Norwich — Raise your hand if you’ve read this line before: “Fletcher leads New London High to victory.”
Ah, bloodlines. They run like a current through this proud family, whose latest Whaler recalled ...
New London — It has been suggested that we study history because history doesn’t stay behind us. It helps us understand how events in the past made things the way they are today.
This is why very few ...
Idle Thoughts, while waiting for Tommy Cutlets 2.0, bowl season and for real gravy on Thanksgiving (not that turpentine from a jar):
• Dr. Idle, Dr. I to his close friends, spent a happy Saturday morn...
It was during an otherwise amusing text exchange the other night with The Greatest Coach Of Them All that Geno Auriemma wrote, “people are making this out to be a big deal.”
And, hey, to paraphrase th...
Full disclosure: I don’t like drinking. I love drinking. My next pet may be a grey goose. When I’m Czar of the Universe, Johnnie Walker wins the Nobel Prize.
But I’m also aware there is a time and pla...
Somewhere in Columnist School comes the lesson about making points, not belaboring them. If we’re not careful, the columnist-who-cried-wolf thing happens and they either stop paying attention or think...
And so the caretaker of Huskymania has passed away, leaving us with memories of passion and professionalism that the great Tim Tolokan embodied all his 79 years with us.
Tolokan, the masterful maestro...
Waterford — It has been suggested by greater minds that every example of adversity carries with it a seed of equal or greater benefit. Or as Waterford High’s Jax Higgins said Friday night, “Adversity ...
Phoebe Carpenter, a busy goalie most of the night, punted the ball to midfield, a seemingly innocent development during a game earmarked for overtime. The closest Lyman Memorial teammate to the ball, ...
Idle Thoughts, while waiting for the high school football playoffs, Jayson Tatum’s MVP award and for the Giants to get a first down:
• Dr. Idle, Dr. I to his close friends, would like you to join him ...
Ledyard — Randall Prose estimated he has “about 13 or 14 players” right now playing varsity football, although a few more dressed Friday night for Windham High.
Prose said all this after his Whips sta...