Ilya Kovalchuk had a goal and two assists in his first game back from a foot injury and Rich Peverley scored once and set up two goals in the Atlanta Thrashers' 5-3 victory over the New York Rangers on Thursday night ...
Ray Emery made 22 saves in his first start against his former team and Danny Briere scored two goals to help the Flyers beat the Senators 5-1 for their fifth straight victory ...
Per the Connecticut Post:All I want is exactly what Sonia Finch, the first lady of Bridgeport, has — a law enforcement chauffeur to shuttle me where I want to go and be at my beck and call. Election night taxpayers footed the bill for the Park City’s first lady to join her husband Mayor Bill [ ... ] ...
2006 Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate Ned Lamont will take the first step toward running for Governor according to the New Haven Independent.Lamont planned to start informing past supporters of his move Wednesday morning, a day after the polls closed on the 2009 municipal elections and attention officially turns to the already crowded 2010 campaigns [ ... ] ...
Crack out the lawn signs and start the meet and greets ... here come November's municipal elections ... The slate of candidates for Town Council and Board of Education have been determined after conventions were held by the GOP and the Democrats in town ... There are some new faces as well as some old ones, and plenty of diversity in backgrounds to represent people across the board in town. But honestly, it's the issues that matter most and how they each plan to tackle them ... The biggest
The Senate Republican caucus is strongly advocating the creation of a six member ethics panel to investigate misconduct by two Democratic Senators – Sen. Joe Crisco and Sen. Tom Gaffey.Sen. Gaffey has had a career pockmarked by scandal, first getting caught in reimbursement funny business with his employer CRRA, then having an affair with CSUS [ ... ] ...
Steve Yzerman, Brett Hull, Brian Leetch and Luc Robitaille were announced as part of the 2009 class on Tuesday, all receiving the honor in their first year of eligibility ...
The New Haven Independent family is expanding to the lower Naugatuck Valley with the opening today of the Valley Independent Sentinel.One of their first stories is this one about saving the courthouse in Derby ...
West Hartford's great municipal nightmare is over! - we have a new "Poet Laureate" ... You can be relieved that we will not have to lift another latte in town without some poetic words to utter ... According to definition - "A Poet Laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for State occasions and other government events." ... In the case of West Hartford, our Town's Poet Laureate is expected to sponsor readings each year and to promote poetry
In the 1970s, around the time of the first Earth Day celebrations, artists such as Robert Smithson set out into the great American West with bulldozers, eager to redefine mankind's relationship with the natural world. They made massive marks on the landscape—digging giant holes, piling up mounds of soil, even dumping asphalt down hillsides in the desert—an art form akin to the great earthworks of ancient civilizations. Smithson, who died in a helicopter crash at the height of his career,