Category: Hartford County

13 May

Drive Less CT Climate Challenge: Week Four

by Kerri Ana Provost

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Bike West Hartford just wrapped up its #BikesMeanBusiness campaign, a four-day effort to teach local business owners that customers bike, walk, and use the bus...

07 Apr

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Beyond Hartford: Glastonbury; or, GALLIVANTED THROUGH GLASTONBURY, GUTTED TO FIND NO GLAWACKUS: CRYPTID’S CORRIDOR NOT CATERED TO BY COACH

by Kerri Ana Provost

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The first documentation of the Glawackus (“Glastonbury” + “Wacky”) was on Friday, January 13, 1939, but from the coverage given by The Hartford Courant, it...

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."

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...

29 Aug

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The Problem With Single-Use Thinking

by Kerri Ana Provost

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While researching the variety of e-bike policies at Connecticut’s colleges/universities, I came across a tiny detail that hints as to why some organizations, and individuals,...

27 Jul