Last October, dozens of people gathered around the Riverfront Community Center and planted hundreds of daffodils to honor the memory of children who died in the Holocaust. By the time the third annual Holocaust Remembrance Evening is held in April, those blooms will help symbolize hope for the future.

This fall, Black and Jewish leaders met regularly as part of the first greater Hartford cohort of Rekindle, a national program designed to foster collaboration and allyship between the two communities.

I stood on a trail footbridge over a rusted gate that once fed water that helped to power a paper mill. I walked along an earthen dike to the remains of a brownstone dam that now looks strangely out of place in the middle of the woods. I climbed aboard an abandoned railroad to an old trestle bridge high above the Hockanum River.

If there is a pot of gold inside a soccer goal post, Cara Jordan just scored it. The 2019 Cromwell High School valedictorian is now playing professionally for the Sligo Rovers in Ireland.

Gladys Silva-Perales of Newington is a veteran of the U.S. Army. She is passionate about shining a light on the service of the many women who she feels do not get the same credit as men for their service to this country.

Daniel Dias spent the past nine-and-a-half years as the principal of a middle school. Now he’s an administrator for an entire district. His new official job title is assistant superintendent for human capital development. The primary focus is all things involving faculty, administrators and staff