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Joining Rocky Hill, East Hartford and other communities that are trying to make better use of waterfront land, Middletown is working to revitalize 220 acres along the Connecticut River as stores, apartments, an entertainment district and restaurants.

Any day of the week in Connecticut, in one of the 169 towns in the state, there is likely to be a farmers market. We visited a farmers market each day of the week and talked to people who made soap, raise pigs in the woods, sell potato chips, make gourmet Israeli cuisine and sell Siamese fighting fish and bearded dragons. Here's what we found.

Tri-It Taproom in Avon is the first self-pour taproom in Connecticut, after a law was passed last year to legalize them.

Hamilton, who turned 20 Thursday, had a tear in his aorta so severe it was held together only by “wispy connective tissue,” which kept him from bleeding out, according to Dr. Joseph Portereiko, a trauma surgeon at Hartford Hospital.

The family of the 11-year-old boy pushed off his bike by a man in Deep River joined civil rights activists in a press conference on Wednesday to ask the State Attorney’s office to file a hate crime charge against the suspect charged in the alleged assault.

In an effort to keep issues surrounding race, access to women’s health care and the rising cost of living at the forefront, Hartford-area activist groups have banded together to organize what they say will be a series of rallies to support people of color.

“We’ve never seen anything as crazy as we’ve seen with electric bikes,” said Mike Wolf, owner of Bloomfield Bicycle & Repair Shop. “Electric bikes have absolutely taken over the market for the older generation.”

Johnson Brunetti, a Wethersfield-based retirement investment firm, held a “Build a Bike” event on Tuesday at the Glastonbury boathouse. The event included Brunetti’s entire staff assembling 10 new bicycles to be given to Camp Courant in Farmington.

Women who survive COVID are more likely than men to have lingering symptoms, according to a CDC analysis of Census data.

Hartford-based Connecticut Children's plans to expand from its roots in pediatric care to care for expectant mothers with unborn babies requiring surgery in the womb.