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26th CRIS Radio Golf Classic: Sept 20

Golf jump

This is the 26th year that CRIS will be raising money by gathering old friends and new for an afternoon of the ancient game.

Your participation allows CRIS to offer its service at no cost to people living in the community who are blind or unable to read due to learning, physical, intellectual, and emotional disabilities.

When: Wednesday,  Sept 20, 2023
Registration & Lunch:  Noon
Shotgun start: 1:30
Where:  Tunxis Country Club

For more information, to become a sponsor or to register to play, please click HERE.

Bright Spot: Non-profit is helping kids improve their literacy from home (WFSB)

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(WFSB) – A local non-profit is helping kids improve their literacy from home.

For 8 years now CRIS Radio (Connecticut Radio Information System) began to expand their services to students around the state.

“Teachers came to us and said ‘Hey we have special needs kids that are not able to access classroom material. Can you do custom recordings?' So, we started doing that,” explains Diane Weaver Dunne, Executive Director of CRIS Radio.  CONTINUE READING

JI: Project to give voice to suffrage

Journal Inquirer, August 29, 2020
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Copy of story:  JPG PDF

CRIS Radio and archivists from the Connecticut State Library, the Connecticut Historical Society, and Watkinson Library & College Archives at Trinity College are working together to bring to life 100-year-old documents – featuring human-narrated recordings available as podcasts — about the divisive debate over the passage of the 19th Amendment that was passed in August 1920.  Read more.