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A church in Enfield was having a Pride celebration during their Sunday morning service when two men disrupted the ceremony with hate speech. Pastor Greg Gray of Enfield’s Congregational United Church of Christ wants to make it very clear: this is not okay. The church is decorated with rainbow banners, balloons, and flags to show support for the LGBTQ+ community. “Hate has been strong in this blue state of Connecticut. Hate is strong, and we’re going to love louder,” said Pastor Gray. ... Gray says the church is vocal about its support for the LGBTQ+ community. Because of that, he...

As firearms go, the M1917 Enfield was not the handsomest ever issued to a U.S. Soldier. It’s true that no one ever guaranteed our guys were going to get good-looking guns, but that is exactly what happened at several points in history. The M1 Carbine—World War II’s “War Baby”—was a gun that just about everyone felt was a good one. The Colt Peacemaker of 1873 had a wonderful set of contours that evolved into the classic cowboy six-shooter. But the gun at hand was a military service rifle that wasn’t just good, but rather very good. Against its contemporaries—Mauser, Lee-Enfield,...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- The first company to obtain a permit for fracking in Illinois announced Friday it won't use it, citing market conditions and the state's "burdensome and costly" regulations. "The process we have gone through to receive a permit was burdensome, time consuming and costly due to the current rules and regulations of the state of Illinois, and it appears that this process would continue for future permit applications," Woolsey vice president Mark Sooter said in a statement. The Illinois Legislature in 2013 passed a law regulating fracking. At the time, the law was considered one of the...

Thursday, March 23, 2017 Pray for Sanity Posted by Daniel Greenfield Pray for London, Brussels and Paris. Then pray for Berlin, Nice and London again. And when you’re done, it might be your city’s turn to be on the wrong end of that hashtag. Pray that on the way to work you don’t get run over, shot or stabbed by a man yelling “Allahu Akbar”. Pray that your government doesn’t decide to open the borders to as many migrants from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and any other terror state as can make their way over. Pray that the next...

An 18-year-old was shot and killed in the Thompsonville section of Enfield [Connecticut] on Wednesday night, according to police, and four other teens have been arrested in connection with the case. (truncated for copyright rules)

Last week's recommendation to hire an armed guard for each Enfield school by a joint Town Council/Board of Education subcommittee on school security has been met with mixed reactions from townspeople and students. The comment sections on the Enfield Patch story and Facebook page were filled with people citing the pros and cons of placing armed security personnel inside school buildings. If approved, the plan would go into effect no later than the start of the 2013-14 school year. Some students from Enfield High School have stated they do not approve of the proposal, and are organizing a protest for...

the children of Great Britain understand far better than their parents the reasons for the collapse of Western Civilization: lack of children, and lack of two-parent heterosexual homes. A poll of British parents showed that topping the list of children’s most-requested Christmas gifts was a sibling (Britain’s birth rate is below replacement levels, with most non-immigrant British children not having a sibling). Slightly lower down on the list was a “dad” – Britain’s single motherhood rate is 21 percent. “Less than half” of single parents have a job, and most live off of state assistance. Seventy percent of the criminals...

Joe Courtney held up the poster-sized chart and pointed to the numbers printed in purple: 7,700 seniors in his Eastern Connecticut district got a discount on their prescription drug payments last year, thanks to federal health reform. That included 530 seniors from Enfield, where he had come to chat at the senior center, 143 in neighboring Suffield and hundreds more in several other towns listed on the chart. "This chart shows that there is improvement that's happening to the system," the congressman told the audience of 50 or so seniors. He noted that the health reform law is phasing out...

Copycat riots were taking place across north London on Sunday evening, centring on Enfield, nearby to Tottenham where major riots look place on Saturday night.

A town in Connecticut has backpedaled away from an attempt at censorship. The incident involved a public exhibition of the Michael Moore film SiCKO. The town forced the Enfield Public Library to abandon a January screening of Moore's documentary. Enfield Mayor Scott Kaupin told the Journal Inquirer that the film is a "poor choice" and that if the library didn't reconsider it would face "repercussions" from the Enfield Town Council at budget time(…) In the days since Enfield's censorship of its library made national headlines, politicians in this community are shifting their argument... Their back-up argument is that the library...

Father Joseph Ross stands with his fellow priests and brothers of La Salette in the small chapel in Enfield where they meet every day for morning prayer. His Bible rests in his open palms as they read aloud from the scripture and meditate on its meaning in silence. Diffused light comes in through the frosted windows. The muffled rumble of diesel trucks on Route 4A slips into the room. Ross, who is 78 years old, remembers when the road was unpaved and 15 minutes might pass in between cars. That was in 1947 when he was 19, fresh out of...

Anybody know something about an 1917 pattern Enfield and a 1903/A3 Springfield.