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Let them eat creative wedding cakes

West Hartford, Conn., pastry chef Carol Murdock once made a wedding cake in the shape of the Matterhorn and perched a tiny sugar tent on one...

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Discount retailer Ames announces plans to close all 327 stores nationwide

WEST HARTFORD, Conn. -- Ames Department Stores, one of the last surviving regional...Angela Latiff was resigned to the decision, announced to employees at the West Hartford store Wednesday morning. "I thought it was coming," she said. Ames...

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Discern school jitters from anxiety disorder

...novel situation can provoke a bit of worry and anxiousness, according to psychologist Bernard Lapp, who practices in West Hartford and Watertown, Conn., and specializes in treating children and adolescents. BYLINE5: "You're talking about...

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Musician includes hometown among 'places' to which he pays homage

...pianist's autobiographical homage to places important in his life, including his hometown of West Hartford, Conn. On the track "West Hartford," Mehldau is joined by his empathetic trio mates, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jorge Rossy...

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Refinancing mortgage to 15-year term may bring payment shock

...payment on paper. It's another to actually have to pay it," said Michael Menatian, president of Sanborn Corp. in West Hartford, Conn., a mortgage brokerage company. And it has been happening more frequently in the past two years, as record...

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Let them eat creative cakes

...offer more contemporary looks. "My favorite is the hexagon," says Murdock, who owns Classic Cakes and Pastries in West Hartford, "because it gives you a good surface for decorations. The newest shape is a scalloped oval. I love this shape...

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Try growing medicinal herbs in garden

...including echinacea and chamomile, according to Gordon Kenneson, a horticulturist at Moscarillos Garden Shoppe in West Hartford, Conn. Echinacea mostly is used to relieve cold symptoms. To use it, remove the plant from the soil and crush or...

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Nation's top 10 young scientists include Minnesotan

...language translator allows those sign to be understood by those who do not. Second place went to Jacob Licht, of West Hartford (Conn.) High School for research challenging previous conceptions on how patterns can be found within disorder...

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Garden tools of the masters

...Louise Pruyne, coordinator of the many volunteers who keep the gardens looking spruce for the Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society. An avid gardener, Pruyne's garden must-haves are her trowel, her pruners and rakes in various...

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Family fights to change Veterans Affairs policy for vets' grave markers

...family to change the policy and gained a victory last week when the Senate backed their effort. Guzzo, who lived in West Hartford, Conn., and died at age 70 in April 1998, was not eligible because he was encrypted in a mausoleum that included...

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