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Countdown to the Whalie Awards

 May 18, 2013; Updated: 5:29 pm

To use the old accountant's saying, this is Sean Murray's busy time of year.
Murray, the marketing and development manager at New London Main Street, was putting the finishing touches on this week's...

Boardroom haze sparks big ideas

 May 17, 2013; Updated: 5:31 pm

I recently had to sit through some horribly long and boring meetings about rising costs and the need to save money for our hospital. I'm not a meeting person, and what started out with doodling unartistic recreations of Botticelli's...

How to fill a conversational void

 May 12, 2013; Updated: 2:19 pm

My enthusiasm for history is a family joke. When we're chatting around the dinner table and I suddenly blurt out, "Here's a little known fact...," my family rolls their eyes in tolerant amusement as I launch into a recitation of some...

Go wild this year

 May 6, 2013; Updated: 6:37 pm

If every dog has its day, then every plant should have its year. The powers that be within the horticultural world, the people who tempt gardeners with new plants and products each year, have decided that 2013 is the year of the...

When the Northern Lights go south

 May 5, 2013; Updated: 3:47 pm

An especially strong flare emanated from the sun on Thursday, April 11, revealing the aurora borealis, or northern lights, to the top third of the United States two days later.

When travel is for the birds

 May 3, 2013; Updated: 5:59 pm

During a recent flight from south Florida, I started thinking about the thousands of birds making their own journey north through the scattered gilded clouds. May is when most neo-tropical migrants arrive in our region and wintering...

The big Project 4-O

 April 26, 2013; Updated: 11:54 am

Who knew that the visionary thinking of a handful of educators and concerned citizens, a donated boat hull from the Navy and one grant would turn into a 40-year-old marine science education institution based in southeastern Connecticut...

Silas Deane: Our man in Paris

 April 21, 2013; Updated: 5:38 pm

I took an armchair journey to Paris via Silas Deane Road in Ledyard and Silas Deane Highway in Wethersfield, thanks to the suggestion of a reader who thought Silas Deane would make a good subject.

Memories make it comfort food

 April 19, 2013; Updated: 5:17 pm

The menu at an American restaurant I went to advertised "comfort food," with things like "mac and cheese" and "chicken tenders." It seemed strange, since I think I've eaten mac and cheese only once in my life and thought it was a...

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