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Foodshare will continue to distribute food to families in need at Rentschler Field in East Hartford throughout the winter. The food distribution at Rentschler Field begins again today, officials said. Every Tuesday through the winter, food will be given out from 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. An end date has not yet been determined. One allocation of food will be…

Foodshare has restarted emergency food distribution at Rentschler Field in East Hartford. The have added domes with heaters inside for the winter months.

Connecticut Food Bank and Foodshare, which are in serious merger talks, are already collaborating. The two organizations will be starting three new emergency food distribution centers. They’ll be located in New London, Norwich and Norwalk and will all be modeled after a very successful site in East Hartford. Day after day, month after month, people have been finding relief...

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Foodshare will continue to distribute food to families in need at Rentschler Field in East Hartford throughout the winter. The food distribution at Rentschler Field will begin again on Tuesday, January 12, officials said. Every Tuesday through the winter, food will be given out from 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. An end date has not yet been determined. One allocation…

Foodshare announced Monday that it will continue distributing food to those in need this year during the pandemic.

Al Roker, a weather forecaster on The Today Show, visited Foodshare’s food drive at Rentschler Field in East Hartford on Tuesday to highlight food insecurity. It was part of The Today Show’s Season of Giving series. Foodshare has been keeping their drive-thru food pantry at Rentschler Field up and running since the pandemic started. They hand out about meals...

Day after day, Foodshare has passed out food to families in need at Rentschler Field in East Hartford. On Tuesday, Al Roker and the Today show teamed up with NBC Connecticut and Feeding our Families to shine a light on food insecurity in Connecticut and across the country.

Streaming in between 8:30 a.m. and noon, two steady lines of traffic flowed through the parking lot of Rentschler Field Thursday. People were receiving boxes of food at the emergency food distribution center. Food insecurity in Connecticut continues to be a concern. According to the Connecticut Food Bank and Foodshare, they are still seeing thousands more people than they were…

The Connecticut Food Bank and Foodshare announced they are talking about merging as one statewide organization. The companies say the merge could help more effectively serve people in the state who struggle with food insecurity. “We have been engaged in a deliberate and thoughtful process to determine how we can achieve our united mission with our experienced and dedicated staff,…

The companies say the merge could help more effectively serve people in the state who struggle with food insecurity.

For the last eight months, Foodshare has provided free meals to hundreds of thousands of hungry families at Rentschler Field in East Hartford. “I don’t qualify for, because of my Social Security, for any other assistance. So for me, this helps to defray the cost of eating,” said Becky Grose, a woman in line from East Hartford. “If it...

Tuesday marked the start of a new way of collecting donations and turkeys for Foodshare’s annual “Turkey Tuesday.” Since March, the organization has worked to give out food items for families who’ve fallen on hard times. In the past, Foodshare collected turkeys and monetary donations in person on Turkey Tuesday. However, out of an abundance of caution, the group...

Foodshare has distributed food to people in 200,000 cars at Rentschler Field in East Hartford since the COVID pandemic started in March. Foodshare plans to continue that distribution through November and over the last two weeks organizers started seeing more families face food insecurity. They would typically get 1,800 cars a day and now they’re serving about 2,200. “We’re seeing…

Foodshare has distributed food to people in 200,000 cars at Rentschler Field in East Hartford since the COVID pandemic started in March.

Foodshare is continuing to provide meals to people across the state with the help of some UConn Huskies. On Thursday, the two teamed up to fill roughly 2,000 cars with food for families in need. Former UConn basketball star Chris Smith was among those helping distribute groceries. He also launched his “Wear Ya Mask” t-shirt and mask line. He said…

Foodshare has extended their efforts to give out groceries to help families through this difficult time.

Get ready to break a sweat and give back in the process.  Hoffman Auto Group will host a charity spin ride at Canton’s indoor Cyclebar on Sunday, Dec. 15 at 1 p.m. with all proceeds benefiting Foodshare, a regional food bank serving Connecticut’s Hartford and Tolland counties. The exciting and energetic workout class will last 45 minutes and include...