The CT Forest and Park Association tracks hikers’ miles through its blue-blazed trails challenge. Around 20 have completed over 800 miles.
Best of 2024
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BEST OF 2024: CT state agencies ordered to tally unspent ARPA funds
The directive from Gov. Lamont’s budget director was issued hours after The Connecticut Mirror published a story about legislators’ concerns.
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BEST OF 2024: For Milford Horror, anywhere can become a movie theater
Milford Horror is a group of horror movie fans who watch them in places like a church or the woods. Their first screening drew nearly 100 people.
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BEST OF 2024: Feds continue to probe other matters involving Kosta Diamantis
While the indictment against Kosta Diamantis was being prepared, the FBI continued to probe a cancelled audit of a Bristol eye doctor.
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BEST OF 2024: Pagans in Connecticut: Stepping out of the (broom) closet
Even though many pagans in Connecticut practice in solitude, they are far from alone. Churches and temples exist across the state.
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BEST OF 2024: CT’s Time to Own program helps first-time homebuyers with finances: What to know
CT’s Time to Own program, which is currently taking applications, offers down payment and closing cost assistance to first-time homebuyers.
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2024 — CT’s good transportation news, and bad
There was good news and bad on the transportation front here in Connecticut. Here’s my top five list:
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BEST OF 2024: CT breweries changed during COVID. Now they’re changing again.
CT craft breweries increased nearly eight-fold in just over a decade, fighting through COVID and reinventing themselves with changing times.
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BEST OF 2024: Broad CT elder care bill wins final passage in Senate
The bill would require more oversight of CT home care workers and create a swifter process for accessing Medicaid, among other measures.
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BEST OF 2024: In Bethel, an analog man builds guitar pedal icons
Mike Piera, owner of Analog.Man Guitar Effects, has a six-year waiting list for his most sought-after pedal, the King of Tone.
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BEST OF 2024: This Hartford Public High School grad can’t read. Here’s how it happened.
The young woman’s inability to read or write, her attorney said, may be one of the ‘most shocking cases’ of educational neglect she’s seen in 24 years.
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BEST OF 2024: How chef Jacques Pépin found, and shaped, CT’s food community
Jacques Pepin, known for his cookbooks and TV shows, moved to CT in the mid-’70s. That decision has had a big impact on CT’s food community.
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BEST OF 2024: A question of volatility: Are Connecticut’s fiscal guardrails in the right place?
The first in a three-part series about Connecticut’s fiscal guardrails and their impact not only on state reserves and debt, but also core programs like education and health care.