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The mothers participating in the walk are bonded together after losing their loved ones to gun violence.
Members of Mothers United Against Violence walk along Albany Avenue during the march. It s a club that we don t want anybody to join and sadly, so many mothers and fathers are joining the club, said Williams.
The group marched side by side throughout the North End neighborhood in Hartford with Congressman John Larson. Each stop along the way highlighted an area where a victim was gunned down. This is by sheer will that we are existing through this entire epidemic, pandemic and all of the gun violence, all of the violence that takes place in our community, said Deborah Davis, an organizer with Mothers Untied Against Violence who also lost her son 12 years ago. I know what it s like to use a child and how it feels without the resources or the support so that s why I show up every day.
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Governor Ned Lamont yesterday announced that he is proposing to dedicate up to $11 million in federal funding Connecticut has received for COVID-19 recovery efforts toward the expansion of programs that connect students to high-quality summer enrichment and recreational opportunities, with an emphasis on communities and children who were most impacted by the pandemic.
“After a challenging school year for so many students, our goal with this funding is for all kids to be able to access the terrific summer camps, child care centers, and other summer programs that our state has to offer,”
Governor Lamont said. “By expanding access and lowering barriers that have precluded students from prior participation, we can help ensure that students have a fun and educational summer with their peers and are set up for success in the fall. I want to especially thank our own Senator Chris Murphy, whose fervent advocacy of summer enrichment funding
If there was ever a time the city of Hartford needed a big vision to chase it would be now.
And that’s precisely what a new plan to remake the city’s highway system offers. The 15-year, $17-billion plan is big and part of a regional planning effort called Hartford 400, backed by the iQuilt project in Hartford.
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It essentially would remove significant stretches of highway including the I-84/I-91 and “mixmaster” interchanges that carve up the city and separate downtown and its neighborhoods, freeing up more than 150 acres of land for potential redevelopment in Hartford and East Hartford.
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