By: Marie Shanahan Candid online posts describing the challenges of breastfeeding fill the Facebook page of Breastfeeding USA’s Connecticut chapter. The daily stream of anecdotes, questions and comments alternate in tone from exasperated to celebratory….
By Erik Ofgang RECOMMEND TWEET EMAIL PRINT MORE Melanie Stengel Photo. Herb Virgo, founder and director of the Keney Park Sustainability Project, encourages people to experience the healing powers of nature. When Herb Virgo spends time on…
By Erik Ofgang RECOMMEND TWEET EMAIL PRINT MORE Melanie Stengel Photo. Maria Cotto, of East Hartford, says good morning to crossing guard Wendy Gabriel as she walks her grandson, Percy Diaz, 7, to school. Cotto, who has…
By Elizabeth Heubeck Recommend Tweet Email Print More Chelsea French (right) carries a box of food into the pantry at TEEG (Thompson Ecumenical Empowerment Group) after a delivery from Foodshare as Carl Asikainen, (left) food…
By Carol Leonetti Dannhauser Recommend Tweet Email Print More Carol Leonetti Dannhauser Photo. Ashley Hamilton, lead scientist at GreenWave, checks sugar kelp growing on a farm in Branford Harbor. On a gray morning in late…
By Theresa Sullivan Barger Emily Hendricks, 18, sits on the bed in her apartment in a transitional living home in Meriden, December 7, 2021. Photo by Cloe Poisson Emily Kendricks, 18, is now living in…
By Christine Woodside Recommend Tweet Email Print More With mosquito levels at the highest in 20 years, three mosquito-borne illnesses are most dangerous to humans in October after being passed from birds to mosquitoes over…
Noom Facing $100 Million Lawsuit Over Cheating Its Customers
I must admit we shop a lot at Amazon. We know it’s far from perfect, but it is convenient and it has many positive features. The question now is whether we’re going to trust its…
Low and Moderate Income Borrowers Get Help In Refinancing
By Elizabeth Heubeck Jennifer Lortie is accustomed to facing obstacles to health care. The 37-year-old assistive technology specialist for United Cerebral Palsy of Eastern Connecticut has cerebral palsy. As she describes it, her condition, which…
By Kate Farrish Melanie Stengel Photo. Nydia Rodriguez, 64, with a smoothie that she made for lunch. The Lawrence + Memorial Hospital’s bilingual diabetes education program has helped Rodriguez manage her diabetes. Since Nydia Rodriguez…
By Lisa Backus Katherine Verano is wrestling with an 830% increase in costs compared with last year for hoteling victims of domestic violence during the coronavirus pandemic. After a quiet period during the first months…
By Elizabeth Heubeck Felicia Tambascio and her daughter, Anastasia Marie Cordero. Felicia Tambascio’s first pregnancy was going fairly smoothly. But on July 20, at week 38, the 20-year-old Brookfield resident woke with horrible upper abdominal…
By Christine Woodside Melanie Stengel Photo. Sandy Flores of City Seed puts away a bag of $1 tokens at the close of the Wooster Farmers Market. Snap recipients can scan their EBT cards and receive…
By Christine Woodside Melanie Stengel Photo. As the summer’s heat sets in, tailpipe emissions are rising with more vehicles on our highways. For the 29% of Connecticut adults who live with obesity, summer brings a…
By Jodie Mozdzer Gil 7 hours ago RecommendTweet EmailPrintMore Melanie Stengel Photo. Georgina Castelon (left) and Juana Rodriguez pick up produce, including cabbage, carrots and kale after an exercise class at John S. Martinez School…
By Christine Woodside Christine Woodside Photo. Jamie Cantori, a research assistant at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, checks the ticks that have attached to the white cloth she dragged through the underbrush at Lord Creek…
By Bonnie Phillips The Board of Examiners for Nursing on Wednesday revoked the licenses of three nurses and disciplined six others. The board revoked the registered nurse (RN) license of Charlene Zikaras of Milford for…
By Cara Rosner With tougher standards, 48% of the state’s nursing homes—104 facilities—received a four- or five-star rating for staffing, data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) show. Thirty-nine nursing homes (19%)…