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Richard Waselik May 23, 2013 at 02:28 pm
The unions are in support and wrote this bill with a couple of state representatives. Council 4 of…Read More AFSCME is fighting for this bill to pass for all those that work hard in the State of Connecticut. Any support would be great. Thank you.
frank pucci May 19, 2013 at 10:21 am
my letter will be off monday,i am in total support of this bill. after working your whole life one…Read More should be able to retire with dignity and enjoy your last years. if the unions in the state can work with you for the passage of this bill, this bill SB 54 WILL PASS.
Ellyn Santiago (Editor) May 15, 2013 at 09:18 pm
We did this story about the project Monday. Hope it helps shed some light And THANKS for Speaking…Read More Out, Allan! http://stonington.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/voterapproved-road-work-begins-wednesday-where-when-read-on
Corey Fyke (Editor) May 11, 2013 at 12:51 am
I'm sure it will work splendidly! So much more flexibility, especially if you'll be posting your own…Read More stuff (which we, of course, encourage!).
Valerie Randall May 9, 2013 at 08:34 am
Sweet! I love watching life in transit, there's nothing better and more uplifting than to watch…Read More folks great each other at the airport. While a welcome home Hershey bar would be appreciated, I am sure that the simple act of physically picking someone up at the airport versus taking a bus home is simply perfect. Great story. No balloons required.
janis albamonti May 9, 2013 at 07:43 am
It just seems to me, ADD/ ADHD should fall into a Spectrum.
Similar to Autism,there are vast…Read More differences in the severity of symptoms & personalities & the different ways they learn...
Rather than lumping them together as one,it should be more of a one on one with specialists.
This investment of time & money is just that,an investment.
I was tested at age 42.... passing with flying colours!
Now I knew WHAT WAS WRONG WITH ME!
I began Medication that changed my life.
I share this with you as an Advocate for early intervention.
janis albamonti May 8, 2013 at 10:45 am
ADD/ADHD diagnosis should be on Spectrum like Autism is based. It seems as tho it would make it that…Read More much easier to treat them individually,rather that be lumped together.
FYI, it is a real pain in the ass & frightening not to be able to finish a simple task,see words differently,understand directions.
You know you are different you spend exhausting amounts of
energy to compensate for faulty wiring.
Alice Paul April 3, 2013 at 01:16 am
It's called having an opinion. It's just as inappropriate to assume commenters don't meet your…Read More narrow definition.
Waterford Guy April 2, 2013 at 02:46 pm
I'm more worried about the dictators in Hartford and Washington D.C. than N. Korea.
Sandy D'Esopo April 2, 2013 at 01:35 pm
No, I haven't time to worry about things or events over which I have utterly no control. Meteorites…Read More plunging through my roof while I and my wife sleep, a car jumping the centerline and hitting mine, or a fish dropped by an osprey smacking me on the head: life is too short to fret over such things. I don't even worry about my health, not much anyway. I have to die sometime and of something. It might as well be doing something I love, like eating a 3-pound lobster.
Karen Royce March 31, 2013 at 06:48 pm
I would like to thank the gentleman who bought my husband and I breakfast @ The Shack just because…Read More my husband is a soldier. It's the little acts of kindness that makes life good. We will be sure to pay it forward.
Tiffany E Williams March 29, 2013 at 08:26 pm
I would like to thank all my Montville Lion Friends. I took up a collection so a young person could…Read More play Lacrosse. In less than five mintutes I had $328.00 to buy all the equipment. Lions have big hearts and give of themselves to help others. It makes me feel awesome to help other as I have been on the other side. Thanks to all who have support The Montville Lion.
Lynn Kimmerle April 25, 2013 at 08:46 am
Ed, that's great. Would be nice if Water Street is on the list. Looking a little more than beat…Read More up, especially in the center of town.
Question Mark May 10, 2013 at 03:19 pm
I live on the West Coast and the same occurs here. I'm old enough to remember the "Pitch…Read More In!" and "Keep America Beautiful" campaigns in the '60s and '70s. Somehow we've lost the public reinforcement of the importance of showing responsibility for keeping our cities clean.
I regularly pick up trash on my street. It comes not only from people discarding wrappers and drink containers on purpose, but sometimes items that miss the truck on trash and recycling day and even wind-blown trash on occasion. Usually there is no more than a handful of litter on several blocks of street. I talk to people about what I do, and hope it encourages others to do likewise.
frank pucci April 21, 2013 at 01:40 pm
my question is why didnt you get the number plate and turn it into the police dept
david brown April 19, 2013 at 10:50 am
I pick up trash on River Road and have been doing so for the past 30 years. It is discouraging.…Read More You are right that supposedly intelligent people do this. Another thing that irks me is my neighbors will have a piece of trash in front of their house and won't pick it up. I guess it will never change.
