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The Big E 2025: Here's when the fair returns to Massachusetts
As the multi-colored lights at the Midway dim and the last cream puff is eaten, The Big E has officially closed for the 2024 season. But yearly fairgoers might already be looking forward to 2025′s season. The Big E will return to West Springfield Sept. 12, 2025. It’ll last...
From Farmington, Red Cross of Connecticut provides more Hurricane Helene help
FARMINGTON, Conn. — The devastating damage from Hurricane Helene is being felt from Florida to Georgia to North Carolina and in several more southern states. This week, the Red Cross of Connecticut and Rhode Island sent more relief workers to provide help to so many victims hit by winds and – even more so – flooding rains.
Connecticut’s Pratt & Whitney gets $1.3B contract for F135 engine upgrades
This story was originally published in Connecticut Mirror, a content partner with Rhode Island Current. Read the original version here. The U.S. Department of Defense awarded a $1.3 billion contract to Pratt & Whitney late Monday, giving a major boost to a program that will modernize the engines used in military fighter jets and help […]
Connecticut residents react to Israel attack ahead of Rosh Hashanah
WEST HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — Connecticut residents with ties to Israel are concerned for their family and friends there after Iran launched missiles on the country. “The images of the missiles in the sky, it looks like meteor showers, and when I live there, we heard rocket sirens but it was here and there, wasn’t […]
‘Night Fall’ transitions into a community jam in Hartford as new leaders take the reins
The annual outdoor performance spectacle “Night Fall” has lost one of its guiding lights. The giant celestial Solstice Puppet that has been a regular feature of the community-based performance, as well as other puppets and pageantry designed by artist Anne Cubberly, are being retired. Cubberly stepped down over a year ago as the artistic director and main director of “Night Fall,” though she ...
The Connecticut State Firefighters Association remembers firefighters who fell in the line of duty
WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. (WTNH) — Four people were honored in Windsor Locks Sunday at this year’s firefighters memorial service. The ceremony was at the Connecticut Fire Academy in front of the state Firefighter’s Memorial which lists the names of firefighters who died in the line of duty. The four new names inscribed into the memorial […]
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