Shanks is a “New” waterfront restaurant located at Harborside Marina in Clinton, CT. The restaurant was created from a 1974 Bruno & Stillman 42’ Commercial Lobster Boat completely customized to house a state of the art commercial kitchen, capable of cooking fresh seafood, lobster, burgers and much more. The original boat came from The Sound School in New Haven, Ct and was used as a research vessel for 20 years before decommissioning. “Sounder” was transported by from New Haven to Clinton in 2014 and the transformation took nearly a year to complete. Shanks now resides at Harborside Marina but is a fully transportable lobster boat. The original Shanks Cafe was a Clinton staple and also located at Clinton Harborside Marina from the 70’s to the mid 80’s and was known for its “atmosphere.” Anyone that lives or has lived in and around the shoreline reminisces about the stories of Shanks. Now resurrected, Shanks will be a seasonal waterfront destination, serving fresh seafood, lobster and much more. We welcome old and new customers to enjoy the experience as well as tell the stories.
Opening Spring 2016~ “Shanks” Waterside Restaurant In Clinton
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Tony Vengrove Advocates Innovation in Connecticut
The state is in a budget mess, hundreds of millions in the red, corporations are leaving, others are threatening to. So what do you do to help rebuild Connecticut? Tony Vengrove of Miles Finch Innovation, who lives in New Milford, says the answer is to innovate and connect with others who are doing the same. Then, connect all the game changers together across the state. Vengrove, returned to Connecticut from Virginia. He admits it would have made more sense to stay there because taxes are lower as is the cost of living, but was passionate about coming back home to make a difference.
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Waxing Poetic About The Typewriter
Greg Fudacz of Wethersfield is crazy about typewriters, all of them. At the age of 25, Fudacz went to a tag sale and bought his very first vintage ROYAL typewriter for 5 dollars, that was 14 years ago. Now he has about 250 of them and they are worth a lot. Some date back to the late 1800’s.
Many of what he has were made In the typewriter capital of the country, which was Hartford, others are from Europe. His holy grail is the Blick Electric. If you have one of these very early electric typewriters he wants to hear from you. His website is The Antikey Chop, you’ll find him there.
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Made In Connecticut Expo ~ May 14th & 15th
It’s back for a second year. The Annual Made In Connecticut Expo will be held at the Farmington Polo Grounds on May 14th and 15th 2016. The hours are from 11 am to 6pm both days. More than 300 Connecticut made companies, large and small will be showing their wares in the categories of:
Food and beverage
Apparel
Health and beauty
Farm
Crafters and craftsmen
Authors
Artists and artisans.
There will be 15 fan favorite food trucks from around the state serving delicious food all weekend. Beer and wine selections will be available from local Connecticut breweries and wineries.
Admission is $6 for adults, children under 12 are free admission and parking at the grounds is $2 per car.
For vendor and media information contact: madeinconnecticutexpo@gmai
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Glendowlyn Thames Of “CT Innovations” Is Helping Businesses Grow
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Are you working on a new business in the state of Connecticut, are you making a new product and trying to get it on the market, do you need capitol to help grow what you’ve already developed? Do you know about Connecticut Innovations? How ’bout CT-Next? There is help out there in the way of money and in finding so-called “Angel Investors”…people who want to give you money because they believe in what you’re doing.
Meet Glendowlyn Thames who has information from the state for you. As Connecticut faces tough financial times ahead all of this news is important.
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New Haven Detective Bridget Brosnahan Is Building “Girl Power”
Bridget Brosnahan is a New Haven police detective who is helping to empower young girls and women. In her line of work, she sees a lot of females who are not empowered and she has decided to do something about it. She has launched her Girl Power Apparel Company. It’s a line of clothing that will hopefully get the message across to those who wear it, that indeed the lives of every female is important. Detective Brosnahan says the woman who gave her confidence everyday, was her Mom.
