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Connecticut Foodshare’s weekly food distributions at Rentschler Field may have ended in April, but there are still those among us who struggle with food insecurity. That’s why the organization continues its foundational program of mobile food pantries. Once a month, Foodshare brings a truckload of food to the community on Eastern Street in New Haven. Seven pallots of food...

Even as the United States works towards economic recovery from the pandemic, one consequence lingers: hunger. A local food ministry is stepping up to meet the need, and volunteers are bracing to see even greater demand. “The longer the pandemic lasts as a concern on people’s minds, potentially the more clients we’re going to start seeing on a regular...

The shelves at Norwich Free Academy’s in-school food pantry are bare. The pantry became depleted when the pandemic first hit. Since then, it has been a challenge to keep the shelves stocked as the need only grows. “The need just got much bigger. Families lost their jobs,” said Shirley Kutia, who runs the food pantry and the free clothing...

The food pantry at the Keefe Community Center has continued to offer food services to those who need it, especially over the last six months as they say the number of people showing up has increased. “We used to see about 200 families a month at the food bank and it went up to over 500 a month so we…

The Keefe Community Center in Hamden has planted a garden to grow produce to help feed those facing food insecurities in town.

A 12-year-old in South Windsor is helping launch a program to establish community food pantries throughout the town.

In New Haven, New Flame Restoration Church handed out boxes of groceries to families in need.

Pop-up food pantry will be taking place Thursday from 2 p.m. -3:30 p.m. at Bowen Field Parking lot in New Haven.

Throughout the state, many organizations are working together to help families struggling to put food on the table. These two organizations are the latest to join forces and help veterans and their families.

Throughout the state, many organizations are working together to help families struggling to put food on the table. House of Heroes Connecticut and Veterans Rally Point are the two latest organizations to join forces and help veterans and their families. Volunteers worked to fill boxes with non-perishable food items throughout Saturday morning. The one-time emergency food distribution had a goal…

Some hospitals are opening food pantries or makeshift grocery stores inside their facilities to help staff who don’t have time, don’t want to or can’t afford to go to a grocery store during the coronavirus pandemic.

Connecticut Food Banks are taking a direct hit due to COVID-19. Many are trying to keep up with the demand of those who may suffer from food insecurity. Across the state, many of the food banks are hard at work to try and replenish their supplies while both regular and new clients ask for help. Hockanum Valley Community Council is…

Connecticut’s food banks are trying to keep their shelves stocked as demand has increased during the coronavirus crisis.

The Greenwich United Way announced they are giving a $25,000 emergency grant to the Neighbor to Neighbor food pantry. The funds will help expand the organization’s food pantry and its ability to provide groceries for town residents in need, according to the United Way. Residents served by the food pantry are at extreme risk now more than ever because of…

The mission at Morley Elementary School in West Hartford is to spread kindness. For 25 years, that kindness has been shown with donations.

Paranormal Investigator Anthony Duda took NBC10 Boston’s Rob Michaelson on the first ever official paranormal investigation of The Salem Inn in Salem, Massachusetts. Let’s just say we had some very strange, unexplained experiences…

For 35 years, Plainville firefighters have been going above and beyond to help the community, and it’s not just about fighting fires.

The children of Sacred Heart Catholic Church streamed out into Mississippi’s heat on a blistering Sunday afternoon, carrying what they said was a message of opposition against immigration raids their parents could not. “I will not sit in silence while my parents are taken away,” read a sign carried by two Hispanic boys. They were among a group of several...

Hundreds of undocumented workers have been released from federal custody following massive immigration raids in Mississippi. Now they, and hundreds of others still in custody, are awaiting court hearings and possible deportation.

For more and more college students in Connecticut and elsewhere, the burdens of paying to tuition, fees, room and board, and textbooks aren’t where the financial stresses stop.