Category: Regionalism

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...

24 Apr

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Suburban Nonsense Continues West of Hartford

by Kerri Ana Provost

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On the Saturday before Earth Day, West Hartford held their celebration of it in Blue Back Square. They had Hila the Earth rapping about compost...

16 Jul

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Après moi, le déluge

by Kerri Ana Provost

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It's not so bad here, standard spring flooding. Until you remember that this is July.

17 Mar

Community Cultural Interest Downtown Free Fun Get Outside Hartford Holiday Music Regionalism Transportation Winter

St. Patrick’s Day Parade

by Kerri Ana Provost

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Here are a few of the highlights from the St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Saturday, March 11, 2023.

25 Jan

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Take A Seat!

by Kerri Ana Provost

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Elitist attitudes over who may use public space were not born yesterday. And it does not get much more stuck up than deciding who deserves...

13 Jul

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Car-Free Diaries: Week 32

by Kerri Ana Provost

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For the record, I am not an angry girl.

12 Jul

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West Hartford’s ‘Outstanding’ Public Safety

by Kerri Ana Provost

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Is West Hartford's public safety outstanding? Let's see what the data tells us.

02 Feb

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Car-Free Diaries: Week Nine

by Kerri Ana Provost

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Instead of screaming into the void of Twitter, I bring you a weekly highlight reel of what it’s like going places in Greater Hartford when...

01 Sep

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Beyond: Quabbin Reservoir

by Kerri Ana Provost

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If you struggle with the ability to hold many complex, and at times contradictory emotions at once, visit Quabbin Reservoir. That’ll cure you. It’s in...

27 May

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Recycling: Not a New Problem

by Kerri Ana Provost

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Several decades ago, all adolescents (nobody was a “tween” at this time) were herded into the school cafeteria for an assembly so corny that the...