...research states that the brain is not fully developed until the age of 25. The cannabis legislation will not protect the mental and physical health of our youth. I will look forward to more work on improving this legislation in a future session. State Rep. Kathleen McCarty 38th District, R-Waterford...
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...in January we were told that the little word ‘permanent’ in the statute meant the restaurant has to be a permanent structure,” said Maratta, who is president of Restaurant Consultants, Inc., which owns The Pavilion in Old Lyme and Sunset Ribs in Waterford. Frank Maratta, owner of City Dock Restaurant...
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...R-Waterford, and State Sen. Cathy Osten, D-Sprague, told CT Examiner on Thursday that the main problem with the bill was the cost — an additional $445 million. The legislators instead decided to ask the Office of Fiscal Analysis, which is responsible for reviewing and analyzing the fiscal costs of programs,...
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...vessels to offshore developers,” said Gordon Videll, chief executive officer and co-founder of Sea Services North America, based in Waterford. The company’s collaboration with Ørsted and Eversource brings together fishermen from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York to provide monitoring services and support vessels during the construction of offshore...
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...grants will also fund two years of summer instruction, duct cleaning at the middle and high schools and home internet access. An additional $500,000 will offset a deficit in the district’s 2020-21 operating budget. Waterford Waterford Superintendent Thomas Giard III said that technology was a “silver lining” of the pandemic,...
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...The utilities will pass on those costs through the same mechanism used for other state-mandated power purchase agreements. Millstone Nuclear Power Plant is currently contracted to sell nearly half of the power produced at the Waterford plant – over 1,000 MW – at a price of $49.99/MWh. Eversource blamed that...
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...McCarty, R-Waterford, ranking member on the Education Committee and a member of the Appropriations Committee, said that she was very disappointed about the removal of the longer-term provisions from the childcare bill. She said she assumed that the bill was changed because the student loan forgiveness and the tax credits...
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In the last two months, public schools in Waterford, East Lyme, and Stonington have transitioned from hybrid to in-person instruction — the result of vaccine availability, low COVID-19 case numbers, a reduction in social distancing requirements and, in some cases, an outcry from parents who wanted to see a return...
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...Devin Carney, R-Old Lyme, Holly Cheeseman, R-East Lyme, and Kathleen McCarty, R-Waterford, broke with the majority of Republican legislators in order to vote in favor of the bill. The bill, if passed through the Senate, will require children entering a public or private school in Connecticut to be vaccinated for...
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...to an overall mistrust of science and pharmaceutical companies. “Obviously, social media has helped people really spread that message,” said Terranova. State Rep. Sean Scanlon, D-Guilford, and State Rep. Kathleen McCarty, R-Waterford, said during the March 31 meeting that they were concerned about removing children between kindergarten and sixth grade...
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...and sometimes exceed current tuition payments. Magnet schools in the southeast region stand to receive an increase under the “money follows the child” proposal. According to calculations provided by P.A.C.E. Education Strategies, a non-profit advocacy group working with proponents of the bill, a child in Waterford attending the Waterford-based Friendship...
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...student attending a choice school. Second, the local school district would have to compensate choice schools for the cost of educating local residents. State Rep. Kathleen McCarty, R-Waterford, ranking member on the Education Committee, said she could not support the “money follows the child” proposal. “The way it’s set up,...
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In early April, Waterford will be the latest police department in Connecticut to equip officers with body cameras while on duty — a change that was mandated to take place no later than July 2022 by the Police Accountability bill passed by the legislature in special session last summer. “It’s...
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...has failed to complete even basic projects like Interstate 384 from Bolton to Providence and Route 11 from Salem to Waterford, the latter project being just 8 miles long. Tweed New Haven Airport still can’t lengthen its runway by a few hundred feet to handle standard jetliners. The Metro-North railroad...
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...property, then they should have to make up that loss of revenue to that municipality,” said Passero. He also said that he would like to see surrounding communities, like Waterford, that use the hospital’s services to share in the burden of the hospital’s tax-exempt status — ideally, Passero said, there...
