Our annual 40 Under 40 feature highlights another group of outstanding young residents. Also: We speak to New Milford's Casey Jordan, an expert on mass shootings and true crime; and the legend of a buried treasure in Bridgeport's Seaside Park.
The 40 Under 40 Class of 2019 will be published here on Jan. 23, 2019.
Late on the evening of Oct. 1, Casey Jordan’s phone lit up with a news alert that there had been a shooting in Las Vegas. She didn’t wait for the phone calls that would invariably come, and instead got in her car and started driving toward New York City.
For hundreds of years, treasure hunters have searched in vain for Captain Kidd’s purported hoard on Charles Island off the coast of Silver Sands State Park in Milford. These days, only the most optimistic believe the gold is real.
A visit to Gifts of Love was just one of several surprise visits Farmington Bank made to deliver donations to area nonprofits in December. From left, Gifts of Love Executive Director Susan Pribyson andFarmington Bank employees Dena Martinelli, Beth Dunphy and Jaclyn Gouvin. (photo courtesy o…
In Newtown, people still use the shorthand “12/14” when referring to the shooting that took the lives of 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The date signifies everything; there is before, and after. In the five years since, there has been what can feel like an end…
The bottom level of the famous hierarchy of needs, postulated by Abraham Maslow in the 1940s, is physiological. The most basic needs of human beings have to do with the survival and safety of the body. Air, water, food and shelter are often seen as the key parts of this base layer of Maslow’…
Perhaps more than at any time in the past, mental health and mental illness are in the national conversation. Ailments such as anxiety and depression are being discussed more openly than they ever have. Much of the conversation — on issues of funding, awareness and treatment — has focused on…
Long before the Yale men’s hockey team captured the 2013 national championship and convincingly ended any “biggest win in program history” arguments, a Feb. 18, 1978, game against Boston University was surely at or near the top of the list. The Terriers arrived in New Haven undefeated at 21-…
As America starved in the throes of the Great Depression, which is generally understood to have lasted from the stock market crash of 1929 until the economic boom of World War II, millions of Americans were out of work. The government of Franklin Delano Roosevelt undertook a massive jobs pro…
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Leave It to Beaver’s Wally Cleaver — played by Tony Dow — was the ideal older brother: handsome, athletic, decent and always there for his little brother, “The Beaver,” played by Jerry Mathers. Dow co-starred in the series for six seasons beginning in 1957 when he was 12, and then again when…
If a robot eventually runs your household the way your smartphone now runs your life, it’s not going to be either the EcoVacs Deebot N78 or Monoprice Strata Home Cadet.
Man of Mystery: You could say Ken Ludwig has a thing about mysteries. After all, last fall his play The Game’s Afoot — centering on a murder at the castle-like Connecticut home of Sherlock Holmes actor William Gillette — played the Ivoryton Playhouse. This spring he returns to Holmesian turf…
Going to Los Garcia Mexican Fusion in Waterbury is an experience.
The moment you enter Lucas Local Oyster Bar and Woodfire Cookery you notice the wood-fire oven. You smell it and feel its warmth, almost like an embrace. As you’re led to your seat you’ll likely see items from the raw bar being brought to a patron.
As part of our Best Restaurants food feature each January, we survey food writers and bloggers from across the state and ask them their favorite spots. This year one name kept coming up again and again: Zohara.
When people try Maple Craft Foods’ bourbon barrel-aged maple syrup for the first time and taste the all-natural sweetness of the Vermont syrup layered with subtle smoke and caramel flavors imparted by aging in bourbon barrels, their reactions are often visceral, Dave Ackert says.
For Valentine’s Day we’ve taken a closer look at some of our favorite restaurants at hotels. Here you’ll find fancy spots and chic modern lodgings as well as cozy dining rooms in grand old inns. Forget flowers and chocolate, we’re talking caviar and crème brûlée.
The beef used for the burger at Swyft, the dazzling new restaurant from chef-owner Joel Viehland, is from Randall cattle at the nearby Rock Cobble Farm in South Kent. Randall cows are a rare heritage breed with numbers measured in the hundreds. They are 100 percent grass fed, Viehland says, …
What are the component parts of a good English pub or tavern? The term pub comes from “public house,” which does a better job of communicating the original use of the space: the pub is a place of refuge. In the English context, that usually means refuge from the constant damp and rain, and t…
At the Riverside Cemetery in Waterbury there is a grave with curious markings.
