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The Essex Steam Train & Riverboat officially launches the attraction's spring season on National Train Day, Saturday May 11, 2013. Opening weekend will feature the Essex Steam Train's popular 1-hour train ride and 2--hour combo train and boat ride...

Would the story of the Goodspeed Opera House make a good musical? The thought occurred to me while I was interviewing Michael Price, who's been with the Victorian theater on the Connecticut River in East Haddam for 46 of its 50 years. During lunch at...

Last 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...

Your honor and august members of the jury (the great gun-toting state of Connecticut), I have been engaged by Yogi, Boo Boo, Smokey, Teddy et al. to defend them, and their flesh-and-blood brothers and sisters, in a class-action suit against imminent...

Una tormenta que ha estado más de un día sobre Connecticut se puso seria durante la noche y ha descargado más de un pie de nieve pesada, mojada en partes del estado. La Nevada superó las predicciones. La nieve complicó el viaje de la mañana y causó...

Kathleen M. Zeidler, a retired legal secretary and homemaker, died Friday of complications from Alzheimer's disease at a Kensington assisted-living facility. The longtime Roland Park resident was 85. The daughter of a veterinarian and a homemaker, Ruth...

We should declare war on space rocks. A meteor exploded over Russia the other day at the precise time that a "killer asteroid" whizzed within 17,000 miles of earth. Coincidence? Don't bet on it. It's time for President Barack Obama to wake up and...

It remains a mystery why the state cannot protect vacant properties it owns. A costly mystery. The most recent example is the former Sunrise Resort in East Haddam, a 144-acre property along the pristine Salmon River that the state bought in 2009 for $3....

It's not enough to just foster arts programming in schools. When our children take an interest or show a talent in the arts, their love and talent must also be fostered with care, opportunity and experience. The Shoreline Arts Alliance has hosted a juried...

Like many Connecticut residents who didn't matriculate at Yale, I know the university in bits and pieces — a lecture at the law school, a play at the Rep, a dinner at the Commons. I don't have a good sense of how the whole place fits together, yet...

A few weeks ago, I wrote a column reminiscing about my childhood adventures along the former Air Line Railroad in my hometown of Portland and whether that portion of the former Boston to New York route would ever be converted to a hiking trail. I...

Marc Bruni, who was slated to direct "Hello, Dolly!" at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam this summer, is leaving the project due a scheduling conflict. Daniel Goldstein, director of the recent Broadway revival of "Godspell," returns to Goodspeed...