LADY ROSE, TROLLING THE MEAN STREETS, ALLEYS, ROADS, AVENUES, PATHS, BOULEVARDS, LANES, DRIVES AND THOROUGHFARES OF GREATER HARTFORDSHIRE
views and news from a connecticut grrrl (who voted AGAINST blue back TWICE). grating on nutmeg and everyone's nerves
this is some VERY good news on the EQUALITY front. no, not each and every woman dreams of being a cheerleader. some want to PLAY ACTUAL SPORTS. yeah, just like men do AND CAN
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Quinnipiac University has discriminated against female student-athletes by denying them the same opportunities to participate in sports programs as men and ordered the school, within 60 days, to develop a plan to correct the situation.
U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill said Quinnipiac violated a 1973 federal equal opportunity law, known commonly as Title IX, that prohibits gender discrimination in educational programs. The law has frequently been used to balance unequal spending on high school and college sports programs............
.....The school said at the time that it would maintain opportunities for female athletes and keep the school compliant with Title IX by establishing competitive cheerleading as a new varsity sport......
i cannot tell you why a jury awarded 2.9 million to a person who hurt themselves in the res (i am sorry for her injuries. truly i am. i cannot say i know all of the facts of the case so i'm not going to say anything other than i think that jury or judge or whatever/whoever made the decision MADE ONE HELL OF A SERIOUS MISTAKE)
at any rate, i can certainly recognize a GIANT YELLOW METAL GATE. please do not close my reservoirs. i grew up there. i spent a great deal of time there. i saw loons there. i drove over the power trail in a jeep (and was sick for a week because of it).
Paul Kramer will turn 68 on Thursday, a birthday that might never have been without the Metropolitan District's Reservoir 6.
For the past 14 years, Kramer has left his Avon home in the early morning and power-walked its pristine trails, logging 20,000 miles and meeting new friends along the way. Some have diabetes, or cancer, or simply high cholesterol. Kramer, a retired college professor who survived a 1996 artery blockage, strengthens his heart.
"I'm still alive," Kramer said Tuesday evening in West Hartford Town Hall, teary-eyed after asking members of the Metropolitan District Commission not to close its vast land to the public. "I get emotional because of what I do at the reservoir. The thought of losing that is not an easy one for me to handle.".......
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It was a standing room only hearing. Those waiting outside could enter the West Hartford Town Hall Auditorium only when someone inside left. Police were stationed at the doors. Four MDC commissioners listened as speaker after speaker spoke in oppisition to closeing the MDC property to recreational users as the MDC proposed. (MICHAEL McANDREWS, Hartford Courant / July 21, 2010)
Media Advisory - Wadsworth to Sponsor FREE Concert in Bushnell Park
The Wadsworth Atheneum and the Hartford Party Starters Union put on a free concert in
Bushnell Park in celebration of Hartford’s 375th anniversary.
WHAT: In honor of Hartford’s 375th anniversary, the Wadsworth Atheneum and the
Hartford Party Starters Union team up to present a free concert, Still Wavy 375. An
eclectic blend of new young artists from around the country unite to create an evening
of musical bliss, including Grammy nominee, Janelle Monae, as well as Holy Ghost!,
Tobacco, Maluca, Cubic Zirconia, and Rizzla. A fusion of musical genres including pop,
disco, house, funk, and salsa (just to name a few) will resonate through the crowd as
these performers light up the stage.
WHEN: Friday, July 23rd, 2010, 5-10pm
WHERE: Bushnell Park, Hartford, CT
For more information on the event and its artists, please visit http://stillwavy375.com/.
Contact:
Kimberly Reynolds
Director of Communications
Interim Director of Institutional Advancement
860-838-4055
Kimberly.reynolds@wadsworthatheneum.org
not to worry, they found her pups (and they're fine) and they found her owners (and they're NOT suspects). let's hope the police find the thugs who did this. let's hope they get prosecuted to the full extent of the law
On Saturday morning, a pit bull named Ginger was found, badly burned, wandering in the Devon section of Milford. Police were concerned because she had recently delivered a litter, but the puppies were nowhere to be found.
In the last few days, Ginger shows signs she is recovering well and she captured hearts all over Connecticut. Now, police search for clues to determine what happened to her..................
To donate you can send a check to:
United Way of Milford
PO Box 221
Milford, CT 06460
Milford police are still looking for who or what injured Ginger between Friday and when she was found at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday. If you have information, you are asked to call the police department.
