about the courthouse was related to potential demolition of the building, Waldron said, which the city was notified about during the summer.
The design and building of the courthouse will take about 18 months, Beckham said, and should be completed sometime in 2015.
Plans for the new courthouse include a facility with six civil courtrooms, two criminal courtrooms, four hearing rooms, six resident judges’ chambers, an arraignment courtroom and one administrative judge’s chamber. The building’s plans call for electronic security features with some areas housed behind bulletproof glass.
Courthouses in the Litchfield Judicial District are currently located on West Street in Litchfield and in Bantam. A juvenile courthouse is located in Torrington. The West Street courthouse, located near the Litchfield town green, was built in 1888. The Bantam courthouse is located in a former school on Doyle Road.
Plans to build a new courthouse for Litchfield County date back to the 1980s.
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