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The path for most students is relatively clear, especially if they are pursuing higher education: Go to high school, get good grades in high school, apply for college, do well in college, perhaps sprinkle some internships in between and then get a good job. But this is not the path everyone takes anymore.

With the rapid bursts of blizzards and winds in Northeastern Connecticut this time of year, the battle against snow seems almost unwinnable. Even armed with a shovel, courage and a lot of caffeine, it’s incredibly difficult to clear away snow when it seemingly reappears quicker than you can shovel it away.  

Happy Valentine’s Day! When you walk down the aisles of candies and flowers this week, which items catch your eye? The red boxes of assorted chocolates? The bright pink flowers? The pastel pink bags of candies? While red and pink occupy the shelves alongside each other, in this roundtable, the Life section will get to…

I’ve been a dancer for 17 years, but my relationship with dancing has been anything but consistent. Throughout my dance career, I’ve doubted my skills, questioned relationships and gone back and forth on how I feel about my physique. The only constant I experienced was a lack of confidence all around.  

There is nothing worse than the feeling of closing a book and coming to terms that you’ve wasted your time because you hated it. However, there’s also nothing worse than someone hating an entire work simply because they didn’t like the main character.  For many readers, having a protagonist be some horribly despicable or unbearable…

If there’s one thing more horrifying than Halloween decorations littering the yards of homes across the U.S., it’s the political campaign signs that seem to rise from their graves around this time of the year as well. Of course, this is due to the general elections happening in Connecticut and elsewhere on Nov. 5-7, prompting…

I still remember my first trip to the mall without my parents. It was a unique step toward adulthood — using the small amount of money that I had accumulated from holidays and what not, I went off to the mall to buy clothes that I didn’t need my mom to buy. Malls at that…

I was recently given the gift of an early Capitol Records Beatles LP on vinyl from 1965, and on the back it says, “This monophonic microgroove recording is playable on monophonic and stereo phonographs. It cannot become obsolete.” As vinyl records were replaced by tapes, CDs and ultimately digital formats, isn’t that last statement resoundingly…

Classic Automation LLC announces the hiring of Tim Stack as the e-commerce database specialist, and Krista Mitchell as Marketing & Communications Specialist. The information in the People and Awards section is provided by the submitter. The Rochester Business Journal accepts high-resolution color, digital photos with press releases. Submit digital submissions at rbj.net/people. Complete access to news articles on ...January 27, 2023

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