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Here's what we missed: 15 restaurants readers think should have been on Connecticut Magazine's top list ift.tt/DCSpBra

We asked. Connecticut diners delivered their favorite dining spots.

Our biggest takeaway from this? Despite featuring a number of Italian dining locales on our list, we missed a few and it seems our readers are big fans of Italian spots. 

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‘I’m trying to export Connecticut to the world’: Inside one man’s wool dream ift.tt/HAfuUF7

‘I’m trying to export Connecticut to the world’: Inside one man’s wool dream

 Jacob Long acquired the historic Warren Mills in Stafford Springs, in 2014 and  repurposed it to restore high-quality worsted and woolen fabric production to make it what Connecticut is known...

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One Champlin Square in Essex is a generations-long labor of love ift.tt/N4Mita3

One Champlin Square in Essex is a generations-long labor of love

In buying his house, Geoffrey Paul became the steward of one of Connecticut's most remarkable maritime stories.

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Review: My favorite Connecticut-brewed pilsners ift.tt/LyO3KzN

Review: My favorite Connecticut-brewed pilsners

There are some truly excellent pilsners being brewed here in Connecticut that range from the more malt-forward to the drier.

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How Connecticut's hills became home to America's literary giants ift.tt/ZPKRWmQ

Why America's greatest writers flocked to the hills of Connecticut

In her 2011 memoir, “Reading My Father,” Alexandra Styron recalls growing up in Roxbury in Connecticut’s Northwest Corner, the youngest of writer William Styron’s four children.

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Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx visits CT for wedding: 'Fall on the east coast is stellar' ift.tt/7AKZ2gM

Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx visits CT for wedding: 'Fall on the east coast is stellar'

No glam metal fans, you didn't miss a secret performance from the Crüe or Sixx:A.M.

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See the season's foliage along Connecticut's rivers, lakes and rails ift.tt/3RTWIiP

See the season's foliage along Connecticut's rivers, lakes and rails

Get out in nature and explore autumn by foot on one — or all — of this hiking and nature walking destinations. 

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CT Getaways: Celebrate harvest season at these orchards, farms and cider mills ift.tt/WT7UnEV

CT Getaways: Celebrate harvest season at orchards, farms and cider mills

Connecticut knows how to do fall right. Here are a few places to immerse yourself in the season. 

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These Connecticut candy apples are covered in Oreos, animal crackers and more ift.tt/avBpPOk

These Connecticut candy apples are covered in Oreos, animal crackers and more

Though many businesses will stay to the tried-and-true formula of caramel and chocolate candy apples, some places, like the TikTok famous Be Berries out of New Haven, are changing up the game.

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Connecticut has just one mounted police unit left. Waterbury says its horses are worth keeping. ift.tt/Y9Lh6f4

Connecticut has one mounted police unit left. Here's why Waterbury keeps it.

"People don't necessarily want to call the police," said Sgt. Shaun Goggins. "People come up to you on a horse, talk with you, engage with you, in a way they won't when you're in a car."

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Things to do in CT this October: Foo Fighters and the Southington Apple Harvest Festival ift.tt/0rQPJc2

Things to do in Connecticut this October

Spooky season will commence this month with events like the New England Halloween Fest at Mohegan Sun.

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From a Marilyn Monroe inspired cocktail to 'West-Mix' eats, here are 5 new CT restaurants for October ift.tt/U8BQ4V1

From a Marilyn Monroe inspired cocktail to 'West-Mix' eats, here are 5 new CT restaurants for...

New restaurant options include an Italian eatery from a prestigious brand and Connecticut's first location of a Minnesota-based, "West-Mix" fast food chain.

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Column: Joel Samberg's childhood fantasies and fears ift.tt/leU6rVW

Column: Joel Samberg's childhood fantasies and fears

I was a fairly rational kid. But I believed that the cuckoo in my grandmother’s cuckoo clock had a vendetta against me.

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A childhood passion for painting reignited after retirement for Anna M. Nicholson ift.tt/5LcrDvg

A childhood passion for painting reignited after retirement for Anna Nicholson

“Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to learn how to paint,” the 85-year-old Stonington resident says.

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Colorado family makes Connecticut home with the help of a local interior designer ift.tt/jqIrHdw

Colorado family makes CT home with the help of a local interior designer

Moving from Colorado, the Evans family purchased a 3,688-square-foot home in Southport that offered everything they needed on paper. But it lacked personality.

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At 68, John Clapps decided to ride his motorcycle from CT to Alaska ift.tt/x84dove

At 68, John Clapps decided to ride his motorcycle from CT to Alaska

He crossed paths with every kind of imaginable wildlife, including two grizzly bears in British Columbia.

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Hiking the Connecticut portion of the New England National Scenic Trail ift.tt/sjhZLHS

Hiking the Connecticut portion of the New England National Scenic Trail

The Connecticut Forest & Park Association’s Mattabesett and Metacomet trail systems take visitors from the shores of Long Island Sound in Guilford to the Massachusetts border.

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Sleepmaxxing is everywhere. Connecticut doctors say it could backfire. ift.tt/iajqdfz

Doctors say trying too hard to sleep could actually keep you awake

 "Like everything in life, there can be too much of a good thing," sleep specialist Dr. Steven Thau said. "People can overdo it." 

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A classroom read in 1983 sparked a lifelong passion for storytelling on stage ift.tt/7eo6vzm

A classroom read in 1983 sparked a lifelong passion for storytelling on stage

Jennifer Munro was bestowed the National Storytelling Network’s Circle of Excellence Award, the highest award given to performance storytellers.

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Fibermaxxing is everywhere. Connecticut doctors say don't overdo it. ift.tt/HXa5UJW

Everyone's talking about fibermaxxing. Doctors have a warning.

Griffin Health gastroenterologist Dr. Sarah Olivier said, "fiber without water becomes just cement."

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