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Brian Scott-Smith
Reporter/HostBrian is originally from Great Britain and has been a broadcaster for 20 years. He is an award-winning freelance reporter/host for WSHU, and lives in southeastern Connecticut, covering stories for WSHU across the Eastern side of the state.
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Three Long Island and 11 Connecticut athletes have qualified for the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics. They include swimmers, rowers, soccer and basketball players, and track athletes.
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The Coast Guard has launched an investigation into allegations of a hostile work environment perpetrated by whistleblower Shannon Norenburg and other agency officials.
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Connecticut farms have been bale to make major energy upgrades with help from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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A bite-sized look at what else we’re hearing: Ten Northeast states will work together to improve regional electric transmission. A dozen more mosquito samples test positive for West Nile virus in Suffolk County. And an investigation is underway into a street takeover in New Haven.
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A bite-sized look at what we are hearing: A MS-13 gang member faces up to 70 years for eight murders. Also, go enjoy the 31st annual Puerto Rican Parade of Fairfield County and the Setalcott Nation’s Corn Festival powwow happening this weekend!
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Connecticut’s agricultural fair season runs from July through October.
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The Mystic Seaport Museum is converting 32,000 square feet of its historic Rossi Mill to display an Indigenous dug-out canoe, modern vessels used by U.S. presidents and a fishing boat used by Cuban refugees in the 1990s.
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The Connecticut Port Authority violated the state’s Freedom of Information Act when it withheld records from a WSHU reporter about the final cost of its State Pier project in New London.
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An immersive exhibition that allows visitors to visit the deep sea without leaving land has opened at Connecticut’s Mystic Seaport Museum.
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Lawrence and Memorial Hospital in New London, part of Yale New Haven Health, is running free courses to teach people how to stop and control bleeding.