Kohl's Corp., which operates 213 stores in the Midwest and mid-Atlantic regions, has reached an agreement to purchase nine Caldor locations in Connecticut, including the stores at Federal Road in Brookfield and Copps Hill Plaza in Ridgefield. Some Joel Barlow High School students had a little extra pep in their step after attending a music workshop with jazz musician Yohuru Ralph Williams yesterday.
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The studio was made famous by Anderson, an internationally acclaimed concert singer and Danbury resident for more than 40 years who helped break the color barrier for black artists. Anderson's studio was made a stop on the state Freedom Trail in 1996 by the General Assembly to commemorate the Underground Railroad and Anderson's role in the Civil Rights movement. The massacre of innocent Albanian civilians in Kosovo has so outraged area rabbis and cantors that they have chosen to make a public appeal, asking that pressure be put on congressional leaders to take whatever steps are required to halt further atrocities. The feeling is that the Jewish people, more than any others in recent history, have known the horrors of ethnic cleansing and extermination, and we remember how the world stood silent and watched, and turned their heads when we were the victims,'' said Rabbi Bradd Boxman of the United Jewish Center. Read this Good morning, gang.