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10 Years In, NHDocs Says Goodbye
After a decade-long run of bringing documentaries and filmmakers from all over the country and beyond to New Haven — and, for a brief time in October, turning the city’s downtown into a documentary lover’s paradise — the New Haven Documentary Film Festival has come to a close, and will have a final farewell screening on Wednesday, at the Cannon on Dwight Street.
Connecticut Attorney General Tong on TikTok lawsuits
HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — Social media giant TikTok is facing lawsuits in 14 different states, claiming that the app is harming the mental health of young people. Lawsuits say that the algorithm is “addictive,” and that the platform is “wreaking havoc on the mental health of millions of American children and teenagers.” Attorney General William […]
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 […]
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.
Shoreline East schedule changes as new routes begin
NEW LONDON, Conn. — Beginning Monday, the Shoreline East train schedule will get a boost as four new trains will be added, increasing available routes to Stamford and New Haven. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many shoreline train routes were cut for safety reasons and because they were not...
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