By Sydney Schwartz ©2005 Republican-American.

WATERBURY — When Santo Bologna walked around, clad in a suit and tie, he always carried a pencil and notebook or typewriter paper in case he stumbled across a news story. He visited the jail on a regular basis to chat with officers and prisoners. And he often met trains at the station to catch interesting stragglers whom he could bring home to dinner.. An advocate for Italian-American interests, it was fitting that....