...a possibility. The Alliance, which is based in New London, has relationships with over 11 high schools in the area, including the public high schools in New London, Waterford, East Lyme and Stonington, Norwich Free Academy, Fitch High School in Groton as well as The Williams School and St. Bernard’s...
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...the Norwich-New London Turnpike. The project came out of a 2016 Department of Energy and Environmental Protection procurement for solar projects, which at the time involved an unrelated company securing a contract to build a solar array inside a gravel pit between Interstate 95 and the Norwich-New London Turnpike. After...
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...said she had to learn a variety of skills for her job helping students with different needs, including sign language, the use of alternative communication devices and certain types of walkers. Soccorro Testut, a paraprofessional in Norwich, said that some of the most valuable training was how to translate and...
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...children are permitted to use services at other schools, something possible in Norwich, the logistics of getting the children from one school to the other often creates a barrier. “Any child in the Norwich school system, who is enrolled, can be seen at any of our sites, but that presents...
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Pam Lusk started running a family child care home in Norwich 26 years ago, after her son was born. With a degree in child development from Connecticut College, she had been working at a daycare center until they told her that she couldn’t bring her son with her to work. ...
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...at data centers, she said the centers could have significant impacts on emissions because of the sheer amount of energy they consume. Thomas Quinn, who has applied for his companies Gotspace and NE Edge to build data centers in Wallingford, Bozrah, Griswold, Norwich, and most recently Groton, said the restrictions...
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...until they do. Jessica Persad and Kari Herndon, owners of Cream Coffee in Norwich Jessica Persad and Kari Herndon, both nurses who worked through COVID, decided to open Cream Coffee in Norwich in November 2021. The coffee shop gave them something to look forward to, Persad said, after spending so...
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...– have decided to maintain mask mandates and COVID protocols until at least March 31. Those include Stamford, Hartford, Danbury, Bridgeport, New Haven, Hamden, Waterbury, Norwich, East Granby and East Windsor. Several, including New Haven, continue to implement city-wide mask mandates for all indoor locations. “We know that people will...
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...strongly recommends that students continue to wear masks. Norwich voted to extend the mask mandate through March 18, after which masking will become optional. Groton, East Lyme, Lyme-Old Lyme and North Stonington have all announced that they will not be requiring masks after the state-level mandate expires. Norwich In a...
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...King is one of six men, whose stories of failed exams, teenage fatherhood and struggles with identity are chronicled in a new book, Emerging Men: Transformational Stories of Hope, Inspiration and Purpose, Tara Hall, who owns Inspired Solutions, a company based in Norwich that offers success training to individuals and businesses,...
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...a company that has announced eight data center projects in Connecticut, including two in Groton, one in Norwich, two in Griswold, one in Bozrah, and two in Wallingford. None of the projects has been built yet according to reporting by datacenterdynamics.com. A few of the proposals have faced setbacks in...
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WATERFORD — A Norwich developer met significant opposition on Monday night for a proposal to build 47 manufactured houses on a 16-acre property using a state statute that lets affordable housing developers override local zoning laws. Attendees of the forum raised numerous objections to the project, including the density of...
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...another 24-unit apartment building on the property in 2009. In 2019, they bought the neighboring 1.82 acre property at 232 Norwich-New London Turnpike for $135,000, town property records show. The Planning and Zoning Commission approved a zone change for the smaller property in January 2020, to allow for multifamily development....
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...a test. UNCAS, however, has more testing capacity than Ledge Light, despite having fewer residents. UNCAS, which comprises 11 municipalities with a total of about 100,000 residents, has two state-supported testing sites, one in Norwich and one in Griswold. The Norwich site provides drive-up testing availability six days a week,...
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...a larger-scale distribution as we’d planned to do next week,” said Florsheim in an email. Mayor Peter Nystrom of Norwich said that he would also consider looking beyond the state for supplies. He said that while the vaccination rate for elderly residents in Norwich was “extremely high,” the city’s vaccination...
