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While local residents are preparing to ring in a new decade with holiday festivities, noisemakers and renditions of “Auld Lang Syne,” police warn residents to drive carefully tonight.
When most think of New Year’s Eve, they think of New Year’s Eve parties.
When police think of New Year’s Eve, the night’s events have more serious connotations.
“We do [...]
Windham High School will host current eighth-graders and their families for its annual orientation night Thursday, Jan. 7.
The event will last from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. and it will allow incoming freshman a sneak peak at the high school.
In the event of snow, the orientation will be Friday, Jan. 8, at the same time.
For more [...]
The Colectivo Mestizal, the nonprofit organization sponsoring the toy giveaway at the annual Three Kings Day celebration, is in dire need of donations for the children.
Mary DeMarco, Windham’s human services director, said organizers have gotten a few last-minute donations, but they are still only about two-thirds of the way toward meeting their goal.
The organization hopes [...]
A past festival that helped ring in the New Year in Willimantic won’t take place this year, organizers for the event confirmed this week.
Frog Leap - Willimantic’s Multicultural Winter Carnival - had taken place in each of the past two years, but the difficulty finding a non-profit organization to partner with put the festival on [...]
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Gov. M. Jodi Rell and Democrats clashed Monday over her veto of a deficit-cutting package the legislature passed a week earlier.
The Republican governor blasted the Democratic plan as feeble and called the Democrats irresponsible for not doing more to close the state’s budget gap.
“It is simply unacceptable for the majority party in the [...]
The Interdistrict Magnet School Building Committee in charge of the $40 million, environmental-theme magnet school has selected a construction manager for the school.
Skanska USA Builders Inc. was selected by the building committee, after the committee received 14 responses from building firms. Skanska’s bid was slightly more than $1.9 million.
Susan Collins, magnet school building committee co-chairman, [...]
The calendar doesn’t lie.
Oh sure, players, coaches and fans alike can talk all they want and use catch phrases like ‘don’t worry … it’s early’, but when it comes to the world of Big East Conference men’s hoop, talk is cheaper than the newsprint on this page when it comes right down to a discussion [...]
While some spent the weekend at holiday parties and opening gifts, state police had an active holiday weekend while officials locally reported quieter activity.
According to a state police news release, state police responded to a total of 281 accidents from 12:01 a.m. Thursday through Sunday.
With the 281 accidents, 35 were accidents with injuries, while two [...]
Although he is the faculty adviser for one of the newest Active Minds chapters in the country, Barry Schreier and his core group of 20 students have made waves in Washington, D.C.
The group was formed nearly one year ago by Schreier and an undergraduate student working together.
Schreier, the University of Con-necticut’s director of counseling and [...]
ABOVE: Teacher Susan Savidakis, center, a teacher at the Columbia Cooperative Nursery School, works with students Mariusz Clark and Luke Ruchalski to tie together a blanket for the school’s blanket drive to benefit the Windham Area Interfaith Ministry and the Windham No Freeze Project. More than 300 blankets were donated, as well as coats, hats, [...]
