Connecticut East This Week Podcast

Connecticut East This Week - 26th February 2023 Edition

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The restaurant industry in Connecticut and the nation was hit hard by Covid 19 and is still suffering.

But they’re coming back with innovative ideas, events and menu’s to lure us back out to eat.

Plus, we take a look at other stories making the headlines from around the region.

Connecticut East This Week - 19th February 2023 Edition

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They’ve been providing shelter for 20 years to stop homeless people dying in the freezing cold.

At last they have a permanent home themselves and we talk with the Windham Region No Freeze Project about it.

Plus, we take a look at other stories making the headlines from around the region.

Connecticut East This Week - 12th February 2023 Edition

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They’ve photographed everything from the person on the street to celebrities, presidents and more.

We talk with John Shishmanian and Sean Elliot formerly of the Norwich Bulletin and The Day about their photographic careers.

Plus, we take a look at other stories making the headlines from around the region.

Connecticut East This Week - 5th February 2023 Edition

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It came in around $1.5 million over budget, but the people of the town of Griswold voted to continue with the project.

We visit the new Griswold Senior Center to find out how it turned out and what it will offer the local community.

Plus, we take a look at other stories making the headlines from around the region.

Connecticut East This Week - 29th January 2023 Edition

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It’s considered the last schooner yacht of its type from the gilded age of 1885

We visit Mystic Seaport Museum and talk to them about one of their latest renovation projects - Coronet

Plus, we take a look at other stories making the headlines from around the region.

Connecticut East This Week - 22nd January 2023 Edition

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They’ve been providing treatment services to men and women in crisis for over 50 years

So just who is SCADD and what exactly do they offer to people and families here in Eastern Connecticut?

Plus, we take a look at other stories making the headlines from around the region.

Connecticut East This Week - 15th January 2023 Edition

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The State of Connecticut made history on Jan 10^th as recreational adult use cannabis became legal.

So, what did people have to say and what do the police and our legislators think?

Plus, we take a look at other stories making the headlines from around the region.

Connecticut East This Week - 8th January 2023 Edition

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The elections are over and it’s the start of the new 2023 Connecticut legislative session

We hear from Governor Lamont and his State of the State address and from two Eastern Connecticut legislators about some of their priorities and tasks this year.

Plus, we take a look at other stories making the headlines from around the region.

Connecticut East This Week - 1st January 2023 Edition

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2022 was another full year of news that was dominated in part by the war in Ukraine and closer to home the mid-term and state elections.

But what else where we hearing about? We talk to the team of the CT Examiner to see what they were reporting on this year.

Plus, we take a look at other stories making the headlines from around the region.

Connecticut East This Week - 25th December 2022 Edition

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There’s over 1million of them in the US protecting you and me, but 65% of them are volunteers

We’re talking about the nations firefighters.

And we sit down with Jewett City Fire Department to find out more about why these men volunteer their time to look out for the community.

Plus, we take a look at other stories making the headlines from around the region.