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Springfield Jazz & Roots Festival expanding to two days
The ninth annual Springfield Jazz and Roots Festival will expand to two days with two locations this year: Aug. 12-13 in Stearns Square and Tower Square Park. The yearly downtown festival brings national stars and local talent...
Dead & Co. Show at S**C Cancelled! Our Thoughts Are With John Mayer
With 4 hours to go before Dead & Co. were expected to take the stage at S**C we received word that the show has been cancelled! Now we know the reason why and...
“Fearless” Champion For Children Dies At 70
Beloved city educator Wanda Gibbs has died after a lifetime of helping her students turn around their lives in and outside of the classroom. She died from cancer Tuesday in hospice. She was 70 years old. Gibbs, a native of Albemarle, N.C., moved to New Haven as a child and...
Dead & Company Delivers ‘Liberty’ & More In Hartford
Dead & Company’s Summer Tour 2022 landed in Hartford, Connecticut for a show Tuesday night at the Xfinity Theatre. The setlist included a pair of tour debuts in the first set, as the band played “Liberty” and “Loser” for the first time this year....
Windsor Teen Plays in Wimbledon Juniors
A teen from Windsor is living her tennis dreams, playing in one of the biggest tournaments in the world. Olivia Lincer, 17, of Windsor, is playing in Wimbledon Juniors. She advanced...
Dead & Company Continue Summer Tour in Hartford
Photo via Dead & Company’s Official Instagram — Dead & Company continued their summer tour last night at XFINITY Theatre in Hartford, Conn. The six-piece–Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge, Jeff Chimenti and Jay Lane, who filled in for the Grateful Dead’s founding drummer, Bi...
These Connecticut Colleges Rank Among Nation's 50 Most Expensive
Four Connecticut colleges are listed among the most expensive four-year institutions in the country in a report from CBS News. The news outlet published a list of the top 50 most expensive colleges in the United States on March 10. CBS News said the ranking used information from the National...
Group demands books in Coventry Pride display be burned
COVENTRY — A group of mothers upset over a Pride display in the children’s section of the Booth & Dimock Memorial Library last month demanded that the books in the display be burned. Library Director Margaret Khan said the incident occurred June 22, when one of the...
Springfield schools host job fair for paraeducators, crossing guards and bus monitors
SPRINGFIELD — Springfield Public Schools last week hosted a job fair for paraeducators, crossing guards and bus monitors. “We always want to replenish our (employment) pool,” Valerie L. Williams, Springfield Public Schools’ senior administrator for talent and diversity development, said at t...
If You See These Odd Balls Hanging On A Tree, You Do Not Want To Touch Them
They might look like fruit, but they definitely are not.
Racist Propaganda Found on the Streets of Berlin
Residents on York Road in Berlin say they found their street covered in something other than red, white and blue when they woke up on Fourth of July morning. "I was looking and said 'what the heck is all of this' and I saw...
Through A Lens, Brightly: Chris Randall’s 4th
New Haven photographer Chris Randall has a unique perspective on fireworks — as you can see from these photos he took at Sunday evening’s city East Rock display. “These were all captured as-is in camera, using a long exposure with bulb mode, using manual focus pulls and pushes (starting th...
A lethal tick-borne disease is spreading in the US, driven by climate change
In early May, a woman in her 90s was hospitalized in Connecticut with a strange assortment of symptoms: confusion, nausea, chest pain, chills, and fever. Two weeks later, on May 17, she died. The culprit was a blacklegged tick, a minuscule arachnid about the size of a sesame seed when fully...
Avon Crew beats the odds
AVON – There is often a blurred line between fact and fiction when it comes to stories of sports lore. How far a ball was hit, how fast someone ran are often grown more incredible as the years pass. In the case of the 2022 Avon High School Crew Team, it...
Sakura to reopen in new Evergreen Walk location
SOUTH WINDSOR — Sakura Garden is set to open for customers Wednesday in its new 7,000-square-foot location in Evergreen Walk, next to Connecticut Mattress and Emerald City Smoothie. The new site includes an outdoor patio dining area, as well as 10 hibachi stations and a sushi bar. The restaurant.....
Greater Springfield gas prices drop 10 cents on the week; down 19 cents for month
SPRINGFIELD — A gallon of regular gas averaged $4.70 on Tuesday — down from $4.80 last week and $4.89 a month ago, according to AAA’s weekly survey. Massachusetts’s average gas price is down 8 cents from last week when it was $4.92 and now averages $4.84 per gallon. Tuesday’s statewide pri...
