Bridgeport: Fishermen rescued from Seaside Park breakwater

The Bridgeport Fire Department rescued fire fishermen trapped at the Seaside Park breakwater on Sunday night, according to officials.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Bridgeport-Fishermen-rescued-from-Seaside-Park-15307208.php

Connecticut residents join nation in another day of protests over police brutality

On Sunday, Connecticut saw another day of protests over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died on Monday after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee on his neck until he stopped breathing.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Connecticut-residents-join-nation-in-another-day-15307053.php

Bridgeport: Firefighters put out porch fire

Bridgeport Firefighters put out a porch fire on William Street on Sunday night.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Bridgeport-Firefighters-put-out-porch-fire-15307184.php

Coronavirus in Connecticut: Hospitalizations decline as deaths approach 4,000

On Sunday, the state reported that 32 more people died after contracting coronavirus, bringing the total number of deaths to 3,944. Meanwhile, it said the number of people hospitalized with the disease has continue to decline, dropping by 52 to 481.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Coronavirus-in-Connecticut-Hospitalizations-15306977.php

Future of Stadiums, Arenas Promise High Tech, Low Capacity

The coronavirus pandemic is slowly releasing its grip on the sports world. Fans already are thinking about returning to stadiums and arenas. But what awaits them could be unlike anything they have ever seen.

from Sports – NBC Connecticut https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/sports/future-of-stadiums-arenas-promise-high-tech-low-capacity/2279990/

I-84 reopens after protesters shut down highway for an hour

Interstate 84 is closed in both directions bertween Exits 22 and 23 in Waterbury.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Protesters-close-part-of-I-84-in-Waterbury-15306563.php

TPC River Highlands Keeps Golfers Safe With Touchless Ball Retrieval

Safety remains the top priority for golf courses as more people take advantage of the socially distant outdoor activity. Courses are continuing to adapt so that everyone can play while adhering to state and local safety guidelines. TPC River Highlands in Cromwell has installed E-Z Lyft devices so that golfers don’t have to touch the pin to retrieve the ball...

from Sports – NBC Connecticut https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/sports/tpc-river-highlands-keeps-golfers-safe-with-touchless-ball-retrieval/2279933/

State Parks that are closed to new visitors today

DEEP announces which parks are closed to new visitors on its Twitter account @CTStateParks - https://twitter.com/ctstateparks

from News https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/State-Parks-that-are-closed-to-new-visitors-today-15306457.php

Updates: Connecticut protests over Floyd’s death by police

More protests are planned in Connecticut Sunday over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died Monday after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee on his neck until he stopped breathing.

Protests are planned in Norwalk, Stamford, New Haven and Waterbury.

Will will be providing updates throughout the day.

Danbury mayor, police chief ‘deeply troubled’

A statement from Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton and Police Chief Patrick Ridenhour:

“We are deeply troubled by the recent events in Minnesota. These actions are inexcusable and officers standing idly by when it happens is equally troubling and unacceptable.

“We acknowledge the pain that this and all incidents of unnecessary force by police cause the nation as a whole and often communities of color in particular. We do not condone police brutality under any circumstances.

“Please know that we cherish the relationship our department enjoys with the entire Danbury community. We will never take that relationship for granted and we will continue to do our best to to ensure fair and equitable treatment for all.”

Stamford police chief” ‘We are just as disappointed’

“The death of George Floyd in Minneapolis is very disturbing and there is no excuse for the actions of the Officers. Our thoughts and prayers go out to family of George Floyd as well as the people of Minneapolis during these trying and tragic times.

“I would like to assure the residents of Stamford that we are just as disappointed as you are and do not want the behavior of those officers to affect the relationship we have built within our community. We will continue to hold ourselves to the highest standard.”- Chief...

from News https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Updates-Connecticut-protests-over-Floyd-s-15306431.php

PD: 150 protesters closed road for hours, 2 arrested peacefully

State police said “the group of protesters remained non-confrontational with troopers; only carrying signs, videoing and posting social media postings, and yelling.”

from News https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/State-Police-150-protesters-closed-Route-8-for-15306365.php

Female wounded in leg in Bridgeport shooting

Police said the wound is non-life threatening.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Female-wounded-in-leg-in-Bridgeport-shooting-15306329.php

The Free Consent of the People: Thomas Hooker and the Fundamental Orders

By Diana McCain for Your Public Media

“The foundation of authority is laid firstly in the free consent of people.” That principle lies at the heart of the representative system by which the United States has governed itself for more than two centuries.

But when the Reverend Thomas Hooker declared those words in a sermon in Hartford on May 31, 1638, they were a radical concept. In 1638 almost all the nations of the world were governed by monarchs, emperors, tsars, and others who wielded power secured by inheritance or conquest. Ordinary people had little, and usually no, voice in selecting their leaders or making their laws.

The Puritans whom Thomas Hooker had led to settle in Hartford just a few years earlier based everything in their lives on the Bible. Thomas Hooker believed that in the Bible God granted the people the right to select those who would govern them and the power to establish limitations on those individuals.

Page from Henry Wolcott Jr.’s shorthand notebook of sermons delivered in Hartford, Windsor, and New Haven between 1638 and 1641 – Connecticut Historical Society,

Less than a year later those democratic concepts were put into practice. In January of 1639 the settlements at Windsor, Hartford, and Wethersfield united under a framework of government known as the Fundamental Orders. Under the Orders, citizens elected representatives to a legislature that would enact the laws of the land. The governor was elected as well.

We know the momentous words Thomas Hooker spoke on that May day 375 years ago from notes taken in an early version of shorthand by a man who heard them uttered, Henry Wolcott, Jr. of Windsor.

Diana Ross McCain was formerly the Head of the Connecticut Historical Society Research Center and author of the books It Happened in Connecticut, Connecticut Coast: An Illustrated History, Mysteries and Legends of New England, and a biography of Connecticut’s official state heroine, To All on Equal Terms: The Life and Legacy of Prudence Crandall.

© Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network and Connecticut Historical Society. All rights reserved. This article originally appeared on Your Public Media.

from Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project https://connecticuthistory.org/the-free-consent-of-the-people-thomas-hooker-and-the-fundamental-orders/

Police: Teen in serious condition after Bridgeport shooting

A teenager was in serious condition Saturday night following an afternoon shooting, according to officials.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/policereports/article/Police-Teen-in-serious-condition-after-15305918.php

44 more coronavirus-linked deaths in CT

Hospitalizations continue to drop in Connecticut, following a trend of several weeks.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/44-more-CT-residents-die-with-coronavirus-15305742.php

Preschool teacher tabbed as Monroe’s best

Parents, teachers and her peers said Teresa Gucwa Heines has what it takes to be among the best: compassion, understanding, skill, love and a persistence to find exactly what a child needs to succeed.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Preschool-teacher-named-as-Monroe-s-best-15305671.php

Fairfield police chief calls George Floyd’s death ‘serious injustice’

Local police and clergy issued a joint statement Saturday condemning the actions that led to the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/policereports/article/Fairfield-police-chief-calls-George-Floyd-s-15305597.php

Peaceful protest in Stratford over death of George Floyd

A protest organized by four Stratford High School students in response to the death of George Floyd drew hundreds of people downtown Saturday.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Protest-over-death-of-George-Floyd-peaceful-in-15305562.php

George Floyd protest underway in Bridgeport

Protesters hit the streets downtown Saturday as many have across nationwide over the last several days in response to the death of George Floyd.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/policereports/article/George-Floyd-protest-underway-in-Bridgeport-15305439.php

Colonial Revival Movement Sought Stability during Time of Change

By Briann Greenfield

A cultural movement as well as an architectural and decorating style, the Colonial Revival of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was inspired by a romantic veneration of the early American past. Enthusiasts sought to bring what they believed to be traditional values and aesthetics into contemporary life by preserving old buildings and artifacts, staging reenactments of historic events, manufacturing new goods in past styles, and creating works of art and literature depicting early American scenes.

The Colonial Revival was national in its scope, but as a state rich in historic resources, Connecticut became inextricably linked with the movement, supplying both symbolic imagery and active adherents. Although interest in the colonial era persists today, the heyday of the Colonial Revival occurred as rapid urbanization, industrialization, and immigration encouraged many Americans to seek refuge in the perceived simplicity of the past.

