More than 100 people gathered at Jerome Home to celebrate the New Britain-based assisted-living facility’s 85th anniversary. The event included wine tasting presented by wine sponsor, Bottle Shop of Unionville. Jerome Home was established by Augustus S. Jerome in 1932.
Beth Shluger, who founded the Hartford Marathon Foundation (HMF) in 1994 and served as race director for the Eversource Hartford Marathon and Half Marathon for the past 24 years, caught her breath to answer some questions on the heels of another successful event last month.
Visit downtown New Britain and you'll see a change. The city of 73,000, consigned to the New England rust belt after most of its factories closed and two highways split the city, is making a comeback.
Federal funds that help provide health insurance to Connecticut children and pregnant women in low-to-moderate-income families who don't qualify for Medicaid are expected to run out by February or sooner, according to the state Department of Social Services.
Among the government initiatives that will see less funding in the years ahead is the state's Small Business Express program, which was created in 2011 to provide capital to smaller companies in exchange for their commitments to retain or create jobs.
There are plenty of people in the workforce who do “something,” but not so many who do what needs to be done. And this is both a problem and an opportunity.
The new $769 million CTrail Hartford Line launching service next May between Springfield and New Haven is expected to broaden workers' employment reach and give employers in the Hartford and Elm City regions the ability to draw from a larger workforce pool, officials familiar with the project say.
Being part of a strong community means showing up and speaking up. A community is so much more than just buildings. It's the connections and bonds between people. And the stronger those bonds and connections, the stronger the community is.