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Connecticut has yet another tourism trail, just in time for Halloween season. Officials unveiled the Connecticut Haunted History Trail at a Wednesday reception for social media influencers at the Webb Deane Stevens Museum in Wethersfield, a town with a history of witch trials.
The Land of Spooky Habits? CT unveils new tourism trail of ‘haunted history’
Visitors can make stops at more than 130 “supernatural” sites.
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Officials urge residents to report flood damage to help the state potentially apply for federal disaster aid. Environment officials also highlighted the role climate change plays in the increased severity of rain events. www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-09...
After Sunday flash flooding, CT officials look to calculate damages
Officials urge residents to report flood damage to help the state potentially apply for federal disaster aid. Environment officials also highlighted the role climate change plays in the increased seve...
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Adam J. Lewis was working at the twin towers as a trader on the day of the attack. To honor his legacy in the years since, his family has built a school that bears his name.
Connecticut family turns 9/11 loss into a legacy of education
Adam J. Lewis was working at the twin towers as a trader on the day of the attack. To honor his legacy in the years since, his family has built a school that bears his name.
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Scott Montellaro was a paramedic working out of the American Medical Response office in New Haven on 9/11. When he heard the attacks, he rushed down to New York. He saw people fleeing; cars that had been crushed or incinerated. But he also saw something that to this day, has stayed with him.
Hamden 9/11 first responder reflects 25 years after the terror attacks
Scott Montellaro was a paramedic working out of the American Medical Response (AMR) office in New Haven on 9/11. When Montellaro heard the attacks, he rushed down to New York.
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Psychosis doesn't always look the way people expect. A Yale forensic psychiatrist explains why someone can appear perfectly organized while experiencing a profound break from reality.
Psychosis can be difficult to recognize and even harder to understand
Psychosis doesn't always look the way people expect. A Yale forensic psychiatrist explains why someone can appear perfectly organized while experiencing a profound break from reality.
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Republicans from CT & around the U.S. are headed to Dallas for a gathering this week seeking to remind voters what they've been able to pass with a political trifecta in Congress and the White House —
CT GOP heads to Dallas for Trump-centric midterm convention
Republicans from Connecticut and around the U.S. gather in Dallas for unprecedented convention to rally voters ahead of mid-term elections.
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🔊 Listen to our new trailer! Through Generation: Baby-Sitters Club, we explore the popular book series and how a group of adventurous tweens created a worker-owned childcare cooperative that fueled more than 200 books and multiple on-screen adaptations. www.ctpublic.org/podcast/gene...
Generation: Baby-Sitters Club
In August 1986, tweens were first introduced to four preteen friends who started a successful babysitting business in “Kristy’s Great Idea” by Ann M. Martin. The series itself became a big business! I...
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Republican gubernatorial candidate Ryan Fazio nibbled Thursday at the edges of a national controversy over data centers that grew hotter Monday with President Donald Trump mocking opponents, even those who are in his own party and on the ballot this year. ctmirror.org/2026/09/03/f...
Fazio opposed to data-center tax break, not data centers
Fazio sidestepped the broader data center controversy by focusing on an economic development measure signed into law five years ago.
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🌳 Looking for outdoor adventures in Connecticut? Come with us ziplining in Storrs, take in panoramic views from Hubbard Park and find a secluded beach area at Wadsworth Falls State Park by watching our latest episode of "Connecticut's Hidden Gems" here:
Connecticut Day Trips for Outdoor Adventurers
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Connecticut officials will travel to Puerto Rico in October to help identify solutions to the island’s ongoing water crisis.
CT legislators to visit Puerto Rico in October to help find solutions to water crisis
Rep. Geraldo Reyes Jr. said he will be joined by members of the state’s Environment and Energy & Technology Committees
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Follow live updates from the AP as jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial returned to the courthouse in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Thursday for a sixth day of deliberation. https://to.pbs.org/4cVTW6U
Live Updates: Deadlocked jury in Lindsay Clancy trial returns for deliberations
If jurors ultimately cannot agree on a verdict, Judge William Sullivan could declare a mistrial.
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Our Director @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social appeared again on @ctpublic.bsky.social to re-address where we stand with the ongoing #measles outbreak, the recent PA deaths and mixed messaging from the government on vaccines.
What do rising measles cases say about public health and trust?
This hour, we look at the spread of measles in the United States. And we talk to health and science communicators who are working to tell the story of that disease in new ways.
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Not only is September the start of a new school year, it is also Suicide Awareness Month. Connecticut lawmakers and healthcare providers are taking time to remind families of the resources available for children who may be experiencing instability or mental health crises. bit.ly/4h7PtR1
CT highlights mental health services amid back to school season and Suicide Awareness Month
In roughly the last year, there were about 55,000 calls to Connecticut’s 988 suicide hotline and more than 28,000 calls to the social services 211 hotline.
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Hundreds of members of the Yale University community gathered on campus in New Haven on Tuesday to demand administrators stop negotiating a settlement with the Trump administration over admissions policies.
Yale demonstrators challenge potential Trump DOJ settlement
The university prohibited reporters from covering the event on campus.
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The Connecticut Department of Children and Families recently released a comprehensive accounting of children who died or were seriously injured between January 2025 and May 2026.
DCF says it learns from child deaths in CT. The public can’t always see how
Records compiled under a new state law provide more insight into how children were harmed, but leave some questions about the state's child welfare agency unanswered.
