Happy New Year! A birthday party, how you can help and more about our plans for 2023
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, come New Year, we will have celebrated the third birthday of baby girl grandchild, a New Year’s Eve baby. It will be a small…
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Christmas Eve, looking forward to ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ and some very involved podcasts
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, somehow the presents will all have been wrapped and found their way under the tree—a miracle since I will not have wrapped one item….
Christmas tree is up, lights strung, awaiting ornaments
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, the white pine (concolor if you recall from last week’s column) has been decorated with lights but not ornaments just quite yet and stands…
Thanksgiving leftovers are behind us; holidays ahead
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, the rain and wind will have gone and sometime this afternoon Mary and I will head out to get our Christmas tree. This is the…
A nice, quiet Thanksgiving at Nana’s, and a podcast that should be mandatory for all
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, Mary and I will be heading to church for the first Sunday in Advent. Thanksgiving is behind us and Christmas and New Year’s ahead….
Attending the annual Sports Hall of Fame dinner is a treat, a Sunday with Smetana and a few good reads
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, the family is planning an outing to Tonn’s Marketplace where Smetana, the food truck featuring Eastern European fare run by Bristolite Nick Valenta, will…
Election winding down, an old friend passes on and a high school reunion
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, most of the national elections will have been decided, but not all of them. Locally, Bristol has several new representatives, Joe Hoxha (R) and…
Yes, you are hearing it first here, get out and vote! Then, there is that podcast where teenagers clean up social media!
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, the clocks will have been set back an hour, back to Eastern Standard Time, not Daylight Savings Time, and I will be fine with…
A difficult week as fall arrives and we move ahead to winter
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, we will have had time to stop and reflect about the previous week. Each time, I saw a police car, either zipping up the Avenue…
Vigils and prayers in the wake of tragic events
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, the city will be reeling from Wednesday night’s tragic shooting, leaving two Bristol police officers dead, one injured, and two others, one dead and…