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Nationally and locally, charities have been facing an uphill challenge in this tough economy: how to provide for people in need of fin ancial and food assistance. Just as charities are seeing increasing need from individuals, families, seniors, newly...
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Looking for some warm soup and a handmade soup bowl to go with it? The Soup Bowl Supper at the First Congregational Church of Old Lyme is the place to find both. This year’s soup supper is Friday, Nov. 7, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. All proceeds go to support...
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Old Lyme’s Post Office has a fresh new landscape design around its front entrance, thanks to efforts by the Duck River Garden Club (DRGC) and some other civic-minded volunteers and organizations around town. While most patrons probably don’t think they...
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Becky and Caroline Tompkins and their friend Taylor Teixeira love animals. All kinds of them, especially pets. The enterprising trio of 13-year-old eighth-graders at Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School decided to put their energies to a good cause last summer...
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As retail establishments go, the Lyme Tree in Old Lyme is hardly a high-pressure, hard-sell environment. It’s not meant to be. The little shop in Old Lyme Marketplace is a great place for women of all ages and walks of life to catch up with friends, find...
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Daniel Morris is returning to UConn Medical Center this month as an enlightened medical student, not from a summer in a hospital or by hitting the books. Instead, he spent seven weeks on his bicycle, pedaling from California back to Connecticut, contemplating...
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Flanders Community Theater is back on stage this weekend with its production of Working at the East Lyme High School Auditorium. The all-volunteer group of performers is again performing a work by Stephen Schwartz, known for Godspell, which it put on...
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Anyone frustrated with rising electricity costs to run the home entertainment center or the damper of astronomic gasoline prices on family vacation plans doesn’t have to go far in East Lyme to see what home conveniences and transportation were like in...
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Most of us have been saddened, but not directly touched, by the natural disasters in Asia in recent weeks, the earth quake relief efforts in China and the thwarted international aid attempts after tropical cyclone Nargis hit the coast of Myanmar, devastating...
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Fred Grimsey wasn’t looking for a government medal in 2001 when he founded Save the River-Save the Hills, Inc., a grassroots environmental organization dedicated to water quality improvements in the Niantic River Estuary in Waterford and East Lyme. Instead...
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Visitors to the East Lyme Community Center are enjoying a much more scenic and inviting entrance to their facility, thanks to the efforts and sweat equity of volunteers, most of them kids who participate in the East Lyme Youth Services Association (ELYSA...
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A lot of Connecticut residents plan to spend part of their summer vacation near water—a week at the beach, inland, or coastal kayaking. It’s only natural. Anna Smith, a 1999 graduate of Lyme-Old Lyme High School , plans to be around water in August. But...
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Anyone looking for entertaining children’s theater – by children – would have been impressed with the East Lyme Children’s Theater’s 40th production. The community institution, started years ago by passionate supporters of youth and community theater...
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Give Ann Farley some donated fabric, a little free time, and a worthy cause-and watch out! The not-exactly-retired Niantic resident who organized efforts last summer to make and ship 2,400 neck coolers to American soldiers in Iraq is back at it again...
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