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Mystic — While it now sits vacant, with a "For Sale" sign on its faded blue shingles and a chain link fence blocking entrance to its parking lot, this Old Stonington Road building onced housed Sailor Eds, a thriving seafood restaurant that catered to locals and tourists alike. It was billed as "The Shore Dinner House of Distinction."    A Day reader recently asked what Sailor Eds was as part of the papers CuriousCT series. Some other, newer residents began asking the s...

Stardate: 53263.2 Captain’s log. Neelix and Tuvok are returning from a diplomatic mission with the Kesat in the Delta Flyer. Neelix’s attempts to engage Tuvok in conversation or games or something fall on uninterested pointy ears. When Tuvok finally agrees to a riddle, Neelix tells a joke with a bad pun for a punchline, at which point Tuvok retreats to the aft section to get away from him. While there, Tuvok detects someone downloading their tactical data. Tuvok scans with a tricorder and...

Bam names subcontractors on £250m Manchester arena Bam Construct has named its subcontractors on the new £250m Co-op Live arena in Manchester. It announced that around £150m of contracts have been handed to subcontractors with M&E works set to be carried out by Wates-owned SES Engineering Services. The steelwork, for which 9,000 tons of the material will be used, is to be handled by Severfield. Prater has won the contract for facade and roof works while Provectus will undertake excavation an...

Dan Whelan The contractor signed a £253m deal to build Oak View Group’s events venue last week, its second major Eastlands scheme having completed Manchester City’s £115m training ground in 2015.   Place North West last year, but the value of the construction contract exceeds early estimates by around £100m.  “This is the largest value project that Bam has done in the UK. We just picked up the [£192m contract] for Sky’s studios in Elstree, but this is a bit bigger,” said Ian F...

Raw Iron Powerlifting League hosts first full-power, nationally accredited meet in Tyler Raw Iron Powerlifting League hosts first full-power, nationally accredited meet in Tyler By Erin Wides | April 11, 2021 at 7:01 PM CDT - Updated April 12 at 5:51 AM TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - The sound of weights hitting the ground and encouragement for everyone rang through the Raw Iron Gym in Tyler this weekend for the 2021 Tyler Takedown full power meet. It was the first powerlifting meet of its kind in ...

Raw Iron Powerlifting League hosts first full power, nationally accredited meet in Tyler A powerlifter steps up to the bar at the 2021 Tyler Takedown, the first full power, sanctioned, nationally accredited meet, this weekend at Raw Iron Gym Tyler. (Source: KLTV) By Erin Wides | April 11, 2021 at 7:01 PM CDT - Updated April 11 at 7:14 PM TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - The sound of weights hitting the ground and encouragement for everyone rang through the Raw Iron Gym in Tyler this weekend for the...

Article content The guinea pigs have weighed in and none is too happy that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is using them as a “human experiment” in order to save political face on the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. My Sunday column on the Trudeau Liberals’ skipping the manufacturers’ recommendation to give second dose after 21 days, not Trudeau’s four months, certainly rattled the hornet’s nest. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser,...

Article content The guinea pigs have weighed in and none is too happy that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is using them as a “human experiment” in order to save political face on the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. My Sunday column on the Trudeau Liberals’ skipping the manufacturers’ recommendation to give second dose after 21 days, not Trudeau’s four months, certainly rattled the hornet’s nest. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser,...

TROY, N.Y. — Douglas A. Blackmon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II," will be the featured speaker at a webinar to be hosted by the Justice Center of Rensselaer County on March 25 at 7 p.m. The event is part of the JCRC’s on-going work to address systemic racism. Published in 2008, "Slavery by Another Name" documents the use of the justice system to conscript Black men into unpaid labor f...