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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…

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...

Replicating East Hartford’s Rentschler Field concept, new sites being added in New London, Norwich and Norwalk.

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…

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...

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…

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...

The need for food has skyrocketed during the last eight months as families try to cope with growing food insecurities. Wednesday morning at Rentschler Field, hundreds of people showed up hoping to receive a mixture of food items for meals. Jose Colon showed up for the second time since he lost his job as a construction worker. “I’ve been...

The Toronto FC soccer team has been playing in Connecticut because of the pandemic and a limited number of fans will be able to attend the team’s last regular home season match. The team plays at Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field in East Hartford and the last game will be on Sunday, Nov. 1, against Inter Miami FC….