Category: Quality of Life
14
Feb
DUI Checkpoint Scheduled for Friday
by Kerri Ana Provost
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The Hartford Police Department will conduct a DUI checkpoint on Friday, February 17, 2012 from 5p.m. until 1 a.m. in the area of Barbour and...
22
Dec
A Full House for Homeless Persons’ Memorial Service
by Kerri Ana Provost
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During what he called a “grueling 3 1/2 years” without a permanent address, Harry Mitchell, who recently found a place to call home, learned firsthand...
16
Dec
Things That Go Itch in the Night
by Kerri Ana Provost
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How bad has the bed bug situation gotten? Enough, apparently, to call for an amendment to the Pest Extermination Ordinance. On Monday, there will be...
22
Nov
Hartford Unity Community Conversation: “Empower People Already in Hartford”
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Not unusual: people coming into Hartford with big ideas about what residents need and what will “save” us. The Public Allies — an AmeriCorps program...
30
Sep
Scenes from the Sidewalk: Installment 31
by Kerri Ana Provost
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And while the men led their dogs from the lawn, ere their great business remained, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people,...
22
Sep
Another Police Substation on Main Street?
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Though it only takes seconds for the police to reach Main and Asylum from the current substation across from the Hartford Public Library, a new...
25
Aug
Council Primary Candidates Forum
by Kerri Ana Provost
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About half the seats were filled at the start of Wednesday’s forum; by the end, only a few dozen people remained, and many of those...
22
Aug
Prisoner Solidarity Speak-out to Mark End of Rolling Fast
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Local activists began a rolling fast at the beginning of this month to show solidarity with prisoners in the California state system; 6,600 prisoners had...
06
Jul
Access Activism Beyond Hartford Environmental Interest Food Frog Hollow Hartford Hartford's Neighborhoods North East Quality of Life Regionalism
The Great Food Swamp
by Kerri Ana Provost
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It’s not accurate to describe Hartford as being a food desert. This term implies that food is unavailable. The obesity rate says otherwise. Instead, we...
29
Jun
Livable & Sustainable Neighborhoods Initiative: Last Segment
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Read a general overview of the LSNI or learn about the projects and accountability Blight Blight extends beyond a few notable buildings in or just...