A Moosup man without heat for two weeks got help thanks the community
PLAINFIELD — A confluence of events this month, including a phone call to a local real estate agent and the sharp-eyed spotting of a plumbing van, helped get a cold Plainfield man warm again. On Feb. 15, Christine Lagerstrom-Johnson, a listing and buying agent with ReMax Home Team in Uncasville, got a call from a 76-year-old man asking if she could list his Moosup duplex for sale. “When I showed up, he was wearing a winter coat and hat and it was freezing in the home,” Lagerstrom-Johnson said. “He told me he hadn’t had heat for 15 days — he thought maybe a pipe had burst — and...