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Humidity continues with record heat possible Tuesday
The high heat and humidity will continue across the state on Tuesday with record high temperatures possible. The record high temperature at Windsor Locks is 96 degrees set back in 1983. The forecast is for a high temperature in the upper 90s. Records for the Bridgeport area are in the...
4 arrested after person allegedly beaten with bat in Groton home invasion: Police
GROTON, Conn. — Four people were arrested in connection to a home invasion investigation in Groton, according to the city's police department Monday. Police said that at 3:23 a.m. Sunday, City of Groton police received multiple 911 calls reporting that a person was allegedly beaten with a bat and that a gun was displayed in the area of the Branford Manor apartment complex.
State leaders discuss federal bill to standardize heat-related safety measures among workers
On a day as hot as Monday, construction workers in Hartford relied on a cooler filled with ice, water and sports drinks to help get them through the heat. “We take like 10 minute breaks, water, just to drink fluids," said Jacob Quiterio, "We have to reset." But some construction...
United Airlines Flight Makes Emergency Return After Engine Panel Loss
A United Airlines Holdings Inc. plane had to return to a Connecticut airport after losing part of a liner from inside the engine’s cover. This incident adds to a series of flight mishaps this year for the carrier, which is already under scrutiny. The Airbus SE A320 aircraft took...
Saybrook Point Sidewalks Go to Town Meeting
As part of a town meeting on July 23 Old Saybrook residents can approve an appropriation of $366,640 for a state grant that will pay for the construction of sidewalks in Saybrook Point. The meeting is at 6 p.m. in Town Hall. At a meeting on July 9, the Old...
Groton seeks closer look at housing, climate resilience as defense industry expands
As the defense industry expands, towns and cities in the region want to take a fresh look at housing, climate resilience, and child care, among other topics, to ensure compatibility between the naval submarine base and Electric Boat and local communities. And the military is expected to pay for the...
CCSU Hall of Famer Mark St. Germain Passes Away
Former Central Connecticut Hall of Fame student-athlete Mark St. Germain has passed away. St. Germain was a football standout for the Blue Devils and was inducted into the CCSU Alumni Athletics Hall of Fame in 2018. St. Germain was one of the most decorated running backs after his career with...
Fire Wrecks Dixwell Home, Displaces 8
Fred Christmas was on his way to Stop & Shop to pick up a steak to grill in his backyard when he got a call from his landlord. “Fred,” he recalled her saying. “The house is on fire.”. For the past quarter century, Christmas — a former Dixwell alder...
Cover feature: Yale Institute of Sacred Music at Fifty Years
The Yale Institute of Sacred Music (ISM) is an interdisciplinary graduate center for the study and practice of sacred music, worship, and the related arts. Its students pursue degrees in choral conducting, organ, and concert voice with the Yale School of Music, or they engage in ministerial or academic studies in liturgy, religion and literature, music, or visual arts with the Yale Divinity School. The ISM is essentially a sequel to the School of Sacred Music at Union Theological Seminary (New York City), which lost its funding in the early 1970s and closed its doors. Robert Baker, then organist and dean of the School of Sacred Music at Union, relocated three faculty and one administrator from the Union school to Yale in New Haven, Connecticut, after securing funding from the Irwin-Sweeney-Miller foundation of Columbus, Indiana. This family foundation was headed by Clementine Miller Tangeman, whose late husband was a musicologist at Union, and her brother J. Irwin Miller, who was serving as senior trustee of the Yale Corporation. With its strong programs in divinity and music, Yale was deemed the perfect place to reconstitute a school or institute of sacred music. In 1973 inaugural director Robert Baker, together with chaplain and liturgical scholar Jeffery Rowthorn, musicologist Richard French, and administrator Mina Belle Packer, migrated to New Haven. After a year of intense preparation, the Yale ISM welcomed its first class of students: five in music and five in divinity. In 2024 the ISM celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of that momentous occasion.
“Bridge” Built Between 8th & 9th Grades
Before 14-year-old Ansonia resident Kayden Gill starts his freshman year at High School in the Community, he wants to first learn more about New Haven, get to know some of his new classmates, and hear from current high schoolers. All of those boxes were checked off for Gill thanks to...
Initiative provides rent-free homes to New Haven educators
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Multiple early child care educators in New Haven will be living rent-free in less than two months. As part of the Teacher Housing Initiative, providers like Friends Center for Children, 227 E Grand Ave, are hoping it will help to retain and attract more workers in the sector. It comes […]
Three Connecticut wrestlers win medals at Junior and 16U nationals in Fargo
Three Connecticut wrestlers earned All-American honors on Sunday at USA Wrestling’s Junior and 16 and under national championship tournament at the Fargodome in Fargo, North Dakota. Southbury’s Sarah Henckel went to the championship match for the second time in three years but fell to Illinois’ Valerie Hamilton, 3-0 in...
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