It’s been a very good week for the central Connecticut town of Cheshire, named as a Best Place to Live in the U.S. and home to a National Blue Ribbon School.
Read MoreOverall enrollment has decreased at Capital Community College with the start of the new academic year amidst COVID-19, as well as the eleven other two-year colleges are overseen by the Connecticut State Colleges & Universities. According to preliminary figures, the decline has been in the 10-13 percent range – final numbers are not expected until late September. For Latinos, just as the pandemic has been disproportionately more challenging both in the number of cases and economics, the enrollment decrease is higher, estimated at about 17 percent.
Read MoreLeading what is described as the first and oldest knot shop in the nation, Mystic Knotwork’s President & CEO Matthew Beaudoin has been named as the Connecticut’s Small Business Person of the Year by the U. S. Small Business Administration. The award coincides with 2020 Small Business Week, being celebrated this week in September.
Read MoreGovernor Ned Lamont and Connecticut Paid Leave Authority have announced the launch of a new website – CTPaidLeave.org – with the goal of supporting all Connecticut residents to understand their roles, rights, and responsibilities based on Connecticut’s Paid Family and Medical Leave Act (PFMLA), described as the most comprehensive in the nation.
Read MoreOne of the bright spots in an otherwise unsettling summer for a few dozen Connecticut 6th -12th grade girls was the time spent participating in a virtual marketing competition known as Camp Erio. The focus was on deeloping a business idea or product that must work to solve the problem and/or improve the lives of people being negatively effected by this problem. The results: impressive.
Read MoreHousatonic and Norwalk Community Colleges, two of Connecticut’s 12 community colleges, are collaborating to respond to Connecticut’s workforce needs in healthcare-related fields, in the midst of the current unprecedented training and education environment.
Read MoreAccess to public libraries is especially important for low income working families across Connecticut, “because libraries provide information on social services and job opportunities, free internet and computer access, and a range of free programs, community meetings, and even 3-D printers,” according to a new report issued by Connecticut’s United Way organizations.
Read MoreThe day-to-day fiscal reality was troubling before the pandemic for a growing number of Connecticut families, as newly released data reflects. The pandemic has likely made it worse, and it likely to have a continuing adverse impact, according to officials at the United Way organizations in Connecticut.
Read MoreThe newly launched Catalyst for the Arts capacity-building program is designed to assist arts organizations - facing severe financial losses due to COVID-19 - in developing sustainable models in the uncertain new environment and promote collaboration. A partnership led by the Hartford Foundation is driving the initiative.
Read MoreThe Connecticut RISE Network, a New Haven-based community of public high school educators working together to help Connecticut students succeed in and beyond high school, had a busy summer. The group’s annual Summer Melt texting campaign tripled in scope, regularly in touch with 1,838 students who graduated in June from six Connecticut school districts.
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