Lawmakers with hefty agenda for July special session, want a follow-up in September, 2021, to help overcome generations of inequity.
Stop & Shop had provided 10 percent raises to employees across the Northeast, describing it as “appreciation pay” for service during the pandemic. The company ended the program July 4.
Five mosquitoes have tested positive for the Jamestown Canyon virus in North Stonington, Waterford and Westport. And recent rainfalls could mean more mosquitoes.
Lead author Dr. Federico E. Vaca said when teens delay getting a license, they age out of safety measures that are not required after age18.
The process was not simple for a New York mother who gave birth in Middlesex County who was not yet able to care for her baby.
KENT FARMERS MARKET: The Kent Farmers market, 3-6:30 p.m., Fridays, May 22 until the end of October. It is located on Route 7 in Kent, just south of the monument.
Getting the workforce back to full strength will require faster, easier, and better COVID-19 tests.
“It’s important to get women health care access early,” said Dr. Justin Le Blanc, surgical resident at Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital.
The program to help nonprofit agencies will start in August for about 80 youths throughout Connecticut, and could expand in the future.
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TORRINGTON — Tom McGowan, a Realtor with Elyse Harney Real Estate, recently stood atop “Indian Lookout,” the name given to the home by Torrington conservationist, the late Paul Freedman on Mountain Road.
As coronavirus cases rise across the country, the number of states on the list for mandatory quarantines in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut doubles.
The NIH analysis found the rate of alcohol-related deaths among people 16 and older doubled, from 35,914 to 72,558, between 1999 and 2017.
Connecticut health experts say the CDC’s expanded list of guidelines for people at greatest risk for COVID-19 is long overdue.
Some seasonal allergy sufferers have been wondering whether the symptoms they have been experiencing are COVID-19.
KENT FARMERS MARKET: The Kent Farmers market, 3-6:30 p.m., Fridays, May 22 until the end of October. It is located on Route 7 in Kent, just south of the monument.
The state’s record job loss in April was revised to reflect an additional 2,900 jobs being eliminated.
TORRINGTON — Phase two of Connecticut’s COVID-19 reopening plan, put in place June 20, included museums, but KidsPlay Children’s Museum has chosen to hold off — at least until later this summer.
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TORRINGTON — Spirits were high and happy Thursday morning for Oliver Wolcott Technical High School for the class of 2020’s graduation.
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Michael Kaneb, who with his wife Chelsea owns the Hummingbird Cafe on Main Street, says removing the Columbus statue is a way to show acknowledgment of the suffering caused by colonization.
The state has begun its mosquito trapping and testing activity for the season, though activity has been light so far.
Dr. Thomas Balcezak, chief clinical officer for Yale New Haven Health, said a 6-foot distance is necessary even when dining at a restaurant outdoors.
LITCHFIELD — Touchstone School, a social services organization, is a well-hidden secret in the town of Litchfield. That’s apropos since the many teenage girls who have passed through this facility, a special needs school for “girls at risk,” all arrived with their own secrets. For a decade, …
NEW MILFORD — The New Milford Public Library Writers Salon has every reason to be proud: this year the third annual Trumbull Library Creative Literary Competition has announced its winners and in the adult categories they are all from the aforementioned group.
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WINSTED — Bobby Gage has returned to Winsted’s Green Woods Country Club where his professional golf career began, as the new head golf pro.
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A Waltham, Mass.-based defense contractor that completed an acquisition of United Technologies Corp. in April now is making a donation to help feed Connecticut’s hungry.
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Protest, dine out, exercise, but wear your mask, hospital officials say
“It turned out with the pandemic and the conditions on the industry, plus the expenses of keeping this small theater going, were just too much,” one of the owners said.
While many towns have canceled their usual camp programs, citing an inability to meet the state’s restrictions, others have found creative ways to have them anyway.
WASHINGTON — The Gunn Historical Museum was recently recognized with three awards for their exhibit, Washington Connecticut - An American Story. This innovative work designed by SandorMax, and made possible by a grant from the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development, was…
The association “represents over 100 Municipal and University Police Chiefs that lead over 8500 municipal police officers in our state,” according to a release
No one is happier about the decision than staff at Newtown’s Community Center, which is preparing for its own phased reopening on June 22.
The temporary layoffs of about 160 workers at the Greenwich Hyatt highlights the hard hit that the coronavirus crisis has taken on the leisure and hospitality industry.
The fact that some 41 of Connecticut’s 214 nursing homes have kept out the virus, according to an analysis by C-HIT, is remarkable and mystifying,
As racial disparities in health come more clear in coronavirus and in the national debate over policing, a Connecticut state senator asked Gov. Ned Lamont Monday to declare racism a public health emergency for the entire state.
Connecticut health experts said the new CDC guidelines for how people can stay safe while venturing out in public are welcome, but don’t go far enough.
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The university plans a modified on-campus, in-classroom system with coronavirus testing, masks, reconfigured classrooms and dorm areas set aside for sick students.
Msgr. Robert Tucker, of St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in Litchfield, said it is important to keep the teens’ to “spirit alive.”
FREE CHAIR YOGA: Chair Yoga on Zoom is offered Wednesdays and Fridays, no class May 27, at noon. Go to https://thecommunitycenter.org on any of those days and click on the link Chair Yoga for the ID and password to get on.
The 24-month, interest-free payment plan aims to give customers some financial flexibility to pay down any balances accumulated during the coronavirus pandemic.
Protests and demonstrations showing support for the black community continue around Connecticut and the nation. The demonstrations are focused on the death of George Floyd while being restrained by Minneapolis police.
The emerald ash borer, which was first reported in 2012, has decimated thousands of ash trees across New England and other parts of the country.
TORRINGTON — Bringing music to people who might otherwise be isolated and lonely has become an important part of caring for older and disabled people, and music therapists like Meg Capen know how powerful it can be.
Doctors and public health officials agree a second wave of the virus is likely. But how much reopening will contribute to that wave remains unclear.
Health experts say outdoor dining is a safer option than indoors, but does that mean people should avoid eating inside restaurants? Not necessarily.
Yale University researchers hypothesized that paranoia may be the result of our ability to learn amid uncertainty, rather than an inability accurately to assess threats.
Police say the crash happened around 2:30 a.m.; at least one of the teens ran to a home on Rossi Road in Torrington for help.
Several studies show parental income and their ability to invest in their offspring affect children well into adulthood.
MORRIS — In 1885, there were many summer camps surrounding Bantam Lake, but only one could boast being founded by Columbia University, an Ivy League research university in New York City; serving as a military combat training center during World War I; and having a connection with Dwight D. E…
LITCHFIELD COUNTY — The COVID-19 pandemic may be ravaging certain sectors of the economy, but not so with the real estate market. Business is booming with inventory is getting snatched up quickly, with properties selling for well over asking price and a high number of closings.
ROXBURY — Following social distancing guidelines, the Roxbury Land Trust will hold two virtual programs focusing on farms and meadows in June. To receive the link to each program, please email barbara@roxburylandtrust.org.
