‘Moo Dog It’

We get around.

Curiosity drives our reporting.

Black Pond State Park is a spring-fed lake-pond that once powered manufacturing on the east side of Meriden, from Parker shotguns to a spoon shop.

All gone now, yet the name “New Dam” still clings to the area off of Thorpe Avenue where water was released to make machines and men produce goods. The former New Departure factory (below) still stands in Meriden, and the core building once served as a woolen mill to the entrepreneurial Jedediah Wilcox. (Yes, wool.) Products flowed from the busy mill included carpetbags and hoopskirts.

Walking between worlds of business, farming, and through time to knit ideas together is why our trademark is “Reporting On All Things Country, Boardroom To Barnyard.”

There are surprising connections in life and telling those stories with quality images is what we do. As the late great Don Hewitt, creator and producer of CBS’s 60 Minutes said, “The formula is simple, and it’s reduced to four words every kid in the world know: Tell me a story.” Let us know your story and what’s going on in your community. We’ll spread the word.

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Our staff includes people who knit, former vet techs, aviation mechanics, web design developers, writers, editors, photographers, designers, a scholar, ex-USAFers, publisher’s representatives, parents, mothers, fathers, sisters, daughters, sons, horse trainers, duck owners, dog lovers, hunters, fishers, farmers, business owners, digital developers, tourists, cooks and more.

We’ve been chased by a rooster and know what it’s like to find a fence down with livestock out and running loose. Warm handmade quilts, seasoned cast-iron pans, the perfume of applewood and hickory wood fires and a barn full of sweet hay - yup, we know those wonders too.

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One newspaper clipping, memories of a girlhood flying around Connecticut - and the story that resulted about a lifetime of flying and teaching.