Well, we beat them to it! The official content of the Torrington City website is catching up to the modern age. I think it's great, we need more online correspondence about this town's activities and people residing therein..
The potential for this sort of forum occurred to me after I heard about a supposed UFO sighting in Torrington, from a family member in Virginia who keeps track of these things. Having seen the excessive helicopter commotion referred to from that night, I was naturally quite interested and scoured the net for everything I could find.
Needless to say, beyond the above linked article that was the top hit for a google search of "Torrington UFO", I couldn't really find anything other than reference to a well-known incident that happened over I-84 in 1987. But after reading the first page of the UFO Digest article on the March 2009 sighting, there was a nod to local chatter at the Register Citizen's "Sound Off" webpage.
It was interesting to read a few local's take on the event, as well as a few other noteworthy topics. In a town lacking much of a voice online (that I have seen), it was compelling to read the assorted opinions of these locals. Local opinions and issues. Things that were relevant to me. The mere novelty of reading someone else's complaints about garbage pickup procedure led me to feel that I was somehow connected to that person. Yes! It pisses me off too when they won't take my old couch. We are now blog brothers. Let us storm the castle.
So I hope this blog can further some local correspondence and dialogue, beyond a few cramped comment-entries on an afterthought webpage from the Register Citizen. Maybe we can even volley a few issues from the official city blog. I look forward to it.
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