East Haddam News

Well, the economy is good for something. I hear that Goodspeed Musicals received more bids than it anticipated for its $5.5 million actors' housing project.

In writing this week about the return engagement of "Jim Henson's Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas" at the Goodspeed Operas House in East Haddam made me go back to my original review ro recall the pleasures of last year's premiere production.

Submitted by Linda Wallace on 2009-11-04.   The "Wreaths Across America" ceremony this year will be conducted on Saturday, Dec.

Middletown is one of 28 Connecticut communities to be awarded federal stimulus grants for public safety and crime prevention needs.

Application Deadline: January 11, 2010 I-Park announces its tenth season hosting The Artists' Enclave.

When 145 students, or 40 percent school population, at Keigwin Middle School called out sick, the Middletown School District decided the best course of action was to shut down the school for the rest of the week.

Goodspeed Musicals, a non-profit legit company in East Haddam, Conn., will begin construction in December on a $5.5 million actor housing project, including what it calls "an Olympic Village-style community for actors." Ambitious project could serve as a model for thesp amenities at other regionals.

Submitted by Richard A. Watson on 2009-10-26.   The Earth Charter Community of the Lower Valley monthly meeting on Nov.

Nathan Hale-Ray High School was featured on WFSB Channel 3's "Cool Schools" program on Friday, October 23. Mike Hydek of channel 3 came to the school about a week or so in advance, and filmed and interviewed students and how the school is "cool". Some "cool" aspects of Hale-Ray included the Agriculture Department, Forenics, and Fitness. On Friday, the school gathered for a rally that was featured live on the morning news from 5-7 AM.

Junot Diaz , who won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle award for fiction for "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," will speak and take questions Friday at 6 p.m. in the atrium of the Hartford Public Library.

H1N1 Flu Vaccination Clinics Health Notes Submitted by Chatham Health District on 2009-10-21.   The Chatham Health District has received a limited amount of the nasal mist H1N1 flu vaccine and will begin holding vaccination clinics.

Adam Heller is Pseudolus, and John Scherer is his slapstick sidekick, Hysterium, in Goodspeed Musicals' new production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, opening Oct.

Goodspeed Musicals will offer three major titles next year, two of which the long-standing tuner stable will be reviving for the first time.

The Old Lyme Area Cable Advisory Council has notified First Selectmen and School Superintendents in the Towns of East Haddam, Haddam Neck, Lyme, Old Lyme and Salem of a grant funding opportunity.

Electronic Stability Control is a new feature on many automobiles. It's designed to help drivers stay in control when they need to swerve or brake suddenly.

Alpha Travel is long gone from a strip mall in Colchester, and so is the money authorities say Deborah Long took from ten customers.

Submitted by Nathan Hale Ray High School Project Graduation 2010 on 2009-10-06.   Dan LaRosa, "America's funniest hypnotist", will perform at Nathan Hale-Ray High School Auditorium, East Haddam, November 13, at 7 pm.

School Stuff Submitted by Linda D. Dadona on 2009-10-05.   Nathan Hale-Ray High School students Lauren Ciarci,Zachary Fanslau and Alex Rubin have been named commended students in the 2010 National Merit Scholarship Program.

It could be the line from God Bless America "From the mountains, to the prairies, To the oceans, white with foam." Maybe for me that's the reason a view is not a view unless the ocean can be seen in it.

The Eightmile River Wild and Scenic Coordinating Committee has hired Patricia Young to serve as the principal contact for the committee and the watershed communities of Colchester , Salem, Lyme and East Haddam .