Truck overturns on I-95 in Connecticut, spilling compost on highway
GREENWICH, Connecticut (WABC) -- A compost truck overturned on a Connecticut highway, creating a sticky -- and potentially stinky -- Tuesday morning commute for drivers. It happened just north of Exit 5 on I-95 in Greenwich. The truck, with Curbside Compost printed on the side, spilled its contents....
Gas prices drop for 3rd week following holiday weekend
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) – The average price of gas in New Haven has fallen about nine cents per gallon, according to a GasBuddy survey, and now sits at about $4.72 at the pump. The cheapest gas station in New Haven is currently priced at $4.50 per gallon as of Monday, while the most expensive […...
West Hartford woman returns home after climbing Mount Everest for the tenth time
A West Hartford mother is back home after climbing Mount Everest for the tenth time, breaking her own record.
Business Monday ETC: July 4, 2022
Westfield Bank president and CEO James C. Hagan recently presented Springfield Urban League CEO Henry M. Thomas III with a $100,000 contribution to help launch a $7.5 million capital campaign to ensure the future of historic Camp Atwater. “This contribution represents our firm commitment to the Ur...
Bear cub rescued after getting head stuck in plastic jug
HARWINTON, Conn. — Wildlife biologists in Connecticut had to rescue a bear cub that got its head stuck in a plastic container, state wildlife officials said. The misadventure happened June 23 when a mother bear with three cubs knocked over a...
Making connections: Tech students get hands-on training with Westfield company
WESTFIELD — Students from area vocational high schools got the chance to develop their skills in the...
Fire destroys Hartford neighborhood market
HARTFORD, Conn. — A second alarm fire destroyed a neighborhood market on Ashley Street and left two firefighters hospitalized for evaluation Monday morning. The fire at 97 Ashley Street damaged the building that houses the Sigourney Market, a small grocery store in the Asylum Hill neighborhood. Th...
NJ ShopRite Recalls Store-Made Ground Meat Due To Possible Metal Fragments
A New Jersey ShopRite store has recalled store-made ground meat made July Fourth weekend due to possible metal fragments. ShopRite of Greenwich, located on Route 22, issued a release regarding store-made packages of ground beef, Angus ground beef, meatloaf mix and ground pork with a sell-by date of....
1-Month-Old Baby Dies of Parechovirus; Heartbroken Connecticut Family Warns Other Parents
A heartbroken Connecticut family is warning other parents after their one-month-old baby dies of parechovirus, a severe viral infection that affects newborns and infants. Human Parechovirus or HPeV belongs to the family Picornaviridae, similar to the viral infection causing the common cold, rashes,....
As a teen, she invented a lollipop to stop hiccupping. Now this Connecticut native has her own biotech firm
M.J. Kievman entered the health care industry as a seventh grader. After suffering from hiccups for three months, the Manchester pr***en invented Hiccupops, lollipops that aim to stop occasional hiccupping. Now, at age 23, Kievman is the co-founder and CEO of Meter Health, a Hartford-based biotech f...
4th of July travel brings danger
The Fourth of July weekend is one of the busiest times on the road but it can also be one of the most dangerous.
Downtown New London sees post-pandemic surge of new restaurants
New London — Tisha Henry had been cooking at her home for years before she started serving up home-cooked meals to workers in the Bronx. The Louisiana native retained that passion for cooking after her recent move to New London and joined with family earlier this year to open Seafood Delights at 1...
Newman bumps past Andretti for SRX win at Stafford
Ryan Newman landed in victory lane Saturday night at Stafford Motor Speedway in Stafford Springs, Conn., to earn his first win of the Camping World SRX Series season. NASCAR veteran Newman started the night slowly, finishing Heat 1 in seventh place followed by a sixth-place finish in Heat 2 on the.....
Education through hydration: Two longtime Hartford friends look to use spring water company to encourage and empower youth
Since their freshman year at Bulkeley High School in 1998, longtime friends Melvin Sanchez and Alex Allende estimate they’ve partnered in 10 businesses, from sales and marketing to logistics. Their entrepreneurial spirit and seemingly ceaseless energy have led Sanchez, 38, and Allende, 37, both Ha...
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