CHILD PORN cases listed in the courant this morning. THREE
(one of the computers used in one of these stories was a work computer. can someone be so stupid OR was someone set up? both of those scenarios are quite possible)
just a note, it's been anywhere from the 90s to 102 degrees out this week. WHO THE EFF WANTS TO SIT OUTSIDE IN THIS HUMID MISERABLE WEATHER? why the see and be seen peeps who come to the center in DROVES (in their designer SUVs, in their designer clothes with their designer dogs and/or designer kids).
and by the way, all i'm going to say is YEARS ago i went to the elbow room (not MY choice. it was a friend's birthday). it was about 3 or 4 pm. not too busy. i was treated rudely (VERY). i canceled my food order, ordered a drink. quickly drank it down. wished my friend a happy birthday AND FLED THE SCENE NEVER TO RETURN. nor will i EVER return. i'm just sayin........
With its "under-the-stars" roof garden and the tables along its Farmington Avenue sidewalk, The Elbow Room is a perennial winner of "Best Outdoor Dining" awards from state and regional magazines. Plaques announcing these reader awards line the entranceway for customers to see.
Across the street, Grant's has a 40-seat sidewalk dining area, an alluring spot for late-night diners. It's used from early April through October and even later when possible.
So the notice mailed to numerous downtown restaurants last month by West Hartford police was eye-opening. It was a reminder that the town has a 10 p.m. curfew on outdoor dining and that it should be followed...............
pic: From left, Server Catalina Restrepo tends to tables at Grant's while Mari Rodriguez of Hartford and Alex Hernandez of South Windsor have dinner outside on the patio at the restaurant in West Hartford Center Wednesday night. (Bettina Hansen, Hartford Courant / July 6, 2010)
no, no, no, it's GOOD news (well nothing about domestic violence is good, but you get what i'm trying to say here) from the curvature
http://thecurvature.com/2010/07/01/connecticut-increases-funding-for-domestic-violence-prevention-and-response/">Connecticut Increases Funding for Domestic Violence Prevention and Response
by Cara
I love having good news instead of bad news to pass along, and it’s not incredibly often that I get it. Connecticut has recently passed a large package of anti-domestic violence laws. One of the portions of the package going into effect today is an increase in funding for domestic violence shelters — specifically, almost $3 million in funding from the state and federal government combined for domestic violence shelters that will allow them to stay open 24/7, rather than being closed at night.
Reportedly, Connecticut is among only five states — the others being Wyoming, Nevada, New Hampshire, and Maine — that do not currently provide 24/7 coverage through domestic violence shelters. Without that coverage, intimate partner violence victims, usually women and children, are left without a safety net during certain hours. The fact is, when a victim decides that it’s time to leave, that’s when it’s time to leave. If she makes an immediate decision at night to leave right that moment, she can’t be expected to go back home when she gets to the shelter and finds it closed..................
if he's found guilty, i want them to throw the book at him. if he's found guilty i want anyone he's in a relationship with OR will be in a relationship with, to realize domestic abuse is quite entirely possible (probable. again, that is IF he is guilty of this horrid crime)
A former resident was charged with four counts of cruelty to animals after he allegedly hit his dog in the head with a mallet and shot it with a pellet gun, police said.
Police received the initial complaint May 29. The complainant said Jeffrey Dunlap, 46, who lived at 21 Oak Ave. at the time, had hit Dakota, a 2-year-old Mastiff-Boxer mix, in the head with a wooden mallet several times, police said in a release...............
TORRINGTON — A Litchfield man charged with hitting his dog with a wooden mallet, choking it into unconsciousness and shooting it with a pellet gun told The Register Citizen yesterday that the charges are “completely wrong,” and said the whole incident stems from a domestic dispute.
“The dog was never hurt, nor was he dropped off because of ‘not’ wanting him,” Jeffrey A. Dunlap, 46, of Litchfield, said in an email to the newspaper.
The case, along with a similar incident in West Haven this week, has sparked outrage among readers.
Dunlap turned himself into Torrington Police June 30 on an active warrant and was arrested on four counts of cruelty to animals................
although we ALL know he's NOT gonna do it all. yeah, this dude sounds like a REAL 'good' person.
i am telling you if a son of mine or a relative of mine or someone i know raped a child, I WOULD NOT IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM refer to them as 'good'.
i would also NOT say they effing made a TEENY TINY lil' mistake by raping a young child. THAT is not a mistake. it's a sickness that cannot be cured or even curbed. again, at least the judge gave him 30 (unlike the 7 1/2 the dude in the previous posting got)
Family members described Angel Casanova as a good person in Superior Court on Wednesday, moments before he was sentenced to 30 years in prison for sexually assaulting a young girl for seven years.
