Hartford Chief Roberts Leaving Job He's Always Wanted
Ever since he was 11, all Daryl K. Roberts wanted to be was a cop. "I was always watching 'Adam 12' and 'Dragnet,'" Roberts said. "They got to help people and chase bad guys." That all changes Friday,...
View Article7/1/2012-Corrupticut USA
Thank God for Illinois. Why do I say that? Because if it weren't for them, Connecticut would be the most corrupt state in the union. As it is, we certainly have more corrupt politicians per square...
View ArticleSyd Barnett: West Indian Activist, Neighborhood Champion
Syd Barnett was a mechanic, a musician and a businessman, but most of all he was a community activist who worked hard to improve his neighborhood. Barnett died on June 19 at age 96. He was living in...
View ArticleCurfew Means City Has No Solution To Violence
When I see what's happening in Bridgeport and its desperate attempts to curb violent crime by enforcing a curfew, I think back to Hartford's misguided efforts four years ago. The capital city was also...
View ArticleTMI: David B. Panagore, Urbanist
Name: David B. Panagore Age: 48 Occupation: urbanist Found at: Salute (Hartford) Note: Mr. Panagore was the city of Hartford's chief operating officer. He was hired to be the city's director of...
View ArticleAttorneys For Former Hartford Mayor Eddie Perez File Final Brief In Appeal Of...
Attorneys for former Mayor Eddie A. Perez on Friday filed what is expected to be their final brief in the mayor's appeal of his criminal convictions before the case goes before a judge. The attorneys...
View ArticleWhat's Good, Bad In Hartford Charter Proposals
When Hartford's charter was adopted in 2002, it wisely created an automatic review process every decade so that residents could make whatever changes were deemed necessary. A decade has passed. The...
View ArticleEpiscopal Diocese Puts Hartford Headquarters On The Market
For more than a century, the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut has been headquartered in Hartford, the last six decades in a West End mansion that was a gift from the daughter of a wealthy local...
View ArticleHartford Mayor's Office Urges Staff To 'Speak With Single Voice'
The administration of Mayor Pedro Segarra, who has pledged transparency at city hall since taking over Hartford's top job more than two years ago, has instructed department heads to check in with his...
View ArticleAppellate Court Sets Former Mayor's Appeal Hearing For January
A hearing on an appeal from former Hartford Mayor Eddie A. Perez has been scheduled for January. Perez's appeal to Appellate Court is expected to be heard sometime between Jan. 2 and 23, according to a...
View ArticlePerez Appeal Will Be Heard Later This Winter
Former Mayor Eddie Perez's appellate case will not be heard by a judge until at least February, an appellate court clerk said Tuesday. Although the case was put on a court docket that reads "court...
View ArticleArea Roundup 12-19-12: Pinkerton leads Cougars past Jackrabbits
Ryan Pinkerton scored twice in the second half to lift the Granite Hills boys soccer team past Victor Valley 3-2 in a Desert Sky League match Wednesday. Nathan Woods, the Cougars' second leading scorer...
View ArticleSegarra Sworn In To First Full Term As Mayor
HARTFORD — Calling it "the start of a four-year odyssey," Pedro E. Segarra was sworn in Tuesday to his first full mayoral term. Segarra, the former city council president who took over as mayor in 2010...
View ArticleEffort To Preserve Hartford's Decaying 'Old South' Cemetery Is Struggling
In the shadows of an ongoing multi-million-dollar renovation of the Fox Elementary School building on Maple Avenue sits a barely noticeable, fenced-off piece of land containing a few hundred graves and...
View ArticleEagles secure RV title
Each wrestling team left the Rogue Valley Championships with a little something to hang its hat on Saturday, but none more than Eagle Point. The Class 5A Eagles crowned three champions and had two...
View ArticleGov. Malloy Open To Having NHL Hockey Back In Hartford
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Monday he is talking to investors seeking to bring an NHL franchise to Hartford, but he emphasized the return of hockey remains a remote possibility. "I have spoken to...
View ArticleCrater crushes EP
Whatever momentum Eagle Point had gained by storming through the Rogue Valley Championships in convincing fashion last Saturday was completely wiped away by a determined Crater effort Thursday night in...
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