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Locals win some milk money

 May 28, 2012

Milk may just be the drink of choice this Memorial Day for Gian Camardella and Brian Kuenn, two local guys who can best be described as video junkies.

Malloy stabilizing long-term finances

 May 27, 2012

In a relatively short time, Malloy administration has made big changes in state's long-term fiscal obligations.

Dave Freeburg’s Northern Soul

 May 26, 2012

I'm not this way, but I've always admired people who treat work - no matter what it is - as work, then they leave and get on with life.

Follow the rule of Rocco

 May 25, 2012

Testosterone is an anabolic steroid hormone regulated by the hypothalamus and pituitary gland in the brain.

Raising money only part of story

 May 24, 2012

Stonington

Sports, plenty good on the days they offer such metaphorical richness, become plenty bad all the other times when we forget they're for win or lose, not life or death.

Which is why the public address announcer proved...

Of butterflies and bons mots

 May 22, 2012

Before there was YouTube, Facebook and social media, there were story-tellers. Sitting around fires, whether in the wild, caves or at the home hearth, human beings apparently have never been at a loss for words to entertain each other,...

UConn's loss may just be the Sun's gain

 May 21, 2012

Mohegan

It begins with the question. Or maybe it's The Question: Why do we watch sports?

It's impossible, really, to answer it objectively. We all have our preferences. But if there's any place to gather on the village green,...

Malloy's revisionary view of Conn. history

 May 20, 2012

Connecticut launched the sexual revolution? Hardly.

Examining NL's tax problems, take two

 May 20, 2012

It may take radical change to help overburdened cities such as New London.

ECC isn't making this easy on Mr. I

 May 20, 2012

Idle Thoughts, while waiting for Mark Teixeira to discover Robitussin, K.G. to remain with the Celts and Sun-Liberty today in Neon Uncasville:

Mr. Idle, Mr. I to his close friends, would like to issue this public service announcement to all...

Facebook serves up charges of racism and homophobia against Preston bar

 May 20, 2012

Marquis Lawson of Norwich says he wasn't doing anything crazy on the dance floor a week ago Saturday at the Brookside Café in Preston, just his usual dance style.

He thinks it was the fact that he was dancing with another man that led a...

Paying attention to what Mayor Finizio says

 May 19, 2012

I first lost confidence in what Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio says during one of his original mayoral press conferences.

Sgott MacKenzie and the art of procrastination

 May 19, 2012

Over a beer last week at the Dutch Tavern, Sgott MacKenzie, the New London artist, musician and children's book author, touched on a subject near to my heart and possibly yours: procrastination.

Norwich running community honors DePina for all he did

 May 18, 2012

There may be few people who have done as much for the youth of Norwich as Luis DePina. A standout athlete at Norwich Free Academy, he headed the city's recreation department for 25 years.

New London schools need to avoid state takeover at all costs

 May 18, 2012

It was amusing, in a pathetic sort of way, the recent state audit that characterized the New London school board as "incoherent." But it was a line later in Day reporter Julianne Hanckel's story that was far more sobering:

At 87, farmer John "Whit" Davis has lived a life of preservation

 May 18, 2012

John "Whit" Davis told me this week, as he stood on a piece of the 400 or so farm acres he owns in Stonington, that this particular stretch of land, on the Pawcatuck River looking across the water at Watch Hill, R.I., has never been...

Welcome to SSOC, the Socialist State of Connecticut

 May 16, 2012

It is hard to imagine that a business that wanted to come to Connecticut, lease some space and hire some employees was kept away by the state because it didn't adequately prove there is a need for its services.

Fittingly, Feindel's number is up ...

 May 16, 2012

New London

It was Orson Welles who said this: "If you want a happy ending, it depends, of course, on where you stop your story."

Hayley Feindel's story could have stopped Sunday in the NCAA softball regionals, quite fittingly,...

T.J.'s own youth club has earned elite status

 May 15, 2012

East Lyme -- It bears a resemblance to the room Rocky Balboa used to prepare for Ivan Drago. Or maybe where Jack Bauer would torture the bad guys. Certainly, though, not a place where they could just as easily have a...

Bears are playing a game they can't win

 May 13, 2012

Mansfield

Never, never, never. Never. Not in all my years of criticizing umpires and officials (and rather enjoying it) have I ever believed the outcome of any game was compromised.

Incompetence? Everywhere. But crooked?...

OK, so it ain't pretty

 May 13, 2012

Checks and balances are working with new council-mayor system in New London.

Captain Nat discovers Antarctica

 May 13, 2012

In all of recorded history, the names of people who discovered a continent comprise an extremely short list.

Some great award: How I learned to love the Whalies

 May 12, 2012

About three or four years ago, I ran into local music promoter Sean Murray, as I often do, outside the Oasis Pub on Bank Street.

Time to plot your plant sale strategy

 May 11, 2012

Check out the town green, park or community center today or tomorrow and you're likely to find a committed, helpful bunch of gardening enthusiasts selling some selection of annuals, perennials, hanging baskets and vegetable seedlings,...

Now you can make a choice

 May 10, 2012

Fans used the word "sellouts" frequently Wednesday in the wake of UConn's decision to send its women's basketball telecasts to SportsNet New York (SNY), ending its 18-year relationship with Connecticut Public Television. They mean to say UConn...

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