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West Hartford's GastroPark, which has been serving breakfasts and lunches for two years, now is doing weekend brunch.
- Traci Halky left her job as a lawyer in Florida and has opened a franchise bakery location of Nothing Bundt Cakes in West Hartford next to the Trader Joes.
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- A procedural technicality has blocked a local high school student’s quest to rename a West Hartford street in honor Peleg Nott, a formerly enslaved man who served the community as Black governor and as a provisions cart driver during the Revolutionary war.
- West Hartford has named Roszena Haskins the first executive director of equity advancement for the town of West Hartford and its public schools.
- Federal prosecutors said Chen bought and installed a computer Point-of-Sale system for the restaurants, but paid an additional fee for “zapper” software, which is designed to enable a business to under report sales by deleting transactions.
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A West Hartford man was arrested after a road rage incident in which he allegedly struck another driver with a gun. - The West Hartford Town Council unanimously approved the allocation of a $115,253 grant to fund improvements to the town’s emergency facilities as part of the state’s preparedness plans for a radiological emergency at Millstone Nuclear Power Plant in Waterford.
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- West Hartford moves closer to adding parcels for Public Works Department
- Rebuilding affordable housing in West Hartford, preserving the Heublein Tower in Simsbury and renovating Hartford’s Fuller Brush headquarters into apartments are just a few of the projects expected to get a boost Friday from the state Bond Commission.
- Area real estate experts say the frenzy of buying and selling houses in greater Hartford that marked the first 18 months or so of the pandemic has slowed a bit, but just a bit.
- Teen entrepreneurs from West Hartford built a business model that took care of everything for washing a vehicle — as long as they were provided an electrical outlet and spigot.
- Connecticut Ballet's "Ballet Under the Stars" brings an outdoor dance show to Burr Mall on July 28 and Elizabeth Park on July 30.
- The West Hartford Town Council last week settled a nearly decade-old legal dispute involving a 12-year-old deaf boy who was shot with a stun gun by a town police officer on the campus of the American School for the Deaf in 2013.
- A West Hartford couple has created a fund to boost Holocaust education.
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- The UConn women’s basketball team has finalized its nonconference schedule for 2022-23 season. The Huskies will play Tennessee Volunteers in Knoxville on Jan. 26, the programs announced.
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- Arriving units attempted to stop the Passport, but the operator continued on the highway into Farmington, then exited and re-entered to head east, police said.
Local politics
- After losing House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz’s district after he retired in 2020, Berlin and Southington Democrats are looking to a well-known former town manager to get them back in power in November.
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- The CDC relaxed its COVID-19 guidelines, dropping the recommendation that Americans quarantine themselves if they come into close contact with an infected person.
Opinion
- We know bears come for the food and not our company and the problem seems to be growing as more Connecticut residents report issues with the large, clawed animals. Earlier this summer, a bear that broke into multiple homes in Canton was euthanized by DEEP.
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- Dari Delite, the East Windsor ice cream shop that has delighted residents of the town for 66 years, announced that the store would close for good at the end of the season.
- Hartford Public Schools welcomed teachers from Puerto Rico Wednesday as part of the district’s effort to fill vacancies and enhance cultural enrichment through Hartford’s new Paso a Paso Puerto Rico Recruitment Program.
- West Hartford's GastroPark, which has been serving breakfasts and lunches for two years, now is doing weekend brunch.
