...discounted 30-trip ticket have been discussed previously. Rail and signal enhancements on the diesel-only Waterbury branch line will mean expanded service but not new cars, at least not yet. The CDOT request to the tiny rail car industry for new cars proposals brought a dismal response but the agency is...
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NEW HAVEN – Defense lawyers for five former officials of a public utility cooperative charged with misappropriating public funds to pay for extravagant corporate retreats to the Kentucky Derby and a golf resort filed a motion in court for a dismissal of the charges, claiming that federal prosecutors had failed...
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...made to serve the public? * * * YALE RESCUES NEW HAVEN: Yale University, whose ownership of so much property in New Haven takes much of it off the city’s property tax rolls, has a new six-year deal with the city. The university will increase its annual voluntary payment to...
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...5 and 11 have received at least one vaccine — a number amounting to about 13 percent of the children in that age group in the state. Dr. Tom Balcezak, Chief Clinical Officer at Yale-New Haven Health, said in a Thursday press conference that children have exhibited minimal side effects...
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...but they don’t get a paycheck from the state — they get it from a third-party.” State Rep. Roland Lemar, D-New Haven, co-chair of the legislature’s Transportation Committee, agrees. “Connecticut would be much better off if we have the in-house staff necessary to complete the projects,” he said, declining to...
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...had hired a new program director. The mother said that after hearing her son was having problems with the teachers, she tried to explain his needs to Melody Laing, the school age child care director, who got “frustrated” with her and “passed her off” to CEO Shawn Patch. The CEO,...
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...that allow students to earn college credits that go toward Gateway’s automotive program. West Haven is in the process of being approved. Hillhouse High School in New Haven recently became the latest school to join the list. The school held a ceremony on Wednesday dedicating their new automotive training center,...
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...Senate President Martin Looney, D-New Haven, says was simply due to lack of support — but advocates claim the votes were there to pass the legislation. The proposal faced stiff opposition from Republican legislators and industry officials, who argued that the costs to wholesalers would be passed onto consumers through...
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...now it’s going to be up to the DOT to send some very strong signals to build confidence that they will be able to get this moving,” Schubert said. “They’re telling us they will be ready to go, but we haven’t seen anything to indicate that’s true.” State Department of...
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...out in New Haven, either, Olsen said. The longshoremen couldn’t just sit and wait for two or more years for the renovations of the pier to finish so they could get back to work, and many have moved on to other jobs, Olsen said. When they gathered at the pier...
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...do this,” said Tumicki. The Diocese of Norwich did not respond to a request for comment from CT Examiner. Counsel for the group Mark A. Mintz of the New Orleans-based firm Jones Walker LLP and local counsel Jeffrey Hellman of the Law Offices of Jeffrey Hellman, LLC in New Haven...
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...has grown more concentrated. New Haven opened its Coliseum downtown in 1972 and then, acknowledging its failure to revitalize the city, tore it down in 2007. The Connecticut Tennis Center was opened in New Haven in 1991 but the idea of revitalization via tennis tournaments was another failure. This year...
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...both the state and the contractor at risk. “If the contract isn’t signed, and all the terms and conditions haven’t been agreed to, and the contractor doesn’t perform, or finish on time, or submits the wrong materials, then you don’t really have a leg to stand on to do anything...
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...Cindi Preble said was unusually high. NEW HAVEN — Three hours after polls opened at East Rock Community Magnet School in New Haven, less than 75 people had cast their ballots. “By this time last year, we had a couple of hundred people,” said Stephanie Ranks, assistant registrar. “At 6...
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...request variances and exceptions. “It’s a set of regulations and if you want a variance from the regulation and you can prove some sort of hardship, then you can get your variance,” Twining explained to CT Examiner. But according to Keith Ainsworth, a land use attorney in New Haven, proving...
