Category Archives: Elmwood
$500K coming for Science Center move
From this week’s State Bond Commission agenda: DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GRANT-IN-AID TO THE TOWN OF WEST HARTFORD, FOR SITE ACQUISITION AND IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE SCIENCE CENTER OF CONNECTICUT REQUESTED: An Allocation and Bond Authorization (to agency) $500,000 … Continue reading
Filed under Elmwood, Science Center of Connecticut
Monster rats in West Hartford?!?
“Lots and lots of rats” are invading the Charter Oak neighborhood in Elmwood, according to today’s Hartford Courant. “A rat problem that resulted in occasional complaints to health officials has spread over the past 18 months, leading officials to step … Continue reading
Filed under Charter Oak, Elmwood, Health, News, Public safety, rats
Put the elms back in Elmwood
I know the town doesn’t have any money. I know people want to spend, well, nothing. But here’s a program that we can still somehow do together: Put the elms back in Elmwood. Since Dutch Elm Disease wiped out 100 million American … Continue reading
Filed under American Elm, elm, elms, Elmwood, Environment, trees
Ideas for improving school diversity
The story in today’s paper mentions a handful of ideas for correcting the racial imbalance in our schools, all attributed to unnamed officials: * Establishing longer school days and longer school years for Smith and Charter Oak. * Expanding student … Continue reading
Filed under Charter Oak, Children's Museum, diversity, education, Elmwood, K-8, News, Schools, Smith, West Hartford
Children’s Museum gets new director
Journal Inquirer Staff 04/20/2007 An Andover resident has been appointed interim director of The Children’s Museum in West Hartford. Hank Gruner of Andover was named to the post on Friday following the recent retirement of Edward J. Forand Jr., who … Continue reading
Filed under Children's Museum, education, Edward Forand, Elmwood, Environment, Hank Gruner, museums, West Hartford
Elmwood Gazette has kind words
The new April issue of the The Elmwood Gazette gives a nice tip of the hat to The West Hartford Blog, which is something like Lou Gehrig saying the rookie shortstop might have a future. Rick Liftig’s publication, which I started … Continue reading
Filed under blogs, Elmwood, Elmwood Gazette, News, Rick Liftig, West Hartford
Let’s integrate West Hartford’s schools
It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that something’s dreadfully wrong with the racial balance in West Hartford’s schools. In a town where minorities make up a third of the student population, Smith School’s minority enrollment is just shy of two-thirds … Continue reading
The worst blight in West Hartford
On the far side of the railroad tracks, where not even McDonald’s could survive, is a vast wasteland that is, amazingly, still part of West Hartford. It’s full of auto shops, dollar stores and other places that barely hang on. … Continue reading
Filed under Ames, blight, Caldor, Elmwood, redevelopment, revitalization, Star's, Town government, vacant buildings, West Hartford, West Hartford economy
Tight market for commercial space in West Hartford
Sentry Commercial reports that “West Hartford [is] still the tightest of all the suburban {Hartford] markets with a 6.4% vacancy rate- 60,000 sf of new office space at Blue Back Square will be delivered by the end of 2007 but 70% … Continue reading
Cars vandalized in Elmwood
Channel 3 reports today that crooks smashed windows and stole all sorts of stuff out of cars along an entire block in a residential section of Elmwood. Resident Jan Sweeney told the tv station that ”she never locks her car but … Continue reading
Filed under crime, Elmwood, Public safety
