About The Spa at Norwich Inn For over 75 years, The Spa at Norwich Inn, located in eastern Connecticut, approximately halfway between New York and Boston, has been a destination for discerning guests seeking luxury, comfort and tranquility in the Connecticut woods. The Norwich Inn was built in 1929 and opened in 1930, financed by local stock subscriptions...

As we edge closer to the holidays, more and more aspects of our lives more stridently compete for our attention. Add to that the uncertainties many of us have right now in terms of employment, and the enjoyment level seems to plummet. Meetings this week in Norwich aren't a competing item-but a complementary aspect of living here. Between scouring...

Voice of Democracy/Patriot Pen Chairman Henry (Buz) Graves, Jr. announced the winners of the VFW sponsored 2008-2009 essay contests at the Post 4608 monthly meeting held on November 10. Created in 1947, the Voice of Democracy (VOD) scholarship program is an audio-essay contest for high school students in grades 9-12 that annually provides more than...

We have ourselves here in the Rose City at the moment a tempest in a teapot of sorts. Of course, there's a bit of history and the trick is in the telling, so let me get tricky. Last November, in Norwich, we elected a radically different, and new, City Council. Of the six vacancies to be filled, we returned only one incumbent--two, one from each...

Detroit, America’s Waterloo by Romy C. Schultz Ever since Henry Ford gave us the ‘Model T’ Detroit has dictated what America should drive. The tsarist attitude of Motown remained unchallenged for decades while the Big Three reigned supreme. In their assembly-line fortresses pregnant with delusory arrogance, erratic leadership ignored sound business...

It was forty years ago this week, a sprawling, untidy and almost overwhelming (in every sense of the word) four-sided two vinyl disc set was released by The Beatles usually called The White Album . What those of us who'd followed them from their debut on The Ed Sullivan Show didn't realize yet, and no way of knowing, was that it's getting...