New Britain Mayor There are two questions encompassing the proposed changes to the city’s Charter that will appear on the Election Day…
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Friday 09/16/2022
FRIDAY FICKS: It's never too late Posted: 16 September 2022 [11:43 AM] Friday Ficks Jimmy Buffett once sang "We all got 'em, we all want 'em. What do we do with 'em?" Although he…
Friday 09/02/2022
ERIN STEWART: New Britain deserves professional leadership to ensure future success Posted: 02 September 2022 [12:06 PM] New Britain Mayor The city of New Britain is Connecticut’s seventh-largest municipality. We serve, protect and educate over 73,000 residents. There are…
FRIDAY FICKS: The dash between the years Posted: 02 September 2022 [11:58 AM] Friday Ficks A lifelong friend from Berlin died in June at the age of 59. A California resident at the time he…
Friday 08/26/2022
FRIDAY FICKS: Riding on the surface of the sun Posted: 26 August 2022 [10:34 AM] Friday Ficks I rode my bike on the surface of the sun. The heat index was well over 100 degrees on the day…
Friday 08/05/2022
FRIDAY FICKS: Of waterfalls, wellness and anvils Posted: 05 August 2022 [10:08 AM] FRIDAY FICKS: Of waterfalls, wellness and anvils Friday Ficks There’s an ultra distance running book called “Relentless Forward Progress.” It popped to…
Thursday 08/04/2022
ERIN STEWART: Residents can expect Charter revision questions on ballots in November Posted: 04 August 2022 [11:28 AM] New Britain Mayor Since January the city has been in the process of considering multiple reforms to the City Charter, which is…
Friday 07/15/2022
FRIDAY FICKS: Create your own medal-worthy moments Posted: 15 July 2022 [10:43 AM] Friday Ficks Every moment of your life can be a medal-worthy moment. If you embrace failure, stay resilient, and control the controllable.…
Friday 07/01/2022
ERIN STEWART: New Britain bridges digital divide with citywide fiber internet connectivity project Posted: 01 July 2022 [12:15 PM] New Britain Mayor One of the many lessons we learned from the covid-19 pandemic was just how much students and families depend on…
FRIDAY FICKS: Heads up, phones down Posted: 01 July 2022 [11:58 AM] Friday Ficks The bear saw me before I saw it. Hammering along the spine of Avon Mountain, I spotted a large pile…
Friday 06/17/2022
FRIDAY FICKS: Stay connected to, and involved with, your community Posted: 17 June 2022 [04:08 PM] Friday Ficks He died five weeks before the race. But I needed him that morning. I needed his encouragement. I needed his…
Monday 06/06/2022
ERIN STEWART: Summer fun is endless in New Britain Posted: 06 June 2022 [02:25 PM] New Britain Mayor The school year is coming to an end, temperatures are rising, and summer is finally here in New Britain.…
Monday 05/30/2022
Posted: 30 May 2022 [02:53 PM] CHRIS POWELL Connecticut's 5th Congressional District, encompassing the northwest part of the state, running from Danbury north to Waterbury with eastward extensions to New Britain and Meriden, is generally considered the state's most politically competitive. So one might think…
Friday 05/27/2022
Posted: 27 May 2022 [08:54 PM] CHRIS POWELL As recently as 50 years ago Connecticut politics still had traces of the old ethnic, racial, and religious resentments and rivalries that had arisen through the state's long history, resentments and rivalries that political party state tickets…
Friday 05/20/2022
Posted: 20 May 2022 [08:31 PM] CHRIS POWELL Four months after the now internationally infamous "pizza sex" assignment was given to eighth-graders at Kennedy Middle School in Enfield, the town's Board of Education has not yet figured out how it happened. Instead the board purportedly…
Monday 05/16/2022
Posted: 16 May 2022 [02:16 PM] CHRIS POWELL Both political parties in Congress want to sustain the immigration controversy for partisan purposes more than they want a compromise that could resolve the controversy's two major components -- securing the borders while providing a path to…
Friday 05/06/2022
Herald reporter looks back at an unforgettable experience being honored as part of Gallery 66's Women's History Month exhibit Posted: 06 May 2022 [03:02 PM] NEW BRITAIN – As Gallery 66’s Women’s History Month Exhibit, with myself as one of those honored, comes to an end…
HEALTHY LIVING: Jill Bertolini Symposium helps breast cancer patients Posted: 06 May 2022 [01:11 PM] The statistic is startling – according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), breast cancer is the most…
HASTINGS: Happy Mother's Day to all the best worst moms out there Posted: 06 May 2022 [12:23 PM] Thank you very much. I can't believe I'm standing up here at this podium at the Worst Mom Ever awards! I am…
FRIDAY FICKS: The gift of perspective Posted: 06 May 2022 [11:36 AM] Friday Ficks Column The Facebook post sounded pretty urgent. It read, in part, that “I have an immediate need.” Immediate is usually…
Wednesday 05/04/2022
ERIN STEWART: New Britain Charter revision process explained Posted: 04 May 2022 [10:27 AM] New Britain Mayor Over the past couple of months I have publicly mentioned that the city is in the process of considering multiple…
Tuesday 04/26/2022
Posted: 26 April 2022 [03:10 PM] Berlin Democratic Town Committee April 25, 2022 – Members of the Berlin Democratic Town Committee are urging all Berlin residents to cast a “Yes” vote in the…
Posted: 26 April 2022 [10:03 AM] Joanie Wedler, Chuck Lewis and Franck Facchini Local public access TV, or public, educational and government access (“PEG”), has been in Connecticut for more than 40 years providing residents, municipalities, schools and community organizations with hyper-local programming…
Monday 04/25/2022
Posted: 25 April 2022 [01:44 PM] YOUR VIEW: From John Kisluk I am asking and urging all Plainville tax payers to come out on April 26 between the hours of 6 a.m. and 8 p.m. at the Plainville Firehouse and vote no…
Monday 04/18/2022
MAZADOORIAN: Commemorating the Armenian Genocide of 1915: Sainthood for the victims Posted: 18 April 2022 [10:32 AM] On April 24, the world will recognize and commemorate the tragedy of the Armenian Genocide of 1915, when more than 1.5 million Armenian men…
Friday 04/15/2022
Posted: 15 April 2022 [07:53 PM] Someday, if the governor and state legislators ever tire of coddling the state employee unions and if the president and Congress ever tire of coddling investment banks and military contractors, maybe they should note what happened recently at Silver Lane…
FRIDAY FICKS: Don't transmogrify the low hanging fruit Posted: 15 April 2022 [11:25 AM] Friday Ficks "Attorney Ficks has transmogrified the facts," said my adversary in his closing argument. "He did what?" replied the arbitrator. "He…
Friday 04/08/2022
Posted: 08 April 2022 [09:06 PM] Legislators of both parties in the General Assembly are congratulating themselves on the bipartisan juvenile justice bill that has come out of the Judiciary Committee, and well they should. For the legislation will do no more than provide the illusion…
Monday 04/04/2022
Posted: 04 April 2022 [08:45 PM] By CHRIS POWELL Connecticut may be paying the Sikorsky helicopter division of military contractor Lockheed Martin as much as $250 million to keep its facilities in the state for the next 20 years -- an average of…
ERIN STEWART: New Britain's financial journey reaches stability Posted: 04 April 2022 [12:35 PM] NEW BRITAIN MAYOR It’s hard to believe, but later this month I will present my ninth budget to the Common Council since being…