Much of the coverage around Manchester's October 26 vote framed it as a simple question: did the Save Downtown Manchester petition win or lose? The real answer is neither. The board held onto several pieces of the petition and removed the one requirement the petition had been organized around.

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For years, the second story of the old Sears building at Corbin's Corner sat dark while the floor below filled in with new shops and restaurants. That changes on Friday, November 20, when Level99 opens upstairs in the Corbin Collection. The venue covers 43,000 square feet and packs in 50 …

The Elms on Bellevue Avenue opens its doors to the public again on November 16, 2026, but it's coming back in a new form. The house now runs as The Elms Experience, which requires a timed ticket rather than general admission. Because Newport's free resident benefit is built around general …

South Windsor got some good trail news this fall. On October 1, the governor's office announced that the town would receive $200,000 to plan and design Phase 3 of the Crosstown Trail. It was one of 50 trail projects to share roughly $10.5 million in state funding administered by the …

Check CAVA's website and you'll see its Suite 700 location at Somerset Square in Glastonbury marked as open, offering dine-in, pickup, and delivery from 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day. Check the shopping center's own directory, though, and CAVA is still listed as coming soon, alongside five other recently …

At a ribbon cutting on Main Street on September 1, Mayor Jay Moran said what plenty of local runners had been thinking: Manchester ought to have a running store close to the Road Race's start and finish. That same day, Run Manchester by Kelley's Pace opened at 785 and 789 …

For a good chunk of this year, three storefronts along Sullivan Avenue in South Windsor sat with paper taped over their windows, and plenty of neighbors lost track of which ones had actually opened. It didn't help that earlier local write-ups, accurate when they were posted, have since fallen behind. …

On Thursday, Isham Road shuts down for an evening of grilling. On Friday, there's a four-course dinner with live acoustic guitar. And on Saturday, a hot yoga studio opens its doors on Memorial Road, in a space that wasn't a yoga studio, or anything like it, a year and a …

On September 7, the Ca' del Bosco Wine Garden at The Chanler shut down for the season, just ten days ahead of what is typically Newport's busiest visitor weekend. And this year, the third weekend of September isn't one event. It's two, running on separate schedules in different corners of …

On a recent Sunday morning, from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m., Farmington Avenue belonged to people instead of cars. The closure formed a loop that also took in South Main Street, Memorial Road Extension and LaSalle Road, and the pavement filled up with bicycles, skateboards, strollers and even someone on …