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WHO: Rusty and his Family AGENCY: The Arc Eastern Connecticut THEIR SITUATION: Rusty is a young man with intellectual and developmental disabilities who receives in-home supports. Both of Rusty’s pare...

Judy Ricketts-White, author and publisher, has released “Slater Mountain: Horses & Dreams Creative Coloring,” a companion to the Moonbeam Children’s Award-winning “Slater Mountain” book series...

Local towns have made thousands from the five cent nip bottle surcharge, and are spending those funds on recycling efforts, though some arent seeing the impact yet.

Delaware State Fair returns with posh new attractions, air conditioning failure at New Jersey emergency room prompts evacuation, and more

Hundreds of patients with severe disabilities have been turned away since CTs state DDS dental clinic in Norwich was shuttered March 18.

The councils vote still leaves roughly $2.1 million in ARPA funding to be spent. Three potential big-ticket allotments are still being researched.

A summer counselor job with Groton Parks and Recreation used to be one of the most popular summer gigs in town, the program supervisor said, with positions...

Killingly, CT residents can influence where the town spends about half its American Rescue Plan Act money, or $1.8 million, in a June public hearing.

Published July 01. 2021 6:22PM  Kathleen Stauffer Kathleen Stauffer The ocean was layered with the legion-blue and emerald-green waves that curl along Florida’s Treasure Coast. We were newly vaccinated and on our honeymoon. A table of cruise travelers nearby was taking the joviality that so often accompanies vacations and fruity drinks to a new level of loud. Despite a blazing sunshine, their merriment dampened the atmosphere for the rest of us. One bellowing fellow repeatedly ignored his fr...

A can of soup carried Dennis Walsh to the altar. Walsh met his wife, Nicole, at The Arc Quinebaug Valley. “She kept bringing these sad looking cans of soup for lunch,” he says, “so I started making extra food and bringing her lunch.” Twelve years and two kids later, the Plainfield resident serves as coordinator of Student Services and coordinator of Transition Services for The Arc Eastern Connecticut. Walsh still remembers the first lunch he made for Nicole. “She was trying to eat hea...