Origins and Imagery

The Connecticut Cottage at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition

Most scholars tie the emergence of the Colonial Revival to the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Americans marked the milestone with the Centennial International Exhibition of 1876, the first official world’s fair in the United States, held in Philadelphia, a city with its own rich colonial past. With displays of American manufacturing, the fair celebrated the nation’s rush to progress, but its exhibits also provided many comparisons to the past. Among these was Connecticut’s state building, the “Connecticut Cottage.” Designed in the style of a half-timbered medieval structure, the house would not conform to modern knowledge of colonial-era Connecticut architecture. But visitors to the world’s fair recognized it as historic and were assisted in that judgment by the placement of an old-fashioned well-sweep (a device for raising and lower water buckets) in the front yard.  The interior also included relics of the past: a gun that had belonged to Revolutionary War hero General Israel Putnam, an antique tall clock, relics of the Charter Oak, and what would become the icon of the Colonial Revival, a spinning wheel positioned in front of the fireplace.

Artists and writers working in Connecticut helped bring such idealized images of early American life to a wider public. Writers such as Harriet Beecher Stowe set stories in puritan New England.  Similarly, Impressionists Childe Hassam, Willard Metcalf and Adelaide Deming created bucolic scenes based on New England landscapes. Often, they depicted old homes in Lyme or Litchfield, the latter of which had created a comprehensive plan in 1913 to remodel or rebuild all public and business buildings in colonial styles.

Inspired Nostalgia Trumps Historical Accuracy

Reenactors at 1908 Bulkeley Bridge dedication recreate Thomas Hooker’s 1636 landing – Connecticut Historical Society and Connecticut History Online

In most cases, participants in the Colonial Revival were more concerned with preserving the spirit of the past than with strict adherence to historical accuracy.  Proponents also drew their inspiration widely, not limiting their enthusiasm for the past to the period when Connecticut was a British colony but embracing the early national period as well. Geography was not a barrier either. When pioneering female architect Theodate Pope Riddle collaborated with the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White in 1898 to build a sprawling summer retreat for her parents in Farmington, Connecticut, she used Mount Vernon’s southern architecture as her model.

Likewise, Colonial Revival enthusiast might graft visions of the past on to distinctly contemporary events. The dedication of Hartford’s Bulkeley Bridge in 1908, for example, was marked by three days of celebrations, including a reenactment of Thomas Hooker’s historic 1636 landing in Hartford. Men, women and children dressed as Puritans to recreate that landing, which is an early and treasured story in the founding of the Connecticut colony.

Interest in Past Prompts Preservation

Still, this interest in the colonial past proved to be good news for preservation of the state’s historic resources.  For example, the state’s first historic house museum was founded in 1891 when the Connecticut chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution preserved a former store and office in which Governor Jonathan Trumbull planned the defense of the Connecticut colony during the Revolutionary War.

The Sons’ sister organization, the Daughters of the American Revolution, preserved the Oliver Ellsworth Homestead (built in 1781) in 1903 and Putnam Cottage (built circa 1690) in 1906.  In the 1920s, Connecticut members of the Colonial Dames completed an extensive architectural survey of the state’s colonial and early national buildings that included architectural drawings created by preservationist architect J. Frederick Kelly. By 1933 the state could boast 23 historic house museums, all but one having been built in 1800 or earlier.

Similarly, antique collectors also located, identified and preserved examples of early American craft.  Among the earliest of these collectors were Hartford’s Walter Hosmer, a furniture upholster, and Dr. Irving W. Lyon, author of The Colonial Furniture of New England (1891), the first book-length scholarly study of American furniture. Others included Henry Wood Erving, a chairman of the Connecticut River Banking Company credited with discovering a class of richly carved chests indigenous to the Connecticut River Valley; Wallace Nutting, an entrepreneur whose business ventures included a chain of historic house museums, photographs of staged colonial scenes, and a line of reproduction furniture; and George Dudley Seymour, a flamboyant collector whose passion for history was fueled by his devotion to the memory of Revolutionary War captain Nathan Hale. Such collectors helped establish the study of American decorative arts and create important museum collections including those of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, the Connecticut Historical Society, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Past Provides Refuge from Change

Wallace Nutting, A Daughter of the Revolution, Hand-colored photogravure, 1904 – Yale University Art Gallery

Politically, the Colonial Revival was conservative in its leanings.  The ancestor-worshipping lineage associations that proliferated beginning in the 1890s worked to preserve the status of old Yankee families during a period of high immigration. Often associated with Revolutionary War heroes or Connecticut statesmen, historic house museums promoted patriotism and respect for government institutions.

Similarly, at a time when many women were organizing for the vote, Wallace Nutting’s popular photographic prints depicted women in traditional roles as genteel ladies and productive housewives. But the real women who worked to preserve historic buildings during the Colonial Revival did not restrict themselves to the domestic sphere. To carry out their ambitious plans, they took on the very public roles of organizers, spokespersons, and fund-raisers. This is certainly true of Emily Seymour Goodwin Holcombe, whose extensive work as a preservationist included restoring Hartford’s Ancient Burying Ground in 1896 and saving the Connecticut Old State House from demolition in 1909.

Colonial Revival Melds with the Modern

As much as the Colonial Revival idealized the past, it also did much to facilitate the introduction of modern modes of living.  In the area of aesthetics, it replaced the fussiness of Victorian design with simpler, almost streamlined, shapes. Colonial Revival motifs could be applied to modern building forms, as in the case of the skyscraper built for the Hartford-Connecticut Trust Company in 1920.

Colonial-styled commodities also fueled the burgeoning consumer culture of the 1920s.  Connecticut firms such as Nathan Margolis, Robbins Brothers, and Hitchcock produced furniture in early American styles. Such goods were readily displayed in modern, single-family suburban homes, themselves often adorned with colonial motifs. Indeed, Colonial Revival architecture and interior décor became so closely tied to Connecticut’s suburbs that when the fictional television couple Lucy and Ricky Ricardo moved to Connecticut in 1957, the sixth and final season of I Love Lucy, their new home was Colonial Revival.

Briann Greenfield, PhD, is the former coordinator of the public history program at Central Connecticut State University and current executive director of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center.

from Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project https://connecticuthistory.org/the-colonial-revival-movement-sought-stability-during-time-of-change/

Wire Mill one of few tennis courts open amid coronavirus

Wire Mill Racquet Club in North Stamford offers a unique experience with its outdoor clay courts. And it’s one the few tennis clubs open in the area.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/news/coronavirus/article/Wire-Mill-one-of-few-tennis-courts-open-amid-15304920.php

Our favorite sports moments during the pandemic

From local players drafted into the NFL, to professional and college athletes joining Zoom calls with high school athletes, rival schools engaging in distance competitions, players having virtual catches with their teammates and teams running parades past the homes of seniors.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/news/coronavirus/article/Our-favorite-sports-moments-during-the-pandemic-15304876.php

What we’re missing most about sports in Connecticut this summer

U.S. Senior Women’s Open at Brooklawn Country Club

Fairfield’s Brooklawn CC was set to host a significant event, the third U.S, Senior Women’s Open on July 9-12. The club hosted the men’s 1987 U.S. Senior Open and the 2003 U.S. Girls Junior, so this would mark the return of another USGA Open championship.

State Championship Baseball at Palmer Field and Softball at DeLuca Field

We’re under two weeks away from the culmination of the high school baseball and softball season. Alas, the spring season was canceled, and it will be all quiet at Palmer Field in Middletown and DeLuca Field in Stratford. The June weekend of championship ball is always memorable — for players, parents, fans, and state media.

The Yankee Train

This was expected to be a train humming along to some October excitement. Connecticut’s Yankee fans were anticipating a fun summer from a team that added ace Gerrit Cole — Greenwich homeowner, by the way — to an already-strong roster. How many wins would Cole have as we close out May? How many celeberatory train rides back to Connecticut have fans missed?

Derek Jeter’s Hall of Fame Enshrinement

Imagine the caravan of Yankees’ fans traveling from Connecticut to Cooperstown for Jeter’s July 26 induction. The Hall of Fame was expecting a huge crowd, possible breaking the 2007 record of 80,000 for the induction of Cal Ripken Jr. and Tony Gwynn. Instead, induction weekend was postponed until 2021. And with the possiblity of Curt Schilling, Barry Bonds, and Roger Clemens being elected next year, Jeter’s 2021 Coopertown weekend might be the most star-studded in history.

New England Little League Regional at Bristol

This has been...

from News https://www.ctpost.com/news/coronavirus/article/What-we-re-missing-most-about-sports-this-summer-15304702.php

‘Adapt and grow’: Athletes, coaches navigate life during coronavirus

There’s a physical, emotional and mental toll as high school and college athletes search for ways to stay sharp. For coaches and their support staffs, the challenge is obvious.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/news/coronavirus/article/Adapt-and-grow-Athletes-coaches-navigate-15302135.php

Senior fatalities make up nearly 72% of CT’s coronavirus-linked deaths

Officials for nursing homes and assisted living facilities say this week’s data for those facilities shows the state is headed in the “right direction” with a slow reopening to limit further spread of COVID-19.

