CRIS In The News

Gala Sheds Light On The Blind Experience

April 13, 2011 By Mary Ellen Fillo, The Hartford Courant
It was a hazay first gala for CRIS Saturday at Maneeley's in South Windsor -- purposely hazy. Read More

CRIS Radio Featured On WVIT Channel 30 With Ryan Hanrahan

Connecticut's talking newsstand. "The slogan says it all, " reports WVIT reporter Ryan Hanrahan. To see the CRIS Radio feature, click here.

CRIS Keeps Community Connections In The Air

October/November 2010 By Diane Weaver Dunne, The Prospect Magazine
When Carol Gillispie's radio wend dead in her West Haven home in early summer, she immediately called CRIS Radio's broadcast center in Windsor. Read More

CRIS Radio Looks To New Technologies To Deliver News Broadcasts TO Blind, Disabled

Oct. 18, 2010 By Diane Weaver Dunne, Hartford Business Journal
Carol Gillispie, who has been blind since she was 15 months old due to a rare form of eye cancer, says the news and information that she hears on CRIS Radio offers her far more than the five-minute blurbs that are broadcast on TV news programs and commercial radio stations. Read More

CRIS Radio Raises Funds

Oct. 10, 2010. Hartford Business Journal
CRIS Radio, the “talking newsstand” for the blind and disabled, held its 13th annual Golf Classic recently at Manchester Country Club. Read More

Local Celebrities Read For CRIS Radio

July 26, 2010 Hartford Business Journal
Community leaders are gett Community leaders are getting behind the mike to read articles featured in newspapers and magazines to promote CRIS Radio’s mission of serving people who are blind, learning disabled, or physically disabled and unable to handle printed material. Read More

Connecticut’s talking newsstand for the blind celebrates 30 years

June 1, 2010 By Hugh McQuaid, For the Journal Inquirer
On a recent Wednesday morning from a sound booth inside the freshly opened new broadcast studio, a CRIS radio volunteer read obituaries for thousands of people across the state with disabilities preventing them from reading the newspaper. Read More

Radio For The Blind Ready To Take On Higher Profile

April 22, 2010 By DAVID DRURY, The Hartford Courant

Retinitis pigmentosa long ago took away Ann Kramer's ability to read a newspaper, but it hasn't stopped her from staying up to date on local news, stock market reports and the latest menu offerings in the food pages. Read More

CRIS Radio Marks 30 Years of Broadcasting to the Blind

April 11, 2010 By Amnda Cuda, Connecticut Post
Until she began volunteering with CRIS Radio, Kathleen Miranti had no idea how important obituaries and store advertisements could be for people. Read More