Friday, March 05, 2021
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Carey Duques: Planning Ahead
Published March 03, 2021 08:30 a.m.When you are new to a job, you want to start to recognize familiar faces. Carey Duques, however, has learned to recognize half faces.
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Don Paulson: He Knows This Joke
Published Feb. 24, 2021 08:30 a.m.It is the iconic moment in an iconic movie: the moment in The Graduate when a neighbor, paddling around in a swimming pool, stops long enough to give Dustin Hoffman, playing 20-something Ben Braddock, one-word of career advice: plastics.
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Kim Megrath: A Shot’s That’s on Target
Published Feb. 17, 2021 08:30 a.m.Kim Megrath knows what the present moment’s biggest questions are, because she is helping find the answers. So here goes: Do you have an appointment for a shot yet? How did you manage to get one?
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Alexandra Johnson: A Haitian Connection
Published Feb. 10, 2021 08:30 a.m.Some 1,600 miles separate Essex, Connecticut from the rural community of Deschapelles, Haiti, but they are linked by Sister Cities Essex Haiti (SCEH), an Essex-based group that supports a number of programs in Deschapelles, including something the rural community would likely never have been able to afford on its own: a library.
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Matt Herman: Planning for Emergencies
Published Feb. 03, 2021 08:30 a.m.By the time he was 15, Matt Herman knew community service would be a big part of his life.
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James Baker: The Art of the Political Spouse
Published Jan. 27, 2021 08:30 a.m.By now, you have probably heard about Doug Emhoff. That is Doug Emhoff the second gentleman, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Cari Jansen: I Think That I Shall Never See...
Published Jan. 20, 2021 08:30 a.m.It happens every year after the holidays are over: What to do with the tree?
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Thayer Talbott: It’s All About Community
Published Jan. 13, 2021 08:30 a.m.Thayer Talbott gets to do something special at work: Give away money.
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Mandy Carroll: The Merchant of Chester
Published Jan. 06, 2021 08:30 a.m.Mandy Carroll says she should have seen it all coming at the beginning on 2020 when she was asked to design the T-shirt for Chester Rotary’s Four on the Fourth race.
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Carol LeWitt: An Opening to the Future
Published Dec. 23, 2020 08:30 a.m.Closing down in the face of COVID-19 was an unexpected problem. Opening up once again, though most welcome, has its challenges, too. And it is those challenges to which Carol LeWitt has been devoting time and energy.
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Jack Frost: Help is on the Way
Published Dec. 16, 2020 08:30 a.m.When Jack Frost retired five years ago, he changed his business card. In his professional career, it read Banker. In retirement, he changed it to read Helper. When people ask him what that means, his answer is succinct: “I help.”
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Margaret Morgan: Better to Give
Published Dec. 09, 2020 08:30 a.m.It’s the time for gifts—not only the gifts on Santa’s list but the things that come without asking: calendars in all sizes, decals from groups that recipients supported, embossed pencils from different organizations.
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Josh Harp: Flip the Light Switch
Published Dec. 02, 2020 08:30 a.m.Josh Harp is the volunteer who climbs the ladder to put up the holiday lights for the Illuminations show on the Ivoryton Green. And why is that?
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Dagmar Miller: Flower Girl
Published Nov. 25, 2020 08:30 a.m.Dagmar Miller knows the truism of the season: If this is Thanksgiving, it is time to decorate for Christmas.
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Carolyn Learned: A Chance Worth Taking
Published Nov. 18, 2020 08:30 a.m.Carolyn Learned would like you to take a chance—not just any chance, but a chance on Chester. And this chance and not really so chancy; it’s designed to be a winner all the way around.
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Clara Miller: Home Sweet Home
Published Nov. 11, 2020 08:30 a.m.Let’s start this story with a quiz about the Wizard of Oz: What does Dorothy say when she wakes up in her bed in Kansas after her adventures in the land of Oz? Remember? It’s “There’s no place like home!”
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Linalynn Schmelzer: Shall We Dance?
Published Nov. 04, 2020 08:30 a.m.You can dance in a ballroom, on a stage, or even at a high school prom, but that’s not where Linalynn Schmelzer was dancing.
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Tula McDougal: The Sweet Life
Published Oct. 28, 2020 08:30 a.m.Here’s an easy question: What’s the most popular ice cream flavor? Yes, it’s vanilla, says Tula McDougal, who with her daughter Christiana Barabe has recently opened Honeycone, an ice cream shop on Chester’s Main Street.
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Colin Bennett: It’s All About Community
Published Oct. 21, 2020 08:30 a.m.When he needed a used refrigerator, Colin Bennett did what any media savvy Gen-Xer would do: He put the word out of Facebook.
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Christine Carpino: Never Too Young for a Good Book?
Published Oct. 14, 2020 08:30 a.m.A good book lingers in the memory. Christina Carpino, the new children and teen librarian at the Essex Library, knows that
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Nicole Fauteux: No More Back to School
Published Oct. 07, 2020 08:30 a.m.It’s coming to an end, but Nicole Fauteux has spent the fall doing something she never anticipated, going back to school. At 27 and a graduate of the University of New Haven, Nicky thought she was all done, but not only did Nicky go back to school, she went back as far as elementary school.
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Marybeth Ellison: Advocating for Children
Published Sep. 30, 2020 08:30 a.m.Marybeth Ellison is worried. Yes, yes, everybody is worried these days, but her worry has a particular focus: children with special needs. Marybeth is a pediatrician in Essex specializing in children with developmental challenges.
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Jennifer Carlson: Days at the Museum
Published Sep. 23, 2020 08:30 a.m.Jennifer Carlson is about to do something for the second time this year that most people shudder to think about doing once. She and her husband Ben are packing up again for another move in less than 12 months.
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Kevin Joyce: Paddle Tennis Anyone?
Published Sep. 16, 2020 08:30 a.m.Do what your physician recommends: exercise. But how to do it in the era of COVID-19, especially with warm weather dissolving into fall and winter? Kevin Joyce has a suggestion. Play paddle tennis.
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Charlene Voyce: Lighting the Night
Published Sep. 09, 2020 08:30 a.m.Once it was so simple nobody thought about it. Now it is one of the questions COVID-19 makes us grapple with every day: how to connect with people?
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Loriann Mancuso: On the Run
Published Sep. 02, 2020 08:30 a.m.Loriann Mancuso is running the Boston Marathon—in Essex and Old Saybrook.
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Chris Groat: Going to the Dogs
Published Aug. 26, 2020 08:30 a.m.President Franklin Roosevelt served them to the King and Queen of England on their only visit to the United States in 1939.
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Matt Resnisky: The Brew that is True
Published Aug. 19, 2020 08:30 a.m.What would you use a stove-top popcorn popper for? Think beyond the obvious here.
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Amy Zupan: A Watery Tale
Published Aug. 12, 2020 08:30 a.m.Amy Zupan was surprised. She thought, given the particular challenges of this summer, that activity at the Safe Harbor Marina at Essex Island would be slower than usual. Amy is the manager at Essex Island.
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Alex Welch: Food, Glorious Food
Published Aug. 05, 2020 08:30 a.m.Now, here is some real news: Kids are not only eating Brussels sprouts, they are even asking for seconds—at least at Camp Hazen YMCA in Chester.