April 29, 2019Edition

Dave Obedzinski, president of the Community Foundation of Greater New Britain, recently presented the foundation's first-ever Champion Award to Stanley Black & Decker and Abigail Dreher, director of communications. The Champion Award was established to recognize those who have significantly supported the activities of the foundation. Stanley's long-standing support of the foundation dates back to its original founding in 1941. Pictured (from left) are: Dreher and Obedzinski.

The first day of April is a day when practical jokesters tell you things like, “I know the number you play and guess what, you won the lottery last night,” or “I saw your car was being towed.”

The Gaylord Sports Association received a $15,000 grant from Disabled Sports USA through the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation for adaptive sports programming and equipment for people with spinal-cord injuries. The grant will be used to purchase adaptive equipment for wheelchair rugby, adaptive cycling and adaptive kayaking. It will also provide funding for an adaptive rock-climbing clinic and an adaptive cycling clinic.

While new construction permits were down 33.51 percent year-over-year for January and February, new developments are still seeing success.

Think of it as the corporate income tax for corporations with no income.

Another week has passed and another new innovation center has been announced in downtown Hartford.

The TD Charitable Foundation recently donated $10,000 to Klingberg Family Centers, which offers treatment services to more than 3,000 children and families in the Hartford region who have been affected by trauma. The funds from the TD Charitable Foundation will be used to support vocational education at Raymond Hill School, a special-education school in New Britain.

A team from Glastonbury-based technology-consulting firm Kelser Corp. was the top fundraising group at the Lake Coventry Penguin Plunge on March 30, raising $3,380 for Special Olympics Connecticut. The event raised $20,000 in total. Pictured (from left) are: Devin Kelly; Tom Polo; Tushar Dadarwala; George W. Kudelchuk III; Tom Ferreira; Jason Simms; Tom Sharp; Jon Stone; Lisa Carroll; Mark Lepak; and Rob Backus.

Your largest customer just called to tell you they are changing vendors.

The Connecticut Green Bank has averted potential insolvency through a novel financing scheme it says will blunt the impact of the legislature's raid of nearly half its operating budget.

Annisa Teich traces her support for small business owners to her family's trials and tribulations falling victim to a “Madoff-like character.”

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