We reduce, we reuse, we recycle and still landfills and trash incinerators in Connecticut and across the U.S. are bombarded with more than 167 million TONS of garbage each year. What’s an environmentally responsible Nutmegger to do? Investing in the creation of what Dawn Pettinelli of the UC…
Taking on a political bully isn’t easy, especially when much of America still embraces him. But in the 1950s, four U.S. senators from Connecticut — Democrats William Benton and Brien McMahon a…
When nursing homes across the country were coming under assault from COVID-19 this spring, Tyson Belanger was determined to stop the virus from invading his Bristol facility.
When the Pleasant Valley Drive-In of Barkhamsted opened for the season on the second Friday in May, owner Donna McGrane was worried because it was pouring rain. “But we were packed!” she says.…
Odds are, you were not among the small percentage of those who absentmindedly or purposefully clicked through to one of the 29,000-plus malicious websites invoking coronavirus that were create…
Douglas Harris died under mysterious circumstances in 1948. Eleven years later so did his father-in-law.
We tapped local experts for their go-to elements to create the perfect picnic, even if it’s in your own backyard.
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The Michigan native is a 27-year-old resident physician at Yale and an Institute of Culinary Education-trained chef.
Travel has never been more complicated than right now, but here are some of the places we're most looking forward to visiting, if not this summer, then sometime soon.
Four health experts tell us if they are planning to travel this summer, and offer advice for those who do.
In late July 1970, tens of thousands of young people descended on the Powder Ridge ski area in Middlefield for a star-studded Woodstock-style event. Here’s how a concert for the ages turned into the greatest show that never was.
Bantam Cinema opened in 1927 as the Rivoli Theater in Litchfield. It survived the end of silent film and the rise of the talkies; the onset of television and the birth and then death of video …
Our top picks for events happening around the state this month.
Connecticut will try reopening public schools full time and in person this fall.
When large gatherings become illegal and crowds are catalysts for a contagion, what’s a truck to do? Adapt, just like their brick-and-mortar brethren.
It's possible to limit sun exposure and safely get enough Vitamin D.
Restaurant owners are putting up a brave front. Scroll through Instagram and Facebook and you’ll see makeshift patios, picnic tables in parking lots, masked smiles and announcements of altered…
About a year and a half ago, Dean Pagani decided to chuck it all.
At first no one believed the mom from Lyme.
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