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Local teen becoming a role model for young kids through animation
(WTNH) — Olivia Porretta is a 17-year-old animator from Westport, Connecticut. This Staples High School junior’s video called “Wise on the Web” was selected to be featured on the national platform of...
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Paddington Bears help ‘Homeful Project’ in fight against homelessness in...
(WTNH)–This holiday season, you can buy a Paddington Bear for $25. That stuffed animal will go to a homeless child in the state of Connecticut, and the money will go to the ‘Homeful Project,’ which is...
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Local man designing vintage watches inspired by his grandfather
(WTNH) — For more than a year, Brian Dunnigan has been working in secret with his business partner and now, he’s going public with it. It’s called Hawthorn Watch Company. The UConn grad’s late...
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How a childhood passion of drawing turned into a career with the New Yorker
(WTNH) — Liza Donnelly has been a staff cartoonist at The New Yorker Magazine since 1982. She tells stories through her drawings, some political, some not. Donnelly, who married at UConn graduate and...
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Hartford-based foundation helping prevent suicide
(WTNH)–Suicide is a tough topic. Did you know that suicide is the second-leading cause of death among young people age 10-24? An estimated 1,100 college students take their lives every year in the...
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Saving New Haven’s Tangible Treasures
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — A walk down memory lane with a New Haven man who is the keeper of many treasures over hundreds of years that tell us about the history of the Elm City. Robert Greenberg’s...
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“The Pizza People” helping New Haven’s needy
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Susan McDevitt of Madison is a mother of seven. Chance Jackson is a 26-year-old who helps youth in New Haven. Both understand what it is to get a helping hand. McDevitt is a...
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CT’s first “Cold Brew Coffee Company” bottled in Meriden
(WTNH)–How do you take your coffee, hot or cold? If you said cold, you’re in for a treat. On this edition of “Nyberg,” we bring you Connecticut’s first cold brew coffee company, in fact, that’s the...
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New Haven’s Craft Juicery making liquid produce
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — New Haven is home to juice, RIPE Craft and Bar Juice that is. The founder of the company, Michel Boissy has grown his company from a self-squeezing operation in Wallingford...
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“Little free libraries” promoting literacy in an easy, approachable way
(WTNH)–Do you know about the little free libraries that have been established around the world? There are about 50,000 of them and counting. Rose Buckens of Morris and Jo Ann Jaacks of Litchfield are...
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Local nonprofit devoted to helping support cancer patients and their families
(WTNH) — The Sisters’ Project is an organization of 11 people who have been touched by cancer in one way or another. Since 2010 the non-profit, based in Wallingford, Connecticut, has raised half a...
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Opioid overdose app could save lives
(WTNH)–Tens of thousands of opioid overdoses are reported every year in the U.S., and many end in death. More than 1,000 died in Connecticut just last year. On this edition of “Nyberg,” we tell you...
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A delicious taste of local history
(WTNH) — It was good enough in 1871 and it’s good enough now. Bridgeport’s Frisbie’s Pie Company is back. The company closed its doors in the late 1950s, but thanks to Dan O’Connor it’s gearing up...
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Collecting America’s vintage college pennants
(WTNH) — Where did you go to college? Chances are Steven Melillo has a vintage pennant for your school. He has large ones and small ones, each has a story. He knows everything there is to know about...
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The American Mural project celebrating the American worker
(WTNH) — The American Mural Project, formerly called “The Wall of America” is an enormous art project that represents the American worker. It will be installed in an old mill in Winsted, Connecticut...
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Getting to know 2 local orchestral maestros who started working together 15...
(WTNH) — James Sinclair, widely known in the New Haven area and beyond as the founder and musical director of Orchestra New England saw something in Perry So, originally from Hong Kong, was a...
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Connecticut business manufacturing the modern butter churn
SOUTH NORWALK, Conn. (WTNH) — Have you ever thought about making your own butter? A family in Connecticut not only thinks about it, but they’re doing it. They’re manufacturing a new device that puts...
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Geoff Fox: The Interview
(WTNH) — People come and go in the news business, but others stay in one place a long time and become entrenched in their community. Those of you who have been with Action News, News Channel 8, and...
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The resurgence of pinball in the U.S.
(WTNH) — Pinball is seeing another resurgence in the U.S. and that includes Connecticut. There is a place in Meriden called the Sanctum where you can go on Monday nights, play for free and sharpen...
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Libraries evolving in the digital age
DANBURY, Conn. (WTNH) — Need a recording studio for free? Well guess what, the Danbury Library just put one in and as long as you have a Connecticut library card, you can use it. It’s open to anyone...
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