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KEYNOTES: Residents recall outdoor rinks of yesterday Rosemary Rimkus The frigid temperatures have frozen sections of the Assabet River and area ponds, allowing locals to continue the time-honored tradition in Hudson of outdoor skating. Hudson resident Dave O’Neil, 94, member of the 1943-44 Hudson High School hockey team, recalls that Tripp’s Pond was always frozen in those days by the end of December, and provided practice space for the team. “We practiced daily on a rink we cleared at Tripp’s, and then played all our games at the old Boston Arena,” he recalled, “traveling by bus...

Palmetto State Armory plans to open location later this year or in early 2022

Sunday in Hartford: Massive show of police, not protesters Cloe Poisson :: CTMirror.org A protester and counter-protester: At left, a man who identified himself using what is likely a right-wing alias, Duncan Lemp, talks with Joanna Iovino of Hartford at the State Capitol. The first to arrive was a masked young man who used the name of a dead anarchist to identify himself. He carried a first-aid kit and tree-of-liberty flag as he trudged up the hill to the state Capitol on Sunday, the advance guard of a protest that never materialized — at least not in Hartford. On a day when police stood o...

Ryan Caron King :: Connecticut Public Radio Earlier this year, a member of the Connecticut National Guard moves dividers between patient beds in a mobile field hospital at Southern Connecticut State University. The Connecticut Convention Center is getting a similar makeover Friday. National Guard troops on Friday will begin the temporary conversion of the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford into a 600-bed hospital, a precautionary measure that comes after hospitalizations for COVID-19 nearly doubled over 30 days. The work begins at the end of a week when hospitalizations have stabilized...