Casanova, 39, of East Hartford, satisfied his sexual needs through a young child, Judge Julia Dewey said during the sentencing.
"You chose to violate […] a young girl. She was a baby," she said..........
she was SO damn sexy in her white socks. on top of what it seems to me, BLAMING rape on an 11 year old, he gets 7 1/2 years? 7 1/2 years? WTF? then the article goes on to say 7 1/2 years of 'special probation'. SPECIAL PROBATION? does that mean he doesn't actually serve time? W T F????????????//
Before Luis Malguichahua was sentenced Wednesday to 7 1/2 years for sexually assaulting a young girl, his attorney read a letter in which Malguichahua said he was weak and had succumbed to temptation.
Malguichahua, 27, then spoke during the court proceeding at Superior Court in Hartford. He apologized to the victim, her mother and anyone else who might have been offended by his crime.
"Unfortunately, sometimes it's just not enough to say I'm sorry. Nor is it enough to say you feel remorse or that you succumbed to temptation," said Judge David P. Gold.............
man, i'm sorry about the storm damage. we had almost NOTHING here. i was driving home from work at about 2:30 and it rained a TINY bit (10 minutes maybe) not even that hard. the sky cleared up right away too (it DID get cloudy again later though. i don't know if it rained more again after that. i was in my cave)
Connecticut's biggest city was under a state of emergency on Thursday after reports of building collapses and structural damage had parts of town blocked off.
In all, 23 people were injured and nine buildings were heavily damaged.
The whine of the chainsaw was the soundtrack of a summer night in Bridgeport.
A fast-moving storm turned it into a battered city of trees -- toppled onto homes and blown over in city parks. There were lots of broken windows on buildings and on cars..........
pic: Transformers, trees and parts of buildings were knocked over during a fast-moving and violent storm in Bridgeport, Conn., on June 24, 2010.
ADAM home! a while ago i posted a story about a connecticut soldier deployed in afghanistan. he found a puppy and wanted to bring it home. it took a LOT of red tape and a great deal of money (it would have been cheaper to fly A COUPLE of HUMANS home) to get mo home. he's HERE thanks to the generosity of people. now we just have to get his human companion adam home.
Mo is adjusting to the good life in Clinton after being rescued from Afghanistan. The 6-month-old mutt traveled over 48 hours and across nine time zones to his new Connecticut home with Brian Wakefield. Brian's brother Adam took the stray in, but the Army ordered him to get rid of the dog.
So Adam and his family started Operation "SendMoHome;" a website that raised the $3,500 needed to quarantine and vaccinate Mo, and then fly him to Connecticut. Donations flooded in and the money was raised in less than 24 hours. Brian picked up Mo Tuesday at JFK International Airport...............
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( Mike Piskorski / June 23, 2010 )
Brian Wakefield shares a quiet moment with his brother's dog Mo. Mo is a stray dog from Afghanistan that was adopted by Brian's brother Adam, who is stationed in the war torn country. It took $3500 and 48 hours for Mo to make it to the United States.
at an event for fidelco. i didn't know her but what i knew ABOUT her said it all. selfless, giving, compassionate. rip
Roberta Kaman, Fidelco Co-Founder, Dies By RINKER BUCK
Roberta C. Kaman of Bloomfield, a well-known breeder and trainer of guide dogs for the blind, died early Sunday at Hartford Hospital after a long illness. She was 74.
Kaman was the president and co-founder of the Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation of Bloomfield, which has placed more than 1,300 guide dogs with blind and visually disabled people throughout North America. Fidelco was considered important within the guide dog world for breeding a line of German shepherds for leading and assisting the blind, and the group also developed "in-community placement" of its dogs, training guide dogs and owners in their home area..................
