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Dog Survives 50-Foot Fall From Cliff at Connecticut Quarry
Last week, a dog was rescued from a quarry in Connecticut after having survived a 50-foot fall. In a Facebook post, the North Canaan Animal Shelter touched upon the rescue of a Terrier mix named Rippy. The pup had been lost for days and was luckily heard by a man passing the quarry. Dog rescued […] The post Dog Survives 50-Foot Fall From Cliff at Connecticut Quarry appeared first on DogTime.
Stew Leonard's, With 2 Supermarkets on Long Island, Looking to Open New Location in Connecticut
Stew Leonard's, the popular supermarket chain that boasts two locations on Long Island - East Meadow and Farmingdale - is looking to open a new location in Connecticut, the state where the company was both founded and is currently headquartered. The chain is looking at the town of Orange in...
Report: CT can do more to eliminate divisive school districts
Ahead of the seventieth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown versus Board of Education, a new report is calling on state officials to take steps to eliminate divisive school districts by expanding open enrollment for public school students. While it identifies Connecticut as the only state to decriminalize address sharing, author Halli Faulkner […] The post Report: CT can do more to eliminate divisive school districts appeared first on Connecticut Inside Investigator.
10-year-old Willimantic boy with autism gets to be garbage man for his birthday
WILLIMANTIC, Conn. (WTNH) — Some kids seem to be fascinated by garbage trucks, and for one boy from Willimantic, operating one is his dream job. Thanks to the kindness of others, that dream came true on Monday for Axton Nizeul’s 10th birthday. After being picked up early from school, his parents brought him to Casella Waste […]
Multi-family home in Norwich riddled with gunfire
A multi-family home was riddled with gunfire in Norwich on Monday evening, police said. Officers were called to the area of Cliff and North Cliff streets just before 5:30 p.m. Authorities found evidence of gunfire at the scene. Investigators determined that a building housing multiple families was struck by several...
CT woman arrested on DUI charge after rolling car over into wooded area
A woman was arrested on a DUI charge over the weekend when she rolled her car over off the road and into a wooded area in Ledyard. Officers responded to the 200 block of Iron Street just after 12:20 a.m. on Saturday on the report of a rollover crash and found the driver of the vehicle sitting on top of her car, which was on its side in a wooded area off the eastbound side of the road, ...
Connecticut’s child care situation called a ‘crisis’
WATERBURY, Conn. (WTNH) — Politicians, parents, advocates and child care providers met Monday to discuss ways to address the ongoing child care staffing crisis. Toddler Town in Waterbury opened in February, but is already on the brink of closure. Owner Steffi Martinez-Frias currently isn’t paying herself, and she can barely afford to pay her staff. […]
Soft-Plastic Eels for Big Striped Bass
Giant soft-plastic eels. For many Northeast striped bass anglers, their vision fuels a hair-raising, sweaty-palmed, white-knuckled daydream. In my version of this dream, pinpricks of infinite starlight twinkle overhead and a marshy salt air gently nudges my kayak down-current in the fragile silence of the ocean at midnight, a silence broken only by two sounds. They are the floppy plop of a 13.5-inch soft-plastic eel landing somewhere near shore and, shortly after, a strained zip-zip-zip as my rod and reel struggle to slow the freight train of a cow striped bass that just inhaled my bait.
Police investigating after shots fired incident in Norwich
NORWICH, CT (WFSB) - Police are investigating following a shots fired incident in Norwich Monday afternoon. Police say at around 5:25 P.M., officers responded to the area of Cliff and North Cliff Street for a report of shots fired. The initial investigation found that a multi family home on Cliff...
Ban on rodenticide that kills wildlife fails in CT legislature. Advocates can’t give up the fight.
A proposed ban on second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides used as a controversial rodent control method did not move forward during this year’s legislative session in Connecticut, but animal and environmental activists are not giving up. Activists had championed a bill to ban the use of the particular rodenticide due to rising reports of other animals, from eagles to foxes, ingesting the ...
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