The Editor's Notepod, Sun., Sept. 4, 2011

Education officials in Meriden, Wallingford, Southington and Cheshire use electronic devices to various extents as school texts. Officials agree that they likely represent the future – but no one seems quite ready to abandon books just yet.

The “grow local, buy local” movement in our area and across Connecticut. In the past 20 years there has been a five-fold increase in the number of markets, growing from 22 farmers markets in 1986 to around 125 today, including Meriden, Wallingford, and Southington
An unexpected bump in Cheshire’s school census has surprised officials but not over-stressed any part of the school system. A change of a couple of percent shouldn’t bother any system very much, but when the census moves the wrong way, it does suggest that assumptions on which population projections were prepared should be examined.