here it is. i'm NOT a fan of cheerleaders. not then, not now, not in the future. i don't need anyone shakin' their stuff in my face in order to support an athletic team. i either support the team or not. take your t and your a (i know there are male cheerleaders too, but more likely than not, they are usually made up of 'HOT CHUNKS CHICKS')
this is an ap article so you'll have to click to read ANY of it https://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/20/AR2010062001020.html?hpid=moreheadlines">Trial in Conn. to find if cheerleading is sport
Hamden (WTNH) - Players and the coach of Quinnipiac University's women's volleyball team filed a lawsuit against the school today, saying they have failed to provide female students with equal opportunity to participate in varsity intercollegiate athletics. The lawsuit came after QU's recent decision to eliminate women's varsity volleyball. The ACLU-CT, who is representing the players and coach, said cutting the program is in violation of Title IX. "We understand these are tough economic times, but Quinnipiac shouldn't be unfairly balancing their budget on the backs of women who are already being discriminated against," said Andrew Schneider, Executive Director of the ACLU-CT.................
i didn't know him personally, but i did see him and say hello from time to time. every once in a while he'd come into the half door too. i know you know he was tall. i can't even explain HOW tall he was.nice too! i'm not nice when people stare at me. HE was nice. you couldn't help but stare. i almost always saw him with a smile on his face as well. i'd love to actually watch others around him as he walked through town. people with jaws agape. manute did a LOT of walking when he was in town. he really was never the same after the accident.
i remember thinking to myself, WTF, when i heard he was scheduled to 'fight' some ass (it was someone horrible like joey buttafuco) on a celebrety boxing show on tv years ago. THEN, i found out he was doing it to raise money to build either a school or hospital in his homeland of sudan.
Manute Bol, known to state residents as a basketball player whose 7-foot-7 frame made him one of a kind and also for the passion he held for his native land, died on Saturday in Charlottesville, Va.
He was 47.
Bol, a native of Sudan who lived in West Hartford in 2002-07, sought to better the lives of the people in his home country.
That mission was cut short when he died at the University of Virginia Hospital. Tom Prichard, executive director of the Kansas-based Sudan Sunrise humanitarian group for which Bol worked, told The Associated Press that Bol was being treated for severe kidney trouble and a painful skin condition.............
pic: sportige.com
pic of manute and billy grant:
Manute Bol stands with Billy Grant,
owner and chef of Grant's Restaurant,
and his son http://www.sudansunrise.org/getinvolved.htm
Manute Bol, who became a basketball sensation in the 1980s as a skeletally thin shot-blocking giant with the Washington Bullets and other professional teams, and who devoted his post-basketball life to improving the lot of his fellow natives of Sudan, died June 19 at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville. He was 47.
His cousin George Bol said Mr. Bol had internal bleeding and other complications from Stevens-Johnson syndrome, a rare skin disease that he contracted from a medication he received in Africa.
Mr. Bol, one of the two tallest players in NBA history, was also one of its most exotic and endearing -- and surely the only one to have killed a lion with a spear. His unusual journey to basketball stardom began in southern Sudan, where he was a cattle-herding member of the Dinka tribe and never touched a basketball until his late teens. After catching the eye of an American coach working in Sudan, Mr. Bol made his way to the United States without knowing a word of English.............
and honor our fallen heroes. if you're in the area, before or after you go to one of those 'trendy' west hartford joints, DO stop by the wall. please. honor those who gave for YOUR safety
The wind Thursday morning whipped at the line of small American flags that had just been staked on the town hall lawn. The sky was cloudy and rain seemed imminent.
Nearby, in the town parking lot on South Main Street, was a flatbed truck that had arrived in town earlier with a police and motorcycle escort. It carried the 74 black panels of the Moving Wall, a half-size replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.
Inscribed on the Wall's panels are the names of more than 58,000 American service members killed or missing in action in the Vietnam War..............
pic: Members of the Leatherneck Riders, a motorcycle group of U.S. Marine Corps veterans including ,1st Sgt Dennis Bailey, Aaron Gray, Walt Kedzior and Billy Betzner, help erect The Moving Wall, the traveling half-size replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the lawn in front of West Hartford Town Hall. There will be a candlelight vigil at the wall at 8:45 p.m. Saturday. The wall moves on to upstate New York on Monday. (Cloe Poisson, Hartford Courant / June 16, 2010)
A member of the Thompsonville Fire Commission and her husband were arrested Tuesday morning as part of a massive takedown of alleged American Outlaw Association motorcycle gang members.
