No one at the bakery is sure how long this town institution has been open, but a bill of sale to the second owner is dated 1909.
Yet a couple of months ago, Mrs. DeMarco, founder of the Stratfield Village Association, was at the heart of a protest against the demise of the Stratfield Supermarket, a town institution, to make way for a Walgreen's pharmacy.
But Mr. Fuller expects to be making money in 2001 and will begin donating profits to the Suffield schools or other town institutions.
Without town institutions, a nation can pretend to have a free government, but it does not possess the spirit of liberty".
Town institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to knowledge; they put it within the grasp of the people; they give them a taste of its peaceful practice and accustom them to its use.
Thomas G. Ferrara, the chairman of the board, calls Community Mutual "the old plain-vanilla bank" and compares it to the mythical and intimate small-town institution in the Christmas chestnut "It's a Wonderful Life".
Oct. 12-15: Wynton Marsalis celebrates his fiftieth birthday at his home-town institution, Jazz at Lincoln Center, with assistance from the tap dancer Jared Grimes, the vocalist Gregory Porter, the pianist Marcus Roberts, the violinist Mark O'Connor (Oct . 12-14only), and others.
12-15: Wynton Marsalis celebrates his fiftieth birthday at his home-town institution, Jazz at Lincoln Center, with assistance from the tap dancer Jared Grimes, the vocalist Gregory Porter, the pianist Marcus Roberts, the violinist Mark O'Connor (Oct . 12-14only), and others.
The oil and aircraft industries have all but disappeared as bulwarks of the regional economy, and most of the formerly influential banks have been merged into out-of-town institutions.
In a city where children often attend the same grammar schools their parents did, and where parents and their grown children often live together in two-family houses, merchants had become annoyed at the impersonal service they were receiving at banks owned by the larger out-of-town institutions.
The Equator Cafe, an Old Town Pasadena institution at the corner of Mills Place and Edwin Alley since 1993, will officially reopen as Edwin Mills by Equator on Jan . 22
