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…
Last Thursday, a gunman attacked the newsroom of the Capital Gazette, a small daily newspaper in central Maryland in a charming harbor community on the Chesapeake Bay. The shooter barricaded the rear exit of the building. Five were killed and…
This past week, the Red Hen restaurant in Virginia made national news when it refused to serve White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders because of the restaurant’s employees’ views on Sanders’ boss, President Donald Trump. No matter how you…
This week kicked off the annual “walk-through” season when the chamber and town leaders join press and business owners for a tour of the two central business districts—the Village of Plantsville and downtown Southington. On one hand, we love this…
