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    Thursday, December 07, 2023
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    The residual effect of last week’s decision to deny New London High’s bid for a girls’ basketball cooperative — and thus prolong Valley Regional senior Olivia Cunningham’...
    "Medical Freedom" crusaders are trying to end vaccination requirements for schoolchildren. Places where they succeed, epidemiologists warn, will, for starters, become ov...
    This is the third of an occasional series about St. James Episcopal Church of New London which will celebrate its 300th anniversary in 2025. When I read the Rev. Rob...
    Pfizer Inc. is starting to roll out the pharmaceutical company’s biggest round of layoffs since 2009, and its Groton laboratories are not immune.
    Replacement of the aged railroad bridge over the Connecticut River between Old Saybrook and Old Lyme will start next year with the exact same purpose as the last one, in ...

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    There are times, in moments of deeper contemplation, I play this little game. Loosely translated, it goes something like, “so what’s everybody feeling offended about toda...
    I asked ChatGPT, "What is meant by 'farm to table'?" The artificial intelligence site answered: "'Farm to table' refers to a food production and consumption model that e...
    Palestinians cry “From the river to the sea,” while Israelis seize and settle the land from the sea to the river. An Israeli cabinet minister and his father, a rabbi, su...
    OK, Pachaug State Forest may not exactly be “wilderness” – but this 28,804-acre swath of woodlands, lakes and rivers, where I set out on a solo hike the day after Thanksg...
    According to President Biden, Governor Lamont and liberal commentators like Paul Krugman of The New York Times, the economy is strong. But opinion polls find that most p...

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    East Lyme — It turns out that “karma,” “Kevin” and “Killingly” do more than just ride the same alliterative boat. And if Irish activist Bobby Sands’ quote is true — “the ...
    After Hamas massacred 1,200 Israelis, gang-raped teens and kidnapped hundreds of innocents, 30 student groups at Harvard issued a statement reading, "We, the undersigned ...
    Connecticut's state Senate president pro tem, New Haven Democrat Martin M. Looney, recently acknowledged the state's worst social problem. Better late than never. In...
    When you have the head of a business association and a researcher for a progressive think tank pointing toward the same solutions to improve Connecticut’s economy and pr...
    More restaurants are opening than closing in New London, despite what you might hear elsewhere.
    Idle Thoughts, while waiting for UConn-Kansas, the high school football playoffs and for someone to purchase Tommy Tuberville a one-way ticket to Tibet: • Dr. Idle, Dr. I...
    Columnist walks readers through the annual awards process.
    Rhonda Stearley-Hebert, honored by the Connecticut Foundation for Open Government for shining light on the inner workings of the state’s court system, did not go over to the “dark side,” as some do when they leave journalism for public relations.
    Groton - In the pantheon of local sports entertainment, it gets no better than Mike Ellis, who takes his sons of Fitch to the state football playoffs again next week. The...
    Pandemic well over, a growing number of companies want their workers back at the office. Many still allow certain employees to continue doing some or all of the job remo...