We salute veterans this week. OIB has a couple of extraordinary vets with local ties to highlight starting with David Ellis Adams Carson, retired chief
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We salute veterans this week. OIB has a couple of extraordinary vets with local ties to highlight starting with David Ellis Adams Carson, retired chief
Read morePeople’s United Bank is now a shell of its former self. The acorn that surged into a mighty oak sits on the chopping block poised
Read moreThe texts and emails are flooding into OIB. Has People’s United Bank, on the verge of a takeover by M&T Bank, dumped the iconic time
Read moreNo one can fill Bill Evans’ shoes, literally and figuratively. For decades he had his own cubicle inside People’s Bank. Enter the main entrance on
Read moreIt began in 1842 as Bridgeport Savings Bank in the Downtown store of iron merchants George and Sherwood Sterling on Water Street. On Christmas Eve
Read moreIn this year 2021, Bridgeport’s bicentennial, we will do our best to dial up the origin of things that really are only discussed on OIB,
Read moreIn 2007, John Merchant leaned back in his seat at a Westport restaurant. It was lunchtime. What better way to share insight into David Ellis
Read moreTalk about a financial haircut. The Black Rock waterfront home that 2018 gubernatorial candidate David Walker purchased in 2009 for $1,550,000 has sold for about one
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