It sounded like a bold statement when the Observer’s founder, the late Anthony Urillo, led off the newspaper’s first edition with the point blank declaration that the Observer will be the voice of the community. “In every community there exists…
It’s becoming so commonplace that it should no longer surprise us, but another politician has been chased out of politics for ill-advised and thoughtless posts on the internet. Last week, we received a 40-something page “leaked” file as the paper…
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…
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…
It isn’t often that a sports team truly surprises us, even though Cinderella seasons are talked about so much that they have become cliché. But this year’s American Legion baseball team’s championship run was as surprising as they come. To…
The 7-0 approval of the town seal ordinance finally put to rest a long-standing issue that has come up during each of the last two municipal elections. Or does it? In 2015, the Southington Republican Town Committee got their hands…
The irony wasn’t lost on us last year as we watched 2017 Little Miss Sunshine Layla Compolo dodging puddles during a sprint through the rain at last year’s Taste of Southington. All day, Marie Secondo was holding her breath during…
This week, we were able to sit down with the new director of the Southington Public Library, and it was so good to see the passion, energy, and dreams of a rookie library executive in Southington. We had almost forgotten…
A Step Saver front page from April 13, 1988 slowly yellows in its frame at our front entrance on Spring Street. It’s hard to believe that it was just over 30 years ago that the small, weekly shopper celebrated its…
