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NEWINGTON, CT – After a more than three-week delay due to high water levels on the Connecticut River, the seasonal Chester-Hadlyme and Rocky Hill-Glastonbury ferries resume operation today following the winter hiatus. Ferry service is set to start at 7 a.m. and will run daily through Nov. 30. Hours of …

DETROIT – It was an off year in 2023 compensation-wise for General Motors CEO Mary Barra, who saw her total take dip four percent from 2022 to only $27,847,405 million. The company failed to hit shareholder value targets to which her compensation is tied. Barra’s counterparts at the other two …

WESTPORT, CT – Jason Alford of Westport, CT owns a visually appealing, yet uncommon and surprisingly unsought after 63-year-old Porsche model in Aetna blue. It’s a variant of the popular Porsche 356, the brand’s first production sports car that lasted from 1948 to 1965. Alford drives a 1961 Porsche 356 …

EAST HADDAM, CT – At first, I was taken aback by the window sticker on the 2024 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV. It read $51,835. After the initial shock wore off, I looked up the most recent average new car price. It’s now $48,759, according to Kelley Blue Book.  Hmm, wait a …

WOLCOTT, CT – Paul “Buddy” Musso of Cheshire and Gene Fercodini of Wolcott have known each other for decades. They’re golfing buddies and each owns a 1966 Ford Mustang. Musso’s six-cylinder Mustang hardtop is red with a white vinyl top. Fercodini’s eight-cylinder convertible is black with a black top. Both …

WESTPORT, CT – Photos from the Spring Fling Rally at Compo Beach, which attracted an array of Porsche and Volkswagen models and smattering of other vehicles just footsteps from Long Island Sound. — — — — — — — — (Photos by Bud Wilkinson)

HAMDEN, CT – The sixth annual Quinnipiac Car Club Spring Show staged in the parking lot outside of Quinnipiac University’s M&T Bank Arena had cars engaged in a limbo competition. A soggy morning may have kept some away, but there were still dozens of cars and an enthusiastic crowd. — …

CHATTANOOGA, TN – The United Auto Works has gotten a toehold in the South after workers at Volkswagen’s Tennessee plant voted 73 percent in favor of unionizing. The results released Friday night had 2,628 in favor and 985 opposed. The landslide result will make VW’s factory the first foreign-owned facility …

EAST HADDAM, CT – Every now and then a vehicle like the Ford Maverick XLT Hybrid surreptitiously arrives in the driveway with minimal fanfare. And a week later, it departs with oodles of serendipity. In this case, it was more than just a happy coincidence because such affection was achieved …

HARWINTON, CT – It’s a memory that cannot be erased; a memory of being 12 or 13 years old, accompanying my parents to Crestwood Ford in Watertown, CT, and riding home with mom in a new light gray 1966 Ford Mustang. It was a base model, with a 200-cubic-inch six-cylinder …