Recordings of upbeat show tunes floated on the breeze as members of the Goodspeed Musicals and East Haddam communities celebrated the start of a major expansion project on the 19th-century theater's campus this week.
Submitted by Linda Wallace, Wreaths Across America, on 2009-11-18.   John Walker Jessie Klemyk, Fife and Drum Corp., American Legion Post 197 SAL President Richard Walz, and American Legion Auxiliary Unit 197 President Lori Palatine present wreaths at the Marlborough Veterans Memorial.
It's from the East Haddam Republican Town Committee. The group's Chairman, Bryan Perry, praises Daly, a Republican running for the House seat currently occupied by U.S. Rep.
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.
When 145 students, or 40 percent school population, at Keigwin Middle School called out sick, the MiddletownSchool 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.
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. http://www.topix.net/city/east-haddam-ct/2009/10/cool-schools-nathan-hale-high-cool-schools-news-story-wfsb-hartford?fromrss=1
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.