Ken Ackley News Today

By Larry Ramsell, Muskellunge Historian Throughout the history of organized muskie angling, beginning in and around the 1880’s and continuing through today…

by BUD WILKINSON | REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN Ken Ackley of Harwinton was 17 years old when he purchased his first car. Unbeknownst to his parents and against their wishes, he bought a used muscle car – a 1971 Oldsmobile 442. He still owns it 45 years later. “Bought this car in 1976. I worked at Maxwell Drug Store, downtown Torrington, and the girl that worked there had it. I was still in high school, working part-time. Told her I wanted the car, gave her a deposit,” he said last fall, recalling...