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I-95 in the summer. Normally, that’s something that a meteorologist would mention when describing say, the average temperature of Phoenix. Here, though, “95 in the summer” is usually accompanied by a grumble and one’s go-to profanity. Every summer in...
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It’s not just another art gallery and studio in Niantic. Maribeth Stone plans to make the Art ‘n Image Gallery and Studio, at the corner of Hope Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, a supportive place for aspiring and accomplished artists in the area, as well...
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When Margaret Ormond, assistant principal at Norwich Technical High School, adopted an English mastiff named Porter four years ago, she became inspired by a friend who owned a therapy dog she would take into the Janet S. York Correctional Institution...
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There’s no place like Camp Harkness. It’s not just the setting, though its location on 102 verdant acres on Long Island Sound is certainly stunning. No, it’s the people who spending their summers working as counselors, lifeguards, and cooks there, all...
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The Waterford Police Department is joining more than 13,000 law enforcement agencies in a nationwide crackdown on driving under the influence violators. Waterford Police are participants in the Comprehensive 2008 DUI Enforcement Program. This program...
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Though the forecast for Thursday called for brilliant sunshine and temperatures in the 70s, Principal Don Macrino was fearing the worst. The night before Waterford High School’s graduation day, a series of violent thunderstorms slashed through the region...
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Class One: June 2, 2008, 12:40 to 1:40. Michael Cannamela stands in the doorway of his classroom toward the end of one of Waterford High School’s dimly lit corridors, like he is waiting for a late-arriving student, only this time it’s a tardy reporter...
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The Board of Education cut $325,000 from its 2008-2009 budget, leaving the public schools with a $39.73 million spending plan for the coming fiscal year. Superintendent of Schools Randall Collins said last week that while any budget reductions are tough...
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Nero is barking, not fiddling, and he’s in a safe place. As his name suggests, the jet black Nero is a mixed Labrador with a little bit of terrier in him and he is looking for a home. “He’s a great dog,” said Robert Winters, the animal control officer...
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On long road trips, Connecticut Sun point guard Jamie Carey gets a fair amount of reading done. “I read 15 books last year,” she said. “That’s all I do on the road. Carey, who just finished David Sheff’s addiction memoir Beautiful Boy, teamed up with...
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Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In The Heights, a musical developed at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, garnered 13 Tony nominations, more than any production this year. The musical, set in the Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights, was developed at the...
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First Selectman Dan Steward said last week he was disappointed with a few line items in the $70.5 million 2008-2009 budget passed earlier this month by the Representative Town Meeting. “We made some major cuts that might be difficult to recover from,...
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When Chris Cassidy was a boy growing up in Waterford, Sheep to Shawl was the event on the school calendar. “When I was in the fifth grade, I was so into it,” he said. “It was a big event.” Cassidy, an engineering teacher at Waterford High, has not lost...
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By Tanya DeWolf Times Intern Editor’s Note: While on a Waterford High School-sponsored trip to Japan, Times intern Tanya DeWolf kept a log of her 10-day visit. April 13 Students arrived at the WHS parking lot at 1 a.m. to catch a 7 a.m. flight out of...
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Jeremy Chapman loves baseball. He grew up playing a lot of it in Quaker Hill. The Waterford High graduate, a sophomore in sports management at Mitchell College in New London , has the distinction of having been named Pitcher of the Week in the City University...
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