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Many families have a box in the back of a closet or a trunk in the attic filled with old family stuff.
While many recognize such family treasures, not everyone knows how to preserve and display the heirlooms.
In January, the Lebanon Historical Society is offering two hands-on workshops for anyone who would like to learn more [...]
The Colectivo Mestizal, the nonprofit organization sponsoring the toy giveaway at the annual Three Kings Day celebration, is in dire need of donations for the children.
Mary DeMarco, Windham’s human services director, said organizers have gotten a few last-minute donations, but they are still only about two-thirds of the way toward meeting their goal.
The organization hopes [...]
Residents soon will have a place to bring old computers and other “e-waste” free of charge thanks to efforts from a new company handling the town’s trash removal.
First Selectman Robert Burbank said a new company has offered the town a 40-foot trailer at the transfer station to handle so-called “e-waste.”
He said e-waste includes computers, monitors, [...]
It was a year of tears, cheers and jeers for Columbia residents.
Although it was an emotional year for Columbia residents, town officials and residents made significant changes to town policy and practices in 2009.
While residents passed budgets and approved financial transfers, the biggest - and saddest - event of 2009 was the death of longtime [...]
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Gov. M. Jodi Rell and Democrats clashed Monday over her veto of a deficit-cutting package the legislature passed a week earlier.
The Republican governor blasted the Democratic plan as feeble and called the Democrats irresponsible for not doing more to close the state’s budget gap.
“It is simply unacceptable for the majority party in the [...]
The Interdistrict Magnet School Building Committee in charge of the $40 million, environmental-theme magnet school has selected a construction manager for the school.
Skanska USA Builders Inc. was selected by the building committee, after the committee received 14 responses from building firms. Skanska’s bid was slightly more than $1.9 million.
Susan Collins, magnet school building committee co-chairman, [...]
The calendar doesn’t lie.
Oh sure, players, coaches and fans alike can talk all they want and use catch phrases like ‘don’t worry … it’s early’, but when it comes to the world of Big East Conference men’s hoop, talk is cheaper than the newsprint on this page when it comes right down to a discussion [...]
While some spent the weekend at holiday parties and opening gifts, state police had an active holiday weekend while officials locally reported quieter activity.
According to a state police news release, state police responded to a total of 281 accidents from 12:01 a.m. Thursday through Sunday.
With the 281 accidents, 35 were accidents with injuries, while two [...]
Barry Schreier, the University of Connecticut’s director of counseling and mental health services, was named the Washington, D.C.-based Active Minds’ ‘Adviser of the Year.’
Although he is the faculty adviser for one of the newest Active Minds chapters in the country, Barry Schreier and his core group of 20 students have made waves in Washington, D.C.
The [...]
ABOVE: Teacher Susan Savidakis, center, a teacher at the Columbia Cooperative Nursery School, works with students Mariusz Clark and Luke Ruchalski to tie together a blanket for the school’s blanket drive to benefit the Windham Area Interfaith Ministry and the Windham No Freeze Project. More than 300 blankets were donated, as well as coats, hats, [...]
