Newington

Nobody was standing at the door with a clipboard.

In 1907, the Archers opened their home in Newington, Connecticut.

A few years later, in 1911, they moved to a larger building in Windsor and renamed it the Archer Home for Elderly People.

It was a good location, a respectable address, and a place that looked, from the road, like exactly what it claimed to be.

Thank you, you too.

Elena is calling from Newington.

Oh.

Hello.

Mm-hmm.

And I feel that this is another way to rape the homeowners who, and I am one of them, who are the primary taxpayers in a town.

In fact, in my town of Newington, I think, um, the homeowners pay 74%-

Wow

Thank you.

Thank you for coming all the way from Newington.

Middletown.

Middletown.

No haggling, no hassle, no fake sales.

That was our first store in Newington, Connecticut in 1991.

As you said, we're a publicly traded retailer, two and a half billion in sales, over 200 stores, 27 states, but that core belief hasn't changed, right? We believe everyone deserves a home that they love, and that's what continues to drive the business.

Mm-hmm.

It is stamped with the logo in East Hartford.

It's heat treated in Newington.

Mm.

And then it's tumbled in Middletown, and the tumbling takes off the rough edges, which is one of the main reasons why this thing that's been around forever is kinda garbage.

Mm-hmm.

But Glastonbury, Manchester, Wethersfield, Farmington, Bloomfield, Avon, Simsbury, Windsor, Newington, that's our next-

Yeah

... cohort of towns-

In Connecticut at that time, you had to be a pharmacist to run the medical marijuana dispensaries.

So I joined a new, what was a new company at that time in Connecticut, Fine Fetal, opening up the second store in Newington, Connecticut.

There is one existing store, about 12 employees total.

Through that experience at Fine Federal, I grew from being a manager and buying for that one store to being a director of commercial strategy for 11 locations across Connecticut and Massachusetts, while also becoming vertical in Connecticut.

they said he was gruff no sugar coating but always there for you and it shows the many people his life touched in his short or too short time here rich would want you to remember him not with sadness but with all the happy goofy and sometimes grouchy times you shared he was truly loved and will be forever missed i do have the information if you are interested the calling hours They're held Monday, September 28th, 2026, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Introvigne, I think it is, V-I-G-N-E, funeral home at 51 Main Street in Stafford.

They're going to have a procession down to South Cemetery, which is on Cider Mill Road in Tolland, Connecticut, for a graveside with military honors at 11.30 p.m. Memorial donations may be made to the Connecticut Humane Society, 701 Russell Road, Newington, Connecticut, 06111.

Or you can leave, it says a message of sympathy, but that's the website that he has his obituary on.

It sucks.