I don't know the full story of what's going on at WDC with the HUD funds, but I've got a lot of questions. I qualify for the HOM...

A friend came over today to help me figure out how much it will cost to replace my roof (to keep my insurance company happy). Naturally, I h...

The Market Place downtown on East Main Street, across from UConn, opened this winter in the storefront that used to be Brass City Buzz. It...

Okay, so this one isn't really specific to Waterbury, but it's too funny not to share. My long-hair cat was having serious problems ...

I have an online subscription to the Republican-American. For the past two days, when I try to access the paper, I get a message telling me ...

I think we need to do this every month, not just once a year...

A friend (who lives nowhere near here) recently pointed out that he'd never encountered the word "ramparage" before. I did a G...

Now that I am a home owner and, more significantly for this post, a yard owner, I'm diving into gardening. Last fall I planted bulbs, wh...

Here are some photos from last night's event, mostly taken before the doors opened. Later, the space was packed with people.

Contrary to what David Randall wrote in Forbes magazine, Waterbury is far from being a "junk pile." Here is a selection of images ...

I've gotten two parking tickets in the past month. The first, on February 28, was a deserved overtime ticket. The second, two days ago, ...

The morning frost on one of my windows this January. Hopefully I won't see anything like that again until next year! Now if only I could...

The University of Connecticut at Waterbury presents Creative Sustenance in support of the Greater Waterbury Interfaith Ministries featuring ...

Eat Your Art Out is a week away! Buy your tickets online through the Palace Theater at http://www.palacetheaterct.org/calendar/index.php?id...

Last fall I bought many bags of bulbs at PriceChopper (2 for 1 sale) and planted them in my front yard. This handful of crocuses started blo...

Back in January, I wrote a blog post reacting to the news that ex-Governor Rowland had been given a high-paying job as Economic Developer f...

The Rowland/Waterbury debacle is back in the news and, thanks to a bout of insomnia, I’ve spent the past half hour reading through more-or-l...

Today’s Republican-American included an article about the Silas Bronson Library’s efforts to received state funds for building improvement a...

Winter is officially over. Traditional signs of spring are flowers and robins. Forget them. I just heard an ice cream truck playing its fami...

The art world (around here) can be divided into a few parts: "safe" traditional realism that appeals to a general audience; "...