Time for Red, White & Moo from the Farmer's Cow

The Farmer’s Cow Celebrates National Ice Cream Month with a New Ice Cream Flavor

Red, White & Moo Summer Berry Is a Swirlicious
Hit with Ice Cream Enthusiasts 

July 10, 2012 (Lebanon, CT) – The Farmer’s Cow, a group of local dairy farmers providing fresh Connecticut milk and other products, is debuting its new ice cream flavor Red, White & Moo Summer Berry, just in time for the summer season. It features swirls of red raspberry puree and stripes of blueberry puree in a pure vanilla base to create a delectable “taste of summer” flavor that melts in your mouth.

Starting this month, The Farmer’s Cow will be sampling the new flavor at farmers’ markets and events around the state. Ice cream pints of Red, White & Moo Summer Berry will be available in grocery stores and markets. Tri-Town Markets in Portland, East Lyme and Uncasville were the first to introduce this delicious new flavor. It also will be available at our members Fort Hill Farm in Thompson and Fairvue Farm in Woodstock, and at The Farmer’s Cow Calfé & Creamery, which is scheduled to open in late July on Route 195 in Mansfield.

Fort Hill Farms will offer complimentary tastings of Red, White & Moo Summer Berry this Sunday, July 15th at its Annual Ice Cream, Blueberry & Bluegrass Bash in celebration of National Ice Cream Day.

The Farmer’s Cow ice cream is made locally from fresh milk and rich cream with all natural ingredients. Real raspberries and blueberries are used to create the natural pureed fruit swirls. The Farmer’s Cow popular Hay! Hay! Hay! Vanillabase is the perfect complement in color and texture to the burst of berry flavor.

Every ice cream flavor from The Farmer’s Cow is artfully developed and carefully crafted until it is just right. “We got the idea for Red, White & Moo last summer,” says Robin Chesmer, managing member of The Farmer’s Cow. “It is a nice, light summer berry flavor with ribbons of raspberry and blueberry in our delicious vanilla ice cream. It’s as fun to look at as it is to lick, and it’s tasty too! It is a true celebration of the summer season.”

The clever name was suggested by several of our customers in an ice cream naming contest that was held when The Farmer’s Cow first introduced its ice cream. More than 3,000 entries were submitted by ice cream enthusiasts throughout Connecticut in an online contest.

For more information visit www.TheFarmersCow.com, call (866) 355‐COWS, or email farmers@thefarmerscow.com.

About The Farmer’s Cow
The Farmer’s Cow is a group of six Connecticut dairy farms that produces fresh, local milk, half & half, heavy cream and ice cream for Southern New England. The Farmer’s Cow dairy products are pasteurized the “traditional way” and are never ultra‐pasteurized. The members of The Farmer’s Cow do not use Artificial Growth Hormones (rBST) on any of their cows. They also sell Connecticut‐sourced, all‐natural eggs, apple cider, seasonal beverages and coffee. The Farmer’s Cow’s mission is to promote Connecticut agriculture and show that “Local is Fresh!”

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The Night The Lights Stayed on at McCoy

The Longest Baseball Game on Record

April 19, 1981. Easter Sunday morning, sometime after 2:00 a.m. The phone rings in the club house of McCoy Stadium, home to theTriple A affiliate Pawtucket Red Sox. It was for Joe Morgan, manager of the home team. His wife was calling.

Joe took the call in his office. He had been thrown out of that night's game with the Rochester Red Wings. He explained to his wife that the team was in an extra inning game and he would be home as soon as it was over. She flipped! "You never used that excuse before Joe! You promised you'd take us to church tomorrow. I know you're drinking beer and playing poker. Oh, and shut those field lights off down there. The city can't afford those electric bills and I can't sleep with the lights flooding into the bedroom."

Yes, the east side of Pawtucket was like Times Square that night. After 2:00 a.m., the concession stands were open with free food to those still in the stands. At 4:07 a.m., league officials called the game. Paw Sox owner Ben Mondor issued life-time passes to the 19 souls that sat through a cold miserable night to watch history being made. The score was tied, 2-2.

Joe Morgan never made it home that night. He slept on his office couch. He did go to church.The marathon resumed on June 23 before 5,756 fans. Millions more listened or watched worldwide. Pawtucket, a sleepy old textile town on the banks of the Blackstone, had never seen such excitement. Rochester columnist Bob Minzesheimer wrote that day, “Not since the time they had to shoot the drunken camel at the city zoo has there been this much excitement in Pawtucket."

It took just 18 minutes on June 23rd to finally end the contest and rewrite history. The record still stands.  Thirty three innings, twenty three days — the longest ballgame on record. The Paw Sox won, 3-2.

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!973 Energy Crisis

Remember the oil crisis of 1973-1974?


The Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries or the OAPEC (consisting of the Arab members of OPEC, plus Egypt, Syria and Tunisia) proclaimed an oil embargo in response to U.S. decision to supply weapons and supplies to Israel during the Yom Kippur war. 

The embargo went in effect in October 1973 and oil prices immediately jumped from $3 per barrel to $12.

What followed was massive gas shortages and panic -- gas stations served by appointment only to regular customers, or closed altogether; businesses and towns were shutting off electricity to save energy and some towns banned Christmas light to cope with the crisis.

Amazing Pictures

Willimantic Notable Citizens

• Apathy, rapper
• William Bonin, serial killer known as the Freeway Killer
• Chris Dodd, senator
• Eileen Farrell, soprano opera and concert singer
• Jennifer Guthrie, actress
• Skip Holtz, football coach
• James A. Kowalski, clergyman
• Archduke Leopold of Austria, prince of Tuscany
• John T. Lis, professor of molecular biology and genetics
• Fred Norris, radio personality
• Isaiah Oggins, American spy for the Soviet Union, GULAG survivor, and victim ofStalinism.

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Windham to Share Special Master

From The New London Day

Special master to New London schools: Now is the time to act

By Julianne Hanckel

Publication: theday.com

Published 06/27/2012 12:00 AM

Updated 06/27/2012 11:53 PM

 COMMENTS (11)

Steven Adamowski, the newly appointed special master for the New London school district, said Wednesday that the issues surrounding the city's schools are of "an emergency nature."

"This is not a question of people waiting for someone else to do something," Adamowski said Wednesday, after his appointment was announced. "This is going to require the engagement of all the stakeholders in the New London school system, starting with the school system itself. The approach is to not wait for me and what I'm going to do."

School officials had been anxiously awaiting the appointment since the State Board of Education announced earlier this month that New London would become the second school district in the state to be assigned a special master.

The State Board of Education last year intervened in the New London school district by assigning someone to oversee the school board. Now, Adamowski will try to help find ways to raise the district's failing test scores, which are the fourth lowest in the state.

Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor announced Adamowski's appointment Wednesday between sessions of the State Board of Education meeting. The announcement was not on the board's agenda.

Adamowski, a former superintendent in Norwich and Hartford, is finishing his first year serving as special master to the Windham public school system. His appointment in Windham marked the first time the state has appointed someone to that role.

"He's demonstrated the ability to wield the authority of the special master wisely while ensuring a collaborative spirit and approach involving a partnership with the locality …," Pryor told members of the state board. "He has a long track record here in Connecticut and has paved the way in creating the role of special master in Windham."

Adamowski said his immediate priorities in New London will be to stabilize the district's finances in preparation for the coming school year, initiate state-mandated training for the school board, analyze student performance data, and develop a multi-year strategic operating plan for the district.

He will serve as special master in New London for the 2012-13 school year. If additional time is needed, the State Board of Education will need to vote to extend his appointment.

Adamowski will begin work in New London next week while he is still working with Windham. He will continued to be paid $225,000 a year by the state.

When he was named special master in Windham, the state allocated $1 million to support his improvement efforts. The state hasn't announced how much money it would allocate to New London.

"To this point, New London public schools have been unable to build sufficient momentum around policies that drive student learning," State Board of Education Chairman Allan Taylor said. "We expect that the appointment of a special master will focus the school district on creating outcomes that provide the greatest benefit to schoolchildren."

New London Superintendent of Schools Nicholas A. Fischer said Wednesday that he is pleased with the state's selection. He and Adamowski worked together in Delaware when Fischer was superintendent of the Christina school district and Adamowski was the associate secretary of education.

"I have a lot of respect for his work and the work that he did in Cincinnati as superintendent and also in Hartford. He's a strong believer in high standards for all students and accountability," Fischer said. "I deeply appreciate the support that the commissioner and the State Board of Education have lent to our efforts to improve the quality of education for all students, parents and the community members in New London."

Adamowski said he plans to spend the day in New London on Monday to meet with city and school officials.

Windham is similar in make-up to New London, with about 3,000 students in the district, a high proportion of low-income families and a large number of students who are not fluent in English. Like New London, Windham has had failing standardized test scores.

In his first year as special master in Windham, Adamowski developed a three-year improvement plan, improved teacher and leader quality and retention, expanded local, institutional and university partnerships with the school district and encouraged greater parent involvement, according to the state.

As Hartford superintendent, Adamowski raised test scores in some of the city's lowest performing schools.

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Main Street to Hollywood

Main St Cafe

The State of Conn Office of Film, Television & Digital Media recently featured David Wolmer's Willimantic Brewing Company on their web site

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Conn Can Teacher Contracts

Released today by Connecticut News Junkie


It was a gigantic undertaking, but the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now believes its new teacher contract database will help “decision makers as well as taxpayers” better understand how teachers across the state are being compensated.


For those interested in the future of our kids education this is a resource worth keeping

Teacher Contract Database