August 10, 2015 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

Hospitality & Tourism

🔒Latest attraction continues Lake Compounce’s market-share push

When Jerry Brick started working for Bristol amusement park Lake Compounce in 1996, a busy day attracted 10,000 guests. This year, daily peak attendance will top 15,000.

Nonprofits

🔒Nonprofit Profile: Real Art Ways

The New Children's Museum of West Hartford received a $20,000 grant from SBM Charitable Foundation and a...

News

🔒Greater Hartford Arts Council awards supporters

The Greater Hartford Arts Council recently announced the winner of the 2015 Arts Award and honored seven...

Education

🔒Making out-of-school programs a priority

America's kids are in crisis. Consider these alarming facts about the state of our country: The U.S....

News

🔒CT Convention Bureau sees ’15 booking bump as budget challenge looms

The statewide entity that markets Connecticut venues and hotels to meeting and sporting-event planners, said it saw a modest increase in signed contracts for events and rooms in the recently concluded fiscal year.

Real Estate & Construction

🔒W. Hfd. builder raising new Auer Farm barn

A new animal barn is being raised on a patch of Bloomfield acreage belonging to the Connecticut 4-H Club.

News

🔒Mileage tax no way to pay for transportation overhaul

State lawmakers may hold a special session this fall to adopt funding mechanisms that will finance Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's ambitious $100 billion, 30-year transportation overhaul.

Small Business

🔒CT’s nascent entrepreneurial network slowly evolves

With three years under its belt, CTNext, the state-backed entrepreneurial network created to encourage more startup activity in Connecticut, has grown to nearly 750 members and doled out $5.1 million to widen small business access to talent, workspace, industry expertise, services, skill development and capital.

Accounting

🔒Rising costs usher in pension ‘de-risking’ cycle

Many Connecticut workers probably think of a pension as something their parents had, or something they'll never get.

News

🔒Top entrepreneurs’ tips for success

In these autobiographical essays by 30 highly-successful people, we find out that becoming successful wasn't easy for any of them. They faced obstacles, setbacks and had defining moments — and learned from them.

News

🔒Simsbury Bank SVP receives Farmington Valley YMCA’s Volunteer Leadership Award

Simsbury Bank's Jocelyn Mitchell, senior vice president and chief retail banking officer, was the recipient of the...

News

🔒CHET organizes donation program for youth to receive backpacks

The Connecticut Higher Education Trust (CHET) sponsored their sixth annual backpack donation at Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport....

News

🔒State medical society still has important influence

With apologies to Mark Twain, reports of the death of organized medicine have been greatly exaggerated.

Small Business

🔒UConn launches new entrepreneurship program

Q&A talks about Accelerate UConn, a new entrepreneurship program at the University of Connecticut, with Michelle Cote, managing director of UConn's Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, and UConn business professor Timothy B. Folta.

Energy

🔒City sells travel-center lots to Pride for $4.6M

The city of Hartford reaped more than $4.6 million from its sale of land parcels totaling about 5 acres to a Springfield convenience-store operator planning a 16-pump-island “travel center'' off I-91 and Jennings and Leibert roads, in the North Meadows, the city says.

Legal & Courts

🔒Stevens helps wrongfully convicted earn their just due

It wasn't until years after she became a lawyer that Tiffany L. Stevens saw the irony of being born in Auburn, NY.

News

🔒Bob’s Discount Furniture donates $100,000 to Autism Speaks

Bob's Discount Furniture presented Autism Speaks a $100,000 check as part of its Café Collections for a...

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