Joe Pisani: A business card can feed the fishbowl, or the ego
Joe Pisani
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Someone asked me for a business card last week. It took some searching, but I finally found one that was faded, wrinkled and dog-eared, hidden in my wallet where it was growing mold. With all the viruses and bacteria around, I should have sanitized it. Who knows what kind of outbreak it might cause.
I’ve reached the point in life where I don’t like to hand out business cards because I don’t want people bothering me. Nevertheless, I still have something to offer society, and a business card lets me stay in the game, so from time to time I pawn one off even though it looks like a historic artifact that survived the Great Recession.
FD: No injuries after fire at Shelton bank
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Shelton Fire Department personnel quickly extinguished a fire in an HVAC unit on the roof of a building that houses a bank and pet supply business on Bridgeport Avenue Tuesday, March 9, 2021.Contributed /Shelton Fire Department
SHELTON Firefighters quickly put out a fire that started in the HVAC system of a building that houses a bank and pet supply store on Bridgeport Avenue Tuesday afternoon.
Fire units were called to the Chase Bank and Pet Supplies Plus building just before 4 p.m. for a report of smoke, Deputy Fire Chief Paul Wilson said.
CT police join search for missing 11-year-old Massachusetts boy
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Local and state police search for missing 11-year-old Aiden Blanchard in Chicopee, Mass., on March 3, 2021. On March 10, 2021, Connecticut authorities joined the search near the state line.Chicopee Police / Contributed Photo
Connecticut State Police on Wednesday joined the law enforcement agencies involved in the search for a missing 11-year-old Massachusetts boy that approached the state line.
Aiden Blanchard was last seen Feb. 5 around 11:30 a.m. when he was walking in the Willamansett area of Chicopee, Mass., according to Massachusetts State Police. He was believed to be headed toward the Medina Street boat launch along the Connecticut River.
CT officials: Beware of invasive species in aquarium moss balls
Tara O’Neill
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Connecticut officials are advising residents to be vigilant after highly invasive zebra mussels were found in aquatic moss balls in 25 states.Tyler Sizemore / Hearst Connecticut Media file photo
State officials are warning residents to destroy any aquarium moss balls after it was discovered this week that they might contain the highly invasive zebra mussel.
On March 1, scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey learned that zebra mussels were found attached and inside moss balls sold as aquarium plants. While the mussels in the product are invasive, the moss ball is not.