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Middletown (Connecticut)

Stillman’s life, work still gaining in value 100 years after death

At 30 years old, while in the northern Adirondacks, William James Stillman painted what would later afford him lasting and international fame. Two years later, in 1860, the Schenectady native gave up painting, eventually...

Local scholars earn degrees from Boston College, Bates, Wesleyan University

ROCKLAND (June 19): Letourneau completes double major at Wesleyan University MIDDLETOWN, Conn. — Tenants Harbor resident Kate Letourneau graduated from Wesleyan University on Sunday, May 25 with bachelor of arts degrees in both...

Robert A. Baer, at 89, formerly of Duxbury, veteran

By Herald staff Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - Added 3m ago Robert Andrew Baer Sr. of Charlotte, N.C., formerly of Duxbury, retired general manager of the J.L. Hammett Co. in Braintree, died June 9 at his home. He was 89. Born in...

Private equity firm buys Haven Healthcare

A Georgia-based private equity firm announced an $85 million deal to buy Haven Healthcare, the financially troubled operator of more than two dozen nursing homes in New England. Formation Capital LLC of Alpharetta, Ga., said it...

Frances G. Betton

ORANGE CITY, Fla. — Mrs. Frances Grant Betton, 90, of Orange City, died Monday, June 9, 2008, at Hospice of Volusia in Orange City. She was born in Portsmouth, N.H., on Jan. 17, 1918, the daughter of George and Flossie...

Private equity firm to buy Haven Healthcare

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - A Georgia-based private equity firm announced Thursday that it would pay $85 million to buy Haven Healthcare, the financially troubled operator of more than two dozen nursing homes in New England....

My Father and Raiders of the Lost Ark

Buddhism Meetups > Middletown Buddhist Meetup Group at Wesleyan 6/22. My Father and Raiders of the Lost Ark: a practical exploration into the Noble Eightfold Path?s Right Concentration & Right Mindfulness. Third installment in...

A service Obama failed to mention

Commencement speeches are hard. He spoke on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., pinch-hitting for Sen. Ted Kennedy on the theme of service to our country. It's also revealing – about...

What Obama left out

By WILLIAM KRISTOL SYNDICATED COLUMNIST Commencement speeches are hard. He spoke on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., pinch-hitting for Sen. Ted Kennedy on the theme of service to our...

Jeanine Basinger in Western Mode [Randolph Scott / Budd Boetticher westerns finally on DVD?]

Bold emphases were inserted by me.] PRESS RELEASEJeanine Basinger, noted film expert and professor at Wesleyan University of Middletown, CT recently recorded DVD commentary on Budd Boetticher westerns. Hartford, CT, May 30, 2008...