Downtown Waterbury
A signature offering at Dottie's is their superb chicken pot pie. Photos by John Murray
Economic development in downtown Waterbury just got sweeter with the opening of Dottie’s Diner II, the creator of the best doughnut in Connecticut, at 146 Grand Street.
“I love these doughnuts,” Waterbury’s economic development director, Ron Pugliese said. “I bring a box of them into work every Wednesday.”
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A bustling East Main Street in downtown Waterbury in 1939. Besides the styling automobiles as clues, the Plaza movie theater was playing Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" which was released in 1939.
Chad Wable, the President and CEO of Saint Mary's Hospital, said the merger and site selection for a new hospital, “has gone from a complex deal, to a potentially mega-complex deal involving six parties. I am amazed at how aligned we are.”
Column By John Murray
Waterbury is engaged in a cultural collision that might define the city for the next 100 years. Good versus evil? No, it’s not that dramatic. It’s health care versus economic development.
Experts have scratched their heads for years wondering how a city the size of Waterbury could sustain two hospitals. The truth is, it couldn’t. For decades the city has witnessed a slow deterioration in the financial well being of Saint Mary’s Hospital, and Waterbury Hospital. They weren’t going to crash like airplanes tumbling out of the sky, it was more like a leak in an old wooden boat, slowly, almost imperceptibly, taking on water.
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Destination...
Downtown
(Editor’s note - The following speech was delivered by Neil O’Leary on February 6th, 2011, inside a delapidated store front on East Main Street in downtown Waterbury)
Let me begin by thanking all of you who have taken time out of your busy schedules to join us today. I want to take this moment to acknowledge my family, my brothers and sisters, their children, my cousins, my brother and sister police officers, firefighters, teachers and all of our friends. I also want to thank and acknowledge all the elected and appointed officials here today. Wow, what an incredible turnout. And, I don’t just mean the size of the crowd, but the diversity of this group as well. We have friends here from all backgrounds, occupations, races and ethnicities. All the folks who make up this great city of Waterbury.
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