Nutmeg SlimBlack Eyed Sally’s Southern Kitchen and BarHartfordJan. 9, 2025If there’s one instrument I associate with the blues, it's the harmonica, ...

Cellphone-restricting pouches are officially headed for all New Haven middle and high schools, now that alders have approved a nearly $371,000 contract with the tech-securing company Yondr. At a full ...

(Opinion) How about this New Haven T‑shirt slogan?: “We’re round and flat.” Decorated by New Haven-crafted frisbees, pizzas, hamburgers, clocks, and lollipops? My hunch is that we may see snappier, ...

One man’s trash is another man’s tenant’s loose tires, copper pipes, and splintering wooden cart of debris and furniture. Local landlord W. Matthew Harp floated that idea at a series of back-to-back ...

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• A jury will finally be selected to begin the trial of Qinxuan Pan for the 2021 murder of Yale graduate student Kevin Jiang.

Miguel Rosado can still remember being a first-grader at Hill Central and marveling at city firefighters as they visited his school for “Fire Prevention Month” to show off a fire engine, climb a ...

(Hartford) Connecticut’s towing industry better watch out. There’s a new sheriff in town — and he’s got his sights set on scrapping storage fees, eliminating “patrol towing,” requiring companies to ...

I’ve got a case of the Winter Blues. That was a good thing. The Winter Blues is a free, twice-weekly live music series taking place on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 12 – 1 p.m. inside the State House ...

After a full day of preparing students’ meals, John C. Daniels School lead cafeteria cook Latasha Vereen added a coat and scarf to her uniform and headed to the school district’s headquarters — to ...

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(Hartford) Dwight Alder Frank Douglass and a dozen fellow rideshare drivers from across Connecticut got behind the wheel Wednesday morning — to drive up to the state Capitol and push for higher pay ...