The 2022 Connecticut Book Awards Winners have been selected by the Connecticut Center for the Book. The awards recognize the best books of 2021 which are either about Connecticut or by authors and illustrators from Connecticut. A total of 113 books were submitted among all categories and each went through a rigorous review process to select the finalists and winners in each category.
Read MoreThe State of Connecticut is embarking on an ambitious endeavor: a transformative state branding campaign to serve as the identity for Connecticut for years to come. The effort is beginning with a survey of key stakeholders to “help to inform this transformative state branding campaign” and “ to provide a diverse and inclusive vision for our state.”
Read MoreConnecticut’s $2.4 million share of the $84.5 million donation awarded to Girl Scouts USA and 29 local councils selected by philanthropist MacKenzie Scott made the state’s Girl Scouts part of the largest donation from a single individual in the national organization’s 110-year history.
Read MoreWith Election Day less than three weeks away, Connecticut’s Department of Economic Development has announced plans for the second annual Connecticut Economic Development Summit, to be held at the Yale School of Management in New Haven on Tuesday, November 29 – just three weeks after the election.
Read MoreOnce again, the education spotlight has swung to Meriden. And this time it is innovative work being done teaching math to elementary school students, making up for time lost due to COVID, and showing progress.
Read MoreThe Connecticut Foundation for Open Government (CFOG) has announced that a former state comptroller, a longtime state official, a clinic at Yale Law School and a columnist for The Day of New London have been selected to receive the inaugural Mitchell W. Pearlman Freedom of Information Award.
Read MoreA clinical-stage nonprofit biotechnology company, Cure Rare Disease, has acquired its first laboratory space in Greater New Haven - in Woodbridge - with plans to relocate its Boston headquarters to the 30,000-square-foot facility early next year.
Read MoreThe pandemic has resulted in rising rates of anxiety and depression among children, particularly among the most vulnerable families, increasing the need for services and exacerbating longstanding strains on the behavioral health system and its workforce.
Read MoreTwenty-five years ago, the Connecticut state legislature established the Connecticut Higher Education Trust (CHET) direct-sold college savings plan as a means of helping Connecticut families save funds for future college education costs. Through the years, more than $2.1 billion has been withdrawn from individual CHET accounts to help more than 57,000 students pay for college expenses.
Read MoreAs nearly everyone who has been driving, cycling or walking on a Connecticut roadway since the pandemic began to recede will tell you, speeds have picked up, recklessness has increased, and the distractions and accompanying dangers are ever-present.
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