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A group of students at Waterford High School are learning that business isn’t strictly business. Members of DECA, or Distributive Education Clubs of America, are learning that it takes more than balance sheets and quarterly reports to become a success...
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Residents could face a 30 percent increase in sewer rates next year. After a public hearing last week, the Utility Commission voted to recommend the increase to members of the Representative Town Meeting. The RTM will vote Dec. 1 on the increase, which...
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On one side of the Norwich Free Academy Field, Groton-Mystic Falcons’ players and coaches were celebrating. Fans and parents held up cell phones and digital cameras for team pictures with the Southern New England Youth Football Conference Super Bowl trophy...
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...or, the agony of da feet A lright, call me a sissy! My wife talked me into getting a pedicure and gave me a gift certificate to our friendly neighborhood nail spa. Well, she won’t have to talk me into it again. This is the best kept secret that women...
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While patrolling the Lancer sidelines during girls’ soccer games with his perfectly coiffed hair, trim physique, cleanly-shaven chiseled face, Oakley sunglasses, and Adidas designer sweatsuit, Waterford High’s Rob Brule looks like he stepped out of a...
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R ev. Wade Hyslop was adamant this year. He did not want Veterans Day to be just another carefree day off from work or school. “Kids should not be spending today at the mall,” he said. So in a vacation-day-flanking maneuver, Hyslop and the Kente Cultural...
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L ast week students in the Waterford High School orchestra met the person whose composition they’ve been wrestling with for the past few weeks. Elliot Del Borgo, the composer responsible for the music heard at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid,...
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L ike many others around the state and nation, Andrea Stillman has been taking stock of the historic nature of last week’s election of Barack Obama to the presidency. “I really could not believe it,” she said. “Seeing those numbers tallied, it was overwhelming...
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T he Waterford Micro A Football team won the 2006 Southern New England Youth Football Conference championship—the first league title for the Lancers’ youth program in many, many years. Last year, the nucleus of coach Mark Riemann’s champions split up...
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Here’s a pitch: A local kid spends his high school days dreaming of working in the entertainment industry. Eventually, he packs up, lights out for Los Angeles, works hard, founds his own production company. He gets to work in places all over the world...
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F or those of us who drive, cycle, or stroll by Monte Cristo Cottage, it’s an inconspicuous house set back off the road, where, as the chorus goes, Eugene O’Neill spent his summers. Yes, we know—statue on the New London waterfront, the unlovely street...
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T he Senior Services Department is calling its new initiative to have Waterford’s seniors inspect their smoke detectors a success. “It has been a great partnership between town departments,” Sally Ritchie, director of senior services, said. Last week...
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At once urban and suburban, the 20th State Senate district covers a lot of ground. It sprawls from Old Saybrook and East Lyme in the west, north to Salem and Montville, and southeast to Waterford and New London. Incumbent Democrat Andrea Stillman, the...
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It’s shortly after 1 p.m. at When Pigs Fly café. The lunch rush is winding down, with just a few customers in to receive last bites. Yet, the cooks in the open kitchen are furiously getting a large order together. A few minutes later, a group of about...
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Denise Swiatek Named Educator of the Year by Mystic Aquarium & Institute for Exploration By Susan Cornell Special to the Times Denise Swiatek, a teacher with the Science and Technology Magnet High School in New London, has been named Educator of the...
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