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Tuesday, April 23, 2024
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Tuesday, April 23, 2024
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We have entered a new social media hell, where online creeps run sadistic schemes targeting high school kids. Since late 2021, their ruses have driven at least 20 young p...
Waterford — It was one of those crystalline, sun-soaked days with which April, and her hints of hope and renewal, treats us occasionally. A day just perfect for celebrati...
We’re launching two community funded projects, called Imminent Horizons and the News Desert Fund, so that we can continue to produce in-depth stories and cover southeastern Connecticut the way the community deserves.
The newly renovated Sapore Pizzeria in Old Lyme has reopened after a devastating fire earlier this year.
Judging by voter participation in Connecticut's most recent municipal elections, Hartford may be the most demoralized place in the state.
The Hearst Connecticut newspaper...
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Ever get the feeling you’re being penalized for somebody else’s inaction?
For example, getting stuck longer than necessary in traffic because some numbnuts decide they ca...
Work has begun on a new $15 million exhibit space that is tentatively scheduled to open in the spring of 2025.
Idle Thoughts, while waiting for artificial turf at Bacon Academy, the MVP for Juan Soto and for the Celtics to go two straight possessions without jacking up a 3:
• Dr. ...
Growing restrictions on the right to an abortion have revived talk of what many still regard as a highly controversial theory. It holds that the legalization of abortion ...
Connecticut Republicans, watching the head of their party sit through a serious criminal trial, might want to consider what it could be like to have a felon at the head of their ticket.
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While my son Tom and I scrambled up a steep slope toward Mount Higby’s summit the other day, a mellifluous sound rose above the whistling wind, stopping us in our tracks....
Democrats in Connecticut think they have found someone other than their national administration to blame for the inflation ravaging the country: supermarkets charging too...
The General Assembly last year widened the number of municipalities that can use a receivership law to address blighted properties. New London should use it to address the rubble that remains of the First Congregational Church and other blighted properties.
Every state is different. Nebraska is quite different. It is one of only two states that doesn't use the winner-take-all system in presidential elections. Along with Main...
It’s still my favorite voicemail of all time. The voice was unmistakable.
“Mike,” the voice said. “This is John Sterling. A friend of mine sent me your column. I want you...
Dispelling rumors that Pfizer Inc. is continuing to pull back investments at its 160-acre site in Groton, the company has recently unveiled plans to renovate or add to six of its campus buildings off Eastern Point Road.
In 2020, after the University of Connecticut men's basketball team failed for a third consecutive year to qualify for postseason play, its brash, second-year coach, Dan H...
Getting rid of Roe v. Wade was sold as a sensible and mollifying approach to the abortion controversy. It would let each state ban or codify a right to abortion in accord...
I’d be a hypocrite — no, I AM a hypocrite — for saying that I abhor commercialism. But I say it even if I get sucked into its vortex often enough to get an eye roll from ...
The Merrill House building on Water Street is being deeded to the organization that has been running a writer-in-residence program in the late poet’s apartment, since he died in 1995.
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