Mary Margaret Schlais April 17, 2013 at 03:17 pm
I agree the new format is not a good as the old one just more ads which I realize who pays for the…Read More news. The blog is posted at all hours now before it was put out about the sanme time every morning with the breaking alerts as they happened much nicer. We also need the black print on white back ground much easier to read. I now usually find myself deleting it quickly instead of reading or looking for something interesting to read.
Joel April 17, 2013 at 10:59 am
New format is terrible! But it makes room for more ads and fewer comments...
Donna Pearlman April 16, 2013 at 07:39 pm
Thank you Corey! For some reason I am not getting email updates for responses to my posts or…Read More comments anymore I will check my settings again maybe they got re-set with the new website format.
Corey Fyke (Editor) April 15, 2013 at 11:32 pm
Sorry about the block of text. It wasn't like that when I hit the button. :) That's a bug that…Read More should be worked out soon by our tech people.
Corey Fyke (Editor) April 15, 2013 at 11:31 pm
Donna ...
Everyone from Mystic, Stonington and Pawcatuck is now accounted for between our Facebook…Read More page, Groton Patch and The Day. The only runner unaccounted for is Gary Burfoot. Here's the list and how we know:
Scott Lucy of Pawcatuck (Stonington-Mystic Patch Facebook page)
Julia Cooper of Stonington (Groton Patch Facebook page)
Spyros Barres of Mystic (Stonington-Mystic Patch Facebook page)
Jim Roy of Mystic (Stonington-Mystic Patch Facebook page)
Laura Brustolon of Mystic (Groton Patch Facebook page)
Bill Billing of Mystic (Groton Patch Facebook page)
Stanley Mickus of Mystic (The Day)
Karina Montoya of Mystic (The Day)
Phil Plouffe of Mystic (The Day)
Gary Sturgeon of Mystic (did not run, according to Groton Patch)
Gary Burfoot (not accounted for)
Joann Novo Hughes April 30, 2013 at 06:09 pm
Laurie you took the words out of my mouth, it's do as I say not as I do. And Donna, I don't work for…Read More the landlords, I just have tremendous respect for them, as people in general!!!
Donna Pearlman April 26, 2013 at 10:03 am
I always qualify my remarks Laurie and I was noting to Joann she should not misquote me. I don't…Read More think having a college degree is the only thing that makes a person intelligent and experience is always desirable as well. I am fortunate to have both. And I don't have to re-read the posts I have put up on this matter I always am careful and aware of the implications of anything I say or put in writing.
Laurie Laidley April 26, 2013 at 10:01 am
Oh, so it's perfectly okay for you to make derogatory and disparaging statements about others, but…Read More it isn't okay for anyone to have an opinion contrary to yours? For your information, I have 15 years of experience in Electronics & Computer Engineering Technology. While I may not have a college degree, experience does count for something. If I were you, I'd go back and re-read all the posts that you've put up on this matter. The only one here making you look bad is you.
parent April 12, 2013 at 07:57 am
The truffle bomb at Stop and Shop is to die for!!! Pricey but delicious and good looking too!!!
Donna Pearlman April 11, 2013 at 07:46 pm
I have to throw my recommendation in with Bree if you are going for an ice cream cake that Mel's…Read More Downtown Creamery is wonderful!
Donna Pearlman April 12, 2013 at 08:26 am
And I told the landlords again and again about this and other illegal behavior there harming the…Read More community and perpetrating even more serious crimes.
Donna Pearlman April 12, 2013 at 08:26 am
And I know the woman who asks for a couple of dollars she asked me regularly for money too before…Read More she moved there and used to hangout in front of Crystal Nails and then when she moved there too. What a nightmare.
Donna Pearlman April 12, 2013 at 08:02 am
Could not agree more that the Elm Tree Inn and its residents are a continuing blight on the quality…Read More of life in downtown Pawcatuck.
Jessica Sommar April 9, 2013 at 10:37 am
Moving back to Pawcatuck in June. Glad you are still here. Look forward to reading and contributing!
Jerry Howell April 8, 2013 at 06:22 pm
I don't care for the new look very much. I used to enjoy the morning email digest else kind of like…Read More my morning paper. Now it's unreadable, containing much less information than it used to.