Data provided by the state Friday showed 2,398 confirmed and probable Covid-19 deaths among nursing home residents and 327 residents from assisted living facilities who have died from the virus as of Wednesday — up from 1,927 and 276 respectively last week.

On Friday, Gov. Ned Lamont signed an executive order allowing barbershops and hair salons to reopen June 1. The order also raised the limits on gatherings to 10 people inside and 25 people outdoors. Larger religious gatherings will now also be permitted.

Friday’s data showed 8,322 confirmed virus cases in nursing home residents and 1,007 cases in assisted living facility residents — an increase from 6,947 and 872 respectively based on last week’s data.

Fatalities in nursing homes and assisted living facilities represent nearly 72 percent of the statewide total number of deaths as of Wednesday, which was 3,803. But confirmed cases among residents at nursing homes and assisted living facilities represent nearly 23 percent of the state’s 41,288 confirmed virus cases as of Wednesday.

In a prepared joint statement from Mag Morelli, president of LeadingAge Connecticut; Matt Barrett, president and CEO the Connecticut Association of Health Care Facilities; and Christopher Carter, president of Connecticut Assisted Living Association said this week’s data shows the state is “moving in the right...

from News https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Senior-fatalities-make-up-nearly-72-of-CT-s-15304681.php

NCAA Offers Guidance for Bringing Athletes Back to Campus

The NCAA has released a long and detailed plan to help schools bring athletes back to campus during the pandemic

from Sports – NBC Connecticut https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/sports/ncaa-offers-guidance-for-bringing-athletes-back-to-campus/2279509/

Bridgeport launches ATV complaint hotline

The city has created a hotline for residents to report ATV violations on city streets, the mayor announced Friday.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/policereports/article/Bridgeport-launches-ATV-complaint-hotline-15304601.php

Lamont opens up social gatherings to 10 indoors; allows religious groups to reach 25 percent occupancy

Revised gathering rules allow 25 to gather outside on private property, and as many as 100 for indoor religious services.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/news/coronavirus/article/Lamont-opens-up-social-gatherings-to-10-indoors-15304512.php

South-West Conference Holds Virtual Chipping Competition for Girls Golf Teams

High school golf teams in Connecticut never made it out to the course this season. “We’re home trying to find ways to stay focused, stay active and have some fun,” said Newtown girls golf head coach Jeremy O’Connell. The girls golf teams in the South-West Conference weren’t going to let the season be lost completely. “The South-West Conference athletic directors...

from Sports – NBC Connecticut https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/sports/south-west-conference-holds-virtual-chipping-competition-for-girls-golf-teams/2279406/

Religious leaders, praising Lamont for lifting some CT attendance restrictions, mourn Minneapolis man

Gov. Ned Lamont, stressing continued social distancing, announces a doubling of indoor gatherings to 10; outside to 25 people, in partial easing of coronavirus pandemic restrictions.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/news/coronavirus/article/Religious-leaders-praising-Lamont-for-lifting-15304112.php

42 new fatalities in CT coronavirus pandemic brings total to 3,826

A net reduction of 71 hospitalizations brings CT to 648, the lowest since March 30.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/news/coronavirus/article/42-new-fatalities-in-CT-coronavirus-pandemic-15304098.php

Bridgeport judge denies release to Iowa child molester accused of assaulting Stratford girl

A Bridgeport judge refused to reduce the bond on a convicted Iowa child molester accused of sexually assaulting a Stratford girl.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/news/coronavirus/article/Bridgeport-judge-denies-release-to-Iowa-child-15304046.php

New format, same result for Bridgeport math competition as Winthrop earns mathlete banner

Online due to the coronavirus pandemic, Bridgeport’s annual middle school math competition went off with few glitches.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/news/coronavirus/article/New-format-same-result-for-Bridgeport-math-15304022.php

Tigers, bears, social distancing, oh my! Beardsley Zoo to reopen

Closed for over two months because of the coronavirus pandemic, Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo reopens to the general public Monday. Members can visit this weekend.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/news/coronavirus/article/Tigers-bears-social-distancing-oh-my-15303977.php

Freed because of the coronavirus pandemic, Stamford man re-arrested

A Stamford man, who was released from jail last month because of the pandemic, is back behind bars after a new arrest.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/news/coronavirus/article/Freed-because-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic-15303919.php

Parade, virtual ceremony to replace Staples traditional graduation rites

Staples High School’s class of 2020 will be celebrated with a car parade on June 11 and a virtual graduation ceremony on June 16.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Parade-virtual-ceremony-to-replace-Staples-15303729.php

Waterbury police charge fifth teen in homicide case

A fifth teen was recently charged in connection with a drive-by shooting that killed Isaiah Colon earlier this month, according to police.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/policereports/article/Waterbury-police-charge-fifth-teen-in-homicide-15303792.php

Fingerprint Services Resuming

Fingerprinting services will resume on Tuesday June 2, 2020 by appointment only....

from Newington, CT - News Flash https://www.newingtonct.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?aid=1360

“I was angry:” Arrest of CNN journalists harsh reminder for Hearst CT reporter

The arrest of three CNN employees while doing their job in Minneapolis Friday morning while covering protests was unacceptable.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/I-was-angry-Arrest-of-CNN-journalists-15303440.php

Summer of coronavirus: What is safe and risky to do

As summer approaches and the state tentatively reopens, what beloved seasonal activities are safe to do, and what should be avoided?

from News https://www.ctpost.com/news/coronavirus/article/Summer-of-coronavirus-What-is-safe-and-risky-to-15303391.php

Connecticut state colleges plan in-person classes from August to Thanksgiving due to coronavirus

The 17 state colleges and universities plan to start the fall 2020 semester with in-person classes but end with distance learning to beat a second coronavirus wave.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/news/coronavirus/article/Connecticut-state-colleges-plan-in-person-classes-15303386.php

How to sanitize your golf equipment

GolfSupport.com recently shared tips on how to sanitize golf clubs and equipment:

1. Golf club heads

After a long day at the course, your golf clubs are bound to collect dirt and debris. Follow these simple steps to keep them sparkling and germ-free:

Add 2-3 teaspoons of dishwasher liquid or soap to a bucket of warm water (enough to cover the club heads). Ensure it isn’t hot, as this may loosen the club head from the shaft.

Submerge dirty club heads into the water for 5-10 minutes to loosen any dirt.

Remove each club one-by-one and use an old toothbrush or soft-bristle brush to scrub away any stubborn dirt, ensuring you catch the back, front, bottom and each individual groove.

Run the cleaned club heads under water to wash away any remnants, avoiding getting the shaft and grips wet.

Dry with a towel. Ensure nothing is left damp as this is when rust can develop.

To give club heads an extra shine, gently rub in steel or chrome polish in circular motions and leave for a minute. Then ensure you remove all the polish - any remaining grease could negatively affect your game!

2. Golf club shafts

Golf club shafts can also be prone to dirt. To remove dirt, use a damp cloth and clear any grime from the shaft, drying it thoroughly with a towel afterwards.

If your club becomes rusty: according to a study by EOT Cleaning, vinegar comes out on top for the best multi-use disinfectant. So why not utilize it for your golf clubs too? Apply a little vinegar on the shaft with a cloth and gently remove any residue, ensuring you don’t scratch it. Finish by drying thoroughly.

3. Golf club grips

Golf grips are the most touched area...

from News https://www.ctpost.com/news/coronavirus/article/How-to-sanitize-your-golf-equipment-15302378.php

Diocese of Bridgeport to allow weekday masses, weddings

BRIDGEPORT — The Diocese of Bridgeport announced Friday churches will be able to resume celebrating Masses indoors on weekdays in the near future, stepping back toward normality amidst the coronavirus pandemic.

In a letter posted on the diocese’s website, Bishop Frank J. Caggiano said parishes can begin celebrating weekday Masses, including funerals and weddings, indoors after this coming Sunday, May 31. Weekend services are then expected to be allowed beginning June 13, he said.

This is the second phase of the re-opening process, Caggiano said. The diocese began offering outdoor Masses on May 21, which has “gone very well with a growing number of parishes now offering outside Mass both seated and in parking lots.”

“These Masses have been offered in a manner that health officials consider the safest ways in which to congregate by practicing social distancing, and the same policies will be in effect as we begin to celebrate Mass within our Churches buildings,” said Caggiano. “While the challenges are considerable when congregating in an indoor location, we are confident that by following public health recommendations, we can come together for Mass in a manner that is as safe or safer than in other public gatherings.”