Clifford and Kelly Hemmeler, of 10 Hartford Ave., were arrested on several firearm, drug and child endangerment charges, said Police Chief Carl Sferrazza. Kelly Hemmeler, a fire commissioner since last year, is also a founding member of Voices for Thompsonville and a district captain for the town Republican party...............
pic: Kelly Hemmeler, left, and her husband Clifford were arrested Tuesday morning as part of a massive takedown of alleged American Outlaw Association motorcycle gang members. They were arrested on several firearm, drug and child endangerment charges, said Police Chief Carl Sferrazza. Kelly Hemmeler, a fire commissioner since last year, is also a founding member of Voices for Thompsonville and a district captain for the town Republican party. (Enfield Police Department / June 16, 2010)
insurance will pay only a portion of the over $100,000 a prosthetic arm will cost.
pic: from the website linked above
and this was also on the site: Donations that surpass Jon’s needs, if any, will be given to a nonprofit organization providing prosthetic care for those in need.
are you going to vote NEXT year to increase taxes again? what about the year after and the year after that. isn't ANYONE but me remembering how we were told black and blue square (if approved and built) would LOWER our taxes? why didn't it? why are they HIGHER NOW? why are our services being cut?
why?
why does the town have enough money to build those STUPID EFFING AND DANGEROUS islands (on asylum and even steele road) and have to raise our taxes? i know why, perhaps one of the tens of people involved in accidents caused by those UNSAFE ISLANDS is suing the town. i know i sure as shite would be.
The town's $216.7 million budget was approved Tuesday in a referendum in which over 20 percent of voters participated.
"I'm glad that the town appreciated the effort," Mayor Scott Slifka said of the bipartisan effort of the town council when it assembled the budget this spring.
The unofficial tally was 4,534-3,122, and turnout was 20.58 percent. Voters in 15 of the town's 20 polling districts approved the budget; it was rejected in five districts.............
The doctors who spent more than two hours operating Friday on Jonathan Metz used words such as "amazing," "inner strength" and "courage" in describing their patient.
Metz, who cut off most of his arm after it became wedged in his furnace, is an "amazing individual," said Dr. William Marshall of St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford. "He's got an incredible personality as well as a will to live."
The 31-year-old West Hartford resident is doing well after the surgeons closed the wound at the amputation site, Marshall and Dr. Scott Ellner said in a telephone interview. From about 7:15 to 9:30 a.m., the doctors closed the wound with muscle and other tissue, they said...............
of courage and i'm sure fear and goddess only knows what else. i cannot even imagine doing what mr metz HAD to do.
jonathan, i wish you all the best. i cannot believe what you had to go through. you are through it now. there will have to be some adjustments made, but i'm certain you (and portia) will get by JUST fine. (and a shout out to your friend luca too)
Jonathan Metz was on the wet floor of his basement for two days, his left arm wedged under a furnace.
He was in and out of consciousness, but Metz, 31, knew what he had to do.
He had to cut his arm off. Metz's arm was decaying from a lack of blood flow, going into a "gangrenous state," Dr. Scott Ellner, a trauma doctor at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, said Thursday. The infection couldn't be allowed to spread.
"It was the right thing to do," Ellner said. "This man saved his own life.".....
helpful hint: when you're on a court recess (being in court to answer larceny charges at that!) 1) DO NOT GO OUTSIDE AND BREAK INTO CARS AND STEAL STUFF THEN CARRY IT BACK INTO THE COURTROOM 2) DO NOT GO TO YOUR LOCAL PACKY, BUY SOME VODKA AND DRINK IT THEN GO BACK INTO THE COURTROOM WREAKING OF BOOZE
A Hebron man who was at Rockville Superior Court Wednesday to answer a larceny charge for stealing a GPS unit then trying to sell it back to its owner decided to use a court recess to buy a bottle of Vodka, drink the entire bottle in front of the courthouse, then break into cars parked in front of the courthouse, police said.
Among the items that police said Thomas Peno, 51, of Wellswood Road, took from unlocked cars were a cell phone and keys.
When Peno returned to court, judicial marshals took him into custody for being drunk and disorderly, police said. They then realized he matched the description of the man who was seen breaking into cars................
blackwater in salem CONNECTICUT? yeah, just what we need. more guns. oh yeah and that prince gatsu piedi of a man, erik prince is selling blackwater xe (a pile o' shite by any other name..............). c'mon salem, do you really want ANYTHING to do with blackwater (and what they've done and what they will do????)
