Sarah Keitt

As part of celebrating National Farmers' Market week, we encourage you to visit your local farmers' market to pick up and enjoy locally grown food.

Whether it's a video streaming service, a monthly delivery or a traditional magazine subscription, companies make it easy to sign up, but a lot harder to cancel – that is changing.

The 98% score comes from several factors: voting record, advocacy, and efforts to advance CEA priorities. CEA priorities include enhancing the teaching profession, protecting pensions and benefits, preserving collective bargaining, and supporting sound education policy that enhances public education.

To receive replacement benefits, SNAP recipients who experienced power outages due to the July 4 storms lasting at least 4 hours must report their losses to DSS no later than Tuesday, July 14, 2026.

As our nation celebrates its 250th anniversary, this 4th of July carries special significance.

Several new state laws that we passed during the 2026 legislative session will take effect on July 1.

Aquarion Water Company is holding a community meeting on Wednesday, June 24, at 6 p.m., at Patterson Club, 1118 Cross Highway in Fairfield, regarding Hemlocks Water Main Phase 1, to improve system reliability throughout the system. This is a large transmission project, spanning from Fairfield to Westport. 

Juneteenth – June 19 – commemorates and celebrates the end of slavery in the United States, but the important history of this now state and federal holiday was not widely known for many years.