Sisters Team Up To Accept The Challenge At Bike MS

Tara Liscombe, Hamden, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2005, and Darren Kramer, WTNH News 8 anchor will ride together on Team Tara Lynne in this year’s Bike MS.

Tara Liscombe didn’t own a bike and hadn’t cycled in years. Yet, when she heard about a two-day bike [...]

Farmers’ Dinner Features Connecticut Edibles At Octagon

Farmer Extrodinaire Whit Davis, Stanton-Davis Farm, Stonington, offered his expertise for the Johnny Cakes, which the Octagon made for the first of their Farmers’ Dinner series on Monday, June 28th.

story & photos by Don Church & Tony Schillaci

The first of a series of three “Farmers’ Dinner” evenings was enjoyed [...]

Ryan Gannon Earns Research Grant

Ryan Gannon

Ryan Gannon, son of Stanley and Tricia Nolan, Colchester, is awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health for a study of, Do Elevated Transcription Levels and the Deletion of the UNG1 Gene Influence Mutation Rate in S. cerevisiae.

Ryan, a junior biology major, graduated from Bacon Academy, Colchester, before [...]

Spring 2010 Dean’s Lists

Curry College Adelia Gray, Essex

Lock Haven University Taylor J. Seacor, Uncasville

Nichols College Timothy Smith, Plainfield Rebecca Smith, Pawcatuck Daniel Smith, Pawcatuck

Sacred Heart University Bethany Austin, Quaker Hill Lauren Candee, Gales Ferry Corey Corcoran, Norwich John Courville, Montville Kyle Dee, Colchester Heather Farnell, Quaker Hill Matthew Fitton, Lebanon Michelle Lord, Waterford Kaitlyn McBryde, Quaker Hill Joseph Merenda, Groton Karen Navarre, New [...]