...— nearly as many as the district lost over the previous five years combined — but gained back just 11 students this year. Old Saybrook similarly reported a gain this year of 14 students, after losing 121 students last year during the pandemic. Waterford, which lost 102 students last year,...
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...middle and high school students. Martha Shoemaker, a Democrat and the only incumbent running for re-election, taught elementary and middle school for 35 years, nearly all in Waterford Public Schools. She was also president of her union in Waterford. Candidates endorsed by the Old Lyme Democratic Party (clockwise from the...
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...open to residents of Old Lyme, East Lyme, Lyme, Montville, and Waterford. While the shelter is available for people who need it, Nickerson encouraged people to go to family and friends if at all possible. “Wearing a mask and being in the middle school for multiple days is pretty stressful,”...
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...Police Sgt. Addison Saffioti crashed into the rear driver’s side of a vehicle owned by Norwich resident Valerie Davis, which was pulled over along the side of northbound Route 32, just before 1 p.m. on Wednesday. Davis was helping Waterford resident Katlyn Martinez put gasoline in her vehicle, both pulled...
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...projects in other towns split up by the map – including East Lyme, Groton and Waterford – drew the attention of eastern Connecticut lawmakers, who unsuccessfully urged the authority to consider keeping the town-level map. Nandini Natarajan, the CEO of Connecticut Housing Finance Authority said the authority doesn’t believe that...
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...Boat get approved for mortgages while his application languished. And the summer after Donetta Hodge bought her home in Waterford in 1976, she woke up one morning to find white plastic cutlery planted all over her front yard. These are some of the stories that older residents of color are...
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...build a total of 329 units in Waterford, East Lyme, Montville, Killingly and Stonington. The authority agreed to delay approval of the new map for a month to allow time to meet with the concerned lawmakers. Speaking with CT Examiner last week, authority Executive Director Nandini Natarajan said her agency...
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...there were drive-ins in Waterford and Groton.” It was one of many hurdles — the latest being the pandemic— that the cinema, which started as the Niantic Theatre in 1950, has encountered over the years. Mitchell said his uncles, George Mitchell and John Kendros, and his father, Terry Mitchell, decided...
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...by July 2023. State Rep. Kathleen McCarty, R-Waterford, ranking member on the Education Committee, explained that her committee wanted to look at virtual school as an option for students who do well in an online setting. McCarty said legislators were looking at Massachusetts — which has two virtual learning schools...
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...like Project O, which are “invaluable to our work and our mission.” He also said the development of the offshore wind industry will benefit manufacturers and vendors in southeastern Connecticut and pointed to Ørsted’s partnerships with ThayerMahan in Groton and Sea Services in Waterford. State Sen. Heather Somers, R-Groton, told...
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...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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...for $98.43/MWh. 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...
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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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