Local businesses oppose Malloy bill

By MARJORIE NEEDHAM Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy is describing his liquor store bill, Governor’s Bill No. 14, as a benefit for the consumer. Local package store owners say the ... Continue Reading →

Power plant financial benefits disputed

By MARJORIE NEEDHAM The Stop Towantic Power Coalition spokesman, Paul Coward of Oxford, said at a press conference Monday that the proposed Oxford power plant will bring much less ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Feb. 25, 2016

Kansas Gary Jackson It’s love you left, we’ll say when you never come back for bells for the dead, for the grave stone heads: the only ones that don’t keep count. ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Feb. 24, 2016

Vapor Sara Eliza Johnson When it happens the rain is not black but powder. A noise bleeds from your ears and everything quakes alive inside you: the circuits of the flowers lighting ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Feb. 23, 2016

Nebraska Michael Dumanis I could play the accordion so I was selected for the amateur propaganda team. It was very cold. I had to stop up the hole in my shoe. I used the lid of a tin ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Feb. 22, 2016

Seeing the Body Rachel Eliza Griffiths Not hers but mine. Not hers ever again. Ever hers, my body pulled through, two long windows open in the dark of birth, the gold cord raised too ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Feb. 21, 2016

The Awakening James Weldon Johnson I dreamed that I was a rose That grew beside a lonely way, Close by a path none ever chose, And there I lingered day by day. Beneath the sunshine ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Feb. 20, 2016

Flame-Heart Claude McKay So much have I forgotten in ten years, So much in ten brief years; I have forgot What time the purple apples come to juice And what month brings the shy forget-me-not; Forgotten ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Feb. 19, 2016

The Philosopher Did Not Say Jennifer Franklin What secret had Nietzsche discovered when he walked the Turin streets before he flung his arms around a horse being beaten and collapsed into ... Continue Reading →

Poem A Day – Feb. 18, 2016

Ghost Eden Erika Meitner after Anthony Haughey’s “Settlement” Garden of rock. Garden of brick and heather. Garden of cranes with their hands raised as if they know ... Continue Reading →