By Tanya Somanader Since its contractors infamously shot and killed 17 Iraqi civilians, Blackwater has rebranded itself, trying to insist that it’s a reformed company. It even changed its name to “Xe” last year. But at this year’s NRA convention, ThinkProgress discovered that the corporation was still marketing the Blackwater brand on merchandise like baseball hats, shot glasses, beach towels, and guns, which could be bought online. Now, the site Soldier Systems reports that Blackwater enthusiasts will be able to buy their goods in persons, at two new stores opening in Fayetteville, NC and Salem, CT:..........
Blackwater: The Retail Store By Max Fisher Blackwater, the private military firm that perhaps ranks among the world's most scandal-ridden companies, has decided to go into the retail business. After such scandals as bribing Iraqi officials, stealing U.S. weapons, and killing innocent civilians, the company has taken the opportunity to expand from its core business of killing people into the new field of selling people things. The Blackwater Pro Shops, which will sell the same quality good available at its online store, are planned for Fayetteville, North Carolina, and Salem, Connecticut. It goes without saying that both stores will contain a firing range........
it's right near where i work as well. the space is huge (of the former INDOOR racing track) and it's just going to waste. i sure do hope this movie comes to fruition
The director of the 1988 film "Bull Durham" said Friday that he wants to shoot a boxing film in Connecticut using a former indoor motorbike racing venue on Day Hill Road as the primary sound stage.
Ron Shelton, who directed Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon in "Bull Durham," said he hopes to begin shooting "Pound for Pound," a film set in Detroit, by the fall.
"I can find Detroit in Hartford, I can find Detroit in Bridgeport," Shelton said in an interview at 1001 Day Hill Road, the shopping plaza where Mototown USA operated.
The film would be made for $15 million or less, said Shelton, who did not name any cast members.
If Shelton reaches final terms with Leslie Greif, a veteran Hollywood producer, and his partners, it could prove to be a coup for Tommy DeFranzo, the builder and entrepreneur who owns the former Mototown site. DeFranzo is one of Greif's partners.............
without hesitation. without guilt. without a second throught. NO.
abusers will always abuse. there is no screening as this article goes on to describe. there is no cure. i don't care about being pc. there is NO cure for an abuser other than locking them up and throwing away the key. it's something within their ugly disease infested souls. it's the need for power and control (not unlike someone who 'sexually' assaults).
Instead of facing charges that he abused his wife, the West Haven man got a deal: If he completed a 9-week course on family violence, the charges would be erased from his record. No prosecution, no jail time.
But that's not what happened.
Nearly a month before his first class was to start, Ozdemir abusedhis wife again. When he got out of custody, he returned home and shot her four times before killing himself.
The case has led to calls for changes in the way the state deals with domestic violence offenders, including adding more slots to the family violence education program so offenders do not go months without counseling or supervision, as Ozdemir did.
But State Victim Advocate Michelle Cruz has raised a different concern: Why was Ozdemir given a second chance at all?
The family violence education program Ozdemir was to take is intended for people deemed at low or moderate risk of reoffending.
Yet Ozdemir did. So, allegedly, did Jose Lacouture, a West Hartford man who was admitted to the program after a domestic violence arrest in 2008. Last summer, he was charged with killing his wife............
where a man was arrested 3 times in 48 hours. i don't want to link to the articles, i don't want to print names. i think there are kids involved.
i just want to thank the west hartford police and i want to thank the powers that be, that made the bail so high the third time (i know it DID get reduced to 185,000 to make it MUCH EASIER for the alleged perp to get out - hey thanks to his pop and his sis and his attorney. but the police still did an outstanding job here. i fault the courts with the lowered bail. )
THREE TIMES he was caught bothering his wife (i'm being nice by using the word bother).
one would hope ANY father or ANY sister would not want to see someone be abused or threatened or hurt or have any sort of violence committed against them.................
but all of my friends go all the time. they run, they hike, they bike. it's lovely and peaceful (well not so much any more, it's rather crowded and that's why i stopped going. when i was in high school, that was THE place to go. plus it was always almost deserted).
i don't know anything about the lawsuit. i don't know where the barrier was (but hell, i KNOW there are barriers and gates all over that reservoir) and i don't know what injuries were sustained. i cannot speak to that (although i CAN say when one 'mountain' bikes one expects a bit more than smooth sailing
i just don't ever want them to close the west hartford reservoir to the public. it IS a jewel
Cyclists both young and old use the 80 miles of trails along the West Hartford Reservoir to ride through nature.
