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Margaret Bratton, Avon, CT (2026)

12/06/2025

🐴🦌🎅🏻Tomorrow/Sunday, the First Company Governor’s Horse Guards horses will be dressed up as reindeer, and the unit-members will be hosting their ‘Breakfast with Santa’ Community Open House fundraising event.

In addition to the “reindeer”, it includes barn tours, all-you-can-eat pancakes, Christmas cookies, raffle gifts, and Santa will pose with your children for you to take pictures.

Please see their flyer below for details, and join in on the merriment!

12/02/2025

🐶🐱Today I enjoyed attending the 2-year Anniversary Open House of the Avon Pet Pantry. I brought a donation item, sipped some warm cider, & had a cider donut during the pet-friendly gathering. Please consider making monetary or physical-item donations to this wonderful service effort, to keep pets in their loving homes and out of shelters.

The Avon Pet Pantry is open the 1st Tuesday of every month, 10am-12n, for pet owners in need. There is a drop-off bin on-site for any time, for donation items. Donation checks should now be made out to “Avon Pet Pantry” (not to “Town of Avon”), with the phrase “Care of ACO Grano” in the note (Animal Control Officer), & can be sent either to the Avon Town Hall or directly to their building at 11 Arch Road.

11/24/2025

🚒Yesterday, my husband and I enjoyed attending the Avon Volunteer Fire Department’s Annual Dinner at the Farmington Polo Club. The entire evening and the awards are a well-deserved celebration of their selfless dedication, bravery, and service to our Town and to all of our residents and businesses. Please consider joining their volunteerism & neighborliness!

11/04/2025

🗳️Vote TODAY for the ‘Twinsies’, Margaret Bratton for Avon Town Council & Dave Cappello for Avon Zoning Board of Appeals. Apparently, Avon & Litchfield schools had the same colors & varsity jackets in the 1980s (AHS ‘83 & LHS ‘81).

10/08/2025

As we approach Columbus Day, I am reminded of my Italian heritage. 🇮🇹🇺🇸 My father, Rudy Presutti, was a long-time Avon resident and first-generation son to my Northern Italian immigrant grandparents, Alfonse and Vera Presutti.

Here is a fun video of me competing in the cheese-wheel roll 🧀 at the annual Prince Thomas of Savoy La Festa Italiana. It is a festive Avon event that brings together our community each September.

We are grateful to Prince Thomas of Savoy for keeping Italian-American heritage alive for all.

09/11/2025

The political assassination of Charlie Kirk is atrocious! He was a true patriot of faith, humanity, the American family, and our country’s ideals.

Charlie was brilliant, logical, moral, and ever-optimistic. In his “Prove Me Wrong” tours, he encouraged and demonstrated to young people how to listen to and debate with people of differing opinions and viewpoints. His matter-of-fact yet friendly banter was an example of the free exchange of ideas and civil discourse. He didn’t treat those who disagreed with him as enemies, he treated them with respect, and he always left the door open for reconciliation and common ground.

Charlie was a living example of what he preached. He said that robust respectful free speech and debate leads to the best way to govern. Charlie Kirk would have been a future American president, a great one.🇺🇸

05/29/2025

🐎 Updated information on trying to save The First Company Governor's Horse Guards in Avon CT:
Avon property owners pay approximately $100M in CT State Income Taxes per year, yet less than 5% of that comes back to benefit Avon…while many other Towns get higher percentages back, & some Cities get over 100% of what they pay in State Income Taxes.
The State isn’t reducing our State budget/taxes by this $330K Horse Guards amount, they’re increasing spending in other Towns/Cities & in other State spending by a lot, when some of that increased spending could be used to increase the CT National Guard/State Organized Militia Fund as needed.
Based on the Horse Guards Bill HB6440 from earlier this year, & the Housing Bill HB5002 from this week, if the State continues its increasing pressure against local zoning power over housing & land-use, & if this Horse Guards land in Avon is turned into housing where more families & children will be suddenly added to Avon, it could cost all current Avon property owners more in needed extra police, fire, emergency medical, & school services than the potential increased tax revenue collected from those new property owners, especially if these include tax abatements.
This could make Avon unaffordable for some current Avon citizens. It’s also a quality-of-life issue, of more congestion/crowding of cars/people, & of less open space. The State is heading towards ‘puting the cart before the horses/land’, by not telling us its plans for the property until after it may be too late to effectively fight all of this.
Once this unique, iconic, historical American🇺🇸 landmark is forced out of Avon by the State of CT, it will be gone forever.

