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Wednesday, December 06, 2023
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Wednesday, December 06, 2023
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In the first week of November, a dog owner from Ledyard, Robert Hanna, was walking the family’s two Australian shepherds, father and son, on a woodland trail off Ryder R...
Do you care about your property tax rate? How about the funding for your police and fire departments? Do you want to have a say in how your town spends its money? If you...
Let's say you and I are going to have a 100-yard foot race, only I break both of your ankles at the start and begin my race at the 40-yard line. Who do you think will wi...
Recently, a report in the local print media stated that Connecticut counts as many as 12,000 high school dropouts on its “books” and 119,000 of the state’s young people ...
Hamas knew what the reaction to the carnage they wrought on the towns, villages and cities in southern Israel on Oct. 7 would be. They clearly did not care about the Jew...
In some of the fast-approaching November municipal elections, Connecticut voters will once again confront races where there is a real possibility that the “winner” could ...
Connecticut farmers are hard working. Agriculture is a $4 billion industry here, and likewise a vital part of our economy. Farmers pay taxes. They create approximately 2...
Section 8 housing is a federal program that provides rental assistance to low-income individuals and families. In New England, it has a reputation for being poorly mainta...
Don’t wait. It’s time to register to vote. If you’re registered it’s time to check your polling place and candidates.
The League’s VOTE411 website asks questions of your ...
To be successful, the best organizations anticipate the needs of their customers. If your company is a municipal utility, understanding how to best address the needs of ...
“What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of those events affect us....
Either most elected officials in Connecticut don't read the newspapers, which remain the primary sources of state news, or they're indifferent to the increasing negligenc...
GUEST OPINIONS
Obsessive autumn yard clean-ups are underway in my neighborhood, and communities just about everywhere. Is there any noise more annoying than the incessant, whining dron...
On November 7 two important questions will appear on the municipal election ballot in Norwich.
Question 1 is an appropriation for $6 million in infrastructure funding to...
The Mystic into which Mystic Disc appeared in 1983 was a very different place than it is now. Touristy, yes. But not yet boutique. There was a cobbler, a pharmacy, a har...
Volunteerism is not as prevalent as it was 20 or 40 years ago. Fewer and lesser people are getting involved in today’s world and have other interests to focus their ener...
In Roberta Rose’s studio, the paint is barely dry on a large rectangular canvas. It depicts a silhouette of the upper part of a body, with arms reaching upward, hands ou...
First, lines from two poems by Nobel Laureate, Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004), written in Warsaw in1945:
Dedication:
“What is poetry which does not save
Nation...
Once upon a time, when the Falcone family was alive and well and living in Norwich, we all prepared for the coming of Easter. It was 1964; a glorious time for a child to...
As a Mystic resident, I am constantly baffled why we must continuously have to come to terms with the governing in Stonington. I have a solution: the residents of Mystic,...
Mark Cuban, the billionaire “Shark Tank” celebrity and Dallas Mavericks owner, is getting attention again — this time for his Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co., which seeks t...
Having seen his daughter suffer,
Catholic M.D. backs aid in dying
Inspired by the public advocacy of terminal brain cancer patient Brittany Maynard, lawmakers in Washingt...
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