Look what happened in Hartford on the first day of school yesterday

On Hartford’s first day of school on Tuesday, Pastor AJ Johnson organized some 100 men who came — most of them dressed in suits — to greet the students at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School with high-fives and cheers. What a welcome, and what a wonderful idea. Maurice Eastwood — you can read more …

Maurice Eastwood, revisited

Maurice Eastwood is a CCSU senior who organized a basketball tournament in Hartford recently that was interrupted by gun fire in which a man who’d come to watch basketball, James “Jay” Headen, was killed. I wrote about it here. Now Eastwood has set up a Go Fund Me account for the family of the man, …

ICYMI: A story behind some gunfire in Hartford

A young man plans a neighborhood event, some yahoos shoot it up, the city turns to blame the young man, for not getting the proper permit to host the event. I wrote this for Mother Courant. And that photo? That’s just a basketball hoop in Hartford. It’s been busted for months.