Norwich
By Janice Steinhagen - Staff Writer
Posted on Thu., May. 16, 2013
The threats of a drizzle didn’t deter the avid young fishermen who showed up to compete in Mohegan Park’s first youth fishing derby on May 11...
Norwich
By Janice Steinhagen - Staff Writer
Posted on Mon., May. 13, 2013
Lillie Mae Wilson went to a segregated public high school in Mississippi...
Statewide
By -- Press Release --
Posted on Thu., May. 9, 2013
With new information coming to light about the bombings at the Boston Marathon, people in Connecticut and around the country are searching for ways to help the many victims who are still recovering...
Norwich
By Janice Steinhagen - Staff Writer
Posted on Mon., May. 6, 2013
The Norwich Technical High School girls’ softball team has a laundry list of challenges to meet this season, according to head coach John Saporita...
Statewide
By John L. Reilly - District Executive Director, Indian Valley Family YMCA
Posted on Fri., May. 3, 2013
You may be a parent of a certain age if you remember endless summer days filled with long bike rides, imaginative games and neighborhood fun...
Norwich
By Janice Steinhagen - Staff Writer
Posted on Mon., Apr. 22, 2013
Sales of a CD which features the music of bells from throughout the city will benefit the restoration of a rare century-old steel bell in the belfry of a Greeneville church...
Norwich
By Janice Steinhagen - Staff Writer
Posted on Mon., Apr. 22, 2013
Not many organizations can call a noisy meeting room to silence with a pitch pipe...
Statewide
By Christian Mysliwiec - Staff Writer
Posted on Sat., Apr. 20, 2013
Connecticut has a long history of producing original ideas and innovations, which is why the Connecticut Office of Tourism chose “Connecticut: Still Revolutionary” as the state's br...
Norwich
By Janice Steinhagen - Staff Writer
Posted on Mon., Apr. 15, 2013
Anthony Ciccone spent his enlistment during World War II stoking the boilers of a U.S. Navy vessel patrolling the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean and Aegean seas...
Statewide
By Christian Mysliwiec - Staff Writer
Posted on Tue., Apr. 9, 2013
Following the recent passage of stricter gun control legislation in Connecticut, President Barack Obama came to the University of Hartford on Monday, April 8, to appeal for similar gun control meas...
Norwich
By Janice Steinhagen - Staff Writer
Posted on Mon., Apr. 8, 2013
Converse Gallery at Norwich Free Academy’s Slater Museum was milling with pint-sized artists and their admiring families April 7 for the unveiling of the museum’s annual children’...
Statewide, Manchester
By Steve Smith - Staff Writer
Posted on Tue., Apr. 2, 2013
SWAN Day CT, in its sixth annual presentation, has become one of the largest arts events in the state...
Statewide
By John L. Reilly - District Executive Director, Indian Valley Family YMCA
Posted on Tue., Apr. 2, 2013
I'm not sure which is going to come first: The last day of school, or the day that the giant mountain of snow in the grocery store parking lot finally melts...
Statewide
By Janice Steinhagen - Staff Writer
Posted on Tue., Apr. 2, 2013
Each summer the Fresh Air Fund helps disadvantaged kids from New York City enjoy the simple pleasures of country life through summer visits to small towns and rural areas throughout the northeast...
Norwich
By Janice Steinhagen - Staff Writer
Posted on Mon., Mar. 25, 2013
Gun control led the array of topics addressed by Gov...
Statewide
By Janice Steinhagen - Staff Writer
Posted on Mon., Mar. 25, 2013
The current exhibit at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum's downstairs gallery displays the diversity of native American dolls, and by extension, of native culture itself...
Statewide, Manchester
By Steve Smith - Staff Writer
Posted on Fri., Mar. 22, 2013
With gun violence in Connecticut being unlikely to have any easy remedy, a forum that presented perspectives and offered much food for thought about the subject was offered by the St...
Norwich
By Janice Steinhagen - Staff Writer
Posted on Mon., Mar. 18, 2013
Thomas Moody, Jr., was only 4 years old when he lost his mother in the March 1963 deluge that swept through Norwich...
Statewide
By Janice Steinhagen - Staff Writer
Posted on Wed., Mar. 13, 2013
As elementary school students across the region spend a good chunk of their March school days filling in ovals on standardized test sheets, their teachers and school administrators are looking ahea...
Norwich
By Janice Steinhagen - Staff Writer
Posted on Mon., Mar. 11, 2013
A community forum on violence prevention, organized in the wake of the December shooting tragedy in Newtown, took on greater urgency after gun violence hit closer to home in a recent North Stoningt...