Meet “CT Eats Out” Food Blogger, Alycia Chrosniak

March 29, 2017, 5:38 pm

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Are you a foodie? Do you love to eat out? Are you curious about what Connecticut restaurants are opening up and who the chefs are behind them? Lots of folks have discovered the website CT Eats Out to get all the details on everything “food.” It was started by 27-year old Alycia Chrosniak of West Hartford and she is working on her project 24-7. Alycia is trying to show young people that there is a lot going on in this state, she found that out for herself by just getting out of her home town and getting out on the road.. As she grows her blog, she’s looking for advertisers. You can contact her here: info@cteatsout.com

 

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Everything But The Kitchen Sink Milkshakes

April 11, 2017, 1:12 pm

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I promise you, you have never seen a milkshake like this…it looks like a towering ice cream sundae on top of a milk shake. This is the brainchild of Alyce Kallman who has dubs her creations “Freak Shakes.” They are the cat’s meow in Bethel, Connecticut because families from all over are coming together to enjoy their time there. Her Cream and Sugar Cafe has only been open one year, but she already employes 12 is expanding and is thinking of franchising to New Haven. Kallman uses a lot of ingredients that come from other nearby businesses.  Kallman gives back to her community whenever she can, including to The Scotty Fund which helps children affected by cancer. The organization was founded by a Mom her lost her lost her young son to cancer.

 

 

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Helping Chronically Ill Patients, One Pair Of Socks At A Time

April 17, 2017, 7:51 pm

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A Senior at Wake Forest University who is from Durham, Connecticut is setting out to help the chronically ill in this country. Jake Teitelbaum has founded the Resilience Project. Socks are designed with the help of patients, who put their own spin on them to provide a little sunshine. They are then sold and those patients get half of the net proceeds to help offset their medical bills. This idea came to Jake as he was undergoing treatment for Refractory Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in 2015. He was given “hospital socks” to wear that reminded him how sick he was, he couldn’t stand then and that’s when he decided to make socks colorful and fun. His road to recovery was tough. He underwent a stem cell transplant and chemotherapy. Jake has been in remission since October of 2016 and he can’t wait to graduate in April 2017 and get going in earnest on his Resilience Project.

 

 

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Go For A Ride On The Elm City Party Bike

May 1, 2017, 7:54 pm

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The Elm City Party Bike, a small business on wheels, is getting a lot of support from other businesses in New Haven. It arrived in in March and went public for the Saint Patrick’s Day parade, since then its owners have been booking dozens of two hour tours around the city. For 30-dollars you hop on board and pick your music and go…you get a work out peddling it. The idea is to go to lots of restaurants and pubs in town, also you can book it for private parties, it carries up to 15 at a time. The owners are Colin Caplan and Christian Bruckhart. The Elm City Party Bike is the first of its kind in New England. If all goes well, there could be a fleet of them on the street in New Haven.

 

 

 

 

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One 6 Three, The Pizza Joint In New Haven

May 8, 2017, 6:22 pm

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There’s a pretty new kid on the pizza block in New Haven, Connecticut. One-six-three, The Pizza Joint, in the East Rock section of town… dared to enter into a city where some of the nation’s most famous pies exist. This small business, opened in February of 2016, is owned by a young engaged couple who will marry this October. Andrew Holmes and Alexa Flagge who grew up in Connecticut, work together up to 80 hours a week cranking out their wood-fired artisan pizzas. The B-Y-O-B establishment also serves desserts which include “fried Oreos” and “pig candy”…which is smoked bacon candied with their house made spiced sugar rub.

 

 

 

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Sally Jessy Rapahel

May 23, 2017, 1:24 pm

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In May of 2017, I got to spend some time with the first lady of TV daytime talk, Sally Jessy Raphael. Sally preceded Oprah by about three years. She brought her show to WTNH in June of 1987. I came to the station six months prior, so I got to see her nationally syndicated show from start to finish three days a week. The notables coming into New Haven three to do her show. Name the movie stars, they were all here, that was a fun time to work at the television station. I recall Sammy Davis Jr. in the women’s restroom getting ready for the who and he and I talking, he was a riot. Anyway, we reminisced at her sprawling Queen Anne Manor in Pawling, New York about a time 30 years ago

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Mr. New Haven, Tony Rescigno

June 6, 2017, 5:06 am

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At the end of 2017, Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce President, Tony Rescigno, will call it quits. The 72-year old Rescigno has served the city in which he was raised for 17 years. He feels good about where he’s leaving the city and hopes to have a hand in hiring the chamber’s next chief. He wants the new person to understand how much the Elm City has to offer. He’s a guy that knows business well, he had his own when he  was just a little boy. There are about 2-thousand members in the chamber and Rescigno would like to see those numbers come up. He told me he has no idea what he will do on day one that he isn’t working, he tells me the job has been a real joy.

