This poorly conceived money grab deserves your attention Woodstock citizens.
First, let’s take a look at the minutes of the meetings that have been conducted for the last year or so- they can be found -HERE-. "Methodology" is not a term that can be used to describe these proceedings.
The immediate [...]
The state court system aims to close the Bristol courthouse by March a, 2011 in order to save $150,000 in lease and operating expenses, according to the chief court administrator.
Judge Barbara M. Quinn recently told the legislature’s appropriations committee that three courthouses – in Bristol, Willamantic and Norwalk – [...]
The Outstanding Public Debt as of 24 Nov 2009 at 05:51:54 PM GMT is: $12,025,222,873,469.89
The estimated population of the United States is 307,346,401, so each citizen's share of this debt is $39,125.96.
The National Debt has continued to increase an average of $3.83 billion per day since September 28, 2007!
Concerned? Then' [...]
On one level, there isn’t much to say about the 2,000-foot-long, unnamed brook that begins somewhere in the storm drains above El Toro Drive and flows into the mushy ground at the base of Nelson’s Field.
It’s just one of scores of tiny rivulets that meander through the hills of [...]
Update: New London Day 10/27/09-
Rell plan would cut budget by $337M: Governor's targets include aid to towns, programs for poor
Over the summer hardly a day went by without headlines of the financial disaster that had been created by over-spending in California – over regulating and over taxation' [...]
Owner of Bristol Mums Inc., he oversees the cultivation of hundreds of thousands of the [...]
I'm down and out.The retirement of longtime city lawyer Ann Baldwin leaves a gaping hole in the city attorney’s office.
Baldwin, a 32-year veteran, was one of two full-time attorneys working for the city.
Her departure means the city has to get by without a corporation counsel – the part-timer who’s supposed to [...]
City councilors agreed recently to consider allowing municipal board members to participate in meetings without actually attending them.
First-term city Councilor David Mills said that more people would be able to participate if they could sometimes attend through web-based meeting programs or other electronic means.
“Maybe the pool could be [...]
To raise revenue, the city is exploring the idea of putting advertising on the side of residential trash bins.
They’d be like “mini-billboards” on both sides of the wheeled receptacles the city distributes to residents to toss their trash.
The idea, which a public works committee is looking into, hasn’t [...]
At a time when the phrase “trillions of dollars” is casually tossed around, $224,702 is still a lot of money.
According to “www.recovery.gov,” the website set up to flack the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), that’s the sum federal agencies have sent to Connecticut for every job the stimulus package [...]
The mandate that property owners clear sidewalks after a snowstorm has always been a problem for elderly and infirm residents who don’t have deep pockets to pay for help.
Now one city councilor, newcomer David Mills, is hoping to come to their aid.
Mills said that after from residents who [...]
Last week’s election showed what can happen when elected officials blatantly oppose transparency. Voters in Greeley Evans School District 6 rejected a tax increase after a member of its school board not only publicly opposed transparency, but also testified against a school district transparency [...]
Joe Killian and his grandfather, Kenneth Rose, Sr.
As old soldiers read the names of those who left Bristol for war during the past century and never returned, the audience at the annual Veterans Day ceremony remained hushed save for a few suppressed coughs and the whispers of antsy children.
The names, said clearly and carefully, one by [...]
From an anonymous reader, and hilarious-
Lawrence Livermore Laboratories has discovered the heaviest element yet known to science.
The new element, Governmentium (Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.
These 312 particles are held together by [...]
Rose Parenti Says Thank You
To all the people of Bristol that came to vote, regardless of which candidate you voted for, THANK YOU. For those that voted for me THANK YOU. To everyone that ran the race whether you won or lost, [...]
Before moving on, I would request that we share a moment of silence for all of the men and women serving in our military with an emphasis on those serving in harms way and these whose lives were taken,' [...]
With a new city administration sitting on the stage beside him at Bristol Eastern High School Monday, state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal hailed the voters who turned out last week “to make a difference” to the future of Bristol.
“Tonight is really a triumph of democracy,” [...]
Political leaders said Monday they understand Gov. Jodi Rell’s decision to retire rather than run for reelection next year.
"Right now, it's tough for any politician to be in office," said state Sen. Tom Colapietro, a Bristol Democrat.
With all the problems facing her over the past year, Colapietro said,' [...]
I particularly like the "Oddities From All Over the World" above Ed Krawiecki's head in this shot. He won the Harley in the fundraising raffle done by the New England Carousel Museum this weekend.Krawiecki is a city lawyer and a former state House minority leader. He' [...] 
