By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, we will have had a week of candidate forums which allow voters to familiarize themselves with the candidates and some of their positions, as…
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By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, October will have arrived—and some hoped for better weather. All the rain, the rain! I hope your basements are dry. I know of at…
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, the Mum Festival will be well underway and, for the first time in years, will be operating under cloudy and rainy skies, complements of…
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, Hurricane Lee will have left New England behind, and even though the hurricane skirted Connecticut, we did get some terrific winds Friday. It was…
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, the storms that cut off power to more than 12,000 homes here in Bristol will have subsided and the power will have been restored…
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, the temperature is expected to rise to the 80s and 90s through Friday. We’ve had a nice stretch, so some high temps are a…
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, word is that there will be a community action and response to a recent white supremacist demonstration at the corner of Todd Street and…
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, another Rockwell Summer Festival will have come and gone. Kudos to the West End Association and their partners for all the hard work that…
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, Mary and I will have returned home after babysitting for a couple of days, as the oldest and spouse got a few days away…
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, the extreme hot temperature and humidity will have supposedly burned off and left us with more pleasant weather. The rains will again have come…
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, we will have had at least one day of temperate weather. I will take it. And I did take advantage of the weather by…
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, the rains will have returned. The expectation is that they will be heavy and go on for a while. On Saturday, the forecast looked…
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, the couple from Australia, youngest son and partner Allison, will have been here for a week. Every morning that they have been here they…
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, once again the fallout from the wildfires in Canada will have subsided and the air quality will have improved, at least that is the…
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, the humidity will have moved in, which is fine since we are approaching July. Over the past few weeks, we have been pretty fortunate…
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, Father’s Day will be here for those celebrating the day. I will have already received a gift from the kids who are extraordinarily generous…
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, things will be quieter around the city since CT Open House Day activities will have subsided. Saturday the parking lot at the American Clock…
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, the family is navigating the passing of Nana. Every day is a little different now. We do the best we can. *** It was…
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, the family will be dealing with an unforeseen but not necessarily unexpected event—Nana, my mom, a grandmother, a great grandmother, a sister, an aunt,…
By David Fortier Come Sunday morning, we will have set out for Hartford and Dunkin Donuts Park and a Hartford Yard Goats game with the family—yup, grandkids in tow. One…