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Three Pulitzer winners, a Booker Prize winner, two Booker longlisted authors this year, and a number whose works have been adapted for the screen are among the authors with new books out this month. n.pr/4A5dDTY
14 new books in September to help ease you into fall
Three Pulitzer winners, a Booker Prize winner, two Booker longlisted authors this year, and a number whose works have been adapted for the screen are among the authors with new books out this month.
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Immigrant advocates continued to report sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials mainly across Fairfield County as of Friday morning, following a weeklong clampdown that resulted in the detention of at least 100 people, according to immigrant organizations.
A week of ICE enforcement sees upwards of 100 detentions across CT, immigrant advocates say
The Connecticut Immigrant Support Network estimates that at least 100 ICE detentions occurred this week as of Thursday night. Advocates say that number is likely far higher.
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Al menos 20 residentes fueron detenidos el lunes por agentes de inmigración en Danbury, Bridgeport y Stamford —según informaron defensores de la comunidad—, mientras continuaban los reportes de actividad del ICE durante el martes. bit.ly/3SYWVEY
Actividad de ICE en CT está "en su punto más alto" mientras siguen «arrestos aleatorios», según defensores
Entre las detenciones se incluyen el padre de un estudiante de secundaria, trabajadores de tala de árboles y un paciente de diálisis. “Una tendencia clara que se observó hoy fue los arrestos aleatorio...
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💎 On this week's episode of "Connecticut's Hidden Gems," we get creative! Discover three local creative places celebrating local art, handmade goods, specialty coffee and world-class musical theater here: youtu.be/syTYu6mqTsU?...
3 Creative Places in Connecticut for Art, Makers & Theater
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🏖️ Do you love the beach? Do you want to connect with fellow public radio lovers? You’re invited to join Connecticut Public’s Young People Hate the Radio team to clean up Hammonasset Beach! Our events are designed to help you meet your people and do some good along the way! Learn more here:
Young People Hate the Radio Beach Cleanup!
Join us at Hammonasset Beach State Park
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Immigrant activists and Danbury community members shouted, sobbed and spoke with shaky hands after a third day of ICE activity and detainments in Danbury.
CT officials pledge support for immigrant advocates as Danbury faces 50 ICE detainments this week
U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes has requested a meeting with Homeland Security officials to learn what is happening and who ICE has taken in Connecticut.
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Residents, privacy advocates and experts from ACLU Connecticut say Flock cameras are capable of mass surveillance, and want them taken down. While local police acknowledge the cameras are divisive, but say the license plate readers have helped them solve crimes.
Flock cameras have CT residents up in arms, as towns scramble to address privacy concerns
Residents across the state want the cameras taken down, while police departments say the license plate readers help solve crimes.
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Connecticut police departments have received dozens of requests for information about people targeted for immigration enforcement, amid a push by the federal government to dramatically increase the scale of its removal operations.
How ICE uses police records to build its cases in Connecticut
Local police departments have received dozens of requests for information about people targeted for immigration enforcement, amid a push by the federal government to dramatically increase the scale of...
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In light of Dolly Parton's death, we're listening back to this 2024 episode of #AudaciousCT, featuring her niece:
'I Will Always Love You': Jada Star’s musical bond with her aunt Dolly Parton
What's it like being related to someone super famous? Like… Dolly Parton! Singer-songwriter Jada Star talks about shining bright in her aunt Dolly’s light.
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Dolly Parton, who plucked bejeweled banjos, guitar and dulcimers with her long fingernails during performances, was a generous philanthropist and successful businesswoman whose projects included a theme park in the Smoky Mountain foothills near her birthplace. https://bit.ly/4xkqfEN
Dolly Parton, music star, actor and beloved figure who spanned generations has died at 80
Parton, who plucked bejeweled banjos, guitar and dulcimers with her long fingernails during performances, was a generous philanthropist and successful businesswoman whose projects included a theme par...
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Gov. Ned Lamont’s Blue Ribbon Commission on K-12 Education Funding and Affordability has a daunting task: Reinvent Connecticut’s school funding system and produce a report with recommendations by the end of the calendar year.
Friction emerges as K-12 school funding commission weighs solutions
A national expert on school finance prompted pushback from Connecticut's Blue Ribbon Commission members wary of placing too much blame on local districts.
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A number of people were taken away by federal immigration officials in Danbury starting Monday morning. Local activists, witnesses, and a Connecticut Public reporter witnessed two arrests in the city’s Kennedy Park. bit.ly/3Sz6sCv
ICE makes several arrests in Danbury as activists mobilize to document activity
Danbury Mayor Roberto L. Alves urged residents to check on their neighbors and employees, especially those who suddenly did not show up.
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Before it sold 200 million copies, the book series, "The Baby-Sitters Club," by Ann M. Martin launched in August 1986 with “Kristy’s Great Idea”. It may include nods to Martin’s time teaching in Connecticut.
Former Darien student celebrates author ‘Auntie Ann’ as ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’ turns 40
Before it sold 200 million copies, the series by Ann M. Martin launched in August 1986 with “Kristy’s Great Idea”. It may include nods to Martin’s time teaching in Connecticut.
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Caring for a spouse or partner with Alzheimer's or related dementia can be a challenging task. Research launched this month looks to get data from around the country about the experience.
National survey seeks insight about caring for a partner with dementia
“What's their access to social support and intervention that's needed to assist caregivers?" said Charles Fuschillo, president and CEO, the Alzheimer's Foundation of America. “Are they taking care of ...
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