Jennifer Joas
Morning News Reporter at WVIT-TV (West Hartford, CT)
Morning News Reporter @NBCConnecticut. @HofstraU alum, Jersey girl, country music fan, photographer & nature lover. If you have a story let me know!
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6 days ago |
nbcconnecticut.com | Jennifer Joas
During Teacher Appreciation Week, Bria Sanders, a preschool teacher at The Goddard School in Farmington, has been recognized for her individualized approach with her students. "I love what I do. I'm very passionate about it," said Sanders. "I feel like I'm impacting the future."Sanders' passion for early childhood education began as a teenager, during a summer job. Her mom also works in early childhood education and was her boss at a center in Bloomfield.
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2 weeks ago |
nbcconnecticut.com | Jennifer Joas
Teachers across the state are heading into work on Wednesday morning wearing Red for Ed. It's a push by the largest teachers' union in the state to get the attention of state lawmakers and urge them to increase funding for education. Union leaders and teachers will be showing up to the Capitol in all red. They're advocating for more investments in teacher recruitment and retention.
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2 weeks ago |
nbcconnecticut.com | Jennifer Joas
Viral drive-thru coffee spot, 7 Brew, just opened its second location in Connecticut on Monday and customers were excited. "I've been waiting for this," said Allison Farrar, who lives in Manchester. Farrar said she became a fan of 7 Brew when she was in college in Texas. "I've been here like so many times. It got me through college. So being up here, I saw it. I was like, 'oh my God.' It made me so excited," said Farrar.
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2 weeks ago |
nbcconnecticut.com | Jennifer Joas
People gathered inside the Senate chambers of the Connecticut State Capitol on Friday for the 43rd Annual Holocaust Commemoration ceremony. They remembered the six million Jewish people who died in the Holocaust. Sen. Richard Blumenthal spoke about the rise in antisemitic acts across the world and remind those attending that horrific acts like the Holocaust can happen anywhere that hate is allowed to survive. Leon Chameides lived it.
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3 weeks ago |
nbcconnecticut.com | Jennifer Joas
Volunteers gathered in Clinton on Wednesday with the goal of restoring more eelgrass to the Long Island Sound. Their method was to glue eelgrass seeds onto clams. About 20,000 seeds were then put in the Long Island Sound so the clams can bury into the seafloor and plant the seeds. Growing more eelgrass will be beneficial to fish and improve the water quality. "Eelgrass provides life for a lot of the species," said Robert Vasiluth, from SAVE Environmental.
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