An Iron Fist in a Velvet Glove

David White

Napa Valley accounts for less than 4 percent of America’s total wine production. Yet it’s the country’s best-known wine region.

Napa rocketed to the forefront of American winemaking in 1976, when British wine merchant Steven Spurrier organized a wine competition in Paris to pit California‘s best Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon against the [...]

Memorial Day Observances

We cherish too, the Poppy red, that grows on fields where valor led, it seems to signal to the skies that blood of heroes never dies. – Moina Michael

by Amy Pjura & Jessica Warzeniak

My grandfather was a World War II vet and when I was a little girl, he always bought [...]

Dear Neighbor of Southeastern CT & Southern RI

Taking a vacation is good for you. In Europe, France has legally mandated 30 days of paid annual leave for workers; Sweden, 25, Spain, 22, Germany and the UK 20. Elsewhere, Canada and Japan mandate 10 days. The U.S. mandate: 0, according to the Center for Economic Policy Research, quoted in the New [...]

John Geary

story and photo by Maren Schober

It is altogether fitting to be seated in the Montville Town Chambers meeting room interviewing John Geary today.  The Montville Town Hall is John’s second home, his “home away from home.”

“I have been a member of the Montville Town Council for nine years, four [...]