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$12 million in grants awarded to 17 Connecticut towns and cities to improve infrastructure
HARTFORD, Conn. — The Connecticut Department of Transportation is awarding more than $12 million in grants to 17 towns and cities throughout Connecticut. These projects are aimed at improving transportation accessibility and safety. The grants are being awarded through CTDOT’s Community Connectivity Grant Program which uses state funds to...
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...
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...
Serious injuries reported in Watertown motorcycle crash
WATERTOWN, CT (WFSB) – Serious injuries were reported in a motorcycle crash in Watertown on Tuesday, according to police. Authorities said it happened in the area of Litchfield Road and Killorin Road around 1:20 p.m. A motorcycle and a sedan were involved. The motorcycle rider, who police identified as...
Who’s To Blame For $7.99 Eggs?
Greedy corporations are to blame for high grocery prices. Or maybe global supply chain disruptors like avian flu, drought in West Africa, and the war in Ukraine are most at fault. Or maybe we should point the finger at too few workers willing to put in an honest day on...
Connecticut lawmakers push for lower food prices
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — You’ve seen it at the grocery store. Prices keep going up. Some top officials were in New Haven on Monday morning talking about investigating the alarming trend. At Nica’s Market, the stores owner said his costs keep going up. “Not like 10 cents, 20 cents like they used to be,” […]
Connecticut Democrats slam JD Vance as Trump’s vice president pick
HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — Connecticut Democrats issued a warning Monday about former president Donald Trump’s pick for running mate. “JD Vance is the embodiment of the new MAGA GOP, and a mirror for Donald Trump,” reads a statement from Nancy DiNardo, a chair for the state’s Democrat party. “He supports a national abortion ban, he […]
Popular Grocery Chain Closing Over 30 Locations
Ever since the pandemic hit, and still to this day, businesses have been struggling to stay afloat. Closing down stores that are underperforming, and having to file for bankruptcy seem to be the norm of today's day and age. Popular grocery chain closing over 2 dozen locations. Stop & Shop,...
Norwich woman dies after Manchester crash
MANCHESTER, Conn. (WTNH) — A Norwich woman has died following a Monday night crash in Manchester, according to police. The crash happened at about 8 p.m. in the 300 block of Highland Street. Police said that Porscha Williams, 34, was driving west on Highland Street when she hit another head-on. The woman driving the other […]
Residents of tiny structures in New Haven persistent to stay; state provides response on decision
People living at the tiny structures on Rosette Street in New Haven have a limited amount of time left at the site after the city sent a cease and desist notice. On Tuesday, at least eight residents of the tiny structures arrived at New Haven’s City Hall to give back the notice given by the city.
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...
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