Connecticut East This Week Podcast

Connecticut East This Week - 15th August 2021 Edition

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She's just 22 years old and has played on the biggest sporting platform in the world

We talk with New London, Connecticut's India Pagan, about being an Olympian and playing basketball for Team Puerto Rico in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics

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

 

Connecticut East This Week - 8th August 2021 Edition

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We're on the FRONT LINES with the New London Police Department finding out the reality of police work today for the men and women officers on patrol.

For those in law enforcement what's said will come as no surprise, but for the rest of us, it might!

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

Connecticut East This Week - 1st August 2021 Edition

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They served their country and now they continue to serve their communities.

We talk to FOUR military veterans living in Eastern Connecticut who have been inducted in to the Connecticut Veterans Hall of Fame

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

Connecticut East This Week - 25th July 2021 Edition

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We talk to David Marchi, who was diagnosed with 'Acquired Savant Syndrome' after a serious boating accident.

David gained extraordinary skills in art, something he didn't have before, and is now showing and donating his incredible art work to good causes.

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

Connecticut East This Week - 18th July 2021 Edition

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An eye in the sky. We talk with Victoria Smith the Deputy State Entomologist for Connecticut, about the importance of the annual aerial survey of the State’s forests.

And Amy Donahue becomes the Coast Guard Academy’s first Provost, but what does that mean?

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

Connecticut East This Week - 11th July 2021 Edition

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They've been helping US Navy submariners and divers for 75 years, but what is the Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory at subbase New London?

Connecticut East This Week talks exclusively to them.

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

Connecticut East This Week - 4th July 2021 Edition

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As the summer weather heats up and people take to the water to cool off, whose looking out for them?

We're on the FRONT LINES with the joint Waterford and East Lyme Police Marine Patrol Unit

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

Connecticut East This Week - 27th June 2021 Edition

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Is it life imitating art or the other way around?

We talk with two brothers, Kevin and Andrew Blacker, about their involvement in a new Hallmark movie filmed in the sleepy village of Noank.

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

Connecticut East This Week - 20th June 2021 Edition

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The 2021 Connecticut Legislative Session is over, so how did Republican newcomer for the 43rd District, Greg Howard do?

And finding 'Farm Fresh' produce just got easier with a new phone app, developed in Eastern Connecticut called Fresh Please

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

Connecticut East This Week - 13th June 2021 Edition

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It's mosquito season and we talk to the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station as they begin their annual mosquito monitoring and testing program.

Plus choking our rivers and waterways. Film maker Emily Deluca talks about her new documentary about the invasion of Hydrilla.

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