There’s this intersection in New London with one of those interminable traffic lights. Every day when I leave work, I pull out of the garage and sit at this red light in a line of traffic. 99% of the time, there is no crossing traffic while dozens of cars line up waiting for it to […]
Read more "Waiting for the light to change"Back in the summer, Rick Elissa and I took the Buford’s Pancake Challenge. We figured it would be a one time thing, but we started receiving all kinds of suggestions for other ungodly amounts of food that we could attempt to eat. The most awful of them was the three pound “Hall of Famer” burger […]
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Read more "John Wong: A Passion for English Education"This is the first of what will hopefully become a regular high school sports feature profiling athletes that we cover on the weekend. more about "New London Quarterback Josh Clements", posted with vodpod
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Read more "Winery Fulfills Daughter’s Dream"The latest edition of our video column.
Read more "Rick Koster declares Fort Trumbull a success"The thing I love most about shooting football at local high schools and colleges is that you never know where the story is going to come from. Last week at New London High School, the game had reached the fourth quarter, and I was struggling to put together a storyline in my head. The first […]
Read more "Two amazing fourth quarter plays to open football season"Rick Koster, our A&E writer and online columnist, does a weekly radio appearance with our buddy Lee Elci at the radio station across the street, WXLM-FM. They use the appearance to talk about what’s going on at the paper, and to preview the local entertainment events for the upcoming weekend. A few months ago, the […]
Read more "Wizards of Weekend – How’s this for convergence?"I had just returned from four weeks off after the birth of my son, and was supposed to be working in the office for the day, but when the executive editor comes in to tell me that the hospital is being evacuated, I have little choice but to jump to it. It was one of […]
Read more "Fire at L&M Hospital"I’m currently in the middle of a four-week leave for the birth of our son, so I haven’t had a whole lot of recent work to post. Before I left, I was slacking on keeping this up to date, so here’s a quick dump of the the last three projects I worked on before taking […]
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