Former UConn linebacker Yawin Smallwood gets set to work out for NFL scouts at the Burton Family Football Complex and the Shenkman Training Center on the UConn campus. Smallwood is nursing a hamstring injury but was able to participate in timed agility drills. Patrick Raycraft | praycraft@courant.com
2014.03.05 – Meridan, Ct – Forensic Science Examiner Jill Therriault pulls a handgun from a firing chamber after firing the weapon to retrieve it’s bullets to identify marks left by the guns barrel. Since December, 2012, with the appointment of a new director, Guy Vallaro, the Crime Lab has experienced a clear reduction in backlogged cases in and clear increases in efficiencies. Said Vallaro, “In addition, we’re acutely aware of the victims associated with all of these crimes and all of the case work that comes our way. And we understand that we impact their lives and it’s important to us that we return our analysis in a timely fashion so justice can come to them.” Photograph by Mark Mirko | mmirko@courant.com
Louisville, KY 03/08/14 – UConn’s Ryan Boatright looks exhausted during the second half of his team’s 81-48 defeat to Louisville at the KFC Yum! Center Saturday afternoon. Photo by BRAD HORRIGAN | bhorrigan@courant.com
The Chamberlain Student Council at Chamberlain School in New Britain
Nyasia Walker, 9, a fourth grade student at Chamberlain School, New Britain, at center, looks at Yoda, a Newtown Strong Therapy Dog, while others pet him Friday morning at the school. His owner is Terry O’Neil, of Newtown, at left.
The Chamberlain Student Council has been fundraising for community organizations recently, and was researching service animal groups which might benefit from a fundraiser when they learned about Newtown Strong Therapy Dogs. The group was founded to bring comfort and strength to the community after the Newtown tragedy. March 7 the organization visited the school.
Together with Trinity College professor Pablo Delano (at right) members of the Crouch family (from left is Doris Crouch and her children Jackie Lagana and Lance Crouch) meet to discuss a famous 1940 Thanksgiving Day photograph titled “Pumpkin Pies and Thanksgiving Dinner At The House of Timothy Levy Crouch, a Rogerene Quaker, Ledyard, Connecticut, November 1940″ at the Austin Arts Center’s Widener Gallery on the Trinity campus in Hartford. The photograph was taken by Prof. Delano’s father, Jack Delano, who had been commissioned by the Farm Security Administration (FSA) to document rural life in the U.S. during the Great Depression. After recognizing the photograph in a CTNow insert announcing the exhibit of Jack Delano’s photographs, Lagana contacted Prof. Delano by email to give him the back story from that day 74 years ago. She indicates that the central figure in the photograph and the sole surviving member in the image, her Aunt Jane, is now 91-years-old and lives in Cromwell. Prof. Delano. invited Lagana and her family to meet with him and to view his father’s exhibit on the Trinity campus. Lagana says that Jack Delano graciously shared several other photographs with the family that he had taken that day. The exhibit “JACK DELANO | Photographer (1914-1997) | A Centenial Celebration Exhibition” can be viewed through March 14 at the Widener Gallery at Trinity College.
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