No more joshing around

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With considerable regret, I report that we've lost longtime Hartford Courant reporter Josh Kovner to West Hartford, where he's been reassigned. According to Josh, Alaine Griffin, and Jodie Mozdzer remain in the Middletown bureau with another reporter to be assigned there sometime in the future.

Kovner has done a great job covering the town for a decade, and his knowledge of the town, its issues and its personalities, will be sorely missed. Kovner, who shared in a Pulitzer for his work on the story of the Lottery headquarters slayings several years back, is part of the Courant's realignment and redesign. We wish him luck, and have one more reason to envy West Hartford.

It started in the Eye

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Here's evidence that The Middletown Eye can have some influence on the issues of the city. We received an email from Lee Godburn who allowed us to reprint it in the Eye. As a result, a reporter from the Middletown Press, Sloan Brewster, did a follow-up report on the lease of Harbor Park. Her informative article was the front cover story of the Middletown Press today.

Speaking of local news writing, Middletown also made the front page of the Hartford Courant today with a story about the gash in Maromas and the new Kleen Energy Plant.


Ed McKeon is a writer, filmmaker and radio show host (WWUH, WESU) who lives in Middletown's Village District.