...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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...out to fill four seats on the city’s school board. In some places, 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...
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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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...special place in his heart. “I was a state representative for 18 years representing this side of Norwich, so there was a time when I knew every family here,” Nystrom said. According to Nystrom, Norwich has lost thousands of longtime residents due to the pandemic, with 4,000 people laid off...
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...awarded half of the available permits. To qualify for the social equity lottery, a business must be at least 65-percent owned by someone who has lived in an area disproportionately impacted by marijuana-related arrests. In eastern Connecticut, those areas are centered in New London, Norwich and Willimantic. Zrenda said she...
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...Shore Road. He was born in Norwich, grew up in Groton and spent summers in Sound View beginning in the 1970s. He directed a nonprofit development agency in New York City and moved to Old Lyme permanently in the early 2000s. He owns and operates Pizza Palace in Groton. This...
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...it’s complex.” The combined district – which would have about 40 buses and a pre-COVID ridership of about 400,000 passenger trips a year, putting it about in line with other mid-sized transit districts like the Southeast Area Transit District that serves the Norwich-New London areas – would be able to...
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...were charged with conspiracy and theft in the matter. The energy cooperative, based in Norwich, had hosted the “strategic retreats” for board members, municipal officials and guests from 2013 through 2016 at a cost of more than $1 million. A planned 2017 trip was canceled after details of the previous...
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...Murals” to tell previously overlooked stories from the four cities. In Norwich, for example, the mural will feature David Ruggles, an abolitionist born in Norwich who helped hundreds of people, including Frederick Douglass, escape slavery via the Underground Railroad. Old Lyme’s mural, which will be painted in Old Lyme Middle...
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...people how a modern look can look in an old house.” In 2016, Bergman set up a business network of showrooms for Kuster in the U.S. In 2017, she moved to the U.S., became a resident, and purchased a house in Norwich. Bergman said she and Kuster chose Essex after...
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...responsibility lies with the council, which will “need to take a look at ownership and corporate documents to understand who truly controls the business.” The panel, which took place at the Holiday Inn in Norwich, also included Kurt Smith, who works for Fuss & Neil helping marijuana facilities with planning,...
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...50 years ago at a school in Norwich three state troopers murdered two unarmed burglars and then planted a gun on them and lied about it. The troopers got off easy on perjury charges. These are among the many reasons for the accountability legislation. As crime has increased lately and...
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...the storm, and that it could take between 8 and 21 days to restore. Peter Nystrom, the mayor of Norwich, also mentioned the danger of flash floods. “Flooding is an issue for us here in the city, we’ve had those issues even in super heavy rain storms,” he told CT...
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Republican Mayor Peter Nystrom is running for reelection this fall, seeking a third term in the office. The Republican incumbent is facing off against Democrat Mark Bettencourt, who serves as Norwich City Council President Pro Tempore and lost to Nystrom in the 2009 Norwich mayoral race. In 2017, Nystrom was...
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Norwich City Council President Pro Tempore Mark Bettencourt is running against incumbent Mayor Peter Nystrom, who is seeking a third term. In 2017, Nystrom was elected with 57 percent of the vote. Bettencourt, who lost to Nystrom in the 2009 Norwich mayoral race, has served on the City Council for...
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