When a Connecticut mayor took a walk with his family to a local ice cream parlor over the summer, he ran into something he had not seen before.

Hartford Mayor Arunan Arulampalam said he ran into the new president of Trinity College , Dan Lugo, and his wife, TinaMarie, who also had gone to Capital Ice Cream in the city.

“I think he has hit the ground running to engrain himself in the fabric of the community,” Arulampalam said of Lugo, and about seeing the new president out and about in the city. “He has large shoes to fill. He has been a burst of energy, a really innovative thinker.”

The ice cream visit was in July, on what Arulampalam said was one of Lugo’s first weekends in the city. Arulampalam’s reference to the “large shoes” was to former Trinity College president, Joanne Ber

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