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Priest Linked To Abuse Cases Ordered To Return To State
A priest who has been accused of sexually abusing boys he lured through his work as a state police chaplain and who has repeatedly dodged court orders to answer charges that he assaulted a teenager now faces a final deadline set by a frustrated Superior...Tags: Prosecution, Lawyers, Justice System, Trials, Connecticut
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The Rewards Of Promoting Literacy
Courant Web HostAfter her retirement from the world of financial services, Middletown resident Vivian Flowers took to cleaning her house and catching up on painting and other household projects. But such pastimes eventually lost their allure. So when Flowers saw an...Tags: Middletown, Killingworth, East Hampton, East Haddam, Durham (Middlesex, Connecticut)
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'The Highway' Now Part Of the Air Line Trail
The main trail that runs through the Middlesex Land Trust's Sellew Preserve is known as "The Highway." Although not the four-lane variety, the old road was once used by hobos looking for a free ride on the Air Line Railroad that took trains through East...Tags: New York, Transportation, Connecticut, East Hampton (Middlesex, Connecticut), East Hampton
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A Picture Of All The Rumors
I confess. I was amused at this month's magazine cover of The New Yorker. Please forgive me. But there is humor in this absurd and asinine depiction of the couple who could become America's first black president and first lady. When the next generation...Tags: Justice and Rights, Newspaper and Magazine, Connecticut, Windsor (Hartford, Connecticut), Terrorism
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New York, Connecticut push feds to reverse Broadwater OK
tom.incantalupo@newsday.comFederal energy regulators are being formally urged by state and local officials and environmentalists in New York and Connecticut to reverse a decision approving the Broadwater liquid natural gas facility. New York State officials on April 10 denied...Tags: Wading River, New York, TransCanada Corporation, Natural Resources, Environmental Pollution
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After all these years, potter Otto Heino is still going strong. Just peek in his home and studio.
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe first in a yearlong series profiling California's living legends of midcentury design. AT 94, Otto Heino has no time for false modesty. "I am," he says, "the oldest, richest potter in the world." With an output of 10,000 pieces a year, Heino...Tags: Pomona, Los Angeles, Values, Ethics, Pasadena (Los Angeles, California)
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One Great Ride
One of the nicest places to ride in Connecticut is the Air Line State Park trails, which run from East Hampton all the way to the Massachusetts border, about 50 miles in all. The trail is divided into two sections; the first runs between East Hampton and...Tags: Windham (Windham, Connecticut), Lakeview, Tourism and Leisure, Massachusetts, Connecticut
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WEST CORNWALL: Covered bridges connect with the past
THE ASSOCIATED PRESSThe first thing visitors to the small hamlet of West Cornwall notice is its red covered bridge. The timber structure commands attention, set against a backdrop of woods and the Housatonic River. The bridge is one of three remaining covered bridges in...Tags: Building Material, Colchester, David Wright, Heavy Engineering, Housatonic River
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Is Copying a Crime? Well…
Times Staff WriterA few years ago, when a friend offered 15-year-old Evan Collins a compact disc of illegally downloaded music, Collins turned him down flat. "Me and my parents used to download music for free," said Collins, who lives in Bloomington, Minn. "But we decided...Tags: New York University, Los Angeles, Justice System, Teen-agers, Ethics
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A Preacher Who Moved Crowds
Staff WriterThere was a little joke going around Manhattan some time around the middle of the 19th Century that went something like this: Question: How do you find Henry Ward Beecher's Plymouth Church? Answer: Take the ferry to Brooklyn and follow the crowd. He was...Tags: History, Family, Henry Ward Beecher, Prosecution, Indiana
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A Man Named Lion
Staff Writer'In the year 1635, I, Lion Gardiner, Engineer and Master of works of Fortification . . .'' So begins the account written by an Englishman named Lion Gardiner of his extraordinary life. His story opens in the Netherlands, where he served in the English...Tags: History, Family, Connecticut River, John Mason, Connecticut
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Preaching to the Indians
Staff WriterFrom their first encounter with the Indians of Long Island, Europeans sought to convert them to Christianity. Although there does not appear to have been a well-organized crusade to convert the Indians of Long Island, there are accounts of individual...Tags: History, Long Island, Wisconsin, Michael Smith, Suffolk County (New York)
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