After a career spent in Connecticut journalism, Barbara Roessner’s retirement has been replaced by a new venture - leading a nonprofit local news start-up in New Bedford, MA .
Read MoreIt was 1786. The Blue-backed Speller was designed to teach America’s children how to read and write—and how to be American—at a time when the United States had just won its independence from Great Britain. Noah Webster challenged traditional spellings, especially those he viewed as particularly British, believing the young nation needed its own language. And here we are.
Read MoreThe State Department of Economic and Community Development’s (DECD) Connecticut Office of the Arts (COA) has approved an application from the Town of Ridgefield to establish a Cultural District in town. Ridgefield is the first municipality in the state to receive the designation.
Read MoreThe West End Civic Association (WECA), a non-profit devoted to the improvement of Hartford’s West End Neighborhood, is seeking community support to bring the Children’s Museum, now located in West Hartford, to their adjacent Hartford neighborhood, less than two miles from the current location.
Read MoreRIverfront Recapture has purchased 60 acres of riverfront land on the Hartford-Windsor town line to build a new community park. The acquisition will allow Riverfront Recapture to complete a regional trail connection between the Hartford and Windsor, and will complete a seven-mile multi-use public transportation system extending from South Windsor to Hartford with connections to East Hartford and Glastonbury.
Read MoreLocation matters. And once again, Stamford is benefitting from that incontrovertible axiom. When Webster Bank, with deep roots in Waterbury, reached a merger agreement this past week with New York-based Sterling Bancorp, the announcement included plans to establish the headquarters of the newly combined organization in Stamford.
Read MoreThere are several connected systemic issues that contribute to the inequity experienced in the United States. These issues of inequity disproportionately impact people of color. In order to practically address this issue, we need to build data driven systems and solutions that look at all of the components of systemic and individual racism.
Read MoreThe city of Danbury is the 10th most diverse city in the nation, according to a new analysis. Also reaching the top 25 in the just-compiled rankings are the cities of Stamford, at number 16, Norwalk at number 21 and Bridgeport, which ranked 23rd.
Read MoreSTEM educator Christine Lawlor-King has been named the new executive director of the Connecticut Invention Convention (CIC), the nation’s oldest and largest continuously operating invention education program for student inventors. For 2021, student invention applications are now being judged over a period of several weeks via a virtual portal system. A virtual "award ceremony" will take place on May 23 at 6pm, via YouTube and Facebook.
Read MoreWomen In Bio (WIB), a national organization of professionals committed to promoting the careers, leadership and entrepreneurship of all women in the life sciences, chose Connecticut as home to its 14th and newest chapter in North America. The new chapter will have its kick-off event virtually on April 20, bringing the perspectives of panelists from pharma, academia, and the BioCT organization.
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