Down the Path to Better Solar His brainchild may look like a postmodern sculpture, but Bill Bender is an engineer at heart, not an artist. When he isn’t busy helping his daughter Kristen climb mountains or biking with his younger kids to school, the unassuming Norwich resident is quietly revolutionizing solar energy. Bill remembers taking a course…
Tag: the norwich times
July 1, 2012
“I’m not in favor of abolishing the government. I just want to shrink it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.” The famously harsh opinion as voiced by anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist some years back. Tracy Hall may not fit in Grover’s bathtub, but it’s as small as government gets,…
June 7, 2012
Four million steps from Georgia, Appalachian Trail thru-hiker Smooth Sailin’ is heading North to Katahdin in Maine, about 400 miles away. Behind him lies 1700 miles of simple needs: food, shelter, laundry, occasional showers. Next stop is Hanover, an AT hiker favorite with its cheap restaurants, ample services, and a rich history of AT involvement.…
June 7, 2012
Equal parts gingerbread cookies and painful reminders of our hectic and commercialized lives, there’s no getting around the Holiday season. For starters, it is a ritual that requires an intimidating amount of shopping. This is ‘the big one’: 20 percent of all retail sales happen over the Christmas season. You can take on that particular…
June 7, 2012
Covering the entire Midwest and Northeast, the early February storm had the weather channel prophets airing doomsday predictions with headlines like “Colossal Winter Storm Takes Aim.” In fairness, schools in D.C. did shut down for almost a week. But for Andy Hodgdon and his intrepid Norwich highway crew, it simply meant more business as usual.…
