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  • Pop Culture - New Year’s Resolution: Stay Smart

    If there is a politician I would’ve liked to have had dinner with, it would have been Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Moynihan, who authored nine books during his 24 years in the Senate, is generally regarded as the last academic-as-politician, able to reference...
    Posted by Interactive Desk on Jan 08 2009, 10:26 AM - 0 Ratings / 0 Comments
  • Food for Thought: Vitamin A for the New Year

    Happy New Year! For many, 2009 brings with it New Year’s resolutions of losing weight, eating healthier, and exercising more. These are all great ideas and wonderful for increasing your overall health and well-being, however, many individuals set unrealistic...
    Posted by Interactive Desk on Jan 08 2009, 10:21 AM - 0 Ratings / 0 Comments
  • A Look Back: Revisiting some of our favorite feature photos from 2008

    In compiling our top five photos of the year, we considered several criteria in the process. Overall punch, great angles, drama, and irony, among others. Using those criteria, we soon discovered several Times photos were contenders for the top five spread...
    Posted by Interactive Desk on Jan 05 2009, 10:19 AM - 0 Ratings / 0 Comments
  • The Dolphin Perspective: Aquarium scientist pens guide to dolphin communication

    They are questions that intrigue many humans: how do dolphins communicate with each other? What do their actions mean and to what extent can they communicate with humans? A recently published book written by Mystic Aquarium scientist Kathleen Dudzinski...
    Posted by Interactive Desk on Jan 05 2009, 10:17 AM - 0 Ratings / 0 Comments
  • Top Five Sports Stories of 2008: End of Buck Era Headlines Local Sports Scene

    Standing 6-foot-4, Heather Buck played at an unprecedented height for Stonington High girls’ basketball. And with her performance, she raised the already proud Bear program to unprecedented heights in terms of achievements and popularity. Her exit from...
    Posted by Interactive Desk on Jan 05 2009, 10:16 AM - 0 Ratings / 0 Comments
  • Hitting the Trail: Organizers continue work to create multi-town trail

    With municipal support in place, the committee trying to build a recreational trail from Groton to Preston is on the verge of starting its fundraising campaign. The Bluff Point to Preston Trail Committee, comprised of representatives from Groton, Groton...
    Posted by Interactive Desk on Jan 05 2009, 10:14 AM - 0 Ratings / 0 Comments
  • A La Carte: Scampi Into the Kitchen

    One more holiday season has passed, and now it’s time to make fires in the living room fireplace, hunker down, snuggle under a couple of fleece throws, read lots of books and magazines, and, when I’m tired of reading or napping, scamper into the kitchen...
    Posted by Interactive Desk on Jan 05 2009, 10:12 AM - 0 Ratings / 0 Comments
  • New Year’s Resolution: Stay Smart

    If there is a politician I would’ve liked to have had dinner with, it would have been Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Moynihan, who authored nine books during his 24 years in the Senate, is generally regarded as the last academic-as-politician, able to reference...
    Posted by Interactive Desk on Jan 05 2009, 10:11 AM - 0 Ratings / 0 Comments
  • Star Search Begins For Area Boys’ Basketball: ECC graduated big-time talent from last year

    Nicholson, DeNiro, Streep, Roberts, Pacino, and Hackman can’t sta r in every movie. Sometimes a Philip Seymour Hoffman emerges from obscurity to win an Oscar. The same premise can be related to the Eastern Connecticut Conference boys’ basketball 2008...
    Posted by Interactive Desk on Jan 05 2009, 10:10 AM - 0 Ratings / 0 Comments
  • One Man’s Pilgrimage: Local man’s Q&A book on the Mayflower Pilgrims gains in popularity

    Montville resident William Muttart started out researching and writing a small history of the Mayflower Pilgrims and their arrival in America because he wanted to create an accurate history to pass on to his three sons, six grandchildren, and two step...
    Posted by Interactive Desk on Jan 05 2009, 10:06 AM - 0 Ratings / 0 Comments
  • Nature Notes: Raptors at our Feeders

    The increase in bird feeding throughout the year across the United States and Canada has resulted in larger numbers of normally migratory birds remaining in the north during the winter and a northward range expansion of several one-time southern birds...
    Posted by Interactive Desk on Jan 05 2009, 10:02 AM - 0 Ratings / 0 Comments
  • Oh Peanuts! Make your 2009 resolutions green

    Even in these austere times, when there may have been fewer gifts under your Christmas tree, or perhaps gifting this year took on a more rudimentary approach: groceries, cash for heating oil, or re-gifted items, and fewer of those perplexing t hings someone...
    Posted by Interactive Desk on Jan 05 2009, 10:01 AM - 0 Ratings / 0 Comments
  • Mule at Work: Kawasaki Mule on loan to Mystic Fire Department

    The Mystic Fire Department recently acquired a brand new mule, but it’s not the department’s latest pet, and it certainly bears no resemblance to a donkey. Thanks to the Kawasaki Loaner Program and New England Cycle Works of Groton, the fire department...
    Posted by Interactive Desk on Dec 29 2008, 10:34 AM - 0 Ratings / 0 Comments
  • Top Books and Beats: Local business owners recommend book and music titles

    Eons ago, in the Paleozoic Era, people went to bookstores to get books and to record stores to get records. There they met professional bookworms and record store geeks behind the counter, people that the writer Nick Hornby called “professional appreciators...
    Posted by Interactive Desk on Dec 29 2008, 10:32 AM - 0 Ratings / 0 Comments
  • Carl C. Cutler Middle School Honor Roll

    Grade 6 High Honors: Jonathan Barstow, Shea Berry, Matthew Bonner, David Burstein, Alyson Clarke, Katrina Codilla, Ashley Cronan, Nicolas Devaux, Mikaela Dimaapi, Nicholas Fairbank, Haley Flax, Diana Francis, Jacob Franklin, Sam Gardner, Katherine Georgetti...
    Posted by Interactive Desk on Dec 29 2008, 10:29 AM - 0 Ratings / 0 Comments
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