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Popular CT restaurant to hold ‘thank you’ party for customers as it closes for good
It was fun while it lasted. Now, Eli’s Restaurant is holding a “thank you” party Sunday for its customers, as they are closing for good at the Orange location. It was a 10-year run for Eli’s, part of the Eli’s Restaurant Group, which also owns several restaurants in Connecticut. A Facebook post announcing the closure Sunday reads, in part, “…unfortunately due to a myriad of challenges we and ...
$100,000 Cash5 jackpot winner for second day in a row
There was a $100,000 Cash5 jackpot winner in Connecticut for the second day in a row. The winning numbers on Monday were 3-6-25-27-35. The ticket was sold at EZ Stop in Stratford, according to CT Lottery. There was a $100,000 jackpot winner on Sunday night as well. That ticket was...
From a galaxy far, far away to Stew Leonard's: Blue milk lands in CT
Star Wars fans, listen up. While these aren't the droids you're looking for, iconic blue milk from Star Wars doesn't have to only be in a galaxy far, far away. For a limited time, blue milk from the planets on The Outer Rim has landed in Stew Leonard's stores. The...
Grace-Flood Flees To Philly
You can still read what Nora Grace-Flood is finding out — now from Philadelphia rather than New Haven. Nora, a reporter for the New Haven Independent the past three years, has taken up residence as the Philadelphia bureau chief of the Independent Review Crew, a new national network of locally based in-person arts reviewers.
Monroe Animal Shelter to benefit from $1,000 Rotary Club donation
MONROE, CT — Monroe Animal Control Officer Gina Gambino accepted a $1,000 donation from the Monroe Rotary Club to benefit the Animal Control Shelter on Purdy Hill Road Thursday afternoon. She hopes to use it toward the continued modernization of the facility. “What we most need in this facility...
Foster and Forever Pet Rescue Adoption Event!
Join Foster and Forever Pet Rescue for their adoption event and maybe meet your new best friend!. On Saturday 5/4/24 from 12-3, come on down to Petco on Queen Street in Southington and meet some kitties looking for their forever homes!. For more information about the event, or to see...
New Haven Building Newsprint hosts launch party
On Wednesday, urban studies Professor Elihu Rubin hosted a launch party at the New Haven Free Public Library to celebrate the first two issues of the New Haven Building Newsprint — a new publication with the Yale Urban Media Project. The event featured presentations on the publication’s first two...
St. Matt’s to Host “Story of the Philadelphia Eleven” Screening about History-Making Women Episcopal Priests
Fifty years ago this July, a brave group of women shattered the stained-glass ceiling by challenging the very core patriarchal culture to seek ordination as priests in the Episcopal Church. St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Wilton will host a public screening of The Philadelphia Eleven, a compelling new documentary film about these women on Sunday, April 28, at 2 p.m. Despite resistance, disrespect, and exclusion, these women defined the norms and transformed an age-old institution.
Great Music, Greenbrier-Inspired Food Menu Part of American Jazz Experience Concert in City April 26
Reserved seating for the American Jazz Experience concert on Friday, April 26, in Music On Main in Bridgeport is $35 per person with a dining option for $20 more. Students may attend free when accompanied by an adult ticket holder. The show features Miami-based cabaret singer, Maddy Winer, and Greenbrier...
Theater Review | 'Newtown'
Catastrophe can turn a place's identity into the worst thing that’s happened there: Columbine, Parkland, Aurora. Geva Theatre Center's world premiere “Newtown,” which runs through May 12, is centered on the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, CT on December 14, 2012 — a day in which one man killed his mother, 20 school children, six adult school staff members and himself. The most obvious question in the face of such trauma is “how could this have happened?”
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