August 11, 2015 12:00 am • Last Updated: August 11, 2015 9:48 am Comment threads are monitored for 48 hours after publication and then closed. STORIES THAT MAY INTEREST YOU A new lease on life for Father’s Day Waterford — Two years ago, East Lyme postal worker John Guarino was so sick from kidney failure that he had to take several months off from work. He felt like hell. Now he’s regularly working 12-hour ... Mohegan’s shrinking property portfolio only a pause, Pineault says Mohegan ― By year’s end, Mohegan’s portfolio of properties will have shrunk from eight to five properties. But its revenues figure to keep soaring. The tribally owned gaming and entertainment company’... Gayle McKinney-Griffith, who grew up in Waterford, was one of the five “Swans of Harlem,” ballerinas who turned the ballet world upside down in the mid 20th century. A program about their lives will be held in Waterford Public Library on June 20. ‘Swans of Harlem’ program June 20 in Waterford The nearly forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas is finally revealed in the book “The Swans of Harlem” by Karen Valby, one of Op... Norwich marina improvements ‘coming along,’ co-owner says Norwich ― Lights and music now emanate from the new festival tent at the Marina at American Wharf on weekends, and freshly planted blue hydrangeas and freshly painted tables, chairs, railings and buil...