I’m not usually in front of the camera, but this was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up. Eat three pancakes in half an hour and they’re free. I came close, but in the end we all failed, and felt pretty sick after doing it.
Read more "Buford’s Pancake Challenge"Frank Serrano, a fisherman for most of his life, is embarking on his biggest trip ever: a trans-Atlantic voyage to Africa.
Read more "For Stonington Skipper, This Is No Ordinary Trip"Military reporter Jennifer Grogan and I collaborated on a series for Memorial Day about World War II submarine veterans. The format was pretty simple: let the subjects tell their own stories.
Read more "Stories of the Silent Service"The Day had a good night at the Connecticut SPJ awards last night, in both the print and online categories. Read the story here: Howard honored for series on H-IB visas; Huoppi recognized for online features My dog blog (soon to be renamed “Lab Report”) won second place for online commentary. You can check it […]
Read more "Connectciut SPJ Awards"The latest video column by myself and Rick Koster took us to new territory: music videos. Rick is a musician with extensive experience recording and touring with a rock band. I quit piano lessons in eighth grade. When I read Rick’s draft of this column, it was clear that we needed to make our own […]
Read more "Koster: I Wanna Work for Diddy, too."Last weekend, I spent an eight-hour shift riding with the Connecticut State Police on one of their DUI enforcement patrols. There have been several DUI-related accidents in the news recently in the area of routes 2A and 395 in Montville. We originally conceived this as a video project, but had to scrap that plan and […]
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Peter Huoppi - Multimedia Journalist 