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...Republican, he is not in any way affiliated with their committee. So Samperi keeps running, and puts candidates on the ballot each election so the Killingworth Conservatives can keep their party status. Samperi, who runs a heating and air conditioning company and moved to Killingworth from West Haven 16 years...
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...hope to go. Although I am leaving office in 40 days, I will never stop fighting to preserve “The Last Mile” — East Lyme First Selectman Mark Nickerson. [Editor’s Note: Below is a press release from the New-Haven-based nonprofit Save the Sound] Legal Victory for Oswegatchie Hills Judge denies developer’s...
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...were on the Board of Selectmen. To what extent is this run about elevating the Green Party in Guilford? I’ve seen examples of Greens having success in many towns where they run local candidates, like Clinton, Windham, and New London. Those towns all have had elected Greens and have been...
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Greenwich Public Schools spent $22,370 on each student in the district in the 2019-20 school year, but Danbury spent only $13,521. That same year, Madison spent $21,098 on each of its students, but if you went west to New Haven, that number dropped to $16,751. This discrepancy is a statewide...
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...be argued at the upcoming trial of five former officials of a Norwich-based public utility cooperative indicted on charges of theft and conspiracy in the case, recently-filed documents in U.S. District Court in New Haven show. The defendants were on the board of the Connecticut Municipal Electric Energy Cooperative (CMEEC),...
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...New Haven and the unions are totally different here,” said Greg Garb, a former math department head at Clinton’s public high school. “In Clinton it felt like the administration ran the union.” A Freedom of Information request for documents relating to complaints made against the administration over the last five...
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...at the end of the day (CT Examiner) Chasko is on the board of directors of the Connecticut Waterfowl Association, which offers a mentoring program he created to get newcomers, and especially younger people, involved in bird hunting. The program is designed not only to pass on the tradition to...
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...to decline, having reached their lowest point in over 25 years. Democrats have said that the level of violent crimes in the state — the fourth lowest in all 50 states — shows that Connecticut is one of the safest states in the nation. State Sen. Gary Winfield, D-New Haven,...
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...New Paltz, New York, would convert the gas station’s garage bays to retail space and add 227 square feet of storage space to the existing 1,760-square-foot building. Kevin Solli, principal of Solli Engineering in Monroe, Conn., told the commission that the statement of use included operations 24 hours a day,...
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...Hamden, State Rep. Hilda Santiago of Meriden, and New Haven Alder Darryl Brackeen Jr., have also formed exploratory committees. In 2018, Merrill won reelection with 55.9 percent of the vote to her Republican opponent’s 42.5 percent. A Republican has not served as Secretary of the State since 1995. But this...
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...about noontime each day. It also stops in Bridgeport and New Haven before heading up the Connecticut River Valley to Vermont stops in Brattleboro, Windsor, Montpelier, Waterbury (Stowe) and Essex Junction (Burlington), to name but a few. It’s not the fastest run (Stamford to Essex Junction is 8 hours), but...
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After an unusually light flu season in 2020-2021 and months without a single flu case at Yale New Haven Hospital, Dr. Scott Roberts said he is preparing for an onslaught of cases this year. “We are all bracing for a bad winter season. Essentially everyone has had a lost year...
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...daily murders in Hartford, New Haven, and Bridgeport; the increasingly arrogant crimes of juveniles who have realized that society has lost the nerve to discipline them — there really is no relevant policy response at all. Upper Connecticut is oblivious to Lower Connecticut and crowns its obliviousness with virtue, the...
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...waste, and also a lack of diversity of grapes, people, wine, varietals and styles.” It’s a philosophy that also shapes the way that, for example, The Wine Thief in New Haven and Madison sells wine, which Spencer acknowledges, but he says he takes it to the level where “it’s all...
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...the position as a volunteer two years ago that at some point I would leave, sure,” Kooris told CT Examiner by phone on Wednesday. “But the more important point is, I’m not resigning. There’s nothing imminent. I haven’t announced or selected a date. This is all a bizarre extrapolation from...
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