Hop River Trail enters Willimantic on CT 66 (crossing over the Willimantic River) shortly before departing to follow the river to the Airline Trail, where it ends. Utilities Electricity and gas service is provided by Eversource. Municipal water and sewer services are provided by Windham Water Works. Healthcare Windham Hospital, a subsidiary of Hartford HealthCare, is a 130-bed community hospital serving the area. The Veterans Administration also runs an outpatient primary-care facility on Main Street. Generations Family Health Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center, is also located on Main Street. Media Willimantic is served by The Chronicle, a local paper founded in 1877 with continuous service since then, which also serves other towns in Eastern Connecticut. Two commercial radio stations serve the Willimantic area: WILI AM 1400 (with a translator station to 95.3 FM), a news/talk/sports station, and its sister station WILI-FM 98.3, a top 40 station. Eastern Connecticut State University also broadcasts WECS, the local NPR affiliate, on FM 90.1. Notable people William Bonin, serial killer known as the Freeway Killer Apathy (birth name Chad Bromley), rapper Chris Dodd, senator Eileen Farrell, soprano opera and concert singer Jennifer Guthrie, actress John Manning Hall, lawyer and state legislator Skip Holtz, football coach Julian Jordan, composer Jules Jordan, composer James A. Kowalski, clergyman John T. Lis, professor of molecular biology and genetics Alfred Henry Noel, mayor from 1969 to 1971 Fred Norris, radio personality Isaiah Oggins, American spy for the Soviet Union, GULAG prisoner, and victim of Stalinism Helen Turner Watson, one of the first African American women to serve in the U.S Navy In popular culture Connecticut State Troubadour Hugh Blumenfeld wrote a "Willimantic Trilogy" of songs about the city from 1990 to 1995: "Thread City", "Main Street Sky", and "How Long". In 2007, writer-director A.D. Calvo filmed portions of his debut film, The Other Side of the Tracks, in Willimantic, and in 2011, he returned to film the majority of his third feature, House of Dust, on the campus of Eastern Connecticut State University and various other locations in town. In Marvel Comics "Avengers: Celestial Quest", Mantis recounts raising her son, Sequoia, in Willimantic for a year. One of her fragmented manifestations would later return and be found by a clone of Thanos. Notes External links Windham/Willimantic Chamber of Commerce Connecticut placenames of Native American origin Census-designated places in Windham County, Connecticut Micropolitan areas of Connecticut Windham, Connecticut