August 2009

August 2009

Features

Watch the Money

Connecticut will soon be getting a billion dollars in federal stimulus funds to help make our infrastructure safe. But as the money is spread around, will the process keep us safe from veteran insiders who know how to game the system?

by Gregory Hladky

Saving Mory's

The Yale institution needs help to survive. Do enough people care?

by Alan Bisbort

Top Dentists 2009

Which dentists do other dentists recommend? Here are the results of our exclusive survey.

Departments

The Connecticut Table

Outriggers Restaurant, Stratford

Connecticut’s wandering shoreline is full of surprises, and Outriggers is one. With a boatyard to starboard and a marine supply store to port, it looks like a neatly painted storage shed. Enter and find a window-walled dining room, an open-air deck, and an unimpeded view of a saltwater harbor crammed with pleasure craft—sailboats, stinkpots, spiffy sportfishing boats with chrome superstructures catching the light.No commercial harbor this; these boats are here for fun.

by Elise Maclay
Dog Watch Café, Stonington

Dog Watch Café, Stonington

Blue-water sailors, cruising yachtsmen and itinerant crew drink elbow to elbow at Stonington’s new Dog Watch Café as if it had been there forever. After all, they’ve been fetching up at convivial little watering holes just like it in the Caribbean, the Balearics and the Greek Isles for years. In fact, co-owner Clay Burkhalter got the idea for Dog Watch at a sailors’ bar in the Azores, during a layover in the 2007 minitransit race from France to Brazil. Burkhalter, single-handing a 21-footer called Arcadia, placed 12th out of 87 boats—the fifth American ever to even finish. Before the race, Burkhalter, who grew up in Stonington, says that he and his eventual co-owner David Eck joked about opening a sailors’ bar in Stonington “if I made it to Brazil and was not lost at sea.”

by Elise Maclay

Being There
Digging the Past

Digging the Past

Searching for the remnants of a “lighthouse” in the forests of Barkhamsted.

by Ray Bendici
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