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Friday, June 09, 2023
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Friday, June 09, 2023
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There was a time when, as a kid spooned breakfast Alpha-Bits or Sugar Frosted Flakes, the only accompanying entertainment was to study the cereal box. One just sat at the...
Scott Davis isn’t likely to make many lists detailing the most prominent sports figures here in our corner of the world. He is neither a player, nor a coach. And yet few ...
Fresh out of high school this writer got a newspaper job the old-fashioned way: His parents knew somebody -- Neil Ellis, a real-estate developer with an interest in publi...
Kayakers ponder history on the Niantic River
My reporter senses are tingling. But for the first time ever, I don’t know if I trust them.
Late last month, the state Senate passed two bills rolling back protections gr...
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Disclaimer to begin: Many of the concerns stemming from the Diocese of Norwich’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case were about the future of St. Bernard and whether the school wo...
Having thought itself virtuous for exonerating the residents of the Connecticut colony who were mistaken for witches and hanged 400 years ago, and being confident that a ...
When the Hugh Calkins house in the historic Bean Hill section of Norwich was slated for demolition in 2020, the Norwich Historical Society and the Calkins Family Associat...
Idle Thoughts, while waiting for idiotic July 4 fireworks shows, Carlos Rodon’s first pitch and for Jaylen Brown to make one when it counts:
• Dr. Idle, Dr. I to his clos...
In the early days of Connecticut gaming, when casino managers feared a shortage of the workers they needed by the thousands, the state cooperated in providing bus transpo...
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Here’s a budget update you won’t get from Hartford. Tax revenue this fiscal year will be down from the already drastically reduced projections issued just a month ago.
Ba...
In 1965, William F. Buckley Jr. decided to avenge the loss of Barry Goldwater to Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1964 presidential election by running for mayor of New York. His...
A barking dog, droning lawnmower, highway din and other sounds of civilization penetrated the air as friends and I set out for a hike last week through a sprawling expans...
Here we are: Another season, another big cost overrun in the tens of millions of dollars for Gov. Ned Lamont’s crazy, mismanaged, criminally scrutinized State Pier project.
It shouldn’t be happening. Not like this. Not with a modest student enrollment of 597. But among the region’s best sports stories of the school year comes from Stonington...
News item: Anthony Bass, a pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays, shared a video Monday via Instagram endorsing an anti-LGBTQ boycott of brands such as Target and Bud Light.
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Perhaps Republicans are on to something. Perhaps it is time to dramatically shrink the size of the federal government. Rather than sending so many tax dollars to Washingt...
The expected announcement this week from Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis that he is running for president will come as no surprise. While DeSantis won his re-ele...
While residents of Hartford's North End kept complaining about the longstanding sewage overflows in their neighborhood and four women were struck by a hit-and-run driver ...
The obstruction of valuable public waterfront access in Mystic has been a longtime dispute between the property owners and town officials.
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