Caitlin Emma

Pauline Bouffard says her son used to hold his arms out every time she visited him at the state-run residential facility for the developmentally disabled in Meriden, signaling his desire to go home. Now he lives in a private, community-based group home, and she says he’s not in such a rush to leave. “They were […]

Adam Scianna said that as an undergraduate at the University of Connecticut nine years ago, it was common to see multiple sections for one class, often with 20 to 30 students per section. Now, he works as a teaching assistant for one of the same classes he took as an undergrad — but he teaches […]

Occupy Hartford becomes the latest of the Occupy movements to face eviction, following Mayor Pedro Segarra’s memo this morning asking the small group, which has been camping at “Turning Point Park” since early October, to leave. The fewer than 20 members who were living at the site at the corner of Broad Street and Asylum […]

New Haven — Applying to college entails a lot of work trying to juggle all of the separate applications for each school and keeping all of the necessary personal documents organized and accessible. Now imagine applying to several institutions if you have no mailing address, no phone number and no stable home. That’s how Matthew Morgan, […]

Protests nationwide have been shining a spotlight on America’s wealthiest 1 percent, but state veterans’ affairs officials say a different 1 percent — the population of Americans who have been serving in Iraq and Afghanistan — are the ones who need the attention. President Obama’s June announcement that he is withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan […]

Democrats line up to support Occupy Wall Street, but when Election Day comes, many occupiers say they won’t vote for any Democrats, or anyone at all. “Voting changes nothing,” said Luke Johnson, 33, a member of Occupy Hartford. Johnson said he isn’t a registered voter and that he feels disillusioned by the idea of voting, […]

The Hartford Police Department arrested 12 people blocking the I-84 on ramp Thursday afternoon who said they “occupied” it in protest against America’s crumbling economy and infrastructure. Hartford Police begin arresting the 12 protesters. The 12, who wore pink arm bands, volunteered to occupy the ramp, knowing they could be arrested. The mix of young […]

No one can evaluate a teacher’s performance in the classroom quite like another teacher, educators, union members and administrators testified at a public hearing Monday night. The Connecticut Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union, wants state legislators to remove the State Department of Education’s (SDE) authority to set professional standards for teachers. Rather, CEA […]

Pre-Thanksgiving pleas for donations from food banks and pantries are a familiar part of the season, but organizers say the rare October snow storm causing massive power outages will compound the demand this year, and some may struggle to fill empty shelves. Gloria McAdam serves as president of Foodshare, a Connecticut food distribution bank that […]

After three years, Dorothy Lewis has come to think of the Wethersfield Health Care Center as home. Now, she testified Thursday, she fears losing that home and the workers she considers family as the nursing home’s owners try to shut it down. “I’m standing up to show you I’ve been restored to complete normal health,” […]

KENT–Won-Young Kim helped shovel out a ditch for the wiring that led to a plain-looking wooden box encased in cement, set in the bedrock of a hillside framing the Kent School, a private high school tucked in picturesque northwest Connecticut. “Using this,” he said, pointing to the box, “we’ll be able to pick up activity […]