Follow the digital footprints
Before the advent of the Internet and its growing array of social gathering Web sites, employers would likely turn to an outside agency to perform a background check on a potential employee, particularly if the position to be filled was a sensitive one. Thanks to people like Larry Page and Sergey Brin (founders of Google) you don’t have to look far to find out what anyone has been up to. You need only “ ...
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Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods Resort Casino are not mincing any words as they begin battle against the casinos of Atlantic City. ...
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The humble Connecticut stone wall has not escaped the eyes of Corey Schweizer, who writes at Primaryresearch.org that the stone walls found regionally “are some of the most important and beautiful walls ever built” and that they came to be at least partly because long-ago farmers had chopped down most of the trees.
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As long as Bridgeport remains the sole owner of Sikorsky Memorial Airport, the more likely it is that the city’s civil war with Stratford over the facility’s future will get even nastier and bloodier. ...
Read more ›The importance of self-care while caring for others
The term “sandwich generation” was coined in the early 1980s to describe adults who simultaneously care for dependent children and for aging parents who can no longer handle everyday chores and activities.
... Read more ›Every business owner – and most employees – is painfully aware of the seemingly unbounded increases in medical insurance costs
Every business owner – and most employees – is painfully aware of the seemingly unbounded increases in medical insurance costs. ...
Read more ›Forget calories, where’s the meat?
Gov. Jodi Rell got it right when she vetoed legislation that would have forced chain restaurants to disclose on their menus the total calorie counts for standard food items.
... Read more ›New columnist ready to dish to readers
The three-square meals of years past have mushroomed into a different entrée altogether. Celebrity chefs – iron and otherwise – rule TV. Both nutrition and fine dining have become the topics du jour. Restaurants and boutique food stores are big business. More and more people are developing discerning tastes, but they often need advice as to where to buy that elusive truffle oil or artisan cheese. Searching ...
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When Thomas Brown was a boy in Old Greenwich walking to school with his identical twin brother, Mike, they’d pass a firehouse “and we’d peek in every once in a while, out of curiosity.”
... Read more ›Fine wine, food and a great cause
More than 250 guests gathered at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Jan. 20 to taste selections from 18 local restaurants and gourmet shops – and support the More than 250 guests gathered at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Jan. 20 to taste selections from 18 local restaurants and gourmet shops – and support the White Plains Family YMCA.White Plains Family YMCA.
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Centerplate of Stamford has become the new food service partner at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco, Texas, home to Major League Soccer team FC Dallas.
... Read more ›The Connecticut-New Rochelle connection
Joseph Tighe of Darien and his wife Elaine at the college’s 48th annual Trustee Award Dinner Dance.
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