 

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Hannah Perry’s “Giggling Pig” Is Growing By Leaps And Bounds

June 21, 2017, 6:01 pm

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On NYBERG we talk to a woman from across the pond who is turning her passion for children and art into quite a business. Her love for children was shaped in part by working as a nanny for a royal family in Switzerland. Hannah Perry, wrote and illustrated a children’s book in 2005, called “Picnics and Puddles, The Adventures of the Giggling Pig and Friends” and that began the world in which she finds herself now.

Fast forward, to 2011 and she establishes her “The Giggling Pig brand. To date, she has two art studios in Shelton and Bethel, Connecticut and plans for more in the state as she is about to franchise. There are plans in the works to open up one in New York and then down the road in her former home in England. Perry’s hard work and determination has caught the eye of Pitney Bowes who came in and helped her set up a shipping system for her art boxes which she says has saved her a lot of money. The sky’s the limit for Perry as she’s just getting started.

 

 

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Create Your Own Showstopping Sand And Snow Castles

July 12, 2017, 6:02 pm

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A New Milford, Connecticut man got an idea to build a better sand castle and he’s turning that into a business. The lightbulb went off when Kevin Lane was on a vacation with his family in at Laguna Beach, California and “Create A Castle”  was born. Lane has fashioned plastic casings and other items and put them in a kit for the whole family to build showstopping kingdoms in the sand, and you can use them in the winter time too. Create A Castle has also partnered with Mystic Aquarium so a percentage of all sales goes toward the animal rescue program within Connecticut.

 

 

 

 

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Mystic Supply Company

August 21, 2017, 6:34 pm

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Another small business has arrived in Connecticut, this one was established just a month and a half ago, (June 2017) on the shoreline. It’s the Mystic Supply Company where American-made is king. Tomas Gates and Amma Pozzi are giving home-grown small businesses a place to be displayed and sold.  Amma’s portrait and wedding photography business is also housed in the building. This pair doesn’t know the meaning of down time. They admit it’s difficult to find a lot of American-made products, because so many companies have gone out of business…but they’re plugging along just the same in a historic building that has a brand new life. Oh, and by the way you can rent bikes and scooters here too because they saw a need in the town of Mystic, which swells in the summertime with tourists.

 

 

 

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Connecticut’s Mobile Pub

September 7, 2017, 5:40 am

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This is not your parent’s Shasta trailer. The two owners of “The Mobile Pub” are Marco Marcelo and Thomas Keane. A year and a half ago they decided to deck out a 1962, 14-foot Shasta caravan with a full bar including Connecticut craft beers and haul it around the state for weddings and other events. It’s so popular, they’re buying two 1960’s Shasta’s to head out on the highways.

 

 

 

 

 

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What’s Going On In Hartford? Go To weHartford.com

October 2, 2017, 6:31 pm

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Two young women who founded a digital marketing company called Lumi Agency and located it in Hartford thought it would be a great idea to boost the city with its own website, so they developed  weHartford. While Cara Stellato and Melissa Melonson continue to build their agency, they’re busy trying to draw attention to the Capital City and all the things it has to offer.

 

 

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The “Go To” Resource for Women Owned Businesses In Connecticut

October 18, 2017, 6:03 pm

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Women’s Business Development Council in Connecticut, is a non-profit celebrating 20-years of helping women-owned business owners get on their feet and stay successful. Women starting small businesses in the state far outweighs men doing the same thing. Fran Pastore founded the Women’s Business Development Council, and over the 2-decades has helped nearly 20-thousand women, guiding them and holding their hand as they set sail. There are ten full-time employees at WBDC and about 150 volunteers to help women in business. If you’re a woman who is thinking about starting a business, or if you’re already up and running, you might think about contacting WBDC to help you along the way.

 

 

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Repurpose Bowties

December 18, 2017, 6:29 pm

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Everything old is new again,that’s the idea behind the business that 22-year old Paul Hunter has built. He’s a junior at Regis University in Denver. His company is called “Repurpose Bowties.” He takes discarded pieces of clothing and gives it new life as a bow tie. People started noticing a bow tie he had made from the remnants of a shirt he burned standing too close to a stove and that gavhttp://WWW.REPUPOSEBOWTIES.COMe way to an idea for a business.  Hunter is an economics and neuroscience major, his dream is to go to graduate school at Yale University. Hunter knows you have to innovate to continue to be successful so this spring, his company will be making “Repurposed Bowties” for dogs, which attach to a collar so you don’t have to worry about size.

