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New Suitor Emerges For Haven Nursing Home Chain
By LISA CHEDEKEL Courant Staff WriterGenesis HealthCare, which operates nine nursing homes in Connecticut, has been in discussions with state officials about buying the bankrupt Haven Healthcare chain, sources close to the negotiations confirmed Monday. Genesis, which was bought out last...Tags: Richard Blumenthal, Medicaid, Financially Distressed Companies, Companies and Corporations, Windsor (Hartford, Connecticut)
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Chrysler Revokes Seven Dealerships In Connecticut
The Hartford CourantBill Bowen was sitting in his sky-blue office at Enfield Chrysler Plymouth on Thursday morning when a UPS envelope arrived with a bright red sticker marked "Confidential." "I knew something was up," he said a few hours later. The letter from Chrysler...Tags: Plymouth, Middletown, Financially Distressed Companies, Companies and Corporations, Long Island
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Fury Unleashed
The Hartford CourantOn the morning of Aug. 18, 1955, Waterbury wakes up to pouring rain, but hardly anyone notices. What has their attention on this soggy Thursday morning is the "Today Show," hosted by Dave Garroway, which is being aired live from the Elton Hotel downtown....Tags: Children, Waterbury, Weather Reports, Farmington (Hartford, Connecticut), Rosalind Russell
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Cpl. Christian Cotner
Courant Staff WritersMarine Cpl. Christian Cotner of Waterbury died May 30, 2008 in a non-hostile incident in Iraq's Anbar province on his first tour duty in Iraq. Details of his death were not released. He was 20 years old. -------------------- In an aged cemetery,...Tags: Government, Richard Blumenthal, Waterbury, Civil Unrest, Iraq
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Helping Decide Where To Ride
So you've bought a horse, a truck and a trailer and are itching to hit the trails. Where can you go? Good question. The state Department of Environmental Protection is working with the Connecticut Horse Council to provide an answer. According to Cyndy...Tags: Farmington (Hartford, Connecticut), Travel, West Hartford, Middlebury, Southbury
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Teachers Fighting The Video Invasion
The Hartford CourantDepending on the viewer, physics teacher Ernie Smoker's "energy transformation dance" could be interpreted as endearing, innovative or wacko. There is Smoker, 44, in his Guilford High School classroom more than a year ago, flailing his arms, short-...Tags: High Schools, Science and Technology, Arizona, West Hartford, Arts and Culture
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Now, Dams And Reservoirs, Doppler And Satellites
After a flood in 1936 caused widespread devastation from Maine to Maryland, federal officials drafted a plan to prevent a similar disaster. But the effort languished - until the flood of '55 came along. The devastating deluge that claimed 87 lives and...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Transportation, Colebrook, Travel, Science and Technology
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When Rivers Raged
The Hartford CourantAugust 1955 is in black and white. It is mom, pop and apple pie, rabbit ears, The Mick, Ike, "Rock Around the Clock," blue collars, Reds, polio, Lucky Strikes, and weather. On the 12th and 13th of the month, the tail end of Hurricane Connie had passed,...Tags: Government, Tropical Weather, Waterbury, Barkhamsted, Tropical Storms
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Waterbury: Proud Family
WaterburyWhen I hear stories of the Flood of '55, I am filled with pride at the outstanding job my grandfather, Julius A. Nido did as water superintendent for the city of Waterbury. His quick-thinking and superior knowledge of the water system throughout the...Tags: Waterbury, Disasters and Accidents, Floods
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Naugatuck: Dramatic Rescue
Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.In August of 1955, I was a 17-year-old transplant from Pennsylvania, working for the summer at the Naugatuck Glass Factory, and was living with my father, John Zareski, in the home of my aunt and uncle, Ann and Stanley Stryjewski, on North Main Street...Tags: Pennsylvania, Palos Verdes Estates, Family
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A State Of Shock
By early afternoon on Aug. 19, 1955, the rain has stopped, the clouds have parted, and the sun is shining on Friday. Ed Durant, who has been sitting naked in a tree amid the roiling brown waters of the flooded Farmington River for several hours, welcomes...Tags: Government, Waterbury, Newington, Rosalind Russell, Windsor (Hartford, Connecticut)
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Waterbury's Flood Casualties
courant.comWaterbury police began telling people to evacuate the apartment houses on North Riverside Street around 2:45 a.m. on Aug. 19 but the Naugatuck River rose so quickly it was soon impossible to walk away. Firefighters struggled, often in vain, to reach...Tags: Waterbury, Health and Safety at Work, Death, Disasters and Accidents, Naugatuck River
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