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Category: Environmental Interest

17 Jun
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Ten Hidden Gems in Hartford’s City Parks

by Kerri Ana Provost
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Okay, fine. With one exception, they aren’t truly hidden. But you won’t see these from your car or the parking lot.
10 Jun
Blue Hills Construction Environmental Interest Get Outside Hartford

Look: Bowles Park / Willow Creek (1 of 2)

by Kerri Ana Provost
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Apartments continue to be rebuilt on the site of the former Bowles Park housing project, which had originally opened in June 1950 with rents of...
16 May
Clay Arsenal Environmental Interest Get Outside Hartford North East Parks

Look: Spring Grove Cemetery

by Kerri Ana Provost
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Spring Grove Cemetery looks awfully pretty on a spring day.
01 May
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Do You Feel Safe in Hartford?

by Kerri Ana Provost
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Raise your hand if you live in Hartford and have ever been asked, directly or via the scattershot of the Internet, whether or not you...
26 Apr
Activism Cultural Interest Downtown Environmental Interest Hartford Parks

Look: Earth Day IS Every Day

by Kerri Ana Provost
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This artwork can be viewed on the north side of Riverfront Plaza.  
23 Apr
Behind the Rocks Environmental Interest Get Outside Hartford Parks

Look: Nature Trail

by Kerri Ana Provost
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Spotted along a nature trail beside Cemetery Brook
22 Apr
Behind the Rocks Environmental Interest Get Outside Hartford

Look: Cemetery Brook

by Kerri Ana Provost
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Everybody is posting their spring flood photos of the Connecticut River. Here are some fast-moving waters in another part of town. Cemetery Brook flows to...
02 Apr
Beyond Hartford Downtown Environmental Interest Hartford History Long Reads Parks South Green Upper Albany

Look: Bacon!

by Kerri Ana Provost
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The Folly Brook Natural Area — a wooded wetland just south of the Folly Brook dike and city line, north of Wethersfield Cove — collects...
01 Apr
Environmental Interest Hartford

Look: No Joke

by Kerri Ana Provost
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The cheap and easy convenience of plastic bags, stuck in trees and fluttering in the breeze.
19 Mar
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One City, One Plan, Ten Years: Greening Hartford and Sustainable Development

by Kerri Ana Provost
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The last Plan of Conservation and Development¹ was nowhere near as bold as necessary, and its Green Hartford and Sustainable Development segment was no exception,...