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A volunteer effort to help low-income families, high school seniors and juniors, minority students and first-generation college students complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) will take place. Event is at Eastern Connecticut State University and is called “College Goal Sunday.” It will be held from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Computer [...]
The Willimantic Brewing Company, 967 Main St., Willimantic, will host a benefit party to raise funds for earthquake victims in Haiti at 10 p.m. The fundraiser will benefit Haitian Ministries for the Diocese of Norwich, Inc. A new matching challenge grant of $25,000 by two anonymous donors was given to Haitian Ministries on Monday. For [...]
A spaghetti dinner is slated from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 41 Club Road, Windham. Adults $7, children and seniors $5. Benefits Windham Special Olympics Swim Meet.
Hospital officials are planning to construct only one building currently, but architects detailed future plans that could include two additional buildings in the same area.
Amid sweeping changes, the Windham Area Arts Collaborative Inc. appears to be facing an uncertain future with the group’s location even up for debate.
E-mails have circulated around the art community over whether the collaborative would continue to operate at the 866 Main St. location.
Collaborative members, along with members of the board of directors, have been [...]
Margaret Christopher and Holly Church had hoped they would be on their way to bettering themselves by enrolling in an 18-month licensed practical nurse program at Windham Technical High School.
Church, from Lebanon, was working a full-time job with salary and benefits but gave all that up and accepted a per diem job to pay the [...]
For nine long days and even longer nights, Ethel Pocius waited for a call from her daughter Jeanne Pocius, who was staying in Haiti at the time of the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake.
“I didn’t sleep for the next three nights,” Ethel Pocius, 80, said, following the quake, which devastated Haiti. “I prayed.”
However, on Jan. 21 [...]
The board of education tonight will weigh the possibility of extending its school uniform program to apply to students in kindergarten through fourth-grade.
The board meets at 7 p.m., inside the Kramer Building conference room, located at 322 Prospect St.
“This is a positive thing, I believe,” said Windham Board of Education Chairman Kenneth Folan regarding a [...]
In spite of stormy weather, hopeful applicants drove out to Yeoman’s Hall in Columbia and Connecticut Works in Willimantic to test for Census jobs Monday morning.
“I’m very pleased with the turnout,” said Rick Hossack, a recruiting assistant with the U.S. Census Bureau who lives in Mansfield.
According to Hossack, 3 million people will be hired by [...]
Students escaped injury Sunday night after they were evacuated from Towers Residence Halls after a fire was reported in a dormitory building.
The fire began at approximately 8:30 p.m. in the Trumbull portion of the building, said University of Connecticut Police Maj. Ronald Blicher.
Towers Residence Halls is comprised of 16 separate multi-unit buildings in one large [...]
