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Honk if you love tea

by: Al Mapa | Staff Photographer March 17, 2010

They said they don’t support any particular candidate, but just want people to be informed about issues and choices.

Have your breakfast made just for you

by: Brenda Sullivan | HTNP Editor March 17, 2010

As an extra treat, there will also be a silent auction with numerous items donated by local businesses.

Two from Columbia in car crash on Route 32

by: HTNP.com Staff March 17, 2010

Elsie Spoust, 77, of Lebanon, who driving the Chrysler and Richard R. Napolitano, 49, and Lisa Napolitano, 47, both from Columbia and in the Ford, were not injured.

Special Olympics meet is about more than winning

by: HTNP.com Staff March 15, 2010

After being honored for placing third in the 25-meter backstroke, one of his three events, Max Moore came over to his father, Curtis Moore, with a huge grin plastered on his face.
When asked how he felt, the 11-year-old Max Moore said, “I feel happy.”
Winning didn’t matter. He was already a winner.
That was a common theme [...]

Area cleans up after windy and rainy weekend

by: Caitlin M. Dineen | Staff Writer March 15, 2010

The northeast section of the state - as well as the rest of Connecticut - was still picking up the pieces after a nor’easter doused the state with rain and powerful wind over the weekend and into this morning.
Although local public works employees have been responding to downed tree limbs and other debris blocking roadways, [...]

Hebron Maple Fest moved to March 20-21

by: Brenda Sullivan | HTNP Editor March 13, 2010

This enormously popular festival normally draws thousands of people not only from around the state, but from as far as Massachusetts, Rhode Island and even that state famous for its own maple syrup, Vermont.

Author tells how families try to steal from the elderly

by: Traci Hastings | HTNP Correspondent March 13, 2010

Family members used a false diagnosis to try to commit Ella Winter to an Alzheimer’s facility and have themselves named as guardians of her assets.

Listro Trial Day 6: Examiner: Report of fall inconsistent with baby’s injuries

by: Caitlin M. Dineen | Staff Writer March 9, 2010

The state’s chief medical examiner testified Monday that the reported 2-foot, 2-inch fall that allegedly led to the death of an infant was inconsistent with the injuries that killed him.
Dr. H. Wayne Carver told prosecutors, the defense and Judge William Bright he had not seen other children sustain the same [...]

Fresh start for Huskies?

by: Mike Sypher | Sports Editor March 9, 2010

During the final stages of Monday morning’s get-away practice session at Gampel Pavilion. University of Connecticut men’s basketball coach Jim Calhoun worked out two 5-man groupings of Huskies wearing white jerseys against a defensive unit clad in red.
The half-court drills were intense. The red squad consisting of substitutes also featured [...]

UConn dances to broken record

by: Mike Sypher | Sports Editor March 9, 2010

History has numerous meanings.
According to the web site www.webster’s-online-dictionary.org, history is “…the aggregate of past events; the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future.”
Well, that road to history, that road to 71, that magical number that has been asked about [...]

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