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Edward T. “Ned” Coll, 82, the Hartford activist most remembered for his efforts in the 1970s to dramatize the lack of public access to most of the state’s saltwater beaches, died Saturday after a long illness.

In August, bus ridership exceeded pre-COVID levels for the first time, reaching 103% of passenger trips recorded in August 2019, according to Connecticut’s Department of Transportation.

The Boy Scouts’ Connecticut Yankee Council is in the final stage of negotiations to sell Deer Lake for $4.75 million to Pathfinders, Inc.

The numbers indicate the fare-free program has drawn more riders to the buses. Unlike rail ridership, which dropped by more than 90% in the depth of the pandemic, bus ridership only dropped by about 50%, said Josh Rickman, assistant general manager of HNS Management, Inc., the private contractor that operates the bus service in Hartford, New Haven and Stamford (hence HNS) for CT Transit, which is owned by the state Department of Transportation.

Metro-North’s New Haven Line recently had its highest ridership day since the pandemic began

In Killingworth, environmentalists and public officials are trying to stop the Boy Scouts of America from selling its wooded 252-acre Deer Lake Scout Reservation to a developer.

More than 700 Afghans have come to Connecticut since September; agencies are now preparing for emigres from Ukraine.

A century ago, Connecticut film icon Fredric March was named to an undergraduate honor society called, oddly enough, the Ku Klux Klan. Neither a study group appointed by the university, nor anyone else, could find a connection between the honor society and the notorious Ku Klux Klan, America’s archetypal violent hate group. But his connection to the name, just the name, has gotten Fredric March posthumously pilloried.

New legislation could significantly change how police conduct traffic stops