Southington Observer Opinion and Letters To the Editor Section
We considered ourselves lucky to have the Southington Veteran’s Committee as our neighbors last week in front of the town hall at the Apple Harvest Festival. We were proud to see our local committee stepping up to help veterans and…
To the editor: The Giving Back Girls would like to thank the Southington Fire Department for helping load and transport all the backpacks to Derynoski Elementary School. You Rock!! Krista Galante, The Arc of Southington
To the editor: Southington Community Services would like to thank Madison Hendricks for donating 400 boxes of cereal to our food pantry. This is the fourth year in a row that Madison has asked for cereal instead of gifts for…
The Southington STEPS Coalition was incredibly honored to celebrate 10 years of making prevention a priority with over 250 community members at the Aqua Turf Club. It was also an opportunity to honor one of STEPS founding members and forever…
The planning is set. The volunteers are ready. The tents have gone up, and the queen has been crowned. Now comes the fun part. We have really enjoyed the preparations for this weekend as the town gets ready to open…
With our local candidates getting their exercise by walking in the parades of assorted festivals in the area, and with the campaign rhetoric heating up, we are reminded that Election Day is coming fast upon us. Every year, The Observer…
Why is the Observer so picky? Why does the newspaper continually nitpick Southington’s Town Council? Why does it bother us so much that they passed a resolution for the way the town will handle the Bradley emergency room, even when…
We hope that Hospital of Central Connecticut president Gary Havican decides to follow through on his promise to give a presentation at a Town Council meeting in September, but it would be understandable if he decided against it. After all,…
It is hard to turn on the news right now and not hear about what has happened in New Haven—right here in our own state. K2, a drug that originally became popular in the mid-2000s, is once again rearing its…
To the editor: In 2016, Liz Linehan said she would be a moderate in Hartford—not a rubber stamp for Gov. Dannell Malloy and the Democrats. Truth be told, Linehan has been that rubber stamp. Her very first vote as state…
