...her husband’s job was transferred to Groton. Alberti has a degree in accounting from Pace University. She worked in management consulting for Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited and later started her own firm with Mercedes Benz and Volvo Car Financial Services as her biggest clients. When the family relocated to East...
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...Ullman, shown on a single screen. “It’s an excellent movie if you’ve ever seen it, but they were new to the whole process,” said Mitchell, 49. “I think they began to realize quickly it wasn’t working because duplex theatres were popping up in Norwich, Old Saybrook, Groton and Madison, and...
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...with one Republican voting in support and 12 Democrats opposing. Ten Democrats and three Republicans were absent from the vote. One of those Democrats was State Rep. Joe de la Cruz of Groton, who ran unopposed in 2020 and beat his Republican opponent handily in 2018. The Connecticut Examiner spoke...
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GROTON — At a special workshop on June 14, the Planning and Zoning Commission reached a consensus that any changes to zoning the former Mystic Education Center property would be limited to small or moderate density development consistent with the surrounding neighborhood and the town’s Plan of Conservation and Development....
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GROTON — Offshore wind partners Ørsted and Eversource have awarded a four-year grant totalling $950,000 to Project Oceanology, a nonprofit marine science education and research facility based in Groton. “Our focus is on STEM — science, technology, engineering and math — and our collaboration with Ørsted and Eversource will help...
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...didn’t find their way into the final budget package,” said Formica, who played a key role in the last bipartisan budget agreement in 2018. “This budget is a solid bipartisan solution to our state’s needs,” said State Sen. Heather Somers, R-Groton. “The shift away from tax increases is a win...
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...the general fund and go towards causes that have nothing to do with environmental issues, and frankly have nothing to do with the bottle bill itself,” Harding said. State Sen. Heather Somers, R-Groton, said that she didn’t think the bill was perfect, but was a good start, and acknowledged the...
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...Authority to submit an annual report to the Department of Administrative Services, Office of Policy and Management, and legislative Transportation Committee on the status of the redevelopment of the New London State Pier, pending and current contracts, and small port projects. State Sen. Heather Somers, R-Groton, said she was hopeful...
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...property “I believe most of Groton has never been exposed to a public redevelopment project where a concept is floated well ahead of any detailed plans or applications,” explained Paige Bronk, economic and community development manager for Groton. Nearby property owners are typically notified when an application has been submitted...
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...extra hours of time on their hands to be on hold waiting for an insurance company middle management bureaucrat to argue with them over what the right therapy is,” said State Sen. Heather Somers, R-Groton. Somers shared one example of a patient with chronic back pain who was required by...
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...no women came forward themselves. State Sen. Heather Somers, R-Groton, said that is part of why she opposes the bill. There is “no evidence, no proof, and no testimony – nothing that says these centers are being deceptive,” explained Somers. Somers has been endorsed as a candidate by Planned Parenthood of...
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...place or the government’s place to dictate that,” said Martindale. Republican legislators, including State Sen. Tony Hwang, R-Fairfield, State Rep. Whit Betts, R-Bristol, and State Sen. Heather Somers, R-Groton, suggested during a public health committee meeting on March 31 that, rather than mandate vaccination, there should be more of an...
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In the name of equality Joe Courtney has single handedly led an assault on young girls, at-risk mothers, religious institutions and on each and every voter from Groton to Vernon, from Connecticut to California. In a monumental gesture of overreach, Representative Joe Courtney co-sponsored one of the most destructive and...
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...daughters, Rue and Dahlia, ages 6 and 2, taught at Sacred Heart in Groton before moving to Lyme for the schools. She tells CT Examiner that she’s been scouting commercial properties in local towns to a expand beyond her current cottage food business and hopes eventually to open a simple...
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...student of public policy at the University of Connecticut, shared her mother’s experience of feeling ignored by healthcare professionals when she was giving birth. State Sen. Heather Somers, R-Groton, asked what about that experience was specific to her racial background. “Groton is pretty diverse, we have people from all over,...
