LaSalle Road in West Hartford was flooded with people practicing yoga in the morning sunlight Saturday. West Hartford Yoga’s “Yoga on LaSalle” keeps growing each year and around 1000 people could be seen with yoga mats on West Hartford’s LaSalle Road this weekend.
West Hartford, CT – 07/26/14 – A communal yoga class takes place during West Hartford Yoga’s “Yoga on LaSalle” Saturday morning. Photo by BRAD HORRIGAN | bhorrigan@courant.com
2014.07.24 – New London, Ct. – With an item from the evening’s agenda projected on the screen behind her, New London Board of Education President Peg Curtin prepares to read a motion to hold off on deciding what to do about Terrence P. Carter until it the board can conduct its own investigation. At issue are charges that Carter falsified his resume that included crediting himself with an PhD. Photograph by Mark Mirko |mmirko@courant.com
Brian Kleinman, a naturalist from North Granby, brought his live animal education program, Riverside Reptiles, on the road to the Levi E. Coe Library in Middlefield Tuesday. Kleinman brought nine animals from of his collection of 140 for his hour-long program in which children were able to see and touch a variety of common and exotic reptiles and amphibians, including a bearded dragon, native to Australia, a European legless lizard and an 80-pound Burmese python named Percy. Kleinman’s mission is “to educate people about how to better understand, appreciate, and coexist with the natural world,” according to his website, www.riversidereptiles.com. He saves Percy – the biggest and best – for the end of his show.
MIDDLEFIELD 07/22/14 Brian Kleinman, of North Granby, lifts Percy, an 80-pound Burmese python over his head to place on his shoulders while presenting his reptile and amphibian show, Riverside Reptiles, at the Levi E. Coe Library in Middlefield Tuesday. CLOE POISSON|cpoisson@courant.com
As former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed books inside RJ Julia Booksellers in Madison, dozens of opponents protested across the street and a line of hundreds of supporters snaked down Boston Post Road. This latter group was hopeful that they would get a chance to meet Clinton herself and perhaps take home an autographed copy of the memoir entitled “Hard Choices.”
Serving as nautical backdrops to a day of whale watching, the Charles W. Morgan and the Mystic schooner survey a flat, blue Atlantic seascape as a spouting humpback whale feeds on sand lance (also known as sand eels) within the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary just north of Provincetown, Massachusetts on July 12. Accompanied by the Mystic, the Morgan and a small flotilla of research vessels traveled three nautical miles off the tip of Cape Cod to visit the primary feeding ground for humpback whales. With a rich and perhaps a checkered past of whale hunting and harpooning, the Morgan has now partnered with Mystic Seaport and NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) to raise awareness about the endangered humpbacks and other whale species. The Morgan will be visiting several ports of call in the Northeast this summer.
