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Ridgefield Parks & Rec to offer mountain biking Kathy Fassman FacebookTwitterEmail Mountain biking and hiking trails in Connecticut include clever names like "Creek Slide," "Dirt Session" and "I-95.”Peter Marteka / Contributed photo Ridgefield’s Parks & Recreation Department has teamed up with experienced staff from KC & E Adventures to offer mountain biking clinics for adults and classes/camps for children this spring. Mountain biking is a fun and exciting sport where riders can advance at a pace that is comfortable for them. Beginner and intermediate students will learn skills like brak...

East Haddam, East Hampton win $143,400 in state open space funds Press Staff FacebookTwitterEmail The Air Line Trail in East Hampton features expansive valley views.Contributed photo / Peter Marteka East Haddam and East Hampton initiatives are among those statewide that will receive about $200,000 to assist with the purchase of land to complete regional projects as part of the 2020 Open Space and Watershed Land Acquisition Grant Awards. The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection administers these dispensations, according to a press release from state Sen. Norm Needleman, D-Es...

Wander along the pink granite at the Stony Creek Quarry Preserve Peter Marteka FacebookTwitterEmail 2of5 Trails wind through a hemlock forest and past large boulders.Peter Marteka / Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less 3of5 4of5 The trails pass by piles of huge quarry tailings with drill holes visible in the rocks.Peter Marteka / Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less 5of5 The Statue of Liberty famously proclaims, “Give me your tired, your poor,” and so on. Less famously, it’s builders asked quarries along the Connecticut shoreline to give them their pink granite rock — 450 tons of it —...

For all the disruption and loss, I am as confident in Hartford’s future as I’ve ever been. It’s not naïve optimism. It’s a confidence that comes from knowing how many people are working together in partnership every day — to beat the virus and to build a stronger city.

A pattern next week will deliver not just some milder air after a cold and wintry weekend, but some old friends who spent the winter down south.