"This is a wonderful place that offers a lot of variety of trails for different skill levels, different people and it's a very nice setting, it's peaceful, and it just has a lot to offer," said Ron Bonofiglio of Tolland.
The trails could soon be off limits. The Metropolitan District (MDC) was ordered to shell out $2.9 million to Maribeth Blonski, because she slammed into a barrier while riding. Now, the company is worried about other liability lawsuits.
"I feel somewhat upset that someone would have to find a reason to bring a lawsuit against it, because I think the organization has done a fine job sharing the facilities with everybody and making sure it's a safe area," said Rick Picard of West Hartford............
again, i'm not going to get too excited because i know what happened between lamont and da LIEbs
but i sure am OVERJOYED to see blumenthal trouncing that steamin' pile o' (VERY RICH) shite known as linder 'lets show stripper-type women getting beaten up on tv because that's a good way to educate young people' mcmahon
..............Earlier, Quinnipiac University gave Blumenthal good news: Its latest poll found that a majority of residents believed he misspoke, not lied, when referring to service in Vietnam. He leads Republican Linda McMahon by 19 percentage points among military households and 25 points overall..............
TRATFORD — A 41-year old man in a diaper was arrested Tuesday after he asked a grandmother to wipe him, police said.
Thomas Wellington of Vought Place got out of his Ford Bronco at the C-Town Plaza, at 360 Boston Ave., around 4:30 p.m. wearing only diaper and sucking on pacifier, Capt. Kenneth Bakalar said. He approached a woman with three grandchildren and asked her for baby wipes, Bakalar said..........
Stratford, Conn. (WTNH) - A 41-year old Stratford man is facing charges after he was seen allegedly wandering around a parking lot wearing only a diaper and sucking a pacifier.
An officer reports finding Thomas Wellington parked in the lot sitting in his SUV and seeing baby pacifiers all over the vehicle. "When he questioned him about what happened he really didn't answer," said Capt. Kenneth Bakalar of the Stratford Police Department. "When he asked why he was wearing a diaper he said he had problems with his intestines."................
Last summer, six months before he was deployed to Afghanistan for the second time, infantry Sgt. Edwin Rivera sat in his car in the driveway of his parents' house in Waterford and explained to his mother why he was returning to war.
It was the sad faces of the children that he had seen in Afghanistan during his first tour there in 2006, he told his mother, faces that still reminded him of why American soldiers were there.
"When the U.S. soldiers drive by," Rivera told his mother Gladys that night, "the children will scramble like mad in the dust just to get thrown a simple pencil from us. They don't even have pencils. I was born for this, it's my duty, to protect those families over there."
Now there is chilling immediacy to her memories, for Rivera has paid a high price for returning to those Afghan faces.................
pic: Mark Twain, seen in 1903, lived in Hartford for two decades and wrote most of his major works here. He spent the last years of his life in Redding. (File)
.................The creator of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and some of the most frequently misquoted catchphrases in the English language left behind 5,000 unedited pages of memoirs when he died in 1910, together with handwritten notes saying that he did not want them to hit bookshops for at least a century.
That milestone has now been reached, and in November the University of California, Berkeley, where the manuscript is in a vault, will release the first volume of Mark Twain's autobiography. The eventual trilogy will run to half a million words, and shed new light on the quintessentially American novelist...
"He had doubts about God, and in the autobiography, he questions the imperial mission of the US in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. He's also critical of [Theodore] Roosevelt, and takes the view that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel. Twain also disliked sending Christian missionaries to Africa. He said they had enough business to be getting on with at home: with lynching going on in the South, he thought they should try to convert the heathens down there."
In other sections of the autobiography, Twain makes cruel observations about his supposed friends, acquaintances and one of his landladies.......................
known as linda mcmahon. he has a few other postings on her as well. i didn't have time to go through his blog like i should have (to be better informed is what i mean) BUT let's just say the king and i are diametrically opposed on almost everything EXCEPT it appears, linda!
The Republican Party boasts of being the party of principle and open process. Yet on Friday night at the 2010 Connecticut Republican Party Convention, I and many others witnessed behavior that brought shame on the party, its officials, and its Chairman - Chris Healy. The Linda McMahon campaign along side of State Central officials worked endlessly to threaten, intimidate, and force delegates to switch sides and support Linda McMahon over Rob Simmons. Many of these delegates switched from Peter Schiff to Linda McMahon after it was clear that Schiff was unable to barely get to a quarter of the support needed for a win.................
