The word “thrift” gets a bad rap, according to sisters-in-law Sue Kuselias and Jodee Webb. (more…)
Home Work
Edwin Sanchez had to pull his delivery truck to the side of the road in order to take the call. (more…)
Organic Chemistry
“Just make sure my garden looks pretty.” That’s what customers used to say to Nancy DuBrule-Clemente. (more…)
Hitting Home
When Kimberly Pedrick, long-time owner of Chapel Street fashion boutique idiom, decided to open another store, she ended up much closer to home than she’d originally planned (more…)
Creatures’ Comfort
What could be cuter than a pile of puppies? Just two weeks old, this litter of eight—mostly black with little brown snouts and paws—are trying to sleep. (more…)
Turning the Corner
We pull off a dirt road and park our cars in an old farm field. Seven of us hike a grassy path past brambles and patchy snow to an open rise, where Dick Margulis points to a stone wall edged with trees. (more…)
Home Team
A bell jingles on the door (push, don’t pull). The creaky, worn wooden floors and the odor of motor oil bring me back to the hardware store of my youth in another town. (more…)
Wood and Fire
“I have a last name which is Ukrainian. I am an American citizen. I was born in Poland. I was raised in Belarus. I went to college in Moscow. And I left Russia for Springfield, Massachusetts.” (more…)
For the Birds
Step into The Fat Robin in Hamden and you may think you’ve stepped into a woodland glade. Virtual birds sing. A miniature fountain burbles. The air smells pleasantly of seed and freshly cut wood. (more…)
Household Name
You can find them in New Haven on Alden Avenue and Cleveland Road, on Chapel Street and Vista Terrace. There are dozens in Hamden, but you’ll find a handful as well in Cheshire and North Haven, Woodbridge and Orange. (more…)