Caggiano said he would coninue the disposition of the obligation to attend Sunday Mass “for all those who are vulnerable or concerned about their health or the health of loved ones,” urging churches to continue streaming services online.

He said services will be held with strict social distancing policies and a requirement to wear masks, among other safety measures, and urged churches to adjust their seating capacities so that the gatherings can be held safely.

“To do otherwise would be...

from News https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Diocese-of-Bridgeport-to-allow-weekday-masses-15303050.php

Experts: Disparities in Hispanic and black coronavirus death rates worse than previously reported

Health officials recognized the daily figures being released by the governor’s office weren’t a true reflection of the impact on populations outside of nursing homes.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/news/coronavirus/article/Experts-Disparities-in-Hispanic-and-black-15303084.php

2020 Sports Calendar for Connecticut and National Events

All events are subject to change

NATIONAL

AUTO RACING

Resumed: NASCAR

July 5: Formula One

July 6: Indy Car

Aug. 23: Indianapolis 500

CYCLING

Aug. 29-Sep. 20: Tour de France

GOLF

Cancelled: British Open

Aug. 6-9: PGA Championship (TPC Harding Park, San Francisco)

Aug. 6-9: LPGA Evian Championship (France)

Aug. 20-23: Women’s British Open (Royal Troon, Scotland)

Sep. 10-13: LPGA ANA Inspiration (Mission Hills, Rancho Mirage, Ca.)

Sep. 17-20: U.S. Open (Winged Foot, Mamaroneck, N.Y.)

Sep. 25-27: Ryder Cup (Whistling Straits, Haven, Wisconsin)

Oct. 8-11: Women’s PGA Championship (AGC Racquet Sports, Delaware County, Pa.)

Nov. 12-15: Masters

Dec. 10-13: U.S. Women’s Open (Champions GC, Houston)

HORSE RACING

June 20: Belmont

July 16-Sep. 7: Saratoga Race Course meet (no spectators)

Sep. 5: Kentucky Derby

Oct. 3: Preakness

MLB

Season starts: TBD, July

NBA

Season resumes: TBD

June 25: NBA Draft, pdd. TBD

NHL

24-team playoff: Dates TBD

June 26-27: Entry Draft, ppd. TBD

OLYMPICS

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from News https://www.ctpost.com/news/coronavirus/article/2020-Sports-Calendar-for-Connecticut-and-National-15302977.php

Potential infection risk for coronavirus by sport

The National Federation of High School Sports recently released a list of sports broken down by potential infection risk for coronavirus.

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Expect fall high school sports to be played, but there could be differences

What high school sports looks like this fall will be determined by what portion of Gov. Ned Lamont’s re-opening phase the state is in, CIAC executive director says.

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Mary Hall: Connecticut’s First Female Attorney

Born in Marlborough, Connecticut, in 1843, Mary Hall had no idea, growing up the daughter of a farmer, that she would one day revolutionize the legal profession in Connecticut. In 1866 she graduated from Wesleyan Academy in Wilbraham, Massachusetts, and became a teacher. A believer in equal opportunities for women, she attended a woman suffrage convention in Hartford that set her on a new and radical career path.

Mary Hall – Richmond Memorial Library, Marlborough

At the convention she heard esteemed Hartford attorney John Hooker give a talk about the restricted property rights of married women. Inspired by Hooker’s speech, Hall decided to study law (at a time before Connecticut had any female attorneys). She began studying in her brother’s legal practice, but after his death, Hall found herself without a mentor. It was then that John Hooker, clerk of the Supreme Court of Errors in Connecticut, took Hall in as an apprentice. Hall studied under Hooker for four years.

Clearing the Way for Connecticut Women to Practice Law

In May of 1882, Hall applied for admission to the Connecticut bar. The local US district attorney and three other lawyers administered her exam, and felt she deserved to pass, but deferred to the state court system to make the final decision as to the legality of admitting a female attorney to the bar. In July of 1882, the Connecticut Supreme Court cleared the way for women to practice law in Connecticut by making Mary Hall the state’s first female attorney.

Hall went into practice and specialized in assisting women with wills and cases concerning property rights. She practiced for approximately 40 years and became the state’s first female notary in 1884.

In 1902, Hall founded the Good Will Club, an organization that sought housing for wayward boys. She later established a camp for these children in her hometown of Marlborough and even wrote the first book on Marlborough’s history in 1903. A leader in the suffragist movement, she passed away in 1927 at the age of 84, just seven years after witnessing the ratification of the 19th amendment—guaranteeing women the right to vote.

from Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project https://connecticuthistory.org/mary-hall-connecticuts-first-female-attorney/

Runners adjusting to competing in virtual road races

Alan Macdougall feels the same before every race. It doesn’t matter if he’s running 3.1 miles or 26.2, the 54-year-old Branford resident is always nervous before the gun goes off.

“It’s a complicated thing,” he says. “You’re there with a lot of people, you want to do well, and no matter how much you tell yourself it doesn’t really matter how you do, you’re always thinking about what are other people going to think?”

His last 5k was no different. And nobody was around to judge him.

With road races across Connecticut being postponed or canceled because of the coronavirus, some runners are turning to a modern phenomenon to keep their competitive juices flowing — virtual racing.

In virtual racing, runners compete on their own time and at their own location, whether it’s a neighborhood/city street or treadmill. Once the required distance is reached, they simply log in and record their time. Generally, there are no prizes.

In a typical year, Macdougall competes in about 20 races ranging from 5ks to half marathons, marathons and Ironman triathlons. For him and other participants, the virtual runs are a convenient way to train, not to mention raise money for a worthwhile cause.

“It’s not the same as running a race with hundreds and thousands of other people, but it still gives you a goal,” he said.

Last month’s Race Against Hunger 5k Run and Walk, organized by John Bysiewicz of JB Sports, had over 800 participants and collected more than $100,000 for Connecticut Food Bank.

Bysiewicz, who coordinates around 25 events a year throughout Connecticut, is putting together another virtual race that will benefit Race-4 CT and will run through the end of this month....

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Despite loss of handshakes, sportsmanship will continue in high school sports

While social-distancing and no-contact guidelines are necessary — at least for the short term — they should not dampen the enthusiasm and emotion of high school sports.

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Naugatuck PD: 2 in custody, 2 at large after armed home invasion

Police say a Bridgeport man and a Naugatuck man remain at large after an armed home invasion earlier this week, according to police.

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How the Travelers is preparing for an event in a pandemic without fans

The 2020 Travelers Championship PGA Tour event will be held June 25-28 at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell without fans due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Mohegan Sun, Foxwoods set to enjoy regional gaming monopoly

While CT isn’t the first state in the nation to reopen casinos, CT’s two tribal resorts are set to have a regional advantage starting June 1.

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Police: Multiple reports of bear sightings in Orange

Orange police are telling residents to be alert after several bear sightings.

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23 more deaths in CT coronavirus pandemic brings total to 3,826

Hospitalizations in CT coronavirus pandemic fell by a net 36 patients Thursday, bringing total to 648.

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Not all eligible CT children receiving coronavirus food aid

Many of the children who qualify for the Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer program have not yet received help partly because they live in about 80,000 households that are were not previously enrolled in SNAP.

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Tokyo Olympics Just Beginning the Race to Reset Themselves

The postponed Tokyo Olympics face lots of questions

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In-Person Boston Marathon Is Canceled Amid Pandemic, Goes Virtual for 2020

The Boston Marathon won’t be run this year, Mayor Marty Walsh announced Thursday, calling it unfeasible for public health reasons as the coronavirus pandemic continues to hit Massachusetts. The race will be replaced with virtual events. “There’s no way to hold the usual race format without bringing large numbers of people into close proximity,” Walsh said at a news conference...

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Proponents: Coronavirus heightens need to end child vaccine exemptions

Connecticut lawmakers are considering an amendment to the bill that would ban families from claiming a religious exemption to a future COVID-19 vaccine.

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Cops: Woman, upset over Memorial Day gathering, damaged grill, vehicle

Patricia Walker, of Brookdale Avenue in Milford, was charged with second- and third-degree mischief.

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Connecticut Transgender Policy Found to Violate Title IX

A Connecticut policy that allows transgender athletes to compete in girls sports violates the civil rights of female athletes, the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has ruled. The ruling, which was obtained Thursday by The Associated Press, comes in response to a complaint filed last year by several female track athletes, who argued that two transgender runners who...

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Premier League Soccer to Restart on June 17

The Premier League’s official broadcasters say the competition will restart on June 17.

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2020 Revaluation

Work on the 2020 Revaluation is continuing despite the hardships incurred by the COVID-19 virus.

