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Masks: they’ve always been part of Halloween tradition but never like this year. While spooky season is in full fright mode around the state, those in the Halloween business have adapted to COVID-19 protocols. At East Haven’s Shore Line Trolley Museum, you’ll find the Haunted Isle. People are taken on a trolley into a secret, secluded wooded location. There,...

Masks: they’ve always been part of Halloween tradition but never like this year. While spooky season is in full fright mode around the state, those in the Halloween business have adapted to COVID-19 protocols.

West Hartford Hauntings is celebrating Halloween a little differently this year, keeping in mind COVID-19 guidelines and still giving people a fun, spooky experience.

West Hartford police are investigating gunfire in the Elmwood section of town Thursday. Police said they were called to the area of Elmhurst Street and Elmhurst Circle around 1:21 a.m. for a report of shots fired. Officers found multiple shell casings on scene. No injuries were reported. The investigation is ongoing. No other details were immediately available.

The presidential election is always a busy season for the town clerks office but in West Hartford Essie Labrot said she’s seen nothing like this year. “We are planning to potentially do 30,000 absentee ballots in West Hartford,” she said. “I look back historically and the most we ever issued is 5,000 so this being we are already at the…

With Connecticut allowing all eligible voters to vote by absentee ballots this year, we went to get answers about what you need to know.

“I want more than anything for all of our students to return to school in as normal environment as possible as soon as possible,” said West Hartford Superintendent Tom Moore in a video message to parents. In that message, he delivered the news that a planned return to full-time in-person learning scheduled to start on Tuesday, Oct. 13 had been…

So far, the district has not experienced in-school transmission of the virus. According to statistics posted on the district’s website, as of Oct. 5, just two people from the school community were isolating with a case of COVID-19, both from Hall High School.

On Sunday, voter after voter dropped off their absentee ballots at a special box outside West Hartford Town Hall. “Just get it over with so I wouldn’t forget it. I wouldn’t forget it anyway and this was convenient,” said Eileen Russo of West Hartford. Many have already received their ballot after 15,000 were sent out in West Hartford on...

West Hartford school officials said there has been a case of COVID-19 at Hall high School, the person participated in football practice last week and all players and staff who had close contact with the person are beginning a 14-day quarantine period. Assistant Superintendent for Administration, Andy Morrow, reached out to families on Monday and wrote that West Hartford Public…

The superintendent has pushed back the full return to the classroom and will continue the hybrid model into November.

Halloween is a few weeks away and while some may be staying home instead of trick or treating, one West Hartford resident is looking to educate and establish a community dialogue through Halloween decorations. Along North Main Street, there’s one house that has images and information that may cause some drivers to circle back and get a second glance....

Halloween is a few weeks away and while some may be staying home instead of trick or treating, one West Hartford resident is looking to educate and establish a community dialogue through Halloween decorations.

Opening a new restaurant is already hard enough but doing so in a pandemic is an obstacle that most aren’t willing to cross. “We were supposed to open in May but we opened a week ago,” explained café owner Dorian Buka. Buka is the owner of the new café/bakery Doro Marketplace in West Hartford. In just a short amount...

doro Marketplace opened along New Britain Avenue in West Hartford providing an outdoor space while supporting local merchants indoors.

Lanes of Interstate 84 East in West Hartford are closed after a crash and the highway is congested. The CT TravelSmart website says the highway is congested for nearly three miles, between exits 39A and 43, after a crash between exits 41 and 43. The right and center lanes are closed.

Many Connecticut high school student-athletes gathered in West Hartford to make their objective clear: they want to play full-contact, 11-on-11 football this year. “Let us play”: Players, parents and coaches chanted that refrain loudly as the group marched from Blue Back Square to Town Hall in West Hartford. The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference announced Friday that it was canceling full-contact…

Labor Day marks the unofficial end of summer for many and soon, thousands of students from across the state will be going back to school. “Finally starting school. She is very happy going to school,” said Howard Francis of Hartford. Francis’ daughter will begin classes on Tuesday where some grades are all in-person and a few at the high school…

Many Connecticut high school student-athletes gathered in West Hartford to make their objective clear: they want to play full-contact, 11-on-11 football this year.

“There was frustration on our children and there was frustration as parents,” mom Sheri Rumblad said. It wasn’t but just three months ago mom Sheri Rumblad’s son’s learning from the American School for the Deaf was entirely virtual. “Sometimes he would be with an instructor and the technology wasn’t keeping up with the rate of the sign so everything...