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Developer Suggests State's Controversial Land Swap May Be Revived
The Hartford CourantLast year, conservationists celebrated the death of the so-called Haddam land swap — a controversial deal approved by the state legislature in 2011 to let private developers acquire 17 acres of state-owned land overlooking the Connecticut River in...Tags: Environmental Issues, Parties and Movements, Dannel P. Malloy , Human Interest, Haddam
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Orlando native Isai Jess Muñoz will be at Philarmonic's "Madama Butterfly"
Orlando native Isai Jess Muñoz will be performing the role of "Goro" in the Orlando Philarmonic upcoming production of Puccini’s opera, Madama Butterfly. Muñoz has appeared with opera companies around the country, including The New York City...
Tags: Alvin Ailey, Arts and Culture, Music, Culture, Festive Events
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Crime & Punishment: Manchester Gas Station Manager Caught Selling K2
The election for president of UConn' Undergraduate Student Government was marked by a surprising amount of scandal and political intrigue. Shiv Gandhi bested Edward Courchaine by 340 votes. Then Courchaine filed a complaint accusing Gandhi of violating...
Tags: PCP, Middletown, Teaching and Learning, Religion and Belief, Students
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America's Rifle: Rise Of The AR-15
The Hartford CourantWhen his son turned 14 a year ago, Jonathan Hardy bought the teen a gift that was both a coming-of-age badge and a hot item: an AR-15 rifle. To Hardy, the matte-black weapon is not a dangerous assault rifle. His son's model shoots the same small, low-...Tags: Customs and Tradition, Startups, U.S. Military, Barack Obama, Companies and Corporations
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Rural America's political clout slipping, USDA secretary warns
MITCHELL -- Rural America is in a struggle to remain relevant. So said U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack in December after rural voters showed up for the November election in lackluster numbers and as Congress was letting a new farm bill slip through...Tags: Environmental Issues, Food Industry, Environmental Politics, Politics, U.S. Senate
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Forget about the bad stuff
Yeah, we are all human and it's so easy for us to spend time dwelling on the past. And we have all kinds of valid reasons for feeling the way we do. You know. You've been through things that nobody deserves to go through. Perhaps you've been physically or...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Education
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Our Picks: 3 Events Coming to the Greater Hartford Area
1) DanceMasters Weekend Showcase Performance, Wesleyan University CFA Theater, 283 Washington Terr., Middletown, Sat., Mar. 9, 8 p.m. $8-$28. 2) The Connecticut Forum: A Meaningful Life, Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, Mortensen Hall, 166...
Tags: Eastern Connecticut State University, Middletown, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Willimantic (Windham, Connecticut), Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts
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Marriage In The Movies: A Look At Hollywood's Phantom Genre
The Hartford CourantJeanine Basinger has been happily married for 45 years, so she knows a lot about how to make a marriage work. Basinger, the founder and director of the Film Studies Department at Wesleyan University in Middletown, also knows a lot about marriage movies,...Tags: Family, Oliver Hardy, Audrey Hepburn, It's a Wonderful Life (movie), Entertainment
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SITI's Cafe Variations Comes to Fairfield Friday, March 1
Earlier this month the Mabou Mines company descended upon Wesleyan University with its brash rearrangement of Tennessee Williams texts, tempered with Grand Guignol horror-theater posturings. On March 1 at 8 p.m., another vaunted New York-based...
Tags: George Gershwin, Arts and Culture, Columbia University, Colleges and Universities, Music
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DanceMasters Weekend is Nigh at Wesleyan, March 9 & 10
Wesleyan University has been holding its annual DanceMasters Weekend for 14 years now. It's hard to understate the significance of this event. Connecticut once had a vibrant year-round dance scene, with regular concerts by local dance troupes and...Tags: Arts and Culture, Middletown, Dance, Apollo Theater, Entertainment
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Multidisciplinary
Artists: head to Middletown this weekend and hug a scientist. Choreographer Liz Lerman (pictured) curates "Innovations: Intersection of Art and Science," a two-day Wesleyan symposium co-hosted by the school's Center for the Arts and its Hughes Program...
Tags: Applied Physics, Middletown, Science, Science and Technology, Virginia Tech
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Douglas Warren Daman, 76
Douglas Warren Daman, 76, of Petoskey, died Feb. 2, 2013, at his home in Petoskey, surrounded by his family. Doug was born on Jan. 25, 1937, in Monroe, Mich., the son of Edward and Beatrice Daman. Doug grew up in Monroe and enlisted in the U.S. Army in...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Eastern Michigan University, American Legion, Science and Technology, Ford Motor Co.
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