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Campus Leaders Reaffirm Substance Abuse Mission MIDDLETOWN — Presidents and other campus leaders from public, private, and military institutions of higher learning across the state came together recently to reaffirm their commitment to re...

Connecticut Is Richest And Then Some HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut remains the nation’s richest state and is widening its lead over the other 49. The US Commerce Department reported this week that total per capita income in Con...

NHS Student Works To Extend Voting Rights To 17-Year-Olds By Martha Coville Newtown High School student Mark Fernandez wants to change the oldest constitution in the world. For his senior project, Mark is working to help Connecticut State Representat...

Shakespeare At The Meeting House  The Friends of the C.H. Booth Library will be sponsoring an interactive retelling of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’ on Sunday, April 6, at 2 pm, ...

SHORTIES BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART (BMA) BONNARD & VUILLARD ak/gs set 3/6 #730898 BALTIMORE, MD. — An intimate two-gallery exhibition, “Bonnard & Vuillard,” will feature works on paper and paintings by two of the mos...

Eugene H. Ormsbee Longtime Charles Batchelders Employee Eugene “Gene” H. Ormsbee, Sr, 74, of Bethel, husband of Patricia Ann (Bruso) Ormsbee, died at his home March 28. He was born in Ellenburg, N.Y., February 7, 1934, so...

Real Estate Notes   Wintergreen Curt, Woodbury Richard Johnsen purchased a home at 1 Wintergreen Court, Woodbury, from Bank of America. Bob Ward of Prudential Connecticut Realty was the selling agent and Mary LeBlanc of LeBlanc Realty was ...

Amazon Launches Text-Message Shopping SEATTLE, WASH. (AP) — It’s no April Fool’s joke, you can now order your favorite book or product from Amazon.com, simply by texting your request on your cell phone. Amazon.com ...

Music Business Tax Credits Proposed HARTFORD (AP) — State lawmakers are seeking to extend to the music industry tax credits used to draw filmmakers to Connecticut. House Speaker James Amann, D-Milford, says tax credits would help keep tal...

Long-Term Planning Is Overrated To the Editor: It has been proposed that the town should solve many of the current problems through the use of long-term planning. I for one place very little faith in long-term planning. In 1968 when the voters appro...