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...characteristics of this “new normal” so that it becomes a far better version of what we had before? A few Saturdays ago, I watched middle and high school students march in the pouring rain and wind in Norwich to protest bullying in the schools. Some of these teenagers had been...
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...trying to blow the whistle on his superiors; turmoil in the ranks of the New London police department; scandal at a public-utility cooperative in Norwich, and the handling of an investigation into the puzzling death of a Lyme show horse by the state Department of Agriculture, where I worked for...
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...director of the UNCAS Health District, serving Norwich and the surrounding rural towns, said he had heard from the districts in his area that they are at “max capacity” in terms of contact tracing. McCormack said that he’d heard from districts that Screen and Stay was helpful at first, but...
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NORWICH — Students from several school districts in the eastern part of the state marched around Parade Green in the pouring rain on Saturday to protest bullying and threats of violence in the local districts over the last few months. Holding signs that read “How do you learn and cope...
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...Kapplan. “When you talk about Mystic, New London, Norwich, that might as well be South Carolina to us.” Charlie Tracy, chair of the economic planning and development commission in Pomfret, said he felt the towns like Niantic, New London and Old Lyme and Essex were beautiful places, but that they...
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...megawatt, constraining it entirely south of the Norwich-New London Turnpike, if the town agreed to drop its opposition to the proposal at the Connecticut Siting Council. If the town didn’t agree, the company said it would go ahead with re-submitting its full 9.9 MW proposal with enough revisions to satisfy...
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...Energy Cooperative (CMEEC), a coalition of municipally-owned utilities in Norwich, Groton City, Jewett City, Bozrah, South Norwalk, and East Norwalk that serves about 70,000 customers In an opposing motion, Acting U.S. Attorney Leonard Boyle argued it is clear that prosecutors have established that the trips in 2015 and 2016 were...
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...explained that Kiewit’s contract with the port authority required it to make a project labor agreement with the Norwich-New London Building Trades Council, to ensure that local, union workers are employed in the major infrastructure project. Because the ILA is not a member of that council,Shada said, it’s not a...
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The 51 individual parishes that make up the Diocese of Norwich are being asked to choose either to pay a yet-undetermined sum of money as part of the diocese’s bankruptcy settlement or risk responsibility for both legal fees and the cost of settling any future lawsuit brought against individual parishes....
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...even a race for a chief elected official didn’t draw voters. In Norwich, just 15 percent of voters came out to re-elect Mayor Peter Nystrom to his third term in office. Note: These maps will be updated as more results are posted to the Secretary of the State’s website. Editor's...
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...graduate. NORWICH — A polling place had to be evacuated around noon after someone smelled gas in the kitchen. Voters pulling into St. Mark’s Church were told of the incident and some decided to queue up outside the entrance to wait until the church was cleared. Norwich Fire Battalion Chief...
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...to serve. These three races are contested and I enthusiastically encourage everyone to vote for Ratib, Balestracci & Porter on November 2nd! They need your votes and support! Polls are open in North Stonington from 6am-8pm on Tuesday November 2nd at 298 Norwich Westerly Road. Mike Urgo First Selectman North Stonington...
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...a coalition of municipally-owned utilities in Norwich, Groton City, Jewett City, Bozrah, South Norwalk, and East Norwalk that serve about 70,000 customers. Indicted in 2018 by a federal grand jury after an FBI investigation, the accused – CEO Drew Rankin, Board Chair James Sullivan, Norwich Public Utilities General Manager John...
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It was going to take an awful lot of work to convert the former second-hand store in a Norwich strip mall into the barbershop that Carlos Ventura had long dreamed of owning. But after weeks of gutting the storefront and surviving the setback of a burst water pipe, Carlos and...
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...big proponent of that — I’ve worked actually with the police and town manager to bring those forward and and I’m on the safety committee.” She is the business manager at Norwich Family Dental Associates and handles their accounting, payroll and human resources. She created the Beautification Committee during her first...
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