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Connecticut’s Jewish community reflects on the anniversary of the Israel/Hamas war
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — As tensions rise overseas ahead of the one-year anniversary of Hamas’s invasion of Israel, so do calls for change in Connecticut. A dozen gatherings are happening this weekend and on Monday to commemorate the somber anniversary. Sunday Jewish Voice for Peace New Haven gathered to perform a special ritual today […]
Connecticut gets $25M from EPA to replace lead pipes, provide cleaner water
CONNECTICUT (WTNH) — Connecticut is set to receive $25 million in federal funding to provide clean water to schools and homes, as part of the Biden administration’s final rule issued Tuesday. The Lead and Copper Rule Improvements (LCRI) requires water systems across the county to find and replace lead pipes within 10 years. It will […]
John Reynolds Shot, Killed Waving Machete Inside Apartments
John Reynolds, of New Haven, was killed around 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 4, in the Bella Vista Apartments at 321 Eastern St. in New Haven, police said. Several people called 911 to report Reynolds was banging on apartment doors and waving a machete, authorities said. When police arrived, Reynolds...
Digital Navigators Land At The Library
Downtown library patrons are now able to receive free technology assistance — from connecting to the internet to making doctor’s appointments online to communicating with long-distance family members and friends — from a team of dedicated “digital navigators.”. Those digital navigators have come to seven...
Scientists put herbicide in the CT River. Why it’s ‘like conquering a monster’ in the waterway
The verdict is in on year one of the effort to eradicate hydrilla, the pernicious, choking, aquatic weed that has exploded across the lower Connecticut River in less than a decade: Success so far, but more work ahead. A year ago, when Joe Standart looked out over Selden Cove from his three century old farm house in Hadlyme, it was so choked from the bottom to the surface by an acre-sized raft of weed that he couldn’t move his boat through it. “It looked like you could walk across the cove,” Standart said. “It was that solid.” In August, after four years of study by invasive aquatic plant experts at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, scientists at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began the experimental application of a variety of herbicides at selected spots on the river below Hartford. There have been stunning results, according to those who live by or depend on the river for their livelihoods.
Dogs dumped on side of CT roads symbol of larger problem: Overwhelmed shelters, ‘desperate’ people
A Cavalier King Charles spaniel found in a crate in West Hartford. An allegedly malnourished German shepherd found tied up on the side of the road in Plainfield. An allegedly severely neglected dog found in East Hartford that had to be euthanized. It seems that abandoned dogs, and sometimes cats, are discovered weekly across the state. But they are the visible symbols of larger problems facing ...
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