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Two teens came to Hartford for a fight club vacation. Here’s how they wound up making a crime movie
Hartford has inspired a flurry of indie filmmaking lately. In recent months we’ve seen the release of the insurance company heist drama “Midas” by Hartford native T.J. Noel-Sullivan, the biopic “The Featherweight” about Connecticut boxing legend Willie Pep and a feature film based on the locally made short film “Ricky” is in the works. But the newly released hitman drama “Cyclus” may have the ...
Next act for major, but struggling CT mall: ‘Shoppertainment?’
In the 1980s, the rise of The Shoppes at Buckland Hills mall in Manchester marked a stunning transformation from tobacco fields to shopping destination, later spawning a retail mecca spilling into the surrounding area and neighboring South Windsor. But now, three years after falling into foreclosure, the 1.3 million-square-foot mall perched on a hillside above Interstate 84 is at a crossroads. ...
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 ...
Here’s where spotted lanternflies have been found in Mass.
The spotted lanternfly — an invasive insect that damages trees and other woody plants — is being tracked throughout Massachusetts by the state’s Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR). The MDAR Invasive Species Dashboard shows which communities across the state are currently dealing with spotted lanternfly infestations. It...
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