Idle Thoughts, while waiting for college bowl season, next season for the football Giants and for a nationwide ban on Christmas music:
• Dr. Idle, Dr. I to his close friends, begins today by saluting .
Those who remember when The Bulletin was The Norwich Bulletin may recall its managing editor from the halcyon days of the 1970s, John C. Peterson.
John passed away peacefully on March 18 in Branford .
Published June 03. 2021 9:00AM
By Bill Stanley, Special to the Times
My friend, Mike DiMauro, the sports columnist for The Day, wrote a column recently celebrating the re-opening of New London’s iconic Dutch Tavern after a pandemic-related closure of more than a year. In describing The Dutch’s cozy interior, he pointed out, among other qualities at this fine establishment, that there is no Wi-Fi.
“But there are several newspapers,” he wrote, adding parenthetically “A newspaper is a printed publication issued daily and commonly contains news, sports, features, commentary and advertising, in case the word is unfamiliar.”
As is often the case, DiMauro was writing with tongue firmly implanted in cheek. Or was he?