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Rogers Corp. To Cut 20 Jobs In State
The Hartford CourantRogers Corp. said Thursday that it will cut another 5 percent of its salaried staff worldwide, or about 40 jobs, including 20 in Connecticut. The jobs will be eliminated by the end of June through a combination of layoffs, voluntary severance offers,...Tags: Employees, Retirement, Layoffs and Downsizing, Woodstock (Windham, Connecticut), Career and Workplace
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Official Guilty In Sex Assaults
Courant Staff WriterRichard Straub, accused of using his power as a senior probation officer to force young men to have sex with him, will spend his retirement years in prison after reaching an eleventh-hour plea bargain Thursday in Putnam Superior Court. As jury...Tags: Laws, Court Preliminary, Abusive Behavior, Social Issues, Organized Crime
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Ex-Probation Officer Pleads Not Guilty
Associated PressA former state probation officer pleaded not guilty Friday to a long list of charges that he used his position to sexually assault young men under his supervision. Richard Straub, 61, of Killingly, entered his pleas in Putnam Superior Court before...Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Trials, Sex Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice, Assault
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Introduction
Northeast MagazineOur state has a terrible secret, one we have concealed, even from ourselves, for hundreds of years. Connecticut was deeply involved in slavery. Through the 17th and 18th centuries, thousands of enslaved people lived here. They were nearly all of...Tags: Death, Alabama, Hampton (Windham, Connecticut), Windsor (Hartford, Connecticut), Social Issues
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2001-02 All-Courant Wrestling
++++++++++++++++++++ || Wrestler || School || Yr. || Weight || || Jesse Cavallaro || Plainville || So. || 103 || || Trevor Brown || RHAM-Hebron || Jr. || 112 || || Luis Murillo || Platt-Meriden || Sr. || 119 || ||...Tags: Plainville, Groton, Meriden, Danbury, East Haven
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Can't Somebody Do Something?
The Hartford CourantFive years ago, townspeople thought they knew how to stop the heroin trade. They closed a public health program that gave away 50,000 sterile needles a year to reduce the spread of AIDS, hepatitis and other diseases among some 300 client-addicts. The...Tags: Employees, Death, Willimantic (Windham, Connecticut), Windham County, Windsor (Hartford, Connecticut)
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Small Town, Big-Time Heroin Use
The Hartford CourantThree blond women hurry past a kids' soccer game to the quaint gazebo in Jillson Square, a traditional New England green framed by a white-steepled church and historic stone house. Michelle Missino, Jessica Canwell and her sister, Amy-Lee, are itching to...Tags: Pet Shops, Services, and Supplies, Employees, Death, Willimantic (Windham, Connecticut), Christianity
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Acknowledgments
With this work, I hope to honor the generous assistance of Robert P. Forbes at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University; Joseph Opala of James Madison University; Mark Jones at the Connecticut...Tags: Mystic Seaport, Education, Travel, Connecticut, New London (New London, Connecticut)
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Chapter Four: The Lash and the Loom
Past the heavy glass doors of the world's most famous jewelry store, two glimmering rings sit waiting to be selected for the proper marriage. One is a diamond-inlaid platinum band selling for $11,700, the other a matching engagement ring priced at $37,...Tags: London (England), Brown University, Thomas Jefferson, Eastern Connecticut State University, Children
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Who Was Sam Gould?
We cannot say precisely who kept the log, but "Sam Gould" is written on one of the first pages, and a Samuel Gould of Killingly appears to have had family links to the slave trade. If Gould was the author, he might have held the position of supercargo...Tags: New London (New London, Connecticut), Death, Fairfield County, Family, Trumbull
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New London Towards Africa
The Hartford CourantThe island greeted me with its stillness, the tropical air so hot and thick it felt like a weight on my body. I waded ashore in water as warm as a bath, and looked up. Behind the trees where the shoreline ends, I could see patches of a stone wall,...Tags: Freetown (Sierra Leona), Death, Illnesses, Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania), Children
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BALLOUVILLE
The Hartford CourantIt is through a post office window that Joan Gosselin beholds life in Ballouville. Dozens of times a day, her gaze is coaxed by the slam of a car door or the fleeting glimpse of a figure passing by. Handing out mail, she provides a symphony of small...Tags: Personal Income, Connecticut Labor Markets, Television, Vehicles, Rhode Island
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