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A LEADING technology company based in Windermere is reaching out to combat isolation and loneliness amongst its 20,000 older customers. Altertacall are including a new service which sends cards to residents and by making additional calls to those who are alone at Christmas. The company provides housing management services for social landlords and daily contact for sheltered and supported housing customers via its smart tech OKEachDay service. Over Christmas they will be delivering extra seasonal reassurance calls to residents as well as sending personalised Christmas cards, which incl...

Woman dead, man injured in daytime Hamden shooting, police say FacebookTwitterEmail The sign at the Hamden Police Department.Ben Lambert / Hearst Connecticut Media HAMDEN — One woman was killed and a man wounded in a shooting near Pine Rock Avenue early Wednesday, police said. The woman was found sitting in the passenger seat of a motor vehicle, while the man, who remained in critical condition as of late afternoon, was on the ground nearby, according to a release, which said police arrived at the scene around 8 a.m. and believe the two people are known to each other. While he emphasized i...

'One piece of the puzzle:' Universities say study on high parent loan debt accurate but incomplete FacebookTwitterEmail Students move into Toussaint Hall, the newly opened dormitory on the campus of Sacred Heart University, in Fairfield, Conn. Aug. 24, 2018.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media A recent Wall Street Journal report that examines the level of debt parents take on to give their kids a college education paints an incomplete picture, according to officials from some of the Connecticut higher education institutions that find themselves toward the top of the list. “It is one piece ...

Skip to main content A model for the nation: Mothers hope in-progress brick garden will show gravity of gun violence loss FacebookTwitterEmail Marlene Miller-Pratt speaks the New Haven Botanical Garden of Healing Dedicated to Victims of Gun Violence in November. Celeste Robinson-Fulcher is to the left.Ben Lambert / Hearst Connecticut Media / NEW HAVEN — There will be more than 600 bricks in the garden, each representing a life cut short by gun violence in New Haven since 1976, many of them by people wielding illegal and gray market guns. Each will mark the end of a person’s life and a fam...