Winsted, CT

Simsbury Girl Donates Hair to Locks of Love      Nearly every Saturday for eight years, 13-year-old Ania Wójtowicz attended Polish language school, Szkola Jezyka Polskiego Im. Jana Pawla II in New Britain, so that she would be able to read and write, as well as speak, Polish. Her father, chemical engineer Dr. Marek Wójtowicz, is a na... More ... For the Common Good The corporate self-dealers, morally obtuse By David R. Zukerman, NYC and Winsted      have nearly killed free enterprise’s golden goose. More ...      Mike Dombrowski of the American Legion Post #43 baseball team slid safely into home plate in a game vs. Wolcott at Walker Field in Winsted on June 28. More ... Salutations to the American Flag Atop the flagpole flaps the flag of ours, with a corner blue, spangled with star-white stars, and stripes of red and white streaming in the fluid air, By David Henri, New Hartford      patriotic colors soaring with patriotic flair. More ... Sam Adams — Father of the American Revolution By Marcel LeRoy, Southbury      He was a Son of Liberty, the political "boss" of the Boston town meeting, maltster, tax collector, essayist, signer of the Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation, leader of the Continental Congress, and a great influence over the public life of Massachusetts during the early years... More ... Tolerance and Intolerance By William T. Barrante, Watertown      One of the hallmarks of American democracy is freedom of religion. The men who put the Constitution together in the late 1780s understood this very well. It was only 100 years after the last big religious conflict in Great Britain when James II, a secret Catholic, was forced from the throne and repl... More ... Stay Within the Constitution! By Charles Keil, Lakeville      We are moving away from Constitutional government in the U.S. very rapidly, and we are racing away from any effort to strengthen the rule of law internationally. More ...