Bristol Eastern senior Alyssa Lavoie is on her way to Quinnipiac College. She is one of four Bristol Exchange Club scholarship awardees who agreed to talk with The Bristol Edition…
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Hosted by David Fortier Last week Lisa Maghini Santiago was our guest on “Ten Minutes.” This week we hear from her 20-year old daughter Lauren. A music student at Central…
With David Fortier This “Ten Minutes” podcast features Lisa Maghini Santiago, a Bristol native who works at an elementary school in Plainville as a registered behavior technician. She assists teachers…
Beginning Monday, May 4, the hours for the coronavirus test kit collection station at the Bristol Hospital will shift from 8 a.m to 11 a.m. The station will close at…
By Jack Krampitz With school kids at home–either yours or someone you know– 24 hours a day, seven days a week, now going into our third month, we all know…
Greetings from BCHS (Photo by L. Carter)Greetings from BEHS (Photo by L. Carter)Changes to worship schedules (Photo by L. Carter)A Thank You from Broadview Manor (Photo by D. Fortier)Covid test…
With David Fortier This “10 Minutes” podcast features Lindsay Vigue of Lindsay Vigue Photography and chair of the City Arts and Culture Commission. Lindsay and her spouse, Jessica, decided to…
By Jack Krampitz The Bristol Sports Hall of Fame has cancelled their annual Scholar-Athlete Dinner this year because of Covid 19. The dinner recognizes Juniors and Seniors from the three…
By Rit Carter In the fall of 1918, newspapers focused their reporting on the Great War. But as the troops engaged the Kaiser, a pandemic raged across the United States…
With David Fortier The Bristol Edition premieres its new podcast, “10 Minutes” with this brief interview featuring Mayor Ellen Zoppo-Sassu. The conversation took place yesterday, April 16, over the phone,…
By David Fortier Bristol hospital staff with the assistance of school nurses have been managing the lines of cars each morning at the coronavirus collection station so that people aren’t…
By David Fortier By 8:10 a.m. this morning, 48 cars had lined up at the Bristol Hospital coronavirus specimen collection station, some of the cars with two occupants and many…
By David Fortier The Coronavirus specimen collection station on the Bristol Hospital campus closed at 10:30 a.m. this morning, according the hospital spokesman Christopher Boyle in a phone conversation this…
By Rit Carter The morning of Sunday September 1, 1918, started like many did in the City of Bristol. Employees at Lake Compounce readied the park for a performance of…
By David Fortier The Bristol Edition has posted a Google Doc: Where to Find Take-Out Food in Bristol for local Bristol restaurants and eateries to share their information, including hours…
Bristol resident and physician’s assistant working in primary care Dondrea Garrison provides background and tips dealing with Covid-19. The podcast should not be considered exhaustive but it is informative and…
By David Fortier A free Bristol writing workshop, operating under the umbrella of the City Arts and Culture Commission, is seeking eight participants to begin in September. The goal of the…
By David Fortier No, I don’t have any pictures. But they have been here, right in my backyard–a couple of deer and a large brown and white winged hawk. The…
By David Fortier Jack Krampitz and David Fortier discuss two topics during this 24 minute podcast. The first has to do with the recommendations of the Charter Revision Commission’s recommendations…
By David Fortier Steve Casey, Bristol native and railroad enthusiast, met me at the Railroad Museum of New England, in Thomaston, recently, to talk about the museum and his history…