State offers new Youth Fishing Passport

January 15, 2013 Areawide, Arts & Entertainment, Local News Comments Off

CT Fish and Wildlife has developed fishing activities and is building a list of fishing vendors who will support passport holders with a special benefit. CT Fish and Wildlife photo.

Connecticut Fish and Wildlife has announced a new free Youth Fishing Passport.

The Youth Fishing Passport is a program designed to encourage those under 16 to become avid anglers.

CT Fish and Wildlife has developed fishing activities and is building a list of fishing vendors who will support passport holders with a special benefit.

Check out the Geo-Catching, Fishing Challenge and Sponsors links at http://www.ct.gov/deep/yfp

Posted January 15, 2013

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Saturday music series continues at Storrs Center

December 8, 2012 Arts & Entertainment, Business, Local News Comments Off

On Dec. 8, the band SDL will play from 2 to 3 p.m., followed by the Conn-Men (http://www.conn-men.org), an all-male a cappella group, from 3 to 4 p.m.
The performances are free, and the public is invited to make a day of it and explore all of the new shops and restaurants now open at Storrs Center.

Local musicians perform every Saturday in December at Storrs Center, Mansfield’s new downtown complex on Route 195 (Storrs Road) adjacent to UConn’s south campus.

On Dec. 8, the band SDL will play from 2 to 3 p.m., followed by the Conn-Men (http://www.conn-men.org), an all-male a cappella group, from 3 to 4 p.m.

The performances are free, and the public is invited to make a day of it and explore all of the new shops and restaurants now open at Storrs Center.

Both groups plan to perform outdoors on Dog Lane. In the event of rain, performers may move indoors to one of the open shops or restaurants in Storrs Center.

The music series continues with the following performers:

Saturday, Dec. 15 – The Recliners

Saturday, Dec. 22 – Full Gael (http://www.fullgael.com )

Saturday, Dec. 29 – Mike Casey Jazz Quartet (http://www.mikecaseyjazz.com)

Questions? Please visit the Storrs Center Facebook page: www.Facebook.com/StorrsCenter

Storrs Center is a new mixed-use, pedestrian-oriented downtown in Storrs-Mansfield, Connecticut with shops, restaurants, services, apartments, a town square and public areas as well as a parking garage open to the public, with a second garage now under construction.

For more information about this ongoing project, visit www.storrscenter.com

Posted December 8, 2012

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Learn more about UConn’s plans for a $170 million Tech Park

December 5, 2012 Business, CTV 14 program listings, Local News Comments Off

You can learn more about the proposed Master Plan for the UConn Technology Park at an open meeting to be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 6 at the Audrey P. Beck Municipal Building (Town Hall), located at the corner of Routes 195 and 275 (South Eagleville Road) in Storrs-Mansfield.

You can learn more about the proposed Master Plan for the UConn Technology Park at an open meeting to be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 6 at the Audrey P. Beck Municipal Building (Town Hall), located at the corner of Routes 195 and 275 (South Eagleville Road). The info session will be held in the council chambers.

If you are unable to attend in person, you will be able to watch the info session live at this link:

http://townhallstreams.com/locations/mansfield-ct

… and on Charter Cable Community Access Channel 13.

You also will be able to view the recorded session through Charter On Demand for at least 31 days following the meeting.

Charter also will rebroadcast the recorded session several times – check listings at http://www.mansfieldct.gov/channel13 .

The UConn Technology Park will be located on a roughly 300-acre site on a portion of university property known as North Campus, which is bordered by Route 44 on the north, Route 195 on the east, North Eagleville Road on the south and a long stretch of forest, wetlands and other landscape features to the west.

The General Assembly has allocated $170 million in state bonds to pay for the design and construction of an initial facility at the tech park, which will be called the Innovation Partnership Building.

The building will include roughly 125,000-square feet for specialized research equipment, flexible-use laboratories and business incubator space.

The plan is to gradually build out the park with other facilities depending on the types of business partnerships that develop and the market demand for research space.

The Innovation Partnership Building is projected to open in 2015.

One aspect of the project that will affect the local community is construction of a new access road that is expected to relieve UConn-related traffic congestion on Route 195. This part of the project is in the design and permit process.

Based on a feasibility study, UConn has projected the tech park will create between 1,000 and 1,300 new jobs, both directly and indirectly related to the facility, within its first 10 years.

