Robert Miller

1 week ago | newsini.com | Bruce Glikas |Robert Miller

Wendy Williams’ ex-husband Kevin Hunter filed the $250 million lawsuit to end her guardianship in federal court because his son felt “threatened” by a New York state judge in his mother’s conservatorship case, a source told Page Six. Williams’ ex-husband Hunter, 52, stepped in to file the lawsuit Tuesday in New York in place of his son, who would be next of kin, because “there’s nobody else” that can do it for the TV and radio icon.

Jun 29, 2024 | ctinsider.com | Robert Miller

Twenty years ago, people in four states — Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania — looked at maps and realized the ridgelines of the Appalachian Mountains linked the four together. Seeing that landscape flowing across the states, environmentalists and lawmakers collaborated to create the Highlands Conservation Act, protecting that landscape across the 3.4 million acres of ridgelines, hills and open space.

Jun 8, 2024 | ctinsider.com | Robert Miller

It’s the unforeseen consequence, the mistake nobody knew would be a mistake, that we must live with for decades afterward, trying to repair the damage done. In the late 1800s, nursery owners and tree growers imported the chestnut tree from China. The trees carried a fungus. That fungus, in turn, caused one of the great environmental catastrophes in American history — the chestnut blight.

May 11, 2024 | ctinsider.com | Robert Miller

Once, instead of black bears and raccoons, dinosaurs walked around your backyard — small ones, sizable ones, plant-eaters and meat eaters. And like Barbie, they stepped lightly — at least as lightly as a dinosaur could. “Like Barbie, they walked on their toes,’’ said Susan Butts, director of collections and research at Yale University’s recently reopened, splendid  Peabody Museum of Natural History.

Apr 13, 2024 | ctinsider.com | Robert Miller

Across from where we were, across Lake Champlain, the peaks of the Adirondack Mountains were glowing in golden light in a dark, still world. But only for a minute of two. Then, with a celestial blare, the total eclipse — The Great North American Eclipse of 2024 — ended. With only a fraction of the sun exposed there was a burst of sunlight and the strange, brief, totally beautiful totality ended. Article continues below this adI was with my in-laws — Diane and Paul Janson — who live in Burlington VT.