Category: Local News
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Oct
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A Little Something (November 2023)
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Looking for something to do in November?
29
Oct
Water Access
by Kerri Ana Provost
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One of my favorite things is dumping a pile of receipts on the people who insist that nothing can ever change for the better. A...
26
Oct
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Doing
by Kerri Ana Provost
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"This is radical hope: knowing that the future can be better and knowing that we are the ones who must make that future happen."
05
Oct
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Must Be The Season
by Kerri Ana Provost
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It’s the time of the season when creativity runs amok and maybe slightly unhinged in Old Wethersfield. The Scarecrows Along Main event — also called...
30
Sep
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A Little Something (October 2023)
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Trick-or-treating on a pedestrianized street is always better than that travesty known as trunk-or-treating
28
Sep
Transit = More Than Trains
by Kerri Ana Provost
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It’s Thursday. This week has flown by. Instead of cohesion, a list: By now, you’ve probably heard about how CT DOT has proposed cuts to...
26
Sep
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Reading Trash
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Over the course of two hours, four volunteers retrieved about 70 pounds of garbage in the rain from along the Connecticut River, including by the...
24
Sep
Bollards!
by Kerri Ana Provost
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After this dry cleaners in West Hartford’s Bishops Corner was smashed through twice by cars in the last two years, massive, highly visible bollards were...
04
Sep
Safe Streets Connecticut: August 2023
by Kerri Ana Provost
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As of September 1, 2023, drivers have killed 33 pedestrians/cyclists in Connecticut. Around 2 PM on August 22, 2023, an unnamed driver killed a child...
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Aug
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What’s Your Damage?
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Following a storm in July, one of the local news outlets — doesn’t matter which one — made a pronouncement of where damage was and...