Questions? Please contact Planning and Community Development Assistant Jessie L. Neborsky at the Audrey P. Beck Municipal Building at 860-429-3330 during office hours.

Posted December 5, 2012

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How to support locally-owned businesses this holiday season

December 3, 2012 Arts & Entertainment, Business, Local News Comments Off

Get your Christmas shopping started and meet the owners of several locally-owned businesses on Sunday, Dec. 9 at the Local First Mansfield One Stop Shop. This event, organized by the Mansfield Downtown Partnership and the Town of Mansfield is open from noon to 4 p.m. at the Mansfield Community Center on South Eagleville Road (Route 275) in Storrs-Mansfield, CT.

Get your Christmas shopping started and meet the owners of several locally-owned businesses on Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012 at the Local First Mansfield “One Stop Shop.”

This event, organized by the Mansfield Downtown Partnership and the Town of Mansfield, is open from noon to 4 p.m. at the Mansfield Community Center on South Eagleville Road (Route 275).

The “One Stop Shop” will include businesses that don’t have a traditional storefront, as well as those with “brick and mortar” stores.

Scavenger Hunt participants also can bring their cards to the One Stop Shop to enter a drawing for prizes.

All “One Stop Shop” attendees will receive an entry for the drawing. Scavenger Hunt participants will receive additional entries based on the number of businesses they successfully found.

The goal of Local First Mansfield is to encourage residents to support the many and diverse locally‐owned businesses in Storrs-Mansfield.

Look for the Local First Mansfield posters in participating businesses. You also can visit the Town Web site at www.mansfieldct.gov and click on “Business” for a list of participants – and check back often, as more join.

If you are a Mansfield business owner interested in being a part of Local First Mansfield, please call the Mansfield Downtown Partnership office at 860-429-2740 or send an email to mdp@mansfieldct.org There is no fee to participate.

You can also keep tabs on this community project on Facebook (Local First Mansfield) and on Twitter @MDPLocalFirst) and by visiting the blog at http://localfirstmansfield.blogspot.com

Posted December 3, 2012

Get to know Storrs-Mansfield better and win some prizes http://mansfield.htnp.com/2012/11/24/get-to-know-storrs-mansfield-better-and-win-some-prizes/

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Don’t miss the free annual Artists Open Studios tour

November 24, 2012 Arts & Entertainment, Local News Comments Off

This an incredible opportunity for you to meet Northeastern Connecticut’s painters, sculptors, fiber artists, photographers, potters, jewelers, glass artists, metal smiths, wood-turners, and other fine artists. Dolphin Vase image fromhttp://www.funkwarepottery.com – one of the studios on the tour.

The Artists’ Open Studios free, self-guided tour is a much anticipated event this time of year.

Traditionally held over two weekends – beginning with Thanksgiving Day weekend – the 2012 tour dates are Nov. 23, 24, 25 and Dec. 1 and 2, 2012 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

While many of us enjoy fine art by visiting art galleries and museums, we rarely have the chance to meet the artists whose work we admire, and be welcomed into the spaces where they nourish their creativity and produce their art.

This annual event also gives artists the opportunity to connect with you and to share their passion and expertise – a sure cure for some of the isolation artists often feel while they work in their studios day after day.

This an incredible opportunity for you to meet Northeastern Connecticut’s painters, sculptors, fiber artists, photographers, potters , jewelers, glass artists, metal smiths, wood-turners, and other fine artists.

You have your choice of more than 70 artists who work in a wide variety of mediums and styles, and live in an even wider variety of studio environments.

So, pack a bottle of water, bring your brochure and a camera to take in the scenery in the Northeast Corner of Connecticut.

Helpful tips

The AOS brochure contains a complete listing of artists and directions to their studios, a map of the entire tour area (not to scale), and sample images of work for each artist. You can download a copy in PDF format at http://www.aosct.org/member-user-registration/downloads/category/4-brochures.html

The artists also will be glad to assist you with directions for getting from one studio to another.

Editor’s note: You might also want to plan to make two visits – clustering three or four studios near each other per day – because the tour covers a large geographical area.

Posted November 24, 2012 based on publicity materials and the AOS web site

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Get to know Storrs-Mansfield better and win some prizes

November 24, 2012 Arts & Entertainment, Business, Local News Comments Off

Healthy Alternative Market & Deli, on Route 44 near Four Corners, is one of the businesses taking part in the 2012 Local First Mansfield scavenger hunt.