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Connecticut’s 2017 Small Business Person Of The Year ~ Jovial Foods

December 20, 2017, 6:17 pm

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Carla Bartolucci is small in stature but huge in the organic and gluten-free worlds. She is Connecticut’s Small Business Person of 2017. She and her Italian-born husband’s business is called Jovial Foods, it’s based in Stonington. All their products are organic and gluten-free. Her drive to succeed is spurred by loved ones she and her husband lost, and their eldest daughter, who was diagnosed with a gluten sensitivity. One of the secrets she found to helping her daughter, and others, is an ancient grain called einkorn. She is now farming that grain and all her products in Italy. Bartolucci spends much of the year in Italy where she and her husband are raising their children and overseeing manufacturing facilities and organic farmers, but is in Connecticut a lot at her headquarters. Jovial Foods is on a large parcel of land where the now closed historic Randall’s Ordinary Restaurant existed. Here’s an exclusive for you, she’ll be reopening it in amazing fashion in the next few years.

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Social Venture Partners Connecticut Is Helping Non-profits Soar

January 15, 2018, 5:55 pm

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Have you heard of Social Venture Partners Connecticut? They’re a group of people in the state who are part of a global network of folks who dole out money from the private sector and expertise to nonprofits to keep them going in the right direction. SVP Connecticut is also working on helping the state college system, lending help for students entering community colleges and to help get them jobs in the state. This group is impacting your world locally as you go about your daily lives. Since the Connecticut chapter opened about 4 years ago, they’ve given away about 1-point-2 million dollars. SVP  Connecticut numbers 70 now, they hope to grow to 500 partners to really be a force for good in Connecticut. SVP Connecticut’s social impact focus is to close the opportunity gap in Connecticut by supporting innovative organizations and initiatives in education and workforce development.  SVP Connecticut also workS to solve the most pressing problems in our state by investing and collaborating with other funders and organizations in the public and private sectors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Are You Posting On Multiple Social Media Platforms? SiggPay May Be For You

January 18, 2018, 12:43 pm

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It’s called SiggPay and it’s being rolled out in March, 2018. The founder behind this social media marketing strategy is Brian Fuller of Trumbull, Connecticut. His idea is to pay you, for your posts on Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and Instagram. All of this is centered around helping small businesses in the state. Fuller says a several day online campaign can be as little as 25-dollars for a small business trying to get some traction. So called nano-influencers” can make anywhere from 20 to 200 dollars per campaign. Fuller says he is planning to roll out this digital strategy to neighboring states after its start in Connecticut. SiggPay’s business model is designed to give anyone and everyone that uses social media an opportunity to create an additional revenue stream for themselves by getting involved with marketing campaigns for small businesses their area, essentially turning them into paid influencers for those local businesses.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Jewels For Hope, A Connecticut Company That Gives Back

February 5, 2018, 6:15 pm

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A mother, daughter Stamford-based jewelry-making team is all about giving back. Jewels For Hope has been around since 2009.
The company began when Sandy D’Andrea was caring for her ailing mother. She starting making jewelry for the hospice care workers as a way to say thank you for their help, a few years later her daughter Stevie jumped in to help.  The national retailer, J. Crew noticed Jewels For Hope and is partnering with them on February 8th, 2018 at the Stamford Town Center from 4 in the afternoon until 8 p.m. “Jewels” will also be at the celebrity gift lounge at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles in March.

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The FIXER Bag, Made In New Haven

February 12, 2018, 6:00 pm

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New Haven is home to a lot of innovators and entrepreneurs, always has been. Thom O’Leary has a brand new multi-purpose messenger bag with a lot of secret compartments. It’s being made in New Haven at a place called, De Martini Globe Canvas ,where messenger bags have been made for more than 70-years. The FIXER bag weighs just one pound, and it’s weatherproof. It’s designed with the modern consumer lifestyle in mind to provide users with a modular accessory that will keep everything securely stored during commuting. The bag comes in three variations including ‘The Slick,’ ‘The Monty’ and the ‘Don’t Shoot The Messenger’ bag, that one is bulletproof.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Structural Graphics Markets Companies With “Pop Up” Flair

March 1, 2018, 9:00 am

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If you’re looking for “pop up” marketing for your business, look no further than Structural Graphics in Essex, Connecticut. Paper engineers, are hard at work making items that are physical and also virtual that cut through the clutter. Their clients include small companies and the biggest, Google, Toyota to name a few. Structural Chairman, Mike Maguire and paper engineer, Shin Wakabayashi explain how the magic happens.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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