Man Wins Fresh Air Photo Contest

(l-r) Bryana, 11, New York City, hugs her host family, the Pettigrews, for her two-week Fresh Air visit.

photo by Daniel Cormier

Daniel Cormier, Jewett City, was among the winners of The Fresh Air Fund’s 2009 Photo Contest! All winners were selected from the hundreds of pictures [...]

Fresh Air Fund

(l-r) Theresa London, Tracy London, Eunice, Magdalena, and Howard London stand in front of the Fresh Air Fund bus in the parking lot of McDonald’s, Norwich, that brought Eunice and Magdalena from New York City. Magdalena will be staying with the London family in Colchester for their summer vacation.

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New American Musical Premieres at Norwich’s Spirit of Broadway Theater

story & photo by Tony Schillaci and Don Church

At the recent first read-through of the new musical “Buddy’s Tavern,” at the Spirit of Broadway Theater (SBT) in Norwich, we heard for the first time the actors speak their lines and heard the words and music of this [...]

Rose Francis Venditto

by Maren Schober

Her name is Rose Venditto but she is known to many in New London as “Rose from Kresge’s”.  And for good reason.  Rose warmed many a tummy and heart with her good home Italian cooking when S.S. Kresge’s department store was on State Street, New London.