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CT pandemic jobless claims approach a third of winter workforce

The Connecticut Department of Labor has now processed about 530,000 claims for unemployment assistance since Gov. Ned Lamont’s March 10 declaration of a public health emergency.

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Derby graduate Amanda Troop named district’s paraprofessional educator of the year

A city resident and graduate of the school system has been named the district’s paraprofessional education of the year.

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Peter Manfredonia held in Maryland jail, expected to face multiple charges

Along with homicide charges, Manfredonia could face a number of other interstate crime charges.

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CT’s highest-ranking state cop helps naked man on I-84

The naked man was clearly in distress and creating a potentially hazardous situation, state police said.

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Noah Webster and the Dream of a Common Language

By Christopher Dobbs

Noah Webster Jr. is best remembered as the author of the dictionary most often called, simply, “Webster’s,” but whose original 1828 title was An American Dictionary of the English Language. Even with today’s spell-check and online resources, many Americans still think “Webster’s” when they have a question regarding spelling and word definitions.

Yet, as major a contribution as that is, Noah Webster’s influence on American life and language is larger than many of us know. He was an education reformer, political activist, author of textbooks, pioneer in epidemiology, newspaper editor, and an early antislavery advocate. This Connecticut polymath is also considered the “father of American copyright law.” Webster even saw his American Dictionary as being more than a convenient reference; he regarded its contributions to standardized language usage and spelling as integral to building a new nation.

Coming of age during the American Revolution, he embraced many of the radical ideas and attitudes associated with the country’s new freedom and yet was stalwartly linked to the traditions of his Puritan ancestors. His life and accomplishments reflect a blend of revolutionary spirit and Old World traditionalism, and he played a critical cultural role in defining America’s national identity.

On his paternal side, Webster’s great-great-grandfather, John Webster, had journeyed with Thomas Hooker from Massachusetts to help found the Connecticut Colony and later served as governor. His maternal side could link its New England lineage back to William Bradford of the Plymouth Colony. Noah Webster Jr. was born into this background on October 16, 1758, in the West Division of Hartford, now known as West Hartford, to Noah Webster Sr. and Mercy Steel Webster. Noah was one of five children and grew up on his father’s farm.

Detail of a lesson from The American spelling book by Noah Webster

Webster’s Words

It was clear that he had a gift for language, so his parents arranged for him to be tutored and in 1774, at the age of 16, he enrolled at Yale College. The rebellious spirit of Yale, a brief stint in the West Division’s militia while a student, and greeting George Washington in New Haven instilled patriotic zeal in the young Webster. He graduated in 1778, taught at schools in Glastonbury, Hartford, and West Hartford, and studied law in Litchfield. In 1782, Webster was appointed to a teaching position in Goshen, New York, and there he began to test many of his educational theories and incorporate them into a book.

In 1783, Webster published Volume 1 of A Grammatical Institute of the English Language (a.k.a., The American Spelling Book but best known for the color of its binding as the Blue-Backed Speller). Webster believed that the fledgling country needed its own textbooks and a codified language around which to unite. He wrote, “Now is the time and this the country in which we may expect success in attempting changes to language, science, and government. Let us then seize the present moment and establish a national language as well as a national government.” His speller, later reader, and grammar all incorporated American heroes and authors with the goal of creating national symbols to galvanize the country. Between 1783 and the early 1900s it is estimated that Webster’s spelling book sold nearly 100 million copies. Over 30 influential textbooks followed, including History of the United States, the nation’s first full-length history.

During the 1780s Webster wrote numerous essays promoting education reform and other cultural concerns, went on a national lecture tour, established the American Magazine, promoted the sales of his textbooks, and worked to advance copyright law. The support of Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and many other national leaders during this time made Webster’s efforts to market his books very successful.

In 1785, two years before the Constitutional Convention and the printing of the Federalist Papers, Webster wrote Sketches of American Policy, in which he outlined his ideas for a new government. He supported a powerful national government with strong executive authority and a Congress with broad powers to create laws—all of which were incorporated in the Constitution. (His hopes that the new Constitution would include universal education and the end of slavery were not realized).

Developing a Dictionary

In 1789, Webster married Boston-born Rebecca Greenleaf and settled down briefly in Hartford to establish a law practice. Getting involved with city government, he pioneered one of the first workmen’s compensation insurance programs and helped found the antislavery group the Connecticut Society for the Promotion of Freedom. Before long, however, Webster claimed to hear a patriotic calling and moved to New York City to establish the Federalist newspaper The American Minerva and the semi-weekly Herald. The same year that he married, Webster published a compilation of his speeches in Dissertations on the English Language, which proposed broad spelling reforms.

Webster moved his growing family to New Haven in 1798 (taking up residence in Benedict Arnold’s old house). Concerned that two Americans had already authored dictionaries, Webster began working on his own dictionary. In 1806 he published the 40,600-word A Compendious Dictionary of the American Language. Shocking Webster’s numerous critics, it did not notably alter spellings but applied many reforms that had been inconsistent in previous dictionaries.

Following the Compendious Dictionary, Webster began working to overthrow Samuel Johnson’s dictionary, a British work considered the language resource of the day. To accomplish this, Webster learned to read and understand more than 20 languages and traveled to France and England to research early dictionaries and books on the origins of words and language. Several times Webster ran out of money, but he received financial support from statesman and jurist John Jay and other prominent Americans who wanted to see the book finished. Webster completed the dictionary in 1825, and it was the last time that one person alone developed a major dictionary. It included an impressive 70,000 words, definitions, and explanations of words’ origins. The first edition was printed in 1828 under the title An American Dictionary of the English Language and sold for $20 per set. This colossal work came to symbolize a unified national language, and for Webster, was essential for nation building.

Webster’s Other Accomplishments

Noah Webster House, Temple & Grove Streets, New Haven – Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

While writing his American Dictionary, Webster once again moved his family. This time they relocated to Amherst, Massachusetts, where he became involved with state politics and experimented with agriculture, which had been an ongoing interest. Finding the quality of local education unacceptable, he helped to found Amherst Academy (opening in 1815 with 90 girls and more than 100 boys). By this point Noah and Rebecca Webster had six daughters and one son (another had died as an infant). Webster believed that a democracy required an educated public (and that both boys and girls should be instructed, a position that he would later change) and had already established several schools including Union School in New Haven. Before leaving Amherst in 1821 to go back to New Haven, Webster would help found one more school, Amherst College.

In 1830, the aging Webster traveled to Washington, DC, to meet with President Andrew Jackson and to convince Congress to enact new federal copyright laws. During the 1830s, Webster continued to write books and even tried his hand at updating and Americanizing the most popular book in America: the Bible. Living out the remainder of his days in the house that he had specially designed on the corner of New Haven’s Temple and Grove streets, Webster died on May 28, 1843.

Webster was a pioneer in many fields. His dictionaries, spellers, and copious writings were part of America’s cultural revolution. His political theories influenced the framers of the Constitution and helped shape our existing laws. His social beliefs, such as the abolition of slavery and a safety net for the working class, would take another century to fully materialize. Yet, despite all of this, Webster’s name will always be synonymous with the dictionary. In 1847 (four years after his death), George and Charles Merriam gained the rights to Webster’s work and published their first edition of the dictionary in Springfield, Massachusetts. Selling for a then-hefty $6 per copy, the dictionary met with wide popularity, a feat made possible by modern printing techniques, ensuring Noah Webster’s legacy as the father of the American English language and a creator of the national identity.

Christopher Dobbs, formerly Executive Director of the Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society, is currently Executive Director of the Connecticut River Museum.

from Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project https://connecticuthistory.org/noah-webster-and-the-dream-of-a-common-language/

Hometown Hero: Wallingford Remembers Stanley Budleski

By Nancy Finlay

Frank and Bogumita Budleski immigrated from Poland in the early 20th century. Their two children, Frances and Stanley, grew up on the family farm in the Yalesville section of Wallingford. Frances attended Skidmore and New York University and taught and performed music in Wallingford for many years.

Budleski Day Parade in Yalesville, May 28, 1944 – Connecticut Historical Society. Gift of Mary Jane Dapkus.

Yalesville Memorializes World War II Pilot

Growing up, Stanley—known as “Bing” to his friends—was fascinated by airplanes, and he became an airplane mechanic and repairman following his graduation from high school. On April 10, 1942, five months after Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps. On December 20, 1943, his plane was shot down over Germany. He was initially listed as missing in action and his death was not confirmed until March 1944. He was the first serviceman from Yalesville to be killed in World War II.

