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New London — Wherever the President goes, demonstrators typically follow. President Joe Biden's visit to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy on Wednesday brought together a diverse group of demonstrators, protesters and some regular folks attempting to get publicity for their messages. Peace activists arrived at McKinley Park near the Coast Guard Academy entrance hours ahead of Biden’s 10:30 a.m. arrival to call for reductions in military spending and an end to nuclear weapons. A large contingent of people condemning Israel and Biden also were at the park, protesting what they claim are huma...

'It was scary': Apparent murder-suicide shakes Norwalk neighborhood Richard Chumney FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 Police on the scene at Chatham Drive in Norwalk on Sunday, May 16.Richard Chumney / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less 2of5 Police on the scene at Chatham Drive in Norwalk on Sunday, May 16.Richard Chumney / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less 3of5 4of5 Police on the scene at Chatham Drive in Norwalk on Sunday, May 16.Richard Chumney / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less 5of5 NORWALK — The day after a couple died in an apparent murder-suicide, neighbors remaine...

Reply May 17, 2021 The Office of State Broadband within the Connecticut Office of Consumer Counsel announces that a newly released report from BroadbandNow, which performs independent research and data on high-speed Internet access in the U.S., finds that 386,786 residents in the State of Connecticut do not have access to broadband. Subscribe The analysis was performed by checking a sample of addresses against data that had been provided by wireline broadband Internet providers to the Federal Communications Commission. The study found that the providers over-reported to the FCC availability...

Tyler Russell / Connecticut Public It took just a couple of seconds for a nurse to administer the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine into Sadie Sindland’s arm. Getting vaccinated has been a hot topic lately with 14-year-old Sindland and her friends.  “We actually talk about it a lot, because some of the upperclassmen in our school are fully vaccinated,” she said. “And I know that all of my friends are getting the vaccine and they’re looking forward to getting it. I was the first one out of everybody in my friend group.” These Connecticut adolescents 12 throug...

The American Chestnut Returns to Stamford Written by Lizzy Zawy Public Relations The American Chestnut Returns to Stamford Stamford Land Trust and the American Chestnut Foundation plant chestnut trees  On Friday, May 14th, the Stamford Land Conservation Trust (“SLCT”) will plant chestnut seedlings in partnership with The American Chestnut Foundation. The Stamford Land Conservation Trust and the Connecticut Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation are working together to try and restore American chestnut trees (Castanea dentata) to Connecticut's forests. Chestnuts used t...