Category: Local News
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Sep
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A Little Something (October 2023)
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Trick-or-treating on a pedestrianized street is always better than that travesty known as trunk-or-treating
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...
04
Sep
Safe Streets Connecticut: August 2023
by Kerri Ana Provost
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As of September 1, 2023, drivers have killed 33 pedestrians/cyclists in Connecticut. Around 2 PM on August 22, 2023, an unnamed driver killed a child...
10
Aug
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What’s Your Damage?
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Following a storm in July, one of the local news outlets — doesn’t matter which one — made a pronouncement of where damage was and...
04
Aug
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Safe Streets Connecticut: July 2023
by Kerri Ana Provost
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By the end of July, drivers had killed 31 pedestrians and cyclists in Connecticut. That's about one preventable death every week.
30
Jul
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Communitarian
by Kerri Ana Provost
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That’s the word Andrew May used to describe his philosophy, and I wanted to ask if it was something contagious. To be honest, it probably...
27
Jul
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Abundance
by Kerri Ana Provost
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What’s happening over in Zion Hill Cemetery today is not unprecedented. In British Columbia, a cemetery grows vegetables to give to the community; they also...
23
Jul
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Incoming!
by Kerri Ana Provost
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There's not one thing that needs to happen to get people to examine their dysfunctional relationship with fossil fuels. It's a whole rainbow of things...