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After All Things

Heat relief rises

By Sabrina Garone
Published October 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM EDT
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Low-income families could get more home heating assistance from Connecticut this winter. An effort to ban leaf blowers in Huntington gets shut down. I-91 in Connecticut will look a little different soon. Plus, how music therapy is reaching places that traditional therapy sometimes can’t.

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Sabrina Garone
Sabrina is host and producer of WSHU’s daily podcast After All Things. She also produces the climate podcast Higher Ground and other long-form news and music programs at the station. Sabrina spent two years as a WSHU fellow, working as a reporter and assisting with production of The Full Story.
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