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Simsbury slips past Avon golfers in season-opening match
AVON, August 22, 2024 – Caleb Calitri had one birdie and eight pars as he shot an even-par 36 to lead the Simsbury High boys golf team to a three-stroke season opening win over Avon, 155-158, at Blue Fox Run on Thursday. Elijah LaTour shot a 39 for Simsbury...
Hartford Flavor Company Fêtes Cocktail Parlour Opening
Hartford Flavor Company celebrated the grand opening of its new Hartford Flavor Cocktail Parlour on 54 Pratt Street in Hartford with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and reception on July 11. The Hartford Flavor Company team, including Co-owners Lelaneia and Tom Dubay, were joined by Hartford Mayor Arunan Arulampalam and Julio Concepcione, Executive Director, Metro Hartford Alliance. Located on Hartford’s historic Pratt Street, the Parlour offers guests unique cocktails featuring Hartford Flavor Company’s Wild Moon Liqueurs line and its organic vodkas in a 150-seat venue, which features a full cocktail bar, formal dining room, private dining room, board game lounge and tasting bar. The venue offers a farm-to-table menu incorporating food from Sub-Edge Farm, Cato Corner Farm, Three Sisters Farms, Mystic Cheese Company, Seacoast Mushrooms and Oui Charcuterie. The interior design concept is inspired by the Roman goddess Diana, often depicted as a huntress, who is associated with wild animals, fertility, and the moon and incorporates styles from various time periods, including 1930s art deco and classic Roman elements with some touches of the 1970s. All Hartford Flavor Company products are distributed throughout Connecticut by Brescome Barton.
Congratulations to all our Summer Readers!
It's been an amazing Summer of Reading and we could not have done it without Hartford Public Library and their annual Summer Reading Challenge! We had a total of 2,665 youth participate and total hours read were 23,515 hours, 30 minutes!. At Hartford Public Schools we hosted Lunch with the...
Dr. Darren Schwartz appointed as Waterbury Public Schools Interim Superintendent
WATERBURY, Conn. — Days before the school year begins, Dr. Darren Schwartz has been named the interim superintendent of Waterbury Public Schools. The city’s Board of Education held a vote to make the appointment during a special meeting on Tuesday evening. According to the school district, Schwartz has served as Waterbury’s deputy superintendent since 2021. In that role, he began fulfilling the duties of superintendent on July 9.
Waterbury community gets students ready for school year
Hundreds of students in Waterbury got ready for the upcoming school year, which begins Monday, August 26. Waterbury Youth Services hosted their 27th annual Back to School Rally at Fulton Park to give students what they need before they head back to class. It started at noon, but families started...
Incidents in Portsmouth, Berlin prompt action from NH Civil Rights Unit
State prosecutors are bringing additional civil complaints against a 31-year old man accused of smashing historic lanterns at Temple Israel in Portsmouth. Meanwhile, they’ve also settled a separate civil rights case with a 22-year-old Berlin man who repeatedly stole LGBTQ+ pride flags from a home in that community. In...
ACCN execs talk anniversary, launch rush
Thursday marks the fifth anniversary of the ACC Network, launched on Aug. 22, 2019. That’s remarkable for a number of reasons, from the initial doubts over if the network would ever launch to the way it had to adapt to COVID-19 shutdowns less than a year into its life to the radical current changes with Read more... The post ACC Network execs talk five-year anniversary and ‘400-meter dash on loop’ of launch rush appeared first on Awful Announcing.
NBC Connecticut, Telemundo Connecticut and Comcast NBCUniversal grant $227k to 6 local nonprofits
NBC Connecticut & Telemundo Connecticut along with Comcast NBCUniversal announced $227,000 has been awarded to six local nonprofit organizations through the 2024 NBCUniversal Local Impact Grants. Since 2018, NBC Connecticut and Telemundo Connecticut have now provided more than $1.5 million to 43 nonprofits through the grant program. The competitive grant...
Lawsuit filed against RealPage says it illegally decreases pricing competition, hurts consumers
The Justice Department and eight attorneys general filed a lawsuit against real estate software giant RealPage Inc. for attempting to illegally decrease pricing competition between landlords and deprive renters the benef
Death of Connecticut man found in river may be related to flooding that killed 2 others, police say
WESTPORT, Conn. (AP) — The death of a Connecticut man whose body was found in a river downstream from his submerged pickup truck may be related to the destructive flooding that killed two other people in the state, police said Friday. The body of Robert Macisaac, 59, was found...
Wrong-way driver on I-90 charged with DWI
A Connecticut man was charged with driving while intoxicated after he was driving wrong way on I-90. State Police said troopers stopped a vehicle driven by Edilson Joviana Pereira, 35, of West Hartford, after they observed it going west in the eastbound lanes just before 1 a.m. on Aug. 18.
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