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Litchfield Distillery Is Cranking Out The Spirits
The Litchfield Distillery, is tucked up in the hills of Litchfield, Connecticut. Jack and Peter Baker and their ther brother, Dave started work on the place about two years ago. Their family business, back some three generations was, and still is, Crystal Rock Water. A fair amount of water goes into Bourbon so the two businesses work quite well together. Their grandfather started the water business in 1914 in Stamford and this is how things evolved. So far they have five products. They’re turning out bourbon whiskeys, gin and vodka, and more items are coming.
The Baker brothers are working on building a Connecticut Distiller’s Guild, a kind of trail where you can drive from distiller to distiller around the state. To date there are at least 8 other companies making various kinds of spirits in our state.
Photos by Lora Warnick of Unlocking Litchfield.
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The New James Farmacy in Old Saybrook
The beloved James Pharmacy & Soda Fountain will reopen as the James Farmacy [JF], an organic café and juice bar in May 2016. Through its menu and programming, James Farmacy will promote Wellness, Healing and Self-Care by offering healthy, clean, whole-food options, nutrient-dense foods and drinks, health conscious versions of ice creams and sodas, and various educational programs. The James Farmacy is located at 2 Pennywise Lane Old Saybrook, CT 06475. Phone: [860]395-1781.
The new James Farmacy will continue the tradition of its namesake, Miss Anna Louise James, Connecticut’s first licensed African American woman pharmacist- by featuring organic vintage sodas and remedies, healing tonics and elixirs, and nutrient-dense juices and smoothies, all with super healing foods and herbs from nature’s own pharmacy. James Farmacy will offer an organic seasonal menu with vegetarian, vegan, paleo and gluten free options and organic ice cream as well. The menu will be fresh and farm-to-table as it will vary daily, weekly and seasonally based upon availability at local farms. James Farmacy will only source from farms that are certified organic, NOFA* certified, or farms known to use organic methods. [*North East Organics Farmers Association]
The historic James Pharmacy & Soda Fountain will be preserved right down to the original soda fountain, heart-backed chairs and original woodwork and cabinetry. Ice cream will be served in much the same way Miss James offered helpful and healthful advice in a nostalgic setting and popular meeting place.
Buck’s, of Milford, a beloved favorite of JF patrons, has provided Connecticut with ice cream since the 1950’s and James Farmacy will continue to work with Buck’s to source an organic line of ice cream made by Golden Organics. James Farmacy owner and visionary, Shelley Nobile, is an Engineering Specialist at General Dynamics and has been a local businesswoman in Old Saybrook since 1994 when she opened the Deacon Timothy Pratt Bed & Breakfast and operated the James Gallery and Soda Fountain from 2000-2003. Her plans for James Farmacy stem from seeing the benefits of healthy diet and lifestyle choices in her own life, and her desire to share with others all that she has learned and benefited from on her path to wellness.
Through James Farmacy, Nobile seeks to fulfill a need for a local, healthy, organic whole-food cafe on the Connecticut shoreline. The café will offer organically sourced foods, juices, smoothies and ice cream. Through the mindful sourcing of organic and local food, the integration of people and landscape, the support of sensitive land stewardship, the education of
children and adults, and through spiritual and scientific inquiry, James Farmacy will advance its mission while nurturing a healthy dialogue and creating a thriving social environment and community.
Nobile’s partner and co-founder at James Farmacy, Janet Verney, is a Certified Health Coach, Wellness Designer, and author of ROOTS2Wellness, a helpful guide to unearthing the root causes of dis-ease and discovering a “route” to wellness. Like Nobile, Verney is passionate about Self-Care and helping others take control of their health. She will be available on site to share valuable science-based tips on how to make healthy choices in mind, body and spirit. She
will also be available for private sessions and will play a key role in the educational programming and menu offerings at James Farmacy.
