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Beating the Heat in Sprinkler Parks - Wolcott Park
OK, they're not Disney World, Six Flags or Lake Compounce. In fact, no one would confuse them with fancy water parks. But West Hartford's two public sprinkler playgrounds, in Wolcott and Kennedy parks, have some advantages over their splashier counterparts.
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Ring of Remembrance - Hartford Circus Fire Memorial
How do we publicly remember events? How do we honor victims of a tragedy? How do we pass our memories on to those who come after? All of these questions are at the heart of the design of any memorial.
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Circus Fire Remembered - Hartford Circus Fire Memorial
Ten years ago today , Charles A. Teale Sr., a Hartford Fire Department captain, presented a plaque that now hangs in the lobby of Fred D. Wish Elementary School in Hartford. "In loving memory of those who perished on this location fifty years ago, July 6,1944,and with heartfelt con- dolences to their survivors," reads the inscription.
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Boys & Girls Club To Open
The new $5.4million Asylum Hill Boys & Girls Club. with 30.000 square feet of bright, Inviting space, will hold its grand opening Saturday, right on schedule.
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Best Foot Forward
As Hartford continues to delay implementation of Ken Greenberg's downtown plan, New Britain has been quietly transforming its central business district into a business and pedestrian-friendly zone.
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Raising The Neighborhood
It is a street parallel to the playing fields at Trinity College, a corner of the now hand-some block that is home to the neighborhood's four newest schools, where Eddie Perez illustrates the progress of an ambitious plan to reinvent a poor neighborhood in the poorest city in the state.
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Sacred Ground
By all published accounts, it dawned a very hot day in Hartford, growing more torrid as the morning wore away. By midday, the temperature had reached 90 degrees. Nevertheless, on the stifling afternoon of July 6, 1944, more than 8,000 people had found their way to the city circus grounds on Barbour Street.
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The Play Environment
No longer simply a place for children to "burn off a little steam" or be warehoused between classes, the outdoor play environment is increasingly being recognized as an integral part of the overall learning environment and crucial to a child's development.
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New Britain's Streetscape Enhancement Program
Streetscape improvements are increasingly becoming a valuable tool in planners' efforts to revitalize and enhance commercial districts. The City of New Britain has recently completed a streetscape enhancement project that could serve as an example for other communities.
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Hartford Circus Fire Memorial
It's sacred ground, the level field behind an elementary school in the North End of Hartford. What happened 60 years ago still echoes from the past.
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Water Play
Those of us who fit into the "Baby Boomer" generation remember well the experience of going to your local municipal swimming pool as young children and being relegated to the "baby pool".