Dedication of Budleski Park, May 28, 1944 – Connecticut Historical Society. Gift of Mary Jane Dapkus

May 28, 1944, was proclaimed “Budleski Day” in Wallingford. Following a parade, the green in Yalesville was officially named “Lieutenant Budleski Park” in his memory. The local post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars was also renamed in his honor, becoming Stanley Budleski Post 9965. Stanley’s sister Frances married Edward Dapkus in 1954. The couple named their son for her brother. In 1995, when a new aluminum flagpole was erected in Budleski Park, it was dedicated to Stanley Budleski, the young pilot who gave his life for his country more than 50 years earlier.

Nancy Finlay was formerly the Curator of Graphics at the Connecticut Historical Society and editor of Picturing Victorian America: Prints by the Kellogg Brothers of Hartford, Connecticut, 1830-1880.

© Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network and Connecticut Historical Society. All rights reserved. This article originally appeared on Your Public Media

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Experts: This mask will not stop spread of coronavirus

Connecticut health care professionals say the one-way valve masks serve as good protection for the people wearing them, but not for others around them.

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Basketball Hall of Fame Delaying Enshrinement Ceremony: Report

Basketball Hall of Fame chairman Jerry Colangelo told ESPN that this year’s enshrinement ceremony for Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett, Tim Duncan and five others will be delayed until 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic

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Bridgeport PD: Possible gunshot wound victims after shots fired

There are preliminary reports of possible gunshot wound victims following a shooting in the city, according to police.

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Lamont’s top agency heads, lawmakers tour CT casinos that plan to open June 1

Gov. Lamont seems to be avoiding a confrontation with Mashantucket Pequots, Mohegans over the June 1 reopening of casinos.

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‘Very lucky man’ survives attack during college student’s alleged crime spree

The wife of a U.S. Navy vet who grew up in Trumbull says she hopes Peter Manfredonia surrenders peacefully “for his parents’ sake.”

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Under-served urban communities in CT the next focus on wide-spread coronavirus testing

‘It isn’t the most comfortable thing to have a swab, a stick inserted directly into your nose,’ U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal said, after a coronavirus test on the New Haven Green.

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CT native and AIDS activist Larry Kramer dies at 84

Before becoming a well-known playwright and activist, Larry Kramer grew up in Bridgeport and attended Yale University in New Haven.

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35 more fatalities in the CT coronavirus pandemic bring total to 3,803

A net reduction of 10 coronavirus patients in CT brings total hospitalized to 684, below that of April 1.

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Title IX Major Factor for Colleges Looking at Sports Cuts

Colleges mulling whether to cut sports amid the coronavirus pandemic must ensure they remain compliant with the federal civil-rights law known as Title IX

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Judge rejects release for alleged sex trafficker, attempted killer because of pandemic

A Superior Court judge on Wednesday refused to reduce the bonds on a teen accused of sex trafficking a Hartford girl and a Bronx man accused of trying to kill his ex-girlfriend.

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St. Vincent’s first coronavirus patient recounts story of recovery

The 21-year-old Bridgeport man who was the first COVID-19 patient at St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport has recovered and is sharing his story.

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CT hotel workers concerned about reopening

Hospitality workers have raised concerns about cleaning rooms and handling dirty towels and sheets when hotels reopen next month.

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CT hotel workers concerned about reopening

Hospitality workers have raised concerns about cleaning rooms and handling dirty towels and sheets when hotels reopen next month.

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Lawsuit: Hospital visitor bans fail disabled patients

The complaint argues that Connecticut has failed to ensure that people with disabilities who are hospitalized receive reasonable accommodations during the pandemic.

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State: Connecticut’s Class of 2019 had best on-time graduation rate in a decade

The results reflect a time when school was still in session, before the coronavirus pandemic. It is unclear how the graduation rate will be measured for the Class of 2020.

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Banks predict 270,000 CT residents will miss mortgage, rent payments due to pandemic

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston said 11 percent of Connecticut homeowners and 36 percent of the state’s renters are vulnerable to missing at least one payment.

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CT seeks Wall Street funds to jump-start construction industry

Treasurer Shawn T. Wooden launched an $850 million bond sale last week for transportation projects and plans to secure $500 million more for other capital projects and state initiatives.

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Seventh CT inmate dies from coronavirus complications

The inmate was serving a 43-year sentence for murder

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Search for suspected killer Peter Manfredonia enters 6th day

Peter Manfredonia is believed to be in the Poconos area of eastern Pennsylvania after police say he killed two people in Connecticut.

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Starting today, Metro-North expanding service by 26 percent

The reduction in service on April 13 was in response to a reduction in ridership of more than 95 percent during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Josephine Bennett: Hartford’s City Mother

By Steve Thornton

The history of the early Connecticut women’s movement is not complete without the story of militant suffragist, feminist, anti-imperialist, and labor pioneer Josephine Day Bennett (1880-1961). Bennett played a leading role in the federal passage of the 19th Amendment which guaranteed voting rights for women. As an organizer, speaker, and prison inmate (five days in a Washington, D.C. jail), Bennett shed her family’s class privilege and became a model of tireless advocacy.

Working for Women’s Suffrage

Bennett’s suffragist activity centered on transitioning Connecticut’s women’s movement “from philosophical to political work.” She placed special emphasis on recruiting working women and African Americans, as well as forging links with other social movements. Her first public speaking engagement was at the State Capitol on April 5, 1911, where she shared the stage with Dr. Anna Shaw, president of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA).

Josephine Bennett with suffrage banner and daughters Tanya and Katherine (ca. 1914) – Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

In 1913 Bennett traveled across Connecticut, organizing the first suffrage group in West Hartford and lecturing at the Killingly Grange. The next year she helped organize the massive suffrage parade of one thousand women through Hartford’s streets, speaking from an open-air car on the corner at Main and Pratt Streets.

At a 1914 congressional committee in Washington D.C., Bennett spoke against the NWSA’s suffrage proposal which required all states to reach a threshold vote before suffrage became law. Instead, Bennett argued for the Susan B. Anthony bill, which required only three-quarters of the states to ratify. This became one of the earliest strategic disagreements between the NWSA and what was to become the National Woman’s Party (NWP).

Greatly affected by the 1917 arrest of Catherine Flanagan (a state woman angered by President Woodrow Wilson’s inaction on promises he made regarding suffrage) Bennett and Katharine Houghton Hepburn quit the Connecticut affiliate of the NWSA and joined the NWP, largely because of its strategic work and militancy. In 1919, Bennett followed in Flanagan’s footsteps, burning a copy of Wilson’s speech and spending five days in jail on a hunger strike.

Bennett campaigned in Maryland in November of that year and returned exhausted after working on behalf of state legislative candidates who would vote for ratification of 19th Amendment. By that time, nineteen states had voted to ratify. Connecticut, however, did not vote to ratify until September 4, 1920.

Josephine Bennett understood that women needed power not only at the ballot box but on the factory floor. As a result, she supported union organizing efforts by garment workers, telephone operators, machinists, typewriter factory strikers, and tobacco workers. She also involved herself with the social and economic impact of trafficking in women. (There were twelve brothels operating in Hartford at the time.)

After the United States entered what became World War I, Josephine turned into an outspoken critic of capitalism’s role in the weapons industry. At one rally she said: “Anyone who profits from war industries at the expense of the United States government is not a patriot but a profiteer. Those who participate in lynchings, mob violence, or petty persecutions are not patriots but ruffians. The true patriot will have interest in the welfare of workers in industries, the negro race, the foreign born, and children.”

Josephine Bennett and the Garment Workers Strike

Josephine in Washington D.C. with a copy of President Wilson’s speech (January 1919) – Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Bennett’s most significant work may have taken place during the 1919 garment workers strike at Union Place near the train station in Hartford. On the first day of the strike, police protected scabs, roughed up strikers, and had the strikers arrested for violence. Bennett got her brother, George Day, to defend those arrested and she accompanied them to court. She later appeared at a large union support rally, where one speaker dubbed her Hartford’s “City Mother.”

In 1920, Bennett ran for Secretary of State on the Connecticut Farmer-Labor Party slate (an affiliate of the American Labor Party). She was also endorsed by the Socialist Party, and her name appeared on both lines. Following her defeat, she and her husband established the Brookwood Labor College in Katonah, New York. There, she explained, “We teach the truth and we train workers to work in their own movements.”

Bennett counted Katharine Houghton Hepburn and Mary Townsend Seymour among her closest contemporaries. With Hepburn, she led the Connecticut Birth Control League (later Planned Parenthood). With Seymour’s leadership, Bennett became a founding member of the state NAACP in 1917. The initial organizing meeting was held at Seymour’s Hartford home and was attended by such legendary activists as WEB DuBois, James Weldon Johnson, and Mary White Ovington.