As part of “Local First” in Storrs-Mansfield… whose goal is to encourage us to shop locally… you can take part in a scavenger hunt and win some fun prizes.

The game runs from this weekend through Sunday, Dec. 9.

Cards with clues will be available at participating businesses and at Town Hall at 4 South Eagleville Road (Route 275) during office hours – or you can get started by downloading a form with clues (in PDF format).

For the form, click here:

http://www.mansfieldct.gov/filestorage/1904/3389/2012_localfirstmansfield_scavengerhunt.pdf

The Town of Mansfield and the Mansfield Downtown Partnership developed a new initiative this time last year, “Local First Mansfield,” to boost local business.

The program coincides with the busiest shopping time of the year.

According the National Retail Federation, shoppers spend an average of $700 during the holiday season on items ranging from gifts to food to pet supplies.

“The goal of the program is to raise awareness of the many different businesses here in town and to encourage residents to shop local for quality goods and services,” said Mansfield Town Manager Matt Hart.

Participating businesses will display posters in their stores and are listed in the Business section of the Town’s website.

To keep up to date on announcements about Local First Mansfield and participating businesses – such as the One Stop Shop on Sunday, Dec. 9, noon to 4 p.m. and the Give & Receive gift wrapping event on Sunday, Dec. 16, noon to 4 p.m.), visit http://localfirstmansfield.blogspot.com

Businesses that are interested in participating should contact the Mansfield Downtown Partnership office at 860-429-2740 or mdp@mansfieldct.org There is no fee to participate.

Want to help the local business that provided you with this information? Tell them you read about it in Mansfield Today, and like us at HTNP News on Facebook!

Posted November 24, 2012, based on publicity materials

Related links:

Local First Mansfield on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Local-First-Mansfield/549674045048947

The Healthy Alternative Market and Deli on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Healthy-Alternative-Market-Deli/332361630098

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Live music and a new restaurant at Storrs Center

November 17, 2012 Arts & Entertainment, Business, Local News Comments Off

Storrs Center features live music every Saturday.

A new weekly event – live music – begins this Saturday, Nov. 17 at Storrs Center, the new complex under construction across from the UConn campus on Route 195.

Storrs Center features live music every Saturday.

This Saturday (Nov. 17) from 2-4 p.m. come enjoy the Jan Jungden Trio. Or make a day of it and check out all of the new shops and restaurants now open at Storrs Center. (See full list of shops now open below.)

Moe’s now open

Moe’s Southwest Grill opened Friday at 1 Dog Lane, Suite 101 at Storrs Center.

Ranked Number 1 in the Fast Casual Mexican Category by Entrepreneur in 2011, Atlanta-based Moe’s Southwest Grill serves fresh, made-to-order burritos and southwest fare in a fun, casual environment.

Moe’s at Storrs Center is now open daily from 11 a.m. to 2 a.m., and includes a Moe Monday special which is any burrito, chips, salsa and a drink for only $6.99.

How to make your own public access program

November 10, 2012 CTV 14 program listings, Local News Comments Off

Want to learn more? Charter Access TV 14 will offer an open house between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012 at the James W. Diaz Community Access Studio/Charter on Tuckie Road in North Windham, CT. Courtesy photo

CTV 14 is your Public Access channel. Residents, like you, from the Charter Communications service area can make their own programs with our equipment and then air them on the local cable access channel.

No prior experience is necessary; our professional producers will teach you how to use our video production studio, editing suites and portable cameras.

Studio time and equipment use is a free service for residents of the towns that Charter Communications serves:

Ashford, Brooklyn, Canterbury, Chaplin, Columbia, Coventry, Eastford, Hampton, Lebanon, Mansfield (Storrs), Pomfret, Scotland, Thompson, Willington, Windham (Willimantic) and Woodstock.

Want to learn more? We will offer an open house between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 17 at the James W. Diaz Community Access Studio/Charter in North Windham (207 Tuckie Road, North Windham, CT 06256)

Tour our studio and speak with the Public Access Studio Supervisor about making your own show (or volunteering to help with other projects).

Community Access TV is a great opportunity to get hands-on experience in video production, while providing our community with quality programming that isn’t available anywhere else.

Get involved with Community Access Television, call the studio today at 860-456-8500 or visit our web site at http://www.ctv14.com

Please note that advertising, solicitation of funds/products/services does not qualify for community access use. Call for complete details.

Posted November 10, 2012

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