Monthly Archives: November 2009

Publisher of Register Citizen to Launch Weeklies

The owner of the Torrington Register Citizen and a variety of weekly newspapers and web sites has re-organized intself into Foothills Media Group and...

Could Gayle Fill the Oprah Void?

We should go to Blogger jail for missing this story about WFSB alum Gayle King possibly getting her own talk...

Politician's Dream: Leave Office and then Give It Back to Reporters

Some in the Connecticut news media will remember John J. Ryan who served as a state representative from Darien and Rowayton for 14 years....

Rowland and the "Comeback Trail"?

Today the New York Post's "Page Six" includes former Governor John Rowland among its blurbs about Natalie Portman, Tobey Maguire and Jimmy Fallon...

We Are Thankful For…

Former Connecticut Governor Wilbur Cross' 1936 Thanksgiving Proclamation The renewal of Colin McEnroe's radio program on WNPR for 13 more weeks The new Dunkin' Donuts on...

Collateral Damage?

There's concern among friends of former Hartford Courant reporter Larry Smith that he is being unfairly named in the Journal Inquirer's plagiarism suit against...

Don Was Back, But It Was Brief

Not long ago The Laurel told you that former WFSB anchor Don Lark was returning to Connecticut.  Word was that he had been hired...

A Guy with Heart

Randall Beach of the New Haven Register wrote a farewell to former city editor David McClendon (above) who died last week.

Kristin Thorne Returns to News12

Kristin Thorne has returned to News 12 as a freelance reporter, but will also join FOXnews.com as a contributor.; she will divide her time...

Boola Boola

Bold-face names spotted at the Yale-Harvard football game in New Haven on Saturday:  Possible Gubernatorial candidate Ned Lamont...Republican Senate hopeful Tom Foley...Ted Kennedy Jr...