Phil Devlin

3 weeks ago | hk-now.com | Joanne Nesti |Phil Devlin

By Phil Devlin(June 7, 2025) — It was a night to remember. More than 250 former track athletes, colleagues, friends and family gathered in a crowded Haddam-Killingworth High School Field House on June 6, 2025 to celebrate the remarkable fifty-year career of HKHS track and field and cross-country coach Dick Dupuis, and to learn that this, his fiftieth year, would be his last as a coach. Coach Dupuis has coached an estimated 2,000+ athletes.

Aug 24, 2024 | hk-now.com | Joanne Nesti |Phil Devlin

By Phil Devlin(August 24, 2024) — To baseball fans across the world, the end of August means it’s time to watch the Little League World Series championship tournament in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, the birthplace of Little League baseball. During the summer of 1965, 6,350 teams from across the world began a baseball journey.

May 28, 2024 | hk-now.com | Joanne Nesti |Phil Devlin

By Phil Devlin(May 28, 2024) — A large and appreciative crowd attended the Memorial Day parade in Haddam on May 27, 2024. As usual, local veterans put on a first class ceremony to honor the fifty-two Haddam residents who paid the supreme sacrifice in wars dating back to the American Revolution. Photos by Phil Devlin Related

May 23, 2024 | hk-now.com | Joanne Nesti |Phil Devlin

By Phil Devlin(May 23, 2024) — As Memorial Day approaches, and as the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944 follows shortly after, it is most appropriate to remember the service of a recently deceased veteran of Higganum, Neil Blodgett, who died on April 8, 2024 at age 102. (Photo above, courtesy of Neil Blodgett)Neil Blodgett had vivid memories of his three-year stint in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Neil served as a gunner’s mate on an LST during the war.

Nov 17, 2023 | hk-now.com | Joanne Nesti |Phil Devlin

By Phil Devlin(November 17, 2023) — I used to buy those big plastic jugs with the blue windshield washer fluid in them for 99 cents. However, like many things in our world, the price has gone up. I saw those blue jugs selling for $3.99 recently which, with the sales tax, comes to about $4.25. I began an investigation to see just what exactly is in those overpriced blue jugs. It turns out that the ingredients are pretty simple to obtain and for way less than the current price of the finished product.