H. Pyres April 5, 2013 at 03:15 pm
Everything is squished into much smaller space in the center of the screen. It makes The Patch much…Read More harder to read and to navigate. The ads seem to be taking up just as much room as the text and there is still huge amounts of open space on my screen, yet the stories are difficult to find and reading them seems claustrophobic. Even this comment box is so small I can't see more than two lines at a time. I am NOT a fan of the new look. I think it will reduce my readership significantly.
Observor April 3, 2013 at 12:39 am
Nor any other type of loan. But the truth is that the lenders are the ones with the financial…Read More savvy, and consumers are conditioned to believe that if they qualify for credit the bank has determined that they will be able to pay it back. The problem with student loans is that they are given to people who could never otherwise qualify because the government guarantees them. Are those consumers naive or badly informed? Probably, but the statute books of the federal government and all fifty states are planted thick with laws to protect borrowers who lack sophistication.
The student loan bubble is no different than the housing bubble. Give people loans for which they are not really qualified so they can buy something they want and you flood the market with cash. In response, the prices of things people want to pay for with their loans (diplomas and houses) skyrocket, the sellers knowing that Uncle Sam will keep pumping more cash into the system. The housing bubble burst and when there are enough people unable to carry the non-dischargable debt they took on to pay $40,000/year tuition the student loan bubble will also burst.
Since we taxpayers will be picking up the pieces I am not willing to just say "nobody forced you" and leave it at that.
J. Smith April 2, 2013 at 09:17 pm
Two professional, hard working Taxpayers, perhaps if they continue to be employed, pay their taxes…Read More and stay off the dole, the Government will see they deserve a break. The Government does have high hopes for their projected revenue (taxes) in the future. “I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.”
Steve April 2, 2013 at 08:55 pm
Maybe they should not have deferred and chose to overpay the outstanding debt on the student loans.…Read More Looks like they make a pretty good buck between them, maybe 150k a year. Tell them to look in a lower price range, maybe they need to work up to the dream home. I did, and so did a lot of the rest of us who paid off their student loans and didn't put it off.
shara mulholland April 10, 2013 at 05:03 pm
Really? So they can start banning sports because of injuries.
Just my opinion April 10, 2013 at 11:22 am
One big issue is even though my child plays school sports she plays travel sports so an injury from…Read More travel might not be recorded as travel and go under school making the study wrong. Many children play outside of school how would they make sure they have proper data. Maybe they should document something that they can be sure that the info they use is correct.
Mike Atkins April 8, 2013 at 07:45 am
@Sean, irrelevant, only because parents think their child is the next great athlete and are willing…Read More to pay the thousands of dollars to get them a spot on a team. Typically many of those child athletes would have a difficult time making the HS team without Daddy's money.
Rich April 2, 2013 at 11:38 pm
Sox in on top in AL east 1 and 0, Yankees dead last 0-1. Joba era north of 40 at least that sevral…Read More digits smaller than his waistline. Steroids kill just ask AROD, GRANDYMAN, TEX, JETER yes JETER. Only clean Yank is MO...... Hell I think Strawberry and Howe were cleaner than JETER.
J D C April 2, 2013 at 01:14 am
One game and the season is OVER. Lets name the Blosux WS Champs now.
Stephen Austin March 31, 2013 at 04:16 pm
thanks Flowers for the info.Check out the new photo I posted just for you
Flowers March 31, 2013 at 02:48 am
Steve I hope this gets to you in time. Don't go on that egg hunt! Apparently you have never seen an…Read More Easter egg hunt before. After the egg hunt starting cannon roars, hundreds of undisciplined kids and hooligans rush the field grabbing for everything they can find. Heaven forbid you find and pick up an egg, they will be all over you. You'll be lucky to keep your shoes. Suggest that you and Peaches clutch your valuables and head for the exits ASAP. And by the way do you realize that your magic hat is changing color. Is it due to a natural phenomenon? No one could own that many hats.
Kyle S. Reyes March 29, 2013 at 05:11 pm
Hi Kate,
I like that - thanks so much. I'll have to look into it! Shirley Chisholm once said,…Read More "service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth." Couldn't put it any better.
Kate Nicholas March 29, 2013 at 04:41 pm
Excellent piece Kyle! In Daniel Pink's new best seller "To Sell is Human" he takes Robert…Read More Greenleaf's concept of servant leadership a step further; servant seller. The idea of moving others with an agenda of common good. When we have the best interests of those we lead or sell to as a priority everyone wins.
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