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20+ Connecticut Local Canned Cocktails, Spritzers, + Hard Seltzers (2022 Guide)
At the beach, at a picnic, on a boat, maybe a pool floaty shaped like a flamingo, in your backyard, or hell, even just sprawling on your favorite chaise. What do all these places have in common? They are spots where it would be a great opportunity to crack open a...
Bertucci's Offering Special 80s Throwback Menu On Select Days In July
A popular restaurant chain with locations across Massachusetts and Connecticut is bringing back their food prices from the 1980s on four select days in July. Bertucci's is offering their limited Throwback Menu on July 6-7 and July 13-14, the chain said on their website. The experience is available t...
UConn prof wins $736,000, gets job back after questioning school’s management and favoritism in ‘whistleblower’ suit
An assistant UConn professor has been awarded what is likely to be more than $1 million after complaining a decade ago in a whistleblower suit that he was fired in retaliation for raising questions about mismanagement and favoritism in the school’s business development laboratories. The suit again...
'It’s kind of a quiet epidemic' | Local woman undiagnosed with Lyme disease for over a decade left with permanent damage
CROMWELL, Conn. — For Elena Zajac and her family, a small tick bite changed their lives forever. The Cromwell mother of two remembers that in the 80s she had a small rash on her chest when she was a child – but really didn’t know what it...
65 Artists Contemplate What They’ve “Lost And Found” In KLG Exhibition
Susan Clinard’s sculptures are an exercise in extreme empathy, even as Missing the Mark represents something more complex as well. It’s hard not to feel the pull of judgment in the juxtaposition of the crying face of the baby, who just needs some attention, with the blank faces of everyone else,...
Paul Simon sells Connecticut estate at multi-million dollar loss
There’s no diamonds on the soles of this sale. Singer/songwriter Paul Simon, 80 and his wife, 56-year-old singer Edie Brickell, have finally sold their 8,800-square-foot New Canaan, Conn. mansion — albeit at a huge loss. The musical duo purchased the almost 32-acre, 84-year-old property about 20...
“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...
Bring Food Trucks to the Empty Brass Mill Parking Lot Waterbury
What can you do with all that empty parking lot space at the Brass Mill Center Mall in Waterbury? A traveling carnival? 20 Ribeyes for $40? Stank Connecticut-legal fireworks stands? We can do better. A Waterbury resident had a great idea on social media, and I'm here to echo it. How...
Kehler Liddell Travels Forward, Looks Back
Susan Clinard's Missing The Mark. Amelia Dilworth Photos. It's dinner time on Thursday night and the baby just wants to eat. He’s leaning over the side of the high chair, reaching for the food, open-mouthed like a baby bird— but his mother is holding the spoon just slightly out of...
Orange Parcel Sold To Freight Company
Pearce Real Estate recently completed the sale of a large parcel of land with two buildings in Orange to a freight company. Pearce...
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...
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.
Rocket Science, Toothpaste, and Determination
Hritish Bhargava ’23 (ENG) clearly remembers a particular day when he was in middle school and his teacher turned on a SpaceX rocket launch for the class to watch. The then-eighth grader was captivated. “I was just so energetic – I was like, ‘This thing is going so...
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...
Arts Escape in Southbury: Let's Talk About Solutions, Not Problems
We have problems galore so, for a change, why don’t we consider solutions? These lecture/discussions will shift the focus onto what can be done in this time of negativity to change the ethos of despair that is overwhelming American society today. After...
Music in CT: Dead & Co., 5 Seconds of Summer to rock the stage
Conn. (WTNH) — It’s a new month, which means a new round of artists are taking the stage across Connecticut. Expect some classic rock & roll with some pop sprinkled in-between. See the full list of big-name acts and upcoming artists stopping in the state this week:. Monday,...
Mamoun’s Falafel Restaurant turns 45
Suleiman Chater remembers the days when Mamoun's Falafel Restaurant served hundreds of customers at a time out of its small storefront on Howe Street. It was 1977 and his uncle Mamoun Chater, the restaurant’s namesake, opened a New Haven outpost of the family’s popular Middle Eastern restaurant ...
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...
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....
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...
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.
VCT Beardsley Zoo is offering this summer’s Skyhunters Weekend Program
Bridgeport, Connecticut – As part of an ongoing celebration of 100 years, the Beardsley Zoo in Connecticut is delighted to bring Master Falconer Brian Bradley to the Adventure Amphitheater this summer. Bradley is among the premier wildlife broadcasters in the country and will give two shows every ...
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...
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...
SheWorks and Thrown Stone: Career Readiness for Women
Today’s blog focuses on the stories of two amazing women, Shamare Holmes and Wiktoria, a Thrown Stone intern, who are using their passions to carve space for others — and to follow their own dreams. Shamare serves as the Program Director for Live Girl, a New Canaan,...
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,....
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...
Driving Force: Ryan Newman Powers To Camping World SRX Series Win At Stafford
STAFFORD – A native of Indiana, Ryan Newman’s rise through the ranks of racing came through glory on short track’s of the Midwest. But during his career with the NASCAR Cup Series, Newman developed a strong delight in competing with the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour. And...
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