Blue Hills, Connecticut

This coming term will test the legislature's priorities as it struggles with a large budget deficit and a decline in tax revenues because of Wall Street's woes.

Some days, I swear what Hartford needs more than a new mayor or some leadership with a clue is a professional mediator.

Lee Hunt questions the logic of cutting funding to projects in the North End. The director of one of Hartford's longest-running community organizations - the Blue Hills Civic Association, founded in 1962 - was ...

A Texas cell phone company has made its initial foray into New England, signing leases for two office locations between Hartford and Springfield, Mass.

Two Hartford public library branches will reopen Monday after a financial crisis shut their doors in early July.

The Hartford, Connecticut, city council broke into cheers September 9 at the announcement that two state legislators had persuaded the leaders of the state house and senate to give the city library one-time ...

Two branches of the Hartford Public Library will likely reopen next week after Hartford state legislators shook loose enough money to fill a $200,000 hole in the libraries' budget.

Majority Offers Idea to Save Seniors Money on Meds; Opponent Questions Timing of Press Conference by CTNewsjunkie Staff September 5, 2008 1:40 PM Posted to General News Hartford police say they have made a ...

Louise Blalock, longtime chief librarian of the Hartford Public Library, unexpectedly announced her retirement Thursday.

A city man left paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair after being shot in 2006 was arrested late Friday by Hartford police in connection with another shooting.

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Town Manager Louie Chapman has indicated the possibility of relocating the Robert L. Watkins Early Learning Center from its present location in the former Blue Hills School on Rockwell Avenue to one of the ...

Two Hartford libraries were shut down earlier in the summer, library officials said, because the city couldn't afford to fund them.

Does Hartford Mayor Eddie Perez want two branch libraries to remain closed? His actions leave the question very much up in the air.

It's been a difficult summer for the officials of Hartford Public Library, where trustees eased an $870,000 budget shortfall for FY2009 by closing the Mark Twain and Blue Hills Avenue branches July 3 and laying ...

We're fast becoming a nation of snoops. If you don't believe me, check out some of the toys coming out this fall: radio-controlled digital camera aircraft, audio eavesdropping devices, and pen-size document ...

A Superior Court lawsuit filed by neighborhood residents seeking to halt the closing of two city branch libraries has been withdrawn.

When Hartford changed its charter and adopted a strong mayor system in 2002, it also created an Independent Audit Commission to provide objective reviews and assessments of the city's operations and finances.

A Superior Court lawsuit filed by neighborhood residents seeking to halt the closing of two city branch libraries has been withdrawn.