One blogger believes that Blue Back Square is already tying up traffic, at least at the Whole Foods parking lot.
Of course, there probably wouldn’t be a Whole Foods there if it werent’ for Blue Back, but that’s another story.
The blogger’s right about all the SUVs, though. You’d think driving around town that they were giving SUVs [...]
While I commend everyone involved for trying to fix an increasing mess where we get off and on to I-84, the new solution isn’t much better.
The biggest trouble at the moment, which I’ve already seen a half dozen times, is that traffic going north on Park gets tied up at the light for Trout Brook, [...]
This is exactly the kind of news story that makes it nearly impossible for residents of West Hartford to make informed decisions. We’re told next to nothing about what’s in the budget and given only hints about what critics have to say. There are no details, no real explanation, no nothing for any of us to [...]
One young blogger today details his experience with a recent police encounter that is quite typical of what I hear from many people in town. The police surely do look on the younger generation as likely criminals all too often, and hassle many of them over trivial matters. This is but one small example from somebody [...]
It hit me the other day as I watched two men in a station wagon cruising slowly down the street, inspecting the assorted trash outside everybody’s house, that when the town switches over to the new barrel system this fall, one of the town’s long-standing traditions will die.
If the only stuff that trash collectors will [...]
A 28-year-old West Hartford man, Justin Wakefield, was arrested in Windsor Locks this week after he pulled a knife during a basketball game dispute and started carving up another fellow, according to a story in the fabulous Journal Inquirer. The injured man got sliced on his face, hands and arms, the paper reported, but is expected to recover.
Wakefield was [...]
Scrawled across the cover of the April 2 issue of Newsweek are a soldier’s words, in his own writing: “Any day I’m here could be the day I die.”
What follows inside is an extraordinary, deeply sad and wonderful look into the lives of our fallen troop — in their own words. It’s full of excerpts from [...]
After mulling it over for a couple of weeks, the Board of Education recently decided to hold school on Veterans Day next year. It took a 4-3 vote to make the call.
Now I don’t fault the school board members who voted to hold classes. They said there would be a concerted effort to use the time [...]
I can’t see any real downside to holding Connecticut’s presidential primary on Feb. 5 instead of waiting more than a month, when the decisions are likely already made.
But I do wonder about the overall wisdom of having the system so frontloaded that candidates are selected almost immediately, with voters having little chance to see if [...]
Letter from the Town Manager (March 23, 2007)While the first year of construction was spent mostly underground as utilities were installed and foundations were being poured, the second year you will see steel coming out of the ground as the key elements of Blue Back Square are taking shape.
The South Garage, renamed Memorial because of [...]
