FOR $1, a smart shopper can get one Butterfinger candy bar, three cans of cat food or five Christmas cards. Now, Connecticut’s tourism officials have to stretch a buck for statewide marketing campaigns — over an entire year.
After two years with a budget of $4.3 million a year, the state’s Commission on Culture and Tourism has to make do this fiscal year with just $1 allocated by the legislature in September for statewide promotions. The agency will get another lonely dollar next year. Continue Reading »

ON a cold Saturday morning in February, Shawn Pelak and David Parent were at the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University, in New Haven, Conn., soon after the doors opened. But the couple, from Ann Arbor, Mich., wasn’t there to hit the books. Ms. Pelak and Mr. Parent were spending the weekend in Hartford, 45 minutes north, and after downloading a walking tour of the Yale campus from the school’s Web site, they had gotten in their car for a first-hand look. Continue Reading »

There is a number of adult education centers located throughout Connecticut, many operated by school districts. Adult students can find additional opportunities through community colleges and the continuing education divisions of Connecticut universities. These schools provide opportunities for adult basic education, career and technical training, or for lifelong learning. Middletown Adult Education The Middletown Adult Education school offers a variety of academic programs, job and workplace training, personal enrichment classes and counseling services.
Mike did the work here: buy papers online, writing about reading.
Continue Reading »