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“The thing is, we are not making anything. We were making seven cents a gallon when the price was $1.50. We have the same profit now, seven cents. We're losing money.”

Until Wednesday, the number 4 might have called to mind the Fab Four, the four seasons or the number of strings on a ukulele. via The Day

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“After careful consideration, based on the types of information exposed - and not exposed - Pfizer has concluded that this incident does not warrant an offer of free credit monitoring protection”

There has been another computer security breach at Pfizer Inc., this time the theft of a laptop containing information on thousands of employees, including 5,000 in Connecticut. via Connecticut Post

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“They go and build when they feel water moving, but that just helps cement the pipes in place”

Beavers in Groton get reprieve, thanks to an 'ingenious' contraption Water flows freely through the three pipes of a beaver impeder on Wednesday as Skip Hilliker fastens part of the device around a breach made ... via The Day

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“We want him to turn over both to Rev. Cannon.”

If the members of Bishop Seabury Church in Groton were holding out hope that the Episcopal Diocese would deal more gently with them than it did the other Connecticut church to defect from the denomination, those hopes were dashed this week.

In the past seven days, members of the church learned that the diocese has suspended their priest, the Rev. Ronald Gauss, and that it is suing Gauss and other church leaders because they refuse to relinquish control of the property to the diocese-appointed 'priest-in-charge' of Bishop Seabury, the Rev. David Cannon. Read more

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Some came prepared with umbrellas and ponchos, others kept on their shorts and flip flops, but they came just the same. via The Day

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“It affects you, knowing that they were here then doing what you are doing now. I think it's pretty amazing.”

Jim Townsley was looking for a place to start a church when he drove into town more than 30 years ago.

At the time, Southington was small but growing. Townsley, a native of Indiana who had recently completed his training as a minister, liked what he saw and decided he would start his church here.

What Townsley did not know was that he was coming to a town where he could trace his own roots as a Baptist minister. Buried just a few miles from his Central Baptist Church, in a neglected cemetery, are men who played a key role in the first Baptist churches in this country during the 1700s. Read more

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“And then he did bananas and carnations, and it was one of the coolest experiments I had ever seen.”

Erin Casey remembers watching someone freeze racquetballs in liquid nitrogen and throw them against the wall when she was an eighth-grader at Clark Lane Middle School in Waterford. via Hartford Courant

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“I really believe this was supposed to happen. It's time to either put up or shut up.”

When the Rev. David Cannon, the priest-in-charge of Bishop Seabury Church in Groton, showed up to start his job two weeks ago, he walked around the outside of the building, trying every door. All locked.

He could hear people moving around inside, so he knocked. No answer.

Eventually, Cannon found his way to the office building, adjacent to the church, where he called out for the Rev. Ronald Gauss, who still heads the parish in defiance of Episcopal officials. The two men have known each other for many years - were on friendly terms, even - and Gauss knew why Cannon was there, but that didn't make this any easier. Read more

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"The Library as Conversation" Connecticut Library Association Annual Conference, Groton, CT. via Virtual Dave...Real Blog

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Court documents show that an elderly Groton man who had been stabbed had been dead five days before his alleged killer was nabbed in the victim's car. via WTIC-TV Hartford

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