The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving has launched a fund to rapidly deploy resources to support the residents who are most significantly affected by the coronavirus pandemic, and seeded it with $1 million.
Read MoreEven as Connecticut’s Governor closed all of the state’s schools, urged federal officials to provide disaster relief for small business owners and authorized the closure of state Motor Vehicles offices to slow the spread of coronavirus across the state, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stepped up its guidance to Americans.
Read MoreThe greatest epidemic in human history, the so-called Spanish flu of 1918, killed tens of millions of people worldwide .... An estimated 675,000 Americans perished, including some 9,000 men, women, and children in Connecticut—nearly 1% of the state’s population. ConnecticutHistory.org describes what occurred in Connecticut.
Read MoreMatthew Beaudoin, President & CEO of Mystic Knotwork in Mystic has been named the U.S. Small Business Administration’s 2020 Connecticut Small Business Person of the Year, SBA’s top award
Read MoreThe inaugural Connecticut Writing Festival, held last fall in Hartford, is among the winners of the 2020 edition of Best Writing Conferences in America, produced by the Writer magazine, based on a survey of its readers.
Read MoreMay 23, 2020. It’s an Olympic year once again, and if the coronavirus manages to stay out of the way, Hartford will serve as host for a precursor to the Olympic competition, as the United States prepares to determine who will make the U.S. team and represent the nation at the Tokyo Olympiad later this year.
Read MoreBradley Airport drew about 7 million passengers in 2019, ahead of the 6.7 million in 2018 by more than 2%. This week, new retail and restaurants were announced, as improvements in ground transportation, connections to distant points across the region, and even new bathrooms and an elevator are on the drawing board.
Read MoreHartford Stage partnered with the Hartford Public Library four years ago to create a program inviting Hartford residents to attend shows at the theatre, free of charge. Through the innovative Library Pass Program Hartford residents with an adult or teen library card can reserve a two-ticket pass per eligible show from any of the seven library branches in the city. Since its inception, nearly 2,000 Hartford residents have enjoyed free performances at Hartford Stage.
Read MoreThe state legislature is considering a proposal that would “eliminate the requirement that each school under the jurisdiction of a local or regional board of education annually report the number of verified acts of bullying in such school to the Department of Education.” There were more than 550 bullying incidents reported in Connecticut schools in the last academic year.
Read MoreHelping children learn to swim is what experts consider to be among the “very top strategies to reduce drowning emergencies and fatalities. The Connecticut legislature is currently considering legislation that would establish a program to provide free swimming lessons to individuals under the age of 18.
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