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Friday 09/02/2022
FRIDAY FICKS: The dash between the years Posted: 02 September 2022 [11:58 AM] Friday Ficks A lifelong friend from Berlin died in June at the age of 59. A California resident at the time he…
Friday 08/26/2022
FRIDAY FICKS: Riding on the surface of the sun Posted: 26 August 2022 [10:35 AM] Friday Ficks I rode my bike on the surface of the sun. The heat index was well over 100 degrees on the day…
Friday 08/05/2022
FRIDAY FICKS: Of waterfalls, wellness and anvils Posted: 05 August 2022 [10:08 AM] FRIDAY FICKS: Of waterfalls, wellness and anvils Friday Ficks There’s an ultra distance running book called “Relentless Forward Progress.” It popped to…
Thursday 08/04/2022
BRISTOL BITS: Bristol resident looks back on Camp Wangum Posted: 04 August 2022 [02:11 PM] Bristol Bits I’m assuming that Jeff Twombly, who emailed me about Camp Wangum, has been an outdoors enthusiast since he was a…
Tuesday 08/02/2022
CAGGIANO: Making room for new development Posted: 02 August 2022 [04:33 PM] Bristol Mayor This month I want to highlight a few business openings, closings and demolitions in our city. We will also highlight…
Friday 07/15/2022
FRIDAY FICKS: Create your own medal-worthy moments Posted: 15 July 2022 [10:42 AM] Friday Ficks Every moment of your life can be a medal-worthy moment. If you embrace failure, stay resilient, and control the controllable.…
Friday 07/01/2022
FRIDAY FICKS: Heads up, phones down Posted: 01 July 2022 [11:58 AM] Friday Ficks The bear saw me before I saw it. Hammering along the spine of Avon Mountain, I spotted a large pile…
Friday 06/17/2022
FRIDAY FICKS: Stay connected to, and involved with, your community Posted: 17 June 2022 [04:08 PM] Friday Ficks He died five weeks before the race. But I needed him that morning. I needed his encouragement. I needed his…
Monday 05/30/2022
Posted: 30 May 2022 [02:54 PM] CHRIS POWELL Connecticut's 5th Congressional District, encompassing the northwest part of the state, running from Danbury north to Waterbury with eastward extensions to New Britain and Meriden, is generally considered the state's most politically competitive. So one might think…
Friday 05/27/2022
Posted: 27 May 2022 [09:00 PM] CHRIS POWELL As recently as 50 years ago Connecticut politics still had traces of the old ethnic, racial, and religious resentments and rivalries that had arisen through the state's long history, resentments and rivalries that political party state tickets…
Friday 05/20/2022
Posted: 20 May 2022 [08:21 PM] CHRIS POWELL Four months after the now internationally infamous "pizza sex" assignment was given to eighth-graders at Kennedy Middle School in Enfield, the town's Board of Education has not yet figured out how it happened. Instead the board purportedly…
Friday 05/06/2022
HASTINGS: Happy Mother's Day to all the best worst moms out there Posted: 06 May 2022 [12:23 PM] Thank you very much. I can't believe I'm standing up here at this podium at the Worst Mom Ever awards!…
FRIDAY FICKS: The gift of perspective Posted: 06 May 2022 [11:36 AM] Friday Ficks Column The Facebook post sounded pretty urgent. It read, in part, that “I have an immediate need.” Immediate is usually…
HEALTHY LIVING: Jill Bertolini Symposium helps breast cancer patients Posted: 06 May 2022 [11:33 AM] The statistic is startling – according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), breast cancer is the most…
Friday 04/29/2022
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Eliminate the CT excise tax on gas Posted: 29 April 2022 [01:20 PM] Letter to the editor To the Editor: Congratulations to Gov. Lamont for signing the bill to suspend the CT excise tax on…
Tuesday 04/26/2022
Posted: 26 April 2022 [01:06 PM] Joanie Wedler, Chuck Lewis and Franck Facchini Local public access TV, or public, educational and government access (“PEG”), has been in Connecticut for more than 40 years providing residents, municipalities, schools and community organizations with hyper-local programming…
Posted: 26 April 2022 [11:18 AM] John Kisluk I am asking and urging all Plainville tax payers to come out on April 26 between the hours of 6 a.m. and 8 p.m. at the Plainville Firehouse and vote no on the…
Monday 04/18/2022
MAZADOORIAN: Commemorating the Armenian Genocide of 1915: Sainthood for the victims Posted: 18 April 2022 [10:33 AM] On April 24, the world will recognize and commemorate the tragedy of the Armenian Genocide of 1915, when more than 1.5 million Armenian men…
Friday 04/15/2022
Posted: 15 April 2022 [08:02 PM] Someday, if the governor and state legislators ever tire of coddling the state employee unions and if the president and Congress ever tire of coddling investment banks and military contractors, maybe they should note what happened recently at Silver Lane…
FRIDAY FICKS: Don't transmogrify the low hanging fruit Posted: 15 April 2022 [11:25 AM] Friday Ficks "Attorney Ficks has transmogrified the facts," said my adversary in his closing argument. "He did what?" replied the arbitrator. "He…
Friday 04/08/2022
Posted: 08 April 2022 [09:11 PM] Legislators of both parties in the General Assembly are congratulating themselves on the bipartisan juvenile justice bill that has come out of the Judiciary Committee, and well they should. For the legislation will do no more than provide the illusion…
Thursday 04/07/2022
Mayor's Corner: Charter revision needs involvement of all citizens Posted: 07 April 2022 [08:17 PM] The Charter of the City of Bristol, CT, acts as the constitutional document for citizens of our All Heart City. The Charter…
Monday 04/04/2022
Posted: 04 April 2022 [08:55 PM] By CHRIS POWELL Connecticut may be paying the Sikorsky helicopter division of military contractor Lockheed Martin as much as $250 million to keep its facilities in the state for the next 20 years -- an average of…
Friday 04/01/2022
Posted: 01 April 2022 [09:15 PM] Everybody in state government seems to love this tax-cutting stuff -- first the temporary suspension of Connecticut's 25-cents-per-gallon gasoline tax, and then a week of lifting the sales tax on most clothing purchases. The public will love it too. But…
FRIDAY FICKS: Hope is the best of things Posted: 01 April 2022 [09:24 AM] Friday Ficks I have a dirty four letter word that I want you to use right now. It is not a four…