Category: Columns
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Colón’s Corner: 2025 – Year In Review — A Semi-Charmed Existence
You know, as I marked a quarter century on this earth, I can look back on everything the twelve months of 2025 threw my way and say with confidence I aged a solid decade in one year. This was without question one of the more turbulent years of my life.…
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Colón’s Corner: What’s Right and Wrong with Baseball
There was a time when baseball rewarded balance. When lineups could beat you in more ways than one — with power, precision, speed, and smarts. When championships were won not just by metrics, but by instincts. That version of the game still exists — but only in pockets. In too…
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Colón’s Corner: Hurt, Help, Hope, and Healing
If this comes off as a rant of sorts I apologize in advance. I was scrolling through Facebook on Sunday afternoon. It was the standard content I’m accustomed to seeing on my timeline. Sports, life updates, the occasional meme, and first responder clips. As I did so, I stumbled across…
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Colón’s Corner: John D’Allara — The Last E-Man
A look back at the heroic life and death of NYPD ESU Officer John D’Allara — the last member of his unit and department to be recovered from the World Trade Center Thursday, April 11, 2002. Exactly seven months since the devastating terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. As clean…
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Colón’s Corner: For All Intents and Purposes, A Very Busy Fire Department
A definitive glimpse inside day-to-day life in the West Haven Fire Department WHFD Fleet out on The Apparatus Bay Located at 366 Elm Street, the headquarters of the West Haven Fire Department is in many respects one of the unofficial landmarks of our city. A two-story brick building located along…
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Colón’s Corner: Their Time, Their Season, Their Dream
On the culmination of a 6-month journey for 33 brand new New Haven Firefighters Friday, July 25, 2025. A date I’d thought about for quite some time. That’d be the date that after a long and intensive six months of training, graduation would finally take place and I’d be onto…
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Colón’s Corner: A Season of Change
An update on my life and where things stand Friday, June 13, 2025. The end of Week 16 of a 23 week intensive fire training in New Haven, Connecticut. As circumstances would have it, it would also unfortunately mark the end of my tenure at the academy as a member…
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Colón’s Corner: At The Garden, A Spring Renaissance
For the first time since 2000, the New York Knicks are Eastern Conference Finals bound May 21, 2000. On a warm night in Miami, the New York Knicks took on their arch rival Heat for the fourth consecutive postseason and yet again, the series had gone the distance. In a…
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Colón’s Corner: Turning Points — The Major Steps Forward In 2024
A year of more change, growth, and lessons that will further pave the way for my future In last year’s year-in-review column, the focus then centered on what I felt was a major transition into adulthood, gaining steady employment, gaining a vehicle, and with that gaining valuable on perseverance in…
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Colón’s Corner: Obituary For a Fallen Franchise
A fitting end for an era of failure I can wax poetic. I can summarize the Yankees’ history which if we’re being honest is meaningless. It stopped being about baseball a long time ago. Instead, it became about marketing a brand. It’s not Dolce and Gabbana. It’s a baseball team.…
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