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Coventry Housing Authority launches campaign for lighting upgrades at Orchard Hill Estates
The Coventry Housing Authority is seeking broad support from the community to raise $25,000 to replace 44 lamp posts at its elderly and disabled housing complex, Orchard Hill Estates. The fundraising deadline is June 2020. Donations will receive a doll...
May 22, 2020, 4:42pm EDT
Community group launches campaign for safety measures at Bridgeport farmers market
The Bridgeport Farmers Market Collaborative is seeking broad support from the community to raise $11,750 for safety measures for farmers market patrons and vendors in the age of COVID-19. The fundraising deadline is June 21. Donations will be matched, ...
May 22, 2020, 4:39pm EDT
Community group launches campaign to develop Litchfield greenway
Friends of the Litchfield Community Greenway is seeking broad support from the community to raise $15,246 to construct a 140-foot span of boardwalk along the town's greenway. The fundraising deadline is June 15, and donations will receive a dollar-for-...
May 22, 2020, 4:35pm EDT
Community group seeks funding to renew Thomaston park
The Seth Thomas Park Revitalization Committee is pushing ahead with plans to completely update Thomaston's Seth Thomas park, beginning with a new master plan and land survey. Project organizers are seeking community support to raise $1,465 by the July ...
May 22, 2020, 4:31pm EDT
New research: 'Firearms, Dementia, and the Clinician'
Not much is known on how to prevent people with mental illness from buying guns. Mitchell Doucette, an assistant professor of health sciences at Eastern Connecticut State University, says there are also few resources that physicians and other health ...
May 22, 2020, 2:28pm EDT
Eastern Graduates more than 1,200 in Virtual Commencement Ceremony
More than 1,250 undergraduate and graduate students watched from home as Eastern Connecticut State University conducted its 130th annual Commencement Exercises via YouTube on May 19. In addition to 1,175 undergraduates, 85 graduate students received th...
May 19, 2020, 7:11pm EDT
Eastern to Hold Virtual Commencement on May 19
More than 1,250 undergraduate and graduate students and their families will watch from home when Eastern Connecticut State University conducts its 130th annual Commencement Exercises via YouTube on May 19. The "virtual" event begins at 6 p.m. that even...
May 18, 2020, 2:09pm EDT
$5,700 for Public Murals in Bridgeport
After a $2,850 match from the Sustainable CT Community Match Fund, The Bridgeport Downtown Special Services District (DSSD) now has $5,700 for its "Color It In" public mural project. DSSD will now finalize the mural site, identify a local artist to cre...
Apr 16, 2020, 3:33pm EDT
$8,300 for State's first composting conference, to be hosted in New Britain
After a $4,150 match from the Sustainable CT Community Match Fund, the Connecticut Resource Conservation and Development Area now has $8,300 to put toward Connecticut's first composting conference, which is slated to occur in New Britain in fall 2020. ...
Apr 16, 2020, 3:27pm EDT
$8,600 for Lighting Display at New Haven Underpass
After a $4,300 match from the Sustainable CT Community Match Fund, the Mill River Advocates now have $8,600 to put toward the installation of color-changing lights in the Amtrak underpass on Humphrey Street in New Haven. The Mill River Advocates is a v...
Apr 16, 2020, 3:15pm EDT