As part of strengthening the dialogue of Self-Care and Mindful Living within the coastal Connecticut community, James Farmacy will offer lectures, workshops and will be a vendor at the Lyme Farmer’s Market. Nobile and Verney encourage local organic vendors and healing practitioners to connect with James Farmacy Organic Cafe and Juice Bar. Nobile and Verney share a vision for each and every James Farmacy customer to feel wholly supported on their journey to Wellness. Verney’s book ROOTS2Wellness highlights the message that “it’s important to be a partner in someone’s journey and not to dictate what they should and should not do. It takes some trial and error and tremendous focus for each person to
figure out what works best for them. Whether it’s my own health or someone else’s, I always approach it from a position of kindness and confidence… “
All the members of the James Farmacy team bring a passion for Wellness and for helping others heal. James Farmacy has hired two chefs who are knowledgeable about ingredients and the biology behind making healthy food choices. Andrea Bartosiak received her culinary training at Ballymaloe Cookery School in County Cork, a 100 acre organic farm whose intensive training program promotes a farm-to-table lifestyle and philosophy that showcases regional cuisine and
sourcing ingredients locally.
Laurence Lavagne moved to Connecticut from Paris, France 20 years ago. Always passionate about food, sustainability and the environment she co-created one of the first farmers’ markets in Connecticut in 1990 and for more than 16 years has worked with chefs who serve locally sourced food and support organic small farms.
James Farmacy will open for business with a soft launch on May 6, 2016 following a sneak preview on May 5th for area businesses. A grand opening will take place on May 21st.
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Connecticut’s iDevices Are Evolving Your Home
Avon, Connecticut is home to an innovative company called I-Devices. Just 7 years old, founded in 2009, it already employs 70 people. It’s founder, Chris Allen had an idea about a thermostat for grilling and built an app for his smartphone and the rest is history, his “I-Grill” product was sold to Weber Grill. Currently the company is making all kinds of devices to make your house a smart home. Allen says he got some advice about building his company at that was to surround yourself with smart people and the rest will come, and it did.
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Step Inside “Chloe” The Vintage VW Photo Bus And Smile!
Oh the twists and turns of life…one day you’re working in campus ministry at various schools in the northeast…the next you’re driving a vintage VW bus named Chloe that doubles as a photo booth for weddings and parties and other events. His business is called Photo Booth Planet. That’s what happened to Geoff Gordon of Mystic he knew all along that he wanted to own his own business. Everybody smiles when this van shows up, Gordon says he’s running a business that delights people and he says “what’s better than that?”
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Cheers! To The Hartford Flavor Company
A married couple in Connecticut decided to leave their corporate jobs and go into the line of spirits. Their mission..to jump into the cocktail culture with an organic product. Their ingredients come from local and regional farms. The Hartford Flavor Company was launched in 2015 and their Wild Moon Liqueurs are already in 450 locations in Connecticut between package stores and restaurants and bars. Their product is produced in a 100 year old refurbished building in the Parkville section of Hartford where the first pay telephones were once made.
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Made In Connecticut ~ Custom Latex Foam Products
What do furniture, bedding toppers, horse saddles, Nasa spacesuits, make up sponges and seats in the U.S. House of Representatives have in common? All contain latex foam made from rubber trees manufactured by KTT Enterprises in Hamden, Connecticut. It’s female CEO is Nancy Coffey. Her “Sleep On It“mattress topper is a favorite for college kids around the country to make their beds all that much softer while they’re away from home.
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A 16-Year Old Connecticut Entrepreneur Dreams Up Noble Stitch Socks
What were you doing at age 16? Did you start a company? Andrew Epprecht of Madison, Connecticut did. It’s a men’s colorful sock company called Noble Stitch. He put his idea on Kickstarter and raised 15-thousand in one month. He built a web site, researched companies to manufacture them, and voila, he’s selling away online and in three bricks and mortar stores. They’re made of eco-friendly bamboo and cotton. His logo has already won a global design award. Andrew says indeed, he will be majoring in business in college after he wraps high school at The Hotchkiss School. Noble Stitch is now crowd-sourcing new designs for socks…and the winners are crowd sourced too, join in on the fun.