But Bennett’s work reached even further still. At a time when an increasing number of women began taking coaches and trains alone, Bennett worked with her sister, Annie Porritt, to help create the Travelers’ Aid Society. She also financially supported her friend Agnes Smedley, the radical journalist and novelist, who aided Indian and Chinese insurgents during their civil wars. By linking disparate social and political movements of the early 20th century, Josephine Bennett was “intersectional” well before the term was invented.

Steve Thornton is a retired union organizer who writes for the Shoeleather History Project

from Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project https://connecticuthistory.org/josephine-bennett-hartfords-city-mother/

Reports: 2 Horses Trained by Bob Baffert Fail Drug Tests

According to published reports, two horses from the barn of two-time Triple Crown-winning trainer Bob Baffert have tested positive for a banned substance.

from Sports – NBC Connecticut https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/sports/reports-2-horses-trained-by-bob-baffert-fail-drug-tests/2277689/

Players Call MLB Economic Proposal `extremely Disappointing’

A rookie at the major league minimum would keep about 47% of his original salary this year while multimillionaire stars Mike Trout and Gerrit Cole would lose more than 77% under a sliding-scale proposal by big league teams that players found “extremely disappointing.”

from Sports – NBC Connecticut https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/sports/players-call-mlb-economic-proposal-extremely-disappointing/2277643/

Valley COVID-19 recovery funds aids 8 more organizations.

The funds will pay for PPE, deep cleaning, staffing and computer upgrades, among other needs, the group said.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Valley-COVID-19-recovery-funds-aids-8-more-15296209.php

Next up by mid-summer: Bars, some indoor events, outdoor events of 100 or less

Phase 3 reopening of bars, indoor venues, outdoors events of 100 people or less, depends on the same good habits of CT residents.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/news/coronavirus/article/Reopening-in-CT-in-coronavirus-depends-on-health-15296220.php

‘His first concern ... was to help’: Ansonia state trooper dies from 9/11-related cancer

State Police Trooper Eugene Baron Jr. has dies from cancer related to his work during the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/His-first-concern-was-to-help-Ansonia-15296301.php

BOLO issued for vehicle stolen near last Peter Manfredonia sighting

A “be on the lookout” alert has been issued for a stolen black Hyundai Santa Fe with Pennsylvania license plate KYW-1650.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/policereports/article/BOLO-issue-for-vehicle-stolen-near-last-Peter-15296191.php

Non-life-threatening injuries in Bridgeport attempted robbery

An individual suffered a non-life-threatening injury during an attempted robbery early Tuesday morning, officials said.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/policereports/article/Non-life-threatening-injuries-in-Bridgeport-15295838.php

‘A cruel twist of fate:’ Remembering CT homicide victim Theodore DeMers

Theodore E. DeMers, Sr., died last week after he did something he had done a “million times” before: offered to help a stranger.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/A-cruel-twist-of-fate-Remembering-CT-15295809.php

27 new deaths in coronavirus pandemic bring state total to 3,769

Hospitalizations decline by a net 12 patients, giving Gov. Lamont relief.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/news/coronavirus/article/27-new-deaths-in-coronavirus-pandemic-bring-state-15295755.php

Newington COVID-19 Property Tax Relief Programs

On April 1, 2020 Governor Lamont signed an Executive Order which established the Tax Deferment & Interest Rate Reduction Programs.

from Newington, CT - News Flash https://www.newingtonct.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?aid=1359

CT contact tracing behind schedule as tests and cases rise

Connecticut had hoped to launch statewide contact tracing on May 18 but that’s now pushed into June, with employees and volunteers working with towns.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/news/coronavirus/article/CT-contact-tracing-behind-schedule-as-tests-and-15295611.php

Person ‘unresponsive’ after fall from Bridgeport parking garage

An individual was found unresponsive and without a pulse after falling off the parking garage on Fairfield Avenue.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/policereports/article/Person-unresponsive-after-fall-from-Bridgeport-15295573.php

NHL Commissioner to Announce Format if NHL Returns

NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman is expected to announce the league’s return to play format this afternoon.

from Sports – NBC Connecticut https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/nhl-commissioner-to-announce-format-if-nhl-returns/2277354/

Wilson, Rapinoe, Bird to Host Remote ESPYS Feting Heroism

It’s a way different kind of year, and so The ESPYs will be, too

from Sports – NBC Connecticut https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/sports/wilson-rapinoe-bird-to-host-different-and-remote-espys/2277261/

CT launches 13-week extension for expired jobless benefits

Under Department of Labor rules, unemployment benefits are capped at 26 weeks, with the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation program pushing the window to 39 weeks.

from Business https://www.ctpost.com/business/article/CT-launches-13-week-extension-for-expired-jobless-15294743.php

Lucy-to-Go Curbside Service resumes on June 1st!

The Lucy-to-Go Curbside Service will begin again on June 1st. Please call 860-665-8700 to make arrangements to pick up your library materials.

from Newington, CT - News Flash https://www.newingtonct.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?aid=1358

Bridgeport PD: Man assaulted with knife during attempted robbery

BRIDGEPORT — A man was injured with a knife during an attempted robbery near Central Avenue early Tuesday morning, according to city officials.

Scott Appleby, city emergency management director, said an individual attempted to rob another man near Bridgeport Hospital at approximately 2:36 a.m.

Police canvassed the area for the person responsible, but did not locate them, Appleby said.

Anyone with information can call Bridgeport police at 203-576-TIPS. Callers can remain anonymous.

william.lambert@hearstmediact.com

from News https://www.ctpost.com/policereports/article/Bridgeport-PD-Man-assaulted-with-knife-during-15294543.php

Search continues for UConn student suspected of deadly crime spree

Law enforcement officials are still searching for Peter Manfredonia, a University of Connecticut student and Newtown High School graduate suspected of killing two people in recent days.

Manfredonia was last seen Sunday afternoon in eastern Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania state police released an image of him walking along railroad tracks carrying what appeared to be a large duffel bag.

It remains unknown what sparked the alleged crime spree that began Friday when police say Manfredonia attacked two men with a type of machete in upstate Connecticut. Theodore DeMers was killed during the incident in Willington and another man was critically injured, police said.

On Sunday, a Willington man reported being held captive by Manfredonia, who stole his guns, food, supplies and his truck during a home invasion, according to police.

A few hours later, police recovered the stolen truck in Derby, setting off an extensive search that led authorities to a Roosevelt Drive home about a mile away.

Police said video surveillance showed Manfredonia walking “directly” toward Nicholas Eisele’s home between 5 and 6 a.m. Sunday.

Police discovered Eisele, also a Newtown High School graduate described as an “acquaintance” of Manfredonia, dead inside the home. The cause remains under investigation.

By the time police arrived, Manfredonia had fled and kidnapped Eisele’s girlfriend in her 2016 Volkswagen Jetta. The woman and the car were recovered later Sunday in New Jersey. Police said the woman was unharmed and returned to Connecticut where she was interviewed by investigators.

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from News https://www.ctpost.com/policereports/article/Search-continues-for-UConn-student-accused-of-15294408.php

The Minute Man, Westport CT

By Kathleen Motes Bennewitz

On the morning of June 17, 1910, during the observance of “Bunker Hill Day,” all roads, trains, and trolleys appeared headed to Compo Beach. Over a thousand Connecticut residents descended upon Westport for a patriotic, event-filled unveiling of The Minute Man monument. Temporarily concealed by canvas and a bunting-clad dais was a life-sized bronze of a farmer-turned-soldier—with his powder horn and musket at the ready—kneeling atop a grassy pedestal that rose some six feet above the roadway. The monument was erected to honor the heroism of patriots who defended the country when the British invaded Connecticut at Compo Beach on April 25, 1777, and in the ensuing two days of conflict at Danbury and Ridgefield.

H. Daniel Webster Commemorates the Minuteman

Robert Penn Lambdin (1886-1981), The British Landing at Cedar Point, April 25, 1777 (1955), oil on Masonite. Westport Public Art Collections.

Created by Westport artist H. Daniel Webster (1880-1912), The Minute Man is sited in the center of the intersection at Compo Road South and Compo Beach Road, said to be the exact spot of the fiercest engagement between British and Continental militias that April evening. After accepting the statue and turning it over to the town’s care, Lewis B. Curtis, president of the Connecticut Sons of the American Revolution, declared that “Westport should always cherish among their brightest possessions, this spot and the monument, which we have erected to commemorate the noble deeds enacted here.”

Webster’s minuteman is one of four known monuments honoring civilian patriots who took up arms in a minute’s notice to defend the American colonies. The most famous is Daniel Chester French’s minuteman statue, erected for the centennial of the April 19, 1775, Battle at the North Bridge at Concord, where, as Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “the shot heard round the world.” The other two bronzes, sculpted by the husband-wife team of Henry Hudson Kitson and Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson, are at Lexington (1899) and Framingham, Massachusetts (1905).

