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West Hartford, Ct. — March 17, 2026 — Sara Salomon Wilson, Deputy Director of Journey Home, hugs Michael Fitch, during his visit to the Journey Home Thrift store which opened last month and all of the proceeds from the thrift store sales go back into operating Journey Home’s furniture bank. Fitch said Journey Home helped him furnish his first apartment after he had been living without a home for about 15 years. “I was sleeping on the floor on a deflated air mattress, and it just it felt so good, and only my case manager knew this at the time. But after I got done setting up the bed and stuff and everything, I literally crashed on that bed for about three hours because I was like, oh gosh, this is how a real bed feels.” (Mark Mirko/Connecticut Public)
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Thrifting for a cause: Unhoused community to benefit from new West Hartford store
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A new thrift store benefiting homeless service provider, Journey Home, is now open in West Hartford. All of the store’s earnings support Journey Home's furniture bank, which provides furnishings for residents coming out of homelessness.
A bill that would have legalized wake surfing – a fast growing, but sometimes controversial watersport – on most Connecticut lakes, will not be moving forward.
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Linda Sarsour, an organizer with Next 250, touches a collection of murals hanging in the Lyceum Center in Hartford during a Next 250 event Wednesday, March 18, 2026 “250 years ago, there were men who sat around and developed a declaration of independence, and they ratified it together,” said Sarsour, “So we decided, 250 years later, for us to bring communities across the country together so that they can co create a declaration of interdependence, which is what we believe we need now.
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A new ‘declaration of interdependence’ makes its way to the ‘Constitution State’
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From left, Sens. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Katie Britt, R-Ala., arrive for the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee confirmation hearing for Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., nominee to be Homeland Security secretary, in Dirksen building March 18, 2026.
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CT's Blumenthal won't support Markwayne Mullin for DHS secretary
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