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Friday, July 26, 2024
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Friday, July 26, 2024
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End the delays and replace Montville animal shelter
The deplorable condition of the animal control shelter in Montville is a disgrace. A new facility should be built as soon as possible.
The town knows the current shelter ...
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Few crime stories captivate the public’s interest more than a long-unsolved murder, commonly known as a cold case. Yet for the family and friends of the victims in these ...
The response to past problems at the Connecticut Port Authority should not be to dissolve it, which a legislative proposal being put forward by Gov. Ned Lamont would esse...
JCPenney earlier this month became the most recent retailer to announce it would soon be closing its Crystal Mall location, leaving yet another gaping vacancy at the once...
A life saved from needless, premature death is always good news. Multiple lives saved through the dedication and training of many people working together is inspirational...
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Tuesday’s narrow defeat of the motion to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas was a reminder that there are a few Republican members of the House of ...
Republican Senate leadership linked continued support for Ukraine in its struggle against Russian expansionism with also gaining a deal to better control the southern U.S...
The “fiscal guardrails” enacted by the state legislature in 2017 have proved to be highly successful in their intended goal of imposing fiscal discipline, more successful...
The First Congregational Church of New London collapsed and perished unexpectedly on Thursday afternoon, Jan. 25, 2024. The building was 170 years old.
The historic churc...
Rancor in the 2024 presidential and congressional campaigns threatens to distract voters from a truth Americans seldom debated in the past: the United States world leader...
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It’s not uncommon for the Yantic River to flood, nor is it unusual for such floods to cause damage and business closures. It’s becoming increasingly likely, however, that...
Donald Trump is nobody’s messiah, but that does not stop him from planting the idea. Trump has eerily been using campaign rhetoric to cast himself as a would-be savior.
F...
Just off Montauk Avenue in New London, at the edge of a parking lot for Lawrence + Memorial Hospital, a brick-sized bronze plaque dedicated to Rosa and Rosario Cacciatore...
When in 1970 power began pulsating from the first nuclear reactor built at Millstone station, few people, if any, would have forecast that the atomic-age technology would...
The aftermath of two recent police shootings in southeastern Connecticut demonstrates that the creation of an Office of Inspector General has significantly increased pub...
The departure this fall of Hot Rod Cafe, a longtime Bank Street restaurant owned by a businessman who, along with his father before him, is a New London institution of s...
New Englanders famously have a taste for “home rule,” meaning that the town, not a county, is the first level of local governance. There is a catch, however. Autonomy com...
Hatred has no excuse in a region populated by humans of goodwill living peaceably in a beautiful place with room for all.
Fortunately, eastern Connecticut has thus far es...
Republican state legislators tapped into public anxiety when they blocked plans for Connecticut to continue utilizing California motor vehicle emissions standards. Those...
A class of nine Mitchell College students recently completed a semester-long research project that raises some legitimate questions about an important event in New Londo...
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