A round-up of openings, closings, and other news about West Hartford businesses.
This has certainly been a whirlwind of a weekend – following a week that was also crazy busy.
My apologies in advance for this column being briefer than usual, but as many of you know I spent virtually the entire weekend working at Info Booth No. 2 at Celebrate! West Hartford, and this weekend followed a West Hartford LIFE deadline Friday, leaving very little time for gathering of information for this column.
Info Booth No. 2 was my station at Celebrate! West Hartford for the weekend.
It was great to work alongside former West Hartford Police Capt. Jeff Rose, who is also a member of the Celebrate! West Harford committee!
I’ve been a member of the Celebrate! West Hartford Committee for about eight years, and always volunteer for Info Booth No. 2 because it’s really at the center of the event activity and a great way to see most everyone who attends and an excellent vantage point for people-watching, too. Thank you to all who stopped by to visit!
This was the first time Celebrate! has been held in person since 2019, and it was wonderful to see the return of the town’s signature festival. Thanks to Event Coordinator Linda Geisler, Event Chair Joan Karas, and all who worked so hard to make it a great success. We’ve got a write-up of the events and lots of photos posted here.
You may be seeing some new bylines and photo credits on the site, and that’s because We-Ha.com has welcomed interns back for the summer. I’m very excited for the return of last year’s interns, Lily Guberman and Sophie Christensen, and we’ve already published stories by rising Hall High School seniors Clara Sorkin and Baylee Krulewitz. Other students will be involved in future weeks as well.
With a late night Board of Education meeting last Tuesday mixed in among lots of other meetings and events, last week not a week of normal meals for me (lunch on Thursday was a cookie at the ribbon cutting for Marc’s Appliance Warehouse; please don’t judge). Ted and I ran the Celebrate 5K on Sunday morning (congrats to Ted on winning his age group – and I was excited to finish third in my age group!) and instead of going out we ate our traditional pre-race pasta dinner at home on Saturday night. We did have some delicious food for lunch at Celebrate! – and while I forgot to take a photo of my chicken pad Thai on Saturday before I ate it, I did take a few photos on Sunday. The sausage and peppers Bronx pizza from Joey’s that we had for dinner on Sunday night was fabulous.
Banh Mi. Celebrate! West Hartford. June 12, 2022. Photo credit: Ronni Newton
Lamb gyro. Celebrate! West Hartford. June 12, 2022. Photo credit: Ronni Newton
Sausage and pepper Bronx pizza from Joey’s. Photo credit: Ronni Newton
If you’re commenting on an article, you must use your full name, and provide a real email address. Once your comments are approved the first time, they go through automatically in the future, so you will see some partial names from those who were approved before we put the rule in place. And once in a while I will allow a “congratulations” or other innocuous positive comment to slip by without a full name. But in the past week or two there have been many who have attempted to post strongly-worded comments with partial or clearly made-up names, and while we welcome reader viewpoints, we ask that you not hide behind your keyboard. I can see the email addresses used to submit the comment in the back end of the site, and have reached out to anyone who has not used their full name, or has used profanity, and offered the opportunity for the comment to be posted properly.
We’ve had a lot of engagement on our Facebook posts over the past few weeks, which is great – but not great is the tone of many of the comments. “Why you gotta be so mean?” sings Taylor Swift, and the lyrics to “Mean” have popped into my head on many occasions in the past week or two. I know people have strong opinions, but it really is possible to state those opinions without calling people names, or without telling 15-year-old high school students that their logo design is awful, or without always trying to pin blame on whatever political party you don’t like.
West Hartford is still in the COVID-19 red zone, and has been since April, but the case counts have been decreasing for the past several weeks. One day I hope to be able to delete this paragraph completely, but in the meantime, please have patience with each other and our choices, continue to look out for each other, support our local businesses – and stay safe and healthy.
If you have information to share about local businesses, please provide details in the comments or email Ronni Newton at [email protected] .
Connecticut Physical Therapy Specialists is the sponsor of this week’s Business Buzz!
Here’s this week’s Buzz:
Floor and Decor is nearly ready to open at 46 Kane St. in West Hartford. Photo credit: Ronni Newton
Future Rosa Mexicano. Photo credit: Ronni Newton
Future Oath Pizza. Photo credit: Ronni Newton
Former Rizzuto’s/future Gran Gusto at 111 Memorial Road. Photo credit: Ronni Newton
Back Door Kitchen will be operate out of the rear of the future Sparrow location. Courtesy photo
Marc’s Appliance Warehouse had their ribbon cutting on June 9. Photo credit: Ronni Newton
Trollbeads has closed their Blue Back Square store as of June 13.
Remember, if you have any business news to share, add it in the comments section below or email Ronni Newton at [email protected] .
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Re: the documentary Covidland. I knew Brian Wofford many many years ago. Watching the film was devastating, and then to see at the end that it was Brian was heartbreaking. Still, thank you for making it possible for us to view this piece.
Thank you for speaking up for civility!! More of us need to follow your lead. There is no reason for people to be unkind, mean or ill-natured that I can think of other than a wish to make people they don’t even know unhappy or stir up trouble . ☹️
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