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71Darien Could Be Paradise
The not-so-sleepy little town of Darien has been dragged through the mud on more than one occasion over the years, but I have a plan to turn it into the world's Paradise. If I were the czar of Darien, its population and property values would skyrocket. This story tells you how!
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71Neosoul Music to Download
Start building your soul music collection right here. If you're looking for more than Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, and Maxwell, here are some amazing neo soul songs that you will never hear on the radio. I...
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66Oak Hills Idea Merits a Thumbs Up
Property owners are rightfully enthusiastic about protecting the biggest financial investment of their lives whenever it's threatened, but in 1999, they may have been looking so hard at the trees they didn't see the forest when golf course improvements were proposed.
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61A Scary Peek Into the Future
I found myself leafing through the pages of a newspaper the other night. The paper was dated Nov. 13, 2027. While it was exciting to peek into the future, it was, overall, a sad experience.
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62Game Raises Questions
In August of 1986 a U.S. postal worker in Edmund, Okla., killed 15 colleagues. In the decade following incidents of "crazed mass violence" by postal workers took place at an alarming rate -- They even made a game about it!
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67The Latest Traveler Hot Spot-- Panama
One of the many beaches in Panama Resort in Panama I consider myself fortunate to be born in the Canal Zone, Panama and I lived there for fourteen years before moving to the US. My childhood was filled with...
74Is It Avenue, Or Street, Or Who Cares?
Municipalities, like all of us, sometimes make mistakes. In a short street I lived on in Darien, Connecticut, the name on the street signs was spelled differently on each end of the street. In Norwalk, Connecticut, stores adjacent to each other in the same shopping center have different street names.
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65Counsel for the Council
When the city fathers put together Norwalk's city charter in 1913, they did a pretty darn good job! I didn't think so initially when I began covering Norwalk politics for The Hour newspaper in late 1968, but I've long since changed my mind.
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68Talk About Rushing to Judgment!
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark," the famous quotation from Shakespeare's "Hamlet," may very well apply today to the United States as our system of justice comes under widespread attack. Defendents are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty.
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62George Orwell Revisited
Big Brother seems to be breathing down my neck. I'm probably more paranoid than the next guy, but "1984" and George Orwell had it right. The police, the state of Connecticut and the IRS are all watching me -- and you!
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