Avon (Hartford, Connecticut)

Ellen McCormack dies at 84; antiabortion presidential candidate

2011-04-02 00:00:00

Ellen McCormack, a New York housewife who briefly became a national figure in American politics when she twice ran for president, in 1976 and 1980, in campaigns designed to galvanize the antiabortion movement, has died. She was 84. McCormack died of...

School daze: the whirlwind tour

2005-09-11 00:00:00

EXHAUSTED parents, collapsed on sofas in college admissions offices, tell one another this urban legend while waiting for the next campus tour. It's about one family who took their teenager to visit a dozen schools in Pennsylvania in three days. They...

Latest Confirmed Casualties and Missing Persons in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.

2001-09-15 19:57:00

The following is a list of confirmed dead as of Monday. List compiled from sources including Pentagon websites, New York Coroner's Office, and Times wire services, by Times researchers Cary Schneider and Kent Coloma and Times staff writer Myrna Oliver....

READER SUBMITTED: Radiology Associates Of Hartford, P.C., Adds Pastizzo As Physician's Assistant

2013-06-16 16:10:03

Radiology Associates of Hartford (RAH) P.C., a community-based provider of diagnostic imaging services, recently hired Gary Pastizzo, MS, PA-C. He is the second physician's assistant to join RAH's staff. Pastizzo brings 17 years of physician's...

READER SUBMITTED: Outstanding Tunxis Students Inducted Into PTK International Honor Society

2013-06-16 16:10:03

The Alpha Iota Alpha Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa at Tunxis Community College in Farmington announced the names of those students who accepted membership in the honor society. They were formally recognized during a spring induction ceremony. Phi Theta...

READER SUBMITTED: Simply Swing Performs June 23 in Glastonbury

2013-06-16 16:10:03

The 2013 Farmington Bank Community Concert Series featuring Simply Swing continues Sunday, June 23, at 7 p.m., Hubbard Green, (Main and Hubbard Streets) in Glastonbury. "Given the positive feedback we received last year, we decided to continue and expand...

READER SUBMITTED: New Britain's Gaffney Bennett Public Relations Wins Six PRSA Mercury Awards

2013-06-16 16:10:03

Gaffney Bennett Public Relations (GBPR), a full-service public relations firm based in New Britain, was recently honored with six Mercury Awards by the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). Since 1997, the Mercury Awards have recognized...

READER SUBMITTED: Second Annual Mammothon At Radiology Associates Of Hartford Sets New Record

2013-06-16 16:10:03

Radiology Associates of Hartford's (RAH) Second Annual Mammothon, featuring 26.2 continuous hours of screening mammograms over the course of a weekend, set a new attendance record in 2013. Fifty women from around the greater Hartford area came out to...

Avon Youth In Distinguished Young Women Competition

2013-06-14 08:51:00

A senior at Avon High School will compete in the Distinguished Young Women National Finals later this month, that organization has announced. Jeannie St. Onge will represent Connecticut in the competition, which will be held in Mobile, Alabama, and is...

Rachel Patron: Final farewell for a soldier who lived life

2013-06-15 00:00:00

�� My husband Irving Patron died on Memorial Day. The timeline was fitting.� At the start of 1944, Irving "Pat" Patronsky of Garden Street in Hartford, Conn. went off to war. And so did most of the boys� from Weaver High School class of 1939. ��He was...

Resident Of Troubled Group Home Was Tortured, Lawsuit Alleges

2013-06-13 15:11:13

A lawsuit filed against a scandal-ridden group home for developmentally disabled adults in East Hartford goes further than even the graphic police affidavits supporting the arrests of a manager and two staff members charged with abuse and intimidation...

Moving Out: $3 Million Waterville Road Home In Avon

2013-06-11 08:34:00

Nod Hill in Avon is one of the area's most prized properties. Now its current owners, Wayne and Lori Arute, are asking almost $3 million for the 20-acre property they have owned 12 years. The property was designed as the living quarters for the Avon Old...

Aleah Fedorciw from Avon, left, reaches out to hold the hand of Shola Powell of West Hartford as they leave the ceremony as graduates of Miss Porter's School in Farmington on Saturday.

2013-06-08 00:00:00

Hartford police officer Jim Elliott of Avon will be biking the circumference of Connecticut in 26 hours to raise money for the Newtown Memorial Fund. Although Elliott will make his ride on June 14, he is having a benefit for the charity this Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Russian Lady in Hartford.

2013-05-17 00:00:00

From left, Nancy Hoffan of Avon, Karen Connal of West Hartford and Angela Martin of West Hartford attended Horns & Halos.

2013-04-27 00:00:00