Category: Commentary
26
Oct
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Doing
by Kerri Ana Provost
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"This is radical hope: knowing that the future can be better and knowing that we are the ones who must make that future happen."
22
Oct
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Genuine
by Kerri Ana Provost
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“I learned that people do genuinely want to help and be a part of something greater than themselves. I learned that many people want to...
12
Oct
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Transform Distress
by Kerri Ana Provost
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“Rather than bury our heads in the sand and suppress our discomfort, we can harness and transform the distress we feel into meaningful actions and...
11
Oct
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What We Gain From Trick-or-Treating
by Kerri Ana Provost
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What Halloween lets people — young and old — do is experience their neighborhood in a more direct way. There isn’t the sense of just...
05
Oct
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Must Be The Season
by Kerri Ana Provost
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It’s the time of the season when creativity runs amok and maybe slightly unhinged in Old Wethersfield. The Scarecrows Along Main event — also called...
05
Oct
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National Week Without Driving: Day Four
by Kerri Ana Provost
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We’re most of the way through the National Week Without Driving, which is when people who regularly drive — especially those in decision-making positions —...
28
Sep
Transit = More Than Trains
by Kerri Ana Provost
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It’s Thursday. This week has flown by. Instead of cohesion, a list: By now, you’ve probably heard about how CT DOT has proposed cuts to...
26
Sep
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Reading Trash
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Over the course of two hours, four volunteers retrieved about 70 pounds of garbage in the rain from along the Connecticut River, including by the...
24
Sep
Bollards!
by Kerri Ana Provost
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After this dry cleaners in West Hartford’s Bishops Corner was smashed through twice by cars in the last two years, massive, highly visible bollards were...
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