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Kindred Solar

Kindred Solar

On a February morning of brilliant sunshine, ice rained from the trees and slid down the aluminum roof at 43 Button Street. Mounted on the roof’s south-facing side, a 10-kilowatt...

Kindred Solar

On a February morning of brilliant sunshine, ice rained from the trees and slid down the aluminum roof at 43 Button Street. Mounted on the roof’s south-facing side, a 10-kilowatt...

Blending In

Blending In

Alan Radin makes house calls. He takes with him his entire workshop—pigments, chemicals, glues and fills, plus brushes, tools, hardware and anything else he might need—in a van emblazoned with...

Blending In

Alan Radin makes house calls. He takes with him his entire workshop—pigments, chemicals, glues and fills, plus brushes, tools, hardware and anything else he might need—in a van emblazoned with...

Hang It Up

Hang It Up

In 1990, Frank Cooper had an idea. Hamden’s Camp Rainbow—“one of the first programs in the state that did a summer day camp for kids with special needs”—was always short...

Hang It Up

In 1990, Frank Cooper had an idea. Hamden’s Camp Rainbow—“one of the first programs in the state that did a summer day camp for kids with special needs”—was always short...

Terri Jo Ciocca, Kellyann Day and Mary Grande

Heart and Home

The numbers are troubling: more than 3,300 people in Connecticut were counted homeless in 2018, according to the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness. Add to that cuts in state funding...

Heart and Home

The numbers are troubling: more than 3,300 people in Connecticut were counted homeless in 2018, according to the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness. Add to that cuts in state funding...

To Protect and Preserve

To Protect and Preserve

The floorboards squeak, and the windows can be drafty. This 1827 boarding house wouldn’t be most people’s idea of a dream office. But Chris Wigren, Jane Montanaro and the small...

To Protect and Preserve

The floorboards squeak, and the windows can be drafty. This 1827 boarding house wouldn’t be most people’s idea of a dream office. But Chris Wigren, Jane Montanaro and the small...

Friends and Family

Friends and Family

The word “thrift” gets a bad rap, according to sisters-in-law Sue Kuselias and Jodee Webb. People told them not to use it in the name of their new Hamden shop,...

Friends and Family

The word “thrift” gets a bad rap, according to sisters-in-law Sue Kuselias and Jodee Webb. People told them not to use it in the name of their new Hamden shop,...