Five towns made Money Magazine’s list of the Top 100 Small Towns: Cheshire (73), Portland (88), Simsbury (39), South Windsor (38), and Tolland (37).
I see that Fairfield County was shut out and New Haven County nearly so. Perhaps the high cost of, well, everything, has finally caught up with them. What do you think?
See the whole list here: Best Places to Live 2011 – States: Connecticut – from MONEY Magazine.
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JesusFest, Northern Connecticut’s big summer Christian festival, returns and moves from Saturday to Sunday this year, taking place on Sunday the 12th of July.
The event will open with a community-wide, inter-denominational Worship Service from 11 am to 12 noon. Weather permitting, it will be held outside in Central Park. If it’s raining, the service will be held inside the sanctuary of Union Congregational Church.
The celebration will run from 12 noon to 6 pm featuring:
JesusFest is organized by an all-volunteer, interdenominational group of Christian pastors and laypeople in Vernon and surrounding communities.
For more information, visit JesusFestCT.org. You can also write to info @ JesusFestCT.org.
There will be a School of Power Evangelism featuring Dan Mohler, Todd White, Bob Hazlett and Tom Ruotolo at Wellspring Church in Kensington, July 15-18.
Sponsoring churches and organizations include: Wellspring Church (Kensington); Gateway Christian Fellowship (West Haven); River of Life Christian Fellowship (Tolland); Living Rock Church (Killingworth); Calvary Christian Center (New Britain); Fountain of Life-Stanley Memorial Church (New Britain); Lighthouse Family Worship Center (New Britain); and The Connecticut House of Prayer (Hartford).
For complete information and registration information, please visit the Power and Love Ministries website.
A number of churches are responding to Connecticut House of Prayer’s call for united prayer for revival on the “Fifth Fridays” of 2009, the first of which occurs on January 30. Meetings will be held at the following locations:
Ashford: United Baptist Church, 38 Pompey Hollow Rd (Rt 44) (1-3pm)
Bridgeport: United Kingdom Church, 1589 Stratford Avenue (Call 203-579-1579)
Danielson: Gospel Light Fellowship, 132 Wauregan Road (9-11am)
Darien: St. Paul’s Darien, 471 Mansfield Avenue (7-11pm)
Enfield: Calvary Presbyterian Church, 1518 King Street (7:30-9pm )
Hartford: Connecticut House of Prayer, Inc., 320 Brown Street (7-9pm)
New Britain: Calvary Christian Center, 265 West Main Street (9am-12pm)
Tolland: First Baptist Church, 75 Cider Mill Road (Call 860-871-0592)
Wallingford: Good News Christian Center, 46 John Street (6-7pm)