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...new federal funds. A caller from Groton asked about whether American Rescue Plan funds will help support schools facing new, expensive needs as they reopen amid the pandemic. “The Rescue Plan follows up the CARES Act and the December COVID relief bill with some new money to help the school...
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Incumbent Keith Hedrick is facing off against former State Rep. Aundré Bumgardner in the Democratic primary for Groton City Mayor on Monday, March 8. Hedrick served for decades in the U.S. Navy and is endorsed by the Groton Democratic Committee. In a conversation with Connecticut Examiner, Hedrick shared why he...
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Former State Rep. Aundre Bumgardner is challenging incumbent Keith Hedrick in the Democratic primary for the Groton City mayorship on Monday, March 8. Bumgardner, who represented Groton and New London in the General Assembly from 2015 through 2017, was sworn in at the age of 20, making him the youngest...
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...be introduced to police at a younger age, ” said Sergeant Richard Sawyer, who supervises school resource officers in the Groton Police Department. Sawyer said he believes their presence decreases the number of juvenile arrests. If the students know the police officer personally, he said, it’s less likely that a...
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...approved. Reginald Eadie, co-chair of the state’s Vaccine Advisory Group, said that the decision to base eligibility on age had come out of discussions with the group’s Allocation Subcommittee. State Sen. Heather Somers, R-Groton, a member of the governor’s Vaccine Advisory Group, told CT Examiner that she believed age was...
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...the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, all insisting that having medical assistants administer vaccinations would reduce some of the stress on other medical professionals. State Sen. Heather Somers, R-Groton, said that she’d spoken with a number of private practices, and that all had responded positively to the bill. “One of...
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...do is start a conversation. “I think we just need to change the legal way we approach voting in Connecticut as more of a right that is universal,” he said. “ Just making sure that voting rights are the same in Greenwich and Groton and Goshen, and every town in...
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...things together then, we’re going to recommend that it be returned to DOT, so we’re asking DOT what are the steps to do that.” Other co-sponsors of the bill include State Rep. Christine Conley, D-Groton, State Rep. Joe de la Cruz, D-Groton and State Rep. Anthony Nolan, D-New London. Osten...
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...to remain open for in-person learning for the vast majority of the fall of 2020. Susan Austin, superintendent of Groton Public Schools, said that Groton had done a pilot assessment of their students in May, and then another one when the students returned to school in September. She said that...
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The legislature’s Public Health Committee today received a petition with 10,000 signatures asking that legislators postpone consideration of a bill that would remove the religious exemption for children’s immunizations until they are able to hold a public hearing in person. In an email to State Sen. Heather Somers, R-Groton, that...
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...go around as possible,” said Fitzgerald. State Sen. Heather Somers, R-Groton, a member of the Governor’s Vaccine Advisory Group, said that with Connecticut receiving about 44,000 doses per week, and over 1.2 million people eligible as part of phase 1B, it would necessarily take time to vaccinate everyone. “I’m telling...
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...in support of anything that remotely looks like that,” said State Rep. Joe de la Cruz, D-Groton. De la Cruz is the co-founder of Community Speaks Out, a Groton-based nonprofit that supports families who are dealing with opioid addiction. De la Cruz said his organization has been sponsoring individuals who...
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State Rep. Christine Conley, D-Groton, is reintroducing a bill in the state legislature to make it easier for New London County residents with Medicaid to access medical specialists. The bill is meant to fill in a gap that exists, said Conley, for individuals who need “a little more care than...
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...averaging 4,000 views daily. DeLapp said that the project began in 2005, when the school received a grant from the U.S. Department of Defense. The grant was to work with the sub base in Groton to develop an online training for U.S. childcare providers who were in the Navy. From...
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...bill that would place a certain amount of existing and future Coronavirus federal relief money under the control of the state legislature. State Sen. Heather Somers, R-Groton, said that no matter where the funding ends up being spent, the critical point was that the legislature should be able to have...
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