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Were it not on Thames St. in Groton, backing up to the Thames River and nearly in the shadow of the Gold Star Memorial Bridge, Paul's Pasta Shop wouldn't be out of place on Federal Hill in Providence or the North End of Boston -- a family-run business that has fed multiple...
Johnson’s True Value Hardware at 40 Fort Hill Road has been in business for 100 years, and will celebrate its centennial in 2022.Since opening in 1921 as KUM-SEE-ME gas station — a name William A. Johnson and his wife Lulu saw on a restaurant on a trip to Vermont and gave...
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Carrying a number of mysterious antique metal objects, a man walked into what he thought was an old blacksmith shop at the end of High Street in Mystic. He soon discovered that the unique old building has not housed a blacksmith in some time, but that it now houses creators...
Lamplighter Trading Co. coffee shop has a casual, comfortable vibe and is decorated with 300 year old Danish maple from the Mayflower II restoration at Mystic Seaport. Co-owner Nicole Anderson enjoys providing, “a place for the community to gather and feel at home.” Specialties include CBD iced coffee by Willie Nelson...
Cruise down Flanders Rd. from Route 184 and take your last left before the I-95 overpass, and you enter a quiet neighborhood of winding turns and cul-de-sacs, all surrounded by trees. Only this isn’t a neighborhood of multi-bedroom homes.It’s Mystic Business Park, the do-it-yourself creation Tim Tylaska started 22 years ago...
Right around Valentine’s Day, Mystic Cheese opened its doors to the public in their new facility at 225 Leonard Drive in Groton. Having hand-crafted cheese since 2013 in a custom-designed shipping container on a farm in Lebanon, the founders of Mystic Cheese were ready to expand their operations.With their expansion...
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The music enthusiast website Vinyl Me, Please recently recognized Mystic Disc as the Best Record Store in Connecticut. Now a new wave of fans knows what locals have known for decades.Not long into our conversation with Dan Curland, long-time owner of Mystic Disc, he revealed an authoritative memoir on the Woodstock Music Festival...
Geoff Maynard grew up in Norwich, but his parents had a cottage in Misquamicut, so he spent summers with sand between his toes and salt water in his hair.Maynard's early love of all things ocean-related is the inspiration for North Swell Earth & Sea, which began as a pop-up and...
Outer Light Brewing Company celebrating 4th anniversary with new custom drinkIt’s testing and tasting season at the Outer Light Brewing Company! The young business, which is about to celebrate four years in Groton, has celebrated each anniversary by debuting a brand new beverage. Co-founder Tom Drejer describes the process as...
Mystic Staple Wins Connecticut Restaurant of the Year AwardMystic’s Oyster Club is still a young company. The business opened its doors just seven years ago, which makes its rise to prominence in the restaurant world even more impressive. CEO Dan Meiser was named Restaurateur of the Year in 2016. And...
Over its 69 years in business, since 1956 at 739 Meridien St. in Groton, the metal fabrication shop Hillery Co. has served customers large and small, from defense contractors such as Electric Boat to homeowners needing a custom hood for a stove top.With just 10 employees Hillery generates north of $4...
Queenie’s Gift Emporium is a fun stop when you want to lighten your mood and laugh out loud. Pet friendly and packed with irreverent ideas you may think but aren’t used to saying out loud, this is a better stop for adults and older youth than young children. Whether you want...
Rachel Intrieri, owner of RI Boutique, is an entrepreneur, wife, boy mom, sister, daughter and fashionista. She is passionate about making sure every woman leaves RI Boutique feeling confident and beautiful in their new threads.Rachel has nearly two decades of retail experience in the women’s boutique space. Owning her own...
Imagine the pleasure of eating at the best restaurant in Southeastern Connecticut, then at an iconic CT Restaurant Hall of Fame eatery, then indulging in sweets prepared by the Best Baker in America. All three spots are within a half mile of each other in the Mystic section of Groton.The CT...
Team-Building Is Taken to the Extreme at Survival Systems USAFounded in 1982 to provide underwater escape and survival training instruction, Survival Systems USA has operated since 1999 out of a boxy blue building across the street from the main terminal at Groton-New London Airport.Its initial customers were different branches of the military...
If ever a local business were operating in a “sweet spot” among current and potential customers, it’s ThayerMahan, a maritime technology firm that specializes in unmanned undersea robotics.With Electric Boat nearby, the U.S. Naval Sub Base up the Thames River, the Coast Guard Academy across the river, and maritime businesses...
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Local company to launch a product that could revolutionize the musical worldThe double bass, with its ability to hit the lowest notes, plays a critical foundational role in orchestras and jazz bands. But lugging the massive stringed instrument around is not easy. The double bass can stand as tall as...
YM Careers is a small cog in the large wheel of a company that does business across the globe. Still, the Groton-based arm of Community Brands (communitybrands.com), which has more than 100,000 clients in 30 countries, is a powerhouse on its own.YM Careers’ primary function is providing niche job boards...
When Nick Schade, the owner of Guillemot Kayaks on the west bank of the Poquonnock River, was growing up in Glastonbury, his dad’s idea of weekend fun was to take his two boys to Bushy Point and Bluff Point for some canoeing.Together, the three of them made a kayak from a kit,...
Dan Kenyon, then a patrolman for the Town of Groton Police Department, had been working security for a number of years at the Mystic Outdoor Arts Festival when in 2013 he struck up a conversation with a vendor.The vendor explained how he had become a professional artist, and after the two talked...
Carson’s Store in Noank was perfectly positioned to emerge from the pandemic.Even before it moved to its current location on 43 Main St., it was a small, efficient operation, opened in 1907 by Jane Carson. In 1979, David Blacker purchased the current building, improved it structurally, and ran the market for decades...
On a cold Sunday morning in mid-January, 20 people already were in line for the 11 a.m. opening of Beer’d Brewing’s second microbrewery. By mid-afternoon, the wait had reached two hours to taste their newest offerings, beers with names like Hobbit Juice, Dogs & Boats, and Kittens & Canoes.It was...