HARTFORD, CT – Governor Ned Lamont announced on Wednesday that the popular state program Connecticut Summer at the Museum is returning for the 2022 summer season, enabling Connecticut children to receive free admission at more than 130 museums across the state during the summer months. The governor established the program in 2021 in response to…
Stamford, CT – Stamford Museum & Nature Center is pleased to present an all-new line-up of special events and intergenerational programs as the organization welcomes the summer season. Discovering Color: Two Decades of Abstraction Exhibition: On view in the SM&NC’s Bendel Galleries from June 30 – September 11, Discovering Color: Two Decades of Abstraction highlights…
NORWALK, CT – The Norwalk Historical Society’s annual Independence Day Celebration and Bell Ringing Ceremony returns in person to Mill Hill Historic Park on Monday, July 4, 2022 at 1:30pm. This exciting program includes the “Let Freedom Ring” Bell Ringing Ceremony and an illustrated slide lecture, “Connecticut During the American Revolution”, by Norwalk Historical Society…
Westport, CT – Westport Farmers’ Market (WFM) in partnership with The Artists Collective of Westport and the Drew Friedman Community Arts Center, is pleased to announce the 6th annual Young Shoots Photography Contest. Young Shoots invites three age groups of photographers to demonstrate their love for local food through the digital lens. Budding young photographers,…
Four Broadway veterans are backed by live music for an inventive new work Westport Country Playhouse will present a Script in Hand playreading of “The Scream: A Musical Comedy Fantasy,” on Monday, June 13, at 7 p.m. The live performance will be captured on film for on-demand streaming, from Thursday, June 16 through Sunday, June…
The grant recognizes the Merryall Center for its support of LGBTQ+ people in the greater Waterbury and Litchfield Hills area New Milford, Conn. (May 24, 2022) – The Merryall Center, est. 1951, recently received a grant from the Connecticut Community Foundation Pride in the Hills Fund. The Fund awards grants to entities whose work supports,…
Norwalk, CT – The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum is calling for vendors for the annual Old-fashioned Flea Market, which will be held on the grounds of Mathews Park, Norwalk, CT, on Sun., Sept. 18, 2022, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and feature a fun, bargain-hunting event for all to enjoy. Vendors interested in being part of this exciting…
Public Act 22-2 closely aligns the language of the absentee ballot statutes 9-135 and 9-137 with Article Sixth, Section 7 of the Connecticut Constitution HARTFORD, CT – Connecticut Secretary of the State Denise Merrill today issued an official interpretation of the changes made in Public Act 22-2 to the absentee ballot statutes 9-135 and 9-137,…
HARTFORD, CT – Governor Ned Lamont and Connecticut Education Commissioner Charlene Russell-Tucker last week announced new investments to defray certification-related testing costs for aspiring educators in Connecticut. A total of $2 million dollars of federal, state-level reserve American Rescue Plan Act, Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ARP-ESSER) funding is being dedicated over a two-year…
Our country is a place of unlimited possibilities. Our society allows people to accomplish things no one could even imagine. But imagination can go both ways. Unfortunately, the unimaginable is not always good. Once again, a deranged man with a military-like AR-15 style assault rifle massacred 19 elementary school kids and 2 teachers in Uvalde,…