H. Daniel Webster (1880-1912), Minute Man, Westport Conn., postcard (1910). Courtesy, Bill Scheffler.

Westport’s celebration marked the climax of an eight-year campaign for a monument that began in 1902 when the town secured title to Compo Beach as a public resort. Making the project a reality needed the zealous effort of William H. Burr Jr., a successful farmer, influential citizen, and avid student of the American Revolution. However, his success was dependent upon strident patronage of the Connecticut Sons of the American Revolution (CSAR) and a $2,000 appropriation in 1907 by the Connecticut General Assembly. To sponsor this monument and The Defenders’ Monument (1910) at New Haven, lawmakers expanded the role of the State Commission on Sculpture. This act made Connecticut the first state in the nation to have an official body approving the design, materials, and location of publicly funded art on municipal land beyond the capitol building and grounds.

H. Daniel Webster was a rising 29-year-old artist when he received the commission in 1909. Three years earlier, he had moved from New York City to Westport to join its nascent artist community. After modeling the figure at his Westport studio, he had it cast by Tiffany & Co. at Roman Bronze Works, the country’s preeminent art foundry. To complete the monument, he asked nearby residents to donate fieldstone for the foundation wall and large, asymmetrical boulders for the earthen mound and to house the bronze plaques. The finished cost was $2,900, of which the state contributed $800 and the CSAR $2,100 through donations.

Capturing “The Spirit of ’76”

Webster was among the sculptors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who benefited from the nation’s desire for sculptural projects honoring historical figures and heroes of other conflicts after the Civil War. To provide scope, The American Art Annual for 1907-08 included four-pages of commemorative projects under the headline “Important Monumental Sculpture Erected Since October 1905.” For the National SAR, such monuments and a “plaque” program (which the Connecticut SAR launched in 1892) helped to “perpetuate the spirit of ’76” by enabling future generations to “know the history of that spot.”

Lucille Ball as Westport’s Minute Man, I Love Lucy, May 6, 1957.

In addition, The Minute Man’s location at an intersection of roads leading to Long Island Sound made it perfect for historical tourism in the age of the automobile. From June 27 to 30, 1914, the SAR held a “Washington Journey Trip” along George Washington’s route from Philadelphia to Cambridge to assume command of the Continental army on July 3, 1775. The motor trip included Westport stops to The Minute Man and Compo Beach.

Upon unveiling, The Minute Man became the most iconic symbol of Westport and its origins. It was the emblem for the 1935 town centennial and a 1986 new town flag. On May 6, 1957, the beloved statue even made its national television debut on I Love Lucy. Today, it is a Westport historic landmark and has been restored to its full glory.

Kathleen Motes Bennewitz serves as Westport’s town curator and helps manage the Westport Public Art Collections. She has worked for art and historical museums across the country and today is an independent American art historian and exhibition curator.

from Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project https://connecticuthistory.org/the-minute-man-westport-ct/

Alse Young Executed for Witchcraft – Today in History: May 26

On May 26, 1647, Alse Young of Windsor was the first person on record to be executed for witchcraft in the 13 colonies. Young was hanged at the Meeting House Square in Hartford, now the site of the Old State House. Alse Young was not the only person in Connecticut executed for the crime of witchcraft. Mary Johnson of Wethersfield was executed after allegedly confessing to entering into a compact with the devil, and Joan and John Carrington, also of Wethersfield, were executed in 1651.

In 1642 witchcraft was punishable by death in Connecticut, and it was last listed as a capital crime in 1715.

from Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project https://connecticuthistory.org/alse-young-executed-for-witchcraft-today-in-history-may-26/

Final deadline for Hearst Top Workplaces is June 12

The 10th year for Hearst Connecticut Media Group’s Top Workplaces contest could be the oddest but it’s no less important for employers in the pandemic.

from Business https://www.ctpost.com/topworkplaces/article/Final-deadline-for-Hearst-Top-Workplaces-is-June-15294123.php

Berkshire League Backyard Sports: Community Effort Sparks Competition, Charity

It started with one simple question. “How bored all the students and teachers and athletes must be without sports,” said Toby Denman, a teacher and boys soccer coach at Nonnewaug High School. “That led itself to what can we do out in our back yard?” That question led to one video: one heave of a basketball from Denman over a...

from Sports – NBC Connecticut https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/sports/berkshire-league-backyard-sports-community-effort-sparks-competition-charity/2277018/

Lawyer to fight delay in Bridgeport assistant police chief challenge

The lawyer for four top Bridgeport police officials said he will appeal a delay until October of his suit to overturn the mayor’s selection for assistant police chief.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/policereports/article/Lawyer-to-fight-delay-in-Bridgeport-assistant-15293766.php

Bridgeport Police: Sunday evening accident results in multiple injuries

An accident late Sunday afternoon resulted in multiple injuries, according to police.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Bridgeport-Police-Sunday-evening-accident-15293637.php

The Trailblazing Bessye Bennett

In 1974, nearly one hundred years after Mary Hall became the first woman to practice law in Connecticut, the state finally admitted its first African American female lawyer. Her name was Bessye Bennett.

Bennett was born in Prairie View, Texas, in 1938. She went on to study at Radcliffe College in Boston and later turned down acceptance into Harvard Law School so that her husband might earn his PhD in applied mathematics.

In 1964, the family moved to Hartford and Bessye taught in the public school system there. After receiving a master’s in education from Trinity College in 1967, she enrolled in the law school at the University of Connecticut. She graduated in 1973 and a year later became the first African American woman licensed to practice law in Connecticut.

Among her many other accomplishments, Bennett rose to vice president at Society for Savings and later established a private practice. She was also appointed deputy town counsel for the Town of Bloomfield and served on the board of Connecticut Natural Gas.
 

Learn More in Connecticut Explored Magazine

To learn more about the life of Bessye Bennett, read Constance Belton Green’s article, “The Trailblazing Bessye Bennett” in Connecticut Explored magazine.

from Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project https://connecticuthistory.org/the-trailblazing-bessye-bennett/

CT hospitalizations rise for first time since April 22 in coronavirus pandemic; 49 new fatalities bring death toll to 3,742

Peak hospitalizations in CT coronavirus pandemic reached 1,972 on April 22, but total now is 706.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/news/coronavirus/article/CT-hospitalizations-rise-for-first-time-since-15293513.php

Knicks Legend Patrick Ewing Out of the Hospital After Testing Positive for Coronavirus

Basketball legend and Georgetown University coach Patrick Ewing has been released from the hospital and is resting at home after testing positive for coronavirus, his family said Monday.

from Sports – NBC Connecticut https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/sports/knicks-legend-patrick-ewing-out-of-the-hospital-after-testing-positive-for-coronavirus/2276884/

Map: Tracing CT college student’s alleged deadly crime spree outlined by police

Peter Manfredonia, a 23-year-old UConn student and Newtown High grad, is wanted in connection with two homicides, an assault, an abduction and a home invasion.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Map-Tracing-CT-college-student-s-alleged-15293462.php

State parks begin to close as lots fill up

On a cloudy Memorial Day, authorities have begun to close state parks as their parking lots fill to capacity.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/State-parks-begin-to-close-as-lots-fill-up-15293235.php

What we know, what we don’t know in Willington, Derby killings

The FBI, the Connecticut state police and other agencies are looking for Peter Manfredonia, a Newtown High grad and UConn student who was last seen in eastern Pennsylvania.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/What-we-know-what-we-don-t-know-in-Willington-15293184.php

Police: Manhunt continues for UConn student wanted for killings

Police are still searching for Peter Manfredonia, a 23-year-old authorities say is connected to a homicide in Willington on Friday and a death discovered in Derby on Sunday.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Police-Suspect-in-Willington-homicide-Derby-15293065.php

Cornerstone Set – Today in History: May 25

On May 25, 1909, the cornerstone was laid for the new State Library and Supreme Court building in Hartford. It was placed at the northeast corner of the building and is six by six feet long, three feet wide, two feet and four inches high and weighs almost four tons. It contains Connecticut and United States flags, books, photographs, coins, a piece of the Charter Oak, and copies of that day’s Hartford newspapers.

The Connecticut State Library is an executive branch agency of the State of Connecticut. It was formed in 1854 when legislation was introduced to the Connecticut General Assembly to form a State Library Committee which hired the first state librarian, J. Hammond Trumbull, who served in the Old State House in Hartford.

from Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project https://connecticuthistory.org/cornerstone-set-today-in-history-may-25/