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Stepcraft, Inc. Spurs Businesses and Employment in Torrington
A start-up business in Torrington is spurring other businesses. Stepcraft, Incorporated literally dropped out of the sky for Erick Royer. He was doing something completely different, writing for a hobby magazine, when the German-originated machine company found him. Now he’s hired his 6 employees including his right hand man, Dan Immohr. The machine, of which there are five different models, allow operators to mill, carve, woodwork, engrave, 3-D print. and on and on…and make anything you can think of. Royer told me the mayor is thrilled that more jobs are being created in town. By this time next year the hope is that the company will double its employees.
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Coming 2017: The Elm City Party Bike
Starting this April 1st, 2017, you’ll be able to tour New Haven on a bike with a whole group of folks…all peddling together on the “Elm City Party Bike.” Two guys came together who grew up on the same street in New Haven, Colin Caplan and Christian Bruckhart, and because of their love for the city decided to show it off in a new way. Other places across the country have embraced this idea and it has gone gangbusters, the hope is that it will be wildly popular here too. This will be the first such bike in New England.
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Vintage-Inspired Watches Inspired By A Purple Heart Recipient From World War II
For more than a year, Brian Dunnigan has been working in secret with his business partner on a business, and now he’s going public with it in December 2016. It’s called Hawthorne Watch Company. The UCONN grad’s late Grandfather, Bernard Brown, with whom he was very close, was a watchmaker. He’s the catalyst for the company. “Bernie” as he was known received the purple heart after he was wounded in France in World War II.
When he came home from war, he started in the watch business. Dunnigan, who wears his Grandfather’s time piece as inspiration, has made a watch that is vintage inspired and meant to be passed down thru the generations.
Oh, and by the way, as a prelaunch to the company’s website they will be giving away four of these beautiful watches. Click HERE.
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Connecticut’s Cold Brew Coffee Company
How do you take your coffee…hot? cold? If you said cold, you’re in for a treat. Connecticut’s first cold brew coffee company, is called just that Cold Brew Coffee Company. This is the brainchild of Gary Riccini of Cheshire who started serving up his organic brand of caffeine in April of last year. He’s bottling his product in Meriden…soon, cold brew tea is coming too. Riccini started his company after a health scare and it’s a blessing in disguise.
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RIPE Craft and Bar Juices Made in Connecticut
New Haven is home to juice, RIPE craft and bar juice that is. The founder of the company, Michel Boissy, came on NYBERG to talk about how the company has grown from a self-squeezing operation in Wallingford, to in the last 6 years or so, employing about 120 people. What sets his product apart from other fresh juices available? His are cold-pressed. You’ll soon see RIPE craft juices in your local Stop and Shop as an account has just been landed for 700 stores across the country. The products are already in a number of places around the country.
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Americana Memories ~ College Pennants
Where did you go to college? Chances are Steven Melillo has a vintage pennant for your school. He is passionate about pennants and has named his company Americana Memories because he says “a lot of people consider college to be the best time of their lives. When people see a pennant from where they were in school it is an emotional experience.” He has large ones and small ones, each has a story…he knows everything there is to know about when they were made, the materials, and the stories behind them. He brought in part of his enormous collection which numbers in the thousands. He admits “pennants” have taken over his life, but he loves it.
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Make Your Own Butter With Connecticut’s Churncraft
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 the old-fashioned back in your kitchen. It’s called Churncraft. They’ve only been in business since June. You turn the crank yourself and in 8-to-10 minutes you have fresh butter. Here are Kiki Frey Egli and her sister, Jojo Frey. The butter churn is assembled in south Norwalk, Connecticut. This company is bringing back light manufacturing to that area.
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