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Connecticut: Feeding the Children 5 Jul 2009 01:51 GMT
... last summer,” said Susan Bohuslaw of the Connecticut Department of Education, who oversees the summer ... are more than 475 meal sites at schools, camps, parks and community centers across the ... Bloomfield, where 46 percent of the 2,100 students qualify for the federal free and reduced-price ...
Arts | Connecticut: Where Art Meets Social Networking Sites 5 Jul 2009 01:51 GMT
... Christopher Capozziello for The New York Times Jeremiah ... its mission, which now includes research on student learning in a digital age. As a direct ...
Mimi Franke, Matthew Marziani 5 Jul 2009 01:51 GMT
... Mimi Murray Digby Franke and Matthew Joseph Marziani were ... Wexford Capital, a hedge fund in Greenwich, Conn. The bridegroom, who uses an earlier spelling of ... of Dallas. The couple's initial meeting, as college sophomores, began with a November 2001 dinner ...
Spotlight | Connecticut: A Master of Two Dimensions, Plus One 5 Jul 2009 01:51 GMT
... Mr. Tufte, 67, is well known for his expertise ... Art Museum, 258 Main Street, Ridgefield. $250; teachers and students with ID, $100. To register: aldrichart.org or ...
Will: Can former eBay CEO Whitman sell California voters on her reform agenda in gubernatorial campaign? 5 Jul 2009 01:30 GMT
... compared with 20 percent in, for example, Connecticut. The public education lobby likes it that ... it that way, but because California elementary school students rank 46th among the states in math, ...
Megliola: Hard-hittin' Fran Whitten 5 Jul 2009 01:00 GMT
... father worked a camp at the Fay School, in Southborough. "I've always been around sports ... now, a strapping catcher headed to the University of Maine on a baseball scholarship after ... Whitten looked at Boston College, Northeastern and Connecticut before deciding on Maine. "It's a perfect ...
After a quarter-century, Lynn Werner continues her work to preserve the Housatonic River Valley 5 Jul 2009 00:10 GMT
... "When I went to the University of Connecticut, I knew I'd do something with the ... in the Berkshires in Massachusetts to bring middle-school kids to the river. A similar program is ... it to include more towns and more students along the Naugatuck and Housatonic. She talks ...
School's Out, but Many Will Get Free Meals 4 Jul 2009 23:31 GMT
... of Island Harvest. Despite budget cuts, many schools and community groups are expanding their efforts ... 2008. Similarly, the school district in Bloomfield, Conn., started serving free summer breakfasts and lunches ... air-conditioned buildings as an added incentive. In Connecticut, a community group in Thompson is hosting ...
Former Bethel High, minor league pitcher Fesh now coaches to help others reach 'pot of gold" 4 Jul 2009 23:10 GMT
... the NECBL team (as well as Western Connecticut State University) in 2006, made his minor ... hope to have them go back to school with another weapon and feel better about ... Fesh said. "He's always been a great teacher. I guess he always knew how to ...
Hot dog vendor a fixture in Lawrence 4 Jul 2009 22:50 GMT
... 18 years old and was on Kansas University's Wescoe Beach blowing a large soap bubble. ... stand every time he's in Lawrence. The Connecticut transplant lives in Prairie Village now. With ...
Say Hello to Underachieving 4 Jul 2009 22:50 GMT
... Nathaniel Brooks for The New York Times Kathy, Sara ... an amusement park in the pouring rain.” School's out for summer 2009, and instead of ... Ehrenfeld, 20, moved back home to Vernon, Conn. Even the local Boston Market had no ...
A lifeline, from big business to small 4 Jul 2009 22:30 GMT
... o serve both their interests, some major corporations, including IBM, ... Communications, a media production firm in Voluntown, Conn., said the nurturing "is making a big ... Greenhalgh, a management professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. "It's typical that ...
Rum on the 4th Of July, an American history lesson 4 Jul 2009 22:01 GMT
... the American Revolution. Never mind what your teacher told you. The Boston Tea Party was a ... rum on the battlefields of New York, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. 'twas rum that ...
EW DVD Review: "Knowing" 4 Jul 2009 21:30 GMT
... time capsule recently dug up at his school. Since Cage also happens to be a professor of astrophysics at MIT (I don't buy ... revolutionary Che Guevara; in "The Haunting in Connecticut," we get a dippy Hollywood horror movie; ...
Hajj Sponsorship 4 Jul 2009 21:10 GMT
... Youth has administered several international cultural and educational programs for American Muslim. The 2009 Hajj ... American Congress of Muslim Youth 4401 A Connecticut Ave, NW Suite # 180 Washington, DC ...