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...procuring that capacity, the department is instead taking a broader view of some of the outside forces that could affect the state’s path to carbon-free electric generation. Latest plan takes major variables, like the future of Millstone Nuclear Power Station in Waterford, and models how much renewable power the state...
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...finally approved a 15 megawatt project that will require cutting 75 acres of core forest in Waterford, despite years of opposition from local activists, who say they are concerned about the impact on water quality in area. Last November, the council also approved a 3.2 megawatt project in Bristol that...
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...within a 45-minute drive, from the Bushnell and Hartford Stage to the Shubert and Yale Repertory in New Haven to the Garde and Eugene O’Neill theaters in New London and Waterford. “Anyone who’s interested in the theater could spend four days here and have a ball,” Riley said. “It’s not...
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...the bill mandated that children get the COVID vaccine. State Rep. Kathleen McCarty, R-Waterford, told CT Examiner that she believed the committee could wait to consider the bill during the following session. She said that since so many of the schools were currently in virtual learning, the issue of herd...
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State Rep. Kathleen McCarty, R-Waterford, introduced a bill in the state legislature to expand the use of peer “recovery navigators” — individuals who have recovered from opioid addiction and now assist others in the community still using the drug — as a method to address opioid addiction in towns across...
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...would like to see future federal money go toward what she calls the “unseen victim” of the pandemic. She said that she would like to dedicate funds toward mental health treament, suicide prevention awareness, domestic violence shelters and addressing the opioid crisis. State Rep. Kathleen McCarty, R-Waterford, said she would...
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...Lyme enough to contribute to the business economy of our town. State Senator Formica and State Representative Cheeseman ARE East Lyme business owners. Did Nickerson choose Waterford over East Lyme to do business in, because he did not want to pay into the tax fund he continually plunders? We must continue...
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...get East Lyme, Waterford and New London to approve some sort of workaround. It’s a problem we haven’t heard about much in Connecticut, in part because Old Lyme may be the only town in Connecticut currently installing – rather than extending – sewers. That’s also part of the reason for...
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...with the department identifies 28 officers who left the Old Saybrook Police Department between 2009 and 2020. The comparably-sized Clinton Police Department has had just 16 officers leave over the same period, according to data provided by the Clinton Police Department. Waterford, which employs nearly twice the number of officers,...
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WATERFORD — On Thursday morning, a man named Adam and Waterford Police Lt. Marc Balestracci stood talking in the woods as a decades-old homeless encampment just off the Post Road was cleaned out. “I just wish you would consider some of the opportunities that are being offered. Even if you...
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WATERFORD — Tom Daily, owner of Mago Point Canvas in Waterford, said business has been booming — so good that he’s looking for a new, bigger space to lease. And Daily said he’s not alone – any business that has a connection to recreational activities, he said, whether it be...
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...Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, which also qualified for the full $750,000, received $376,200. Steve Sigel, executive director of the Garde Arts Center in New London, said they had raised more than twice the $182,800 grant that the governor’s office has allocated them. Sigel said that the grant will...
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...decrease in their case numbers since last week. Old Saybrook’s number of cases has remained roughly equal: 15 last week and 17 this week. In contrast, Old Lyme’s cases more than doubled, from six to 13. Cases in East Haddam went from four to 33, and New London, Waterford and...
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...called Stories Worth Telling out of a studio in Waterford, where she does half-hour interviews with people living in New London County. The show is hosted on the local Atlantic Broadband, which serves towns from East Lyme over to Waterford and then North toward Uncasville, Quaker Hill and Voluntown. “Everybody...
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...Schacht, owner of Hunts Brook Farm in Quaker Hill. Schacht, who supplies lettuce to cafeterias in Groton, Montville, New London and Waterford public schools, as well as to Connecticut College in New London, previously sold as many as 22 cases of lettuce a week, at $50 a case, he’s now...
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