Assistant Managing Editor Hearst CT Insider. RTs don't imply agreement. She/her. ksoper@journalinquirer.com
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Dan Hurley turns down Lakers job to return to UConn men's basketball team ctinsider.com/sports/uconn-m… via @insider_ct
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Senate Minority Leader Kevin Kelly, left, and House Minority Leader Vincent Candelora, pointing at Bridgeport AB scandal, say they will push for the removal all ballot collection boxes. #ctpolitics
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To reporters covering the #MauiFire: Please stop characterizing Front Street and Lahaina Town as a “tourist spot”
It was the original Capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
King Kamehameha’s palace is here.
Kānaka Maoli still live here, on their ancestral land from the 1800s.
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Lowell P. Weicker Jr., CT's larger-than-life former governor and senator, is dead at 92 ctinsider.com/politics/artic… via @insider_ct
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Manchester apartment fire displaces 11 residents, chief says trib.al/gxxFu8V
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Man dies in Vernon fire that destroyed Hany Lane home, police say trib.al/vVyPYor
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Are CT towns hiding poverty? Panhandling, homeless encampments create dilemmas for local officials trib.al/icSWUUw
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East Hartford man who shot, killed two teens who broke into his home says every day is a 'nightmare' trib.al/AEqFoi2
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CT State Police has a team in Saturday’s United Way Battle of the Badges Basketball Tournament. This one-day event brings together municipal police departments from from the area.. Purchase tickets: Battle of the Badges - United Way (unitedwayinc.org) #UWBattleOfTheBadges
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Welcome to the new Journal Inquirer. A lot of hard work by some talented folks is already on display. ctinsider.com/journalinquire…
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Manchester officials are looking to spend nearly $800,000 to renovate Oak Grove Street this summer, which is rated at the bottom one-third for road conditions. The project needs a public hearing, however, as it runs along the Oak Grove Nature Center: journalinquirer.com/towns/ma…
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Manchester High School students who were in classes outside Friday afternoon were brought into the building after a brush fire broke out at the rear of the campus near the softball field. Two were sent to the hospital for smoke inhalation. journalinquirer.com/educatio…
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The owner of the Hilliard Mills in Manchester is planning to restore the site’s final untouched manufacturing building to its early 19th century appearance by the end of 2024: journalinquirer.com/towns/ma…
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Conditions are ripe for an outbreak of brush and forest fires this week as dry, windy and unusually hot weather is forecast: journalinquirer.com/health_a…
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An 101-acre parcel of Oakridge Dairy in Ellington, used for growing corn and hay to feed the farm’s 2,600 Holstein dairy cows, will be permanently protected as farmland by an easement that prevents it from ever being developed: journalinquirer.com/towns/el…
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East Windsor Board of Selectmen unanimously approved a new blight ordinance last week after the first proposed changes were presented in June. journalinquirer.com/towns/ea…
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RT @JournalInquirer: Enfield Town Council has repealed an ordinance for massage therapy establishments that included requirements such as f…
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While the state saw a milder than usual winter this year, the increased price of salt, the timing of the storms in the region, and overtime expenses still ended up costing many towns roughly the same amount to keep roads clear. journalinquirer.com/news/mil…
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Public water utilities throughout Connecticut may soon be required to install millions of dollars in new treatment technology to help remove “forever chemicals” from the tap water that tens of thousands of people drink every day: journalinquirer.com/health_a…
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