Jennifer Ahrens
Producer, Morning EditionJennifer Ahrens is a producer for Morning Edition. She spent 20+ years producing TV shows for CNN and ESPN. She joined Connecticut Public Media because it lets her report on her two passions, nature and animals.
She’s a S.I. Newhouse alum and cannot imagine living anywhere but the Northeast. After living in Atlanta for several years, she realized a year without four seasons is a bore.
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Ospreys have returned to Connecticut to breed and raise their young and everyone can watch it live on nest cameras around the state. -
Stratford-based Sikorsky is making the cuts after the U.S. Army canceled plans for a new helicopter called the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft. -
I-95 in Greenwich and Stamford will be repaved with an more durable form of asphalt developed in Europe. -
Experts say Connecticut homeowners should get rid of bird feeders and secure garbage now that bears are waking up from their winter sleep. -
As winter winds down, mating season revs up for Connecticut wildlife. But for skunks, when a love match fails — a pungent odor is left behind. -
Darien will open Great Island to public Friday, March 1, in a soft opening with restrictions. -
The report concludes there was a failure to respond effectively to known state trooper falsification of traffic stop data in 2018, as well as a failure to address information that indicated potentially broader problems with the accuracy of racial profiling data. -
The $2 million program will fund projects to increase the urban tree canopy in Connecticut. -
A project to recover abandoned lobster traps has found an invasive sea slug in Long Island Sound, which could pose a problem for native sponge populations. -
Respiratory dog illness raising concern for pet owners in New England.
