http://www.thevoicenews.com/news/2003/0411 Copyright 2004 The Voice News en-us Mon, 6 Mar 2006 15:26:48 EST http://www.thevoicenews.com/News/2003/0411/Front_page/C01_Jedd-VoiceNote.html Thank you for 11 years of support. 04/11/2003 http://www.thevoicenews.com/News/2003/0411/Front_page/C01_Jedd-VoiceNote.html http://www.thevoicenews.com/News/2003/0411/Front_page/C02_GP.html We at The Voice would like to thank all of the many people who in various ways have supported our endeavor to provide a public forum for the discussion of the important events and issues of our community. 04/11/2003 http://www.thevoicenews.com/News/2003/0411/Front_page/C02_GP.html http://www.thevoicenews.com/News/2003/0411/Front_page/C03_CNader-Voice.html It was with a deep sense of loss that I learned that this week would see the last issue of The Voice. It was always a pleasure to tell friends and colleagues across the country of this marvelous, free reader-written newspaper, which first appeared on April 15, 1992. By Claire Nader, Winsted 04/11/2003 http://www.thevoicenews.com/News/2003/0411/Front_page/C03_CNader-Voice.html http://www.thevoicenews.com/News/2003/0411/Front_page/C04_Driscoll-chickens.html Eleven years ago I was at 272 Main Street in Torrington, cooking rotisserie chickens out of a little hole in the wall called Driscoll's Rotisserie Chicken. By Michael E. Driscoll, Torrington 04/11/2003 http://www.thevoicenews.com/News/2003/0411/Front_page/C04_Driscoll-chickens.html http://www.thevoicenews.com/News/2003/0411/Front_page/C05_Wolfgang-Leaving.html I have just learned that this week's issue of The Voice will be its last. Although I have not written for The Voice in some time, news of the paper's demise still felt like a kick in the stomach. By Peter Wolfgang, New Hartford 04/11/2003 http://www.thevoicenews.com/News/2003/0411/Front_page/C05_Wolfgang-Leaving.html http://www.thevoicenews.com/News/2003/0411/Front_page/C06_LaVoie-media.html In late June, the Federal Communications Commission intends to remove the last obstacles to media concentration. This means one company can own all the radio stations, television stations, newspapers and cable systems it can gobble up. By Charlene LaVoie, Winsted 04/11/2003 http://www.thevoicenews.com/News/2003/0411/Front_page/C06_LaVoie-media.html http://www.thevoicenews.com/News/2003/0411/Features/f01.html I converted my 1981 diesel VW Rabbit to run on free waste vegetable oil from restaurant fryers. I get an exhilarating feeling of freedom from going down the road running on this renewable fuel. By David Henri, New Hartford 04/11/2003 http://www.thevoicenews.com/News/2003/0411/Features/f01.html http://www.thevoicenews.com/News/2003/0411/Features/F02_Thomen-biography.html If I ever proceed to have some of my "better" articles assembled and (hopefully) published in hard-cover form, I am sure a biography would be appropriate. By Florence Vining Thomen, East Canaan 04/11/2003 http://www.thevoicenews.com/News/2003/0411/Features/F02_Thomen-biography.html http://www.thevoicenews.com/News/2003/0411/Features/F03_Henny-wonders.html Father God, are you crying over the world you created? Are we breaking your heart? In this world you see the root of bitterness and despair in the hearts of your people. By Annemarie Henny, Torrington 04/11/2003 http://www.thevoicenews.com/News/2003/0411/Features/F03_Henny-wonders.html http://www.thevoicenews.com/News/2003/0411/Features/F04_Keifer-older.html As I approach my 70th birthday this spring, I am feeling older. Hello, Judy? You are older! I know that, but it is taking some getting used to. I tried telling myself it was just later middle age, but I know better that that—70 is old! By Judy Keifer, Litchfield 04/11/2003 http://www.thevoicenews.com/News/2003/0411/Features/F04_Keifer-older.html http://www.thevoicenews.com/News/2003/0411/Features/F05_O'Keefe-boredom.html Everyone in the Judeo-Christian societies of the world should take 3-5 years off just to get their heads together. A sort of precursor to retirement. By D.P. O’Keefe 04/11/2003 http://www.thevoicenews.com/News/2003/0411/Features/F05_O'Keefe-boredom.html http://www.thevoicenews.com/News/2003/0411/Features/F06_Gomez-infantry.html Chad Gomez, an Army Airborne Ranger, wrote the following and sent it to his parents shortly before leaving for Iraq. By Chad Gomez 04/11/2003 http://www.thevoicenews.com/News/2003/0411/Features/F06_Gomez-infantry.html http://www.thevoicenews.com/News/2003/0411/Features/F07_Bernard-war.html The debate about the war in Iraq reminded me of 1943. I was fifteen. I had a brother in Europe, one in North Africa, and one in the South Pacific. I was reading All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. By Gabrielle Bernard, Winsted 04/11/2003 http://www.thevoicenews.com/News/2003/0411/Features/F07_Bernard-war.html http://www.thevoicenews.com/News/2003/0411/Torrington/t01.html (L-R) front: Joe Baccheschi, Joe Mills and Gene Diorio; rear: Chet Root, Joe Killingbeck, Nick Colicello, Al Mitchell, Mike Ohotnicky, Leo Senese, Vic D'Angelo and Bob Tofield 04/11/2003 http://www.thevoicenews.com/News/2003/0411/Torrington/t01.html http://www.thevoicenews.com/News/2003/0411/Arts_And_Amusements/A01_7-22_Zukerman-Community.html Last month, I attended a press preview of O Jerusalem, A.R. Gurney's new play that puts September 11 in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict. More recently, the New York Times gave the play a lukewarm review, and a subsequent Times article thought the play was pro-Palestinian. By David Zukerman, NYC and Winsted 04/11/2003 http://www.thevoicenews.com/News/2003/0411/Arts_And_Amusements/A01_7-22_Zukerman-Community.html http://www.thevoicenews.com/News/2003/0411/Arts_And_Amusements/A02_7-19_Steel-Book_Review.html Bright Balkan Morning, written by Charles Keil and Angeliki Vellou Keil with photography by Dick Blau and soundscapes by Steven Feld, was recently published by Wesleyan University Press. By L.A. Steel 04/11/2003 http://www.thevoicenews.com/News/2003/0411/Arts_And_Amusements/A02_7-19_Steel-Book_Review.html http://www.thevoicenews.com/News/2003/0411/Arts_And_Amusements/A03_Kilner-travels_book.html In this time of anxiety with international conflict and points of view contending in the United States of America, a book of Travels Through The Middle Settlements in North America in the Years 1759 and 1760: With Observations Upon the State of the Colonies, otherwise known as Burnaby's Travels Through North America by Rev. By Ursula B.G. Kilner, Salisbury 04/11/2003 http://www.thevoicenews.com/News/2003/0411/Arts_And_Amusements/A03_Kilner-travels_book.html