Our Governor’s contact information, & Avon’s specific CT General Assembly contact info for our Legislators, is below (& remember to state your name & that you live in Avon, along with stating your plea):
••Governor Ned Lamont
[email protected]
•• State Senator Paul Honig
[email protected]
(860) 240-0598
••State Representative Eleni Kavros DeGraw
[email protected]
(860) 240-8585
(800) 842-8267
••State Representative Tammy Exum
[email protected]
(same phone numbers as Eleni)

Here’s a link to an article w/ more detail on the situation:
https://www.ctinsider.com/politics/article/ct-governor-foot-horse-guard-20294169.php

05/26/2025

🇺🇸🪖On Memorial Day, be sure to come out to observe Avon’s parade & ceremony, in honor & memory of our military service-members who’re no longer with us (10:30am-ish nearby roads close, 11am parade steps off, 12n ceremony on the green starts).
🐎No matter where you stand on the parade route in the center of town, from Route 10 near the P.O. to turning onto Route 44 towards our Town Green, as The First Company Governor’s Horse Guards march past you, please know that their funding is at risk of being cut from the State Budget in the near future. They’re the most unique & iconic historical landmark & source of pride in Avon CT! It’s the oldest & longest continuously active Governor’s State Horse Guard in America (which is why it’s called ‘The First’), for nearly 250 years!
••Check out The First Company Governor's Horse Guards FaceBook page & website, & please continue to (& encourage your fellow-Avon family & friends to, also) let our Legislators (see below) know that you want them to fight hard to figure out how (ex. transfer some money from one fund to another in the proposed State budget, to increase the CT National Guard fund account?) the Veterans & Military Affairs Committee can preserve the Horse Guards’ rightful place within the budget of the State’s Organized Militia. If the Horse Guards are defunded, removed from our State Statutes as a named unit in the Organized Militia of CT, & forced to become a private organization & have to survive by fundraising, it will be unsustainable & we could then easily lose the horses & the land!

Avon’s specific CT General Assembly contact info for our Legislators (& remember to state your name & that you live in Avon, along with stating your plea):
•• State Senator Paul Honig
[email protected]
(860) 240-0598
••State Representative Eleni Kavros DeGraw
[email protected]
(860) 240-8585
(800) 842-8267
••State Representative Tammy Exum
[email protected]
(same phone as Eleni)

Here’s a link to an article w/ more detail on the situation:
https://www.ctinsider.com/politics/article/ct-governor-foot-horse-guard-20294169.php

Avon CT Republican Town Committee

04/10/2025

😋Jersey Mike’s Subs just opened in Avon, at 182/186 West Main Street! I attended their ribbon-cutting/grand-opening this morning, & enjoyed meeting their Avon team & some members of their team from the surrounding towns.

Stop in for delicious food & to meet some of the Avon Leadership Team:
Tony Sarcone - Operations Director
Devon Casale - Mktg Catering Coordinator
Damien Hosey - Store Manager
Michael Gillespie - Asst Store Manager
Faith Valentine - Store Leader
Jocelyn Goda - Supervisor

Also, from now through Sunday they’re partnering w/ our AHS Athletics Dept for fundraising. While supplies last, from today through this Sunday 4/13/25, they’re offering coupon donation cards where if you donate atleast $3 with one of those cards you get a free 7 1/2” sub…so stop in!
They also said that they’re looking for people to join their team to fill in-store jobs & catering-orders jobs.

05/19/2024

This week I was proud to be a delegate for the CT Republican State Senate District 8 Convention, where we unanimously endorsed Lisa Seminara for re-election. She has been a great advocate for our 11 Towns, with grit & grace, and we need her voice to continue on our behalf in Hartford.

Senator Lisa Seminara Re-Elect Lisa Seminara for CT Senate Avon CT Republican Town Committee CT 8th Senate Republicans United

05/04/2024

Almost 25 of us enjoyed fresh air & exercise during this morning’s Avon Hike, which was the opening of the connector trail between the FoundLand & Huckleberry Hill Open Space trails. The parking lot & entrances to the trails are at land parcel 445 Northington Drive. Avon’s Public Works and Recreation & Parks departments worked hard on this accomplishment, with support by Avon Land Trust & Bike-Walk Avon CT.
It was great to meet some new people from Avon, Canton, Simsbury, Farmington, & West Hartford, & to chat with Norm (very knowledgeable about the history of Avon trails, & a big advocate for independent citizen action), Jeff of Avon Land Trust, Fran of Bike-Walk Avon CT, & Paul of Avon Public Works. Also in attendance was Brandon Robertson, our Town Manager. Pictured below are Barbara Ausiello (white shirt) & me (black jacket), both of the Avon Town Council, & also a picture of the best t-shirt of the day today

Bike Walk Avon CT Avon Land Trust - Avon, CT Avon CT Republican Town Committee

04/24/2024

As families come together around Seder tables globally for these first two evenings of Passover, I extend warm wishes to all who are observing this important Jewish holiday.

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