...military equipment acquisition, because I want to make sure taxpayer dollars are going into programs that will make people safer. Do you think New Britain should raise taxes to increase education funding? I graduated from New Britain High School in 2014, and spent my entire life in the New Britain...
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...juvenile crime has been simmering for more than a year, with police complaining that their arrests of young perpetrators quickly come to nothing in juvenile court. This anger was brought to the boiling point June 30 when New Britain police announced that the 17-year-old charged with driving the stolen car...
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State Rep. Bobby Sanchez, D-New Britain, is challenging four-term incumbent Erin Stewart for mayor of New Britain this November. Sanchez has chaired the General Assembly’s Education Committee, and previously served on the New Britain Board of Education. Stewart won reelection handily, with 6,013 votes compared to Democrat Chris Porcher’s 3,592,...
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...argued that New Britain has the same problems as Hartford, Bridgeport and New Haven, but the way the formula is calculated, those cities get much more support from the state than a city like New Britain. We lost that case, but not a single legislator didn’t agree that New Britain...
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...crime and criminal history. Juvenile offenders arrested for minor crimes can be diverted to a Youth Service Bureau, bypassing the criminal justice system entirely in favor of a community-based approach. Mallory Deprey, executive director of the Youth Services Bureau in New Britain, said their bureau has a success rate of...
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...offenders who are responsible for large numbers of crimes. For example, at a press conference earlier this month, Christopher Chute, chief of police in New Britain, said his department had identified nine juveniles who were arrested each on average 18 times between the ages of 12 and 17. State Sen....
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...deserve diplomas. * * * SECRECY FUELS FAILURE: Another expensive mistaken premise of government in Connecticut that needs to be questioned urgently is the secrecy of juvenile court. Even some Democratic state legislators seem to be nervous about the atrocity in New Britain June 29, when a jogger was struck...
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...our small towns. Common sense would dictate violent felons should not be released early from prison, but common sense is not a common virtue in Hartford. Crime has increased drastically and dramatically in cities and towns across the state. Just last week in New Britain, a jogger was hit and...
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...gets stolen in our town smashes into something,” he said. Erin Stewart, the mayor of New Britain, said that the legislature needed to come together and have a discussion about how to deal with the escalating crime taking place in New Britain. “It starts as petty thefts, petty crimes, right...
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...decided to open a food truck. “I just wanted to give something to the area. Middletown, Portland, Cromwell, Berlin, down to Old Saybrook, and there’s no Hispanic restaurants,” Ramirez said. “Sometimes I want a mofongo. You gotta go to Hartford, you gotta go to New Britain, Meriden. I just want...
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...It’s a step the company said it hasn’t taken since 2009. In a 185-page complaint filed in New Britain Superior Court on Thursday, Eversource asked the court to review whether the Public Utility Regulatory Authority overstepped its authority and failed to provide due process before cutting the company’s guaranteed return...
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...For the people who are able to get assistance from Operation Fuel and other assistance programs, the money can make a major difference. Danielle LaFrance owes Eversource $950 for unpaid electric bills in her one-bedroom apartment in New Britain. LaFrance has been paralyzed from the chest down since a cyst...
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...board, the board of zoning appeals or anything else in connection with the town government,” said Looney. Looney said that this has a disproportionate impact on cities like Stanford, Norwalk, Danbury, Hartford, New Haven, Waterbury, Bridgeport, New Britain, where the majority of prisoners come from. He also pointed out that...
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...accounting for disparities between populations of the use of emergency rooms for primary care, across Connecticut in 2019, there were 17,358 emergency room visits where asthma was the primary diagnosis, including 5,485 visits for children. Nearly half of those visits were patients from Hartford, Waterbury, New Haven, Bridgeport and New...
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...would have been too costly. A significant piece of the legislation that remains would allow organizations to establish family childcare homes in New Britain, Waterbury, Bridgeport, Stamford and New Haven. The bill also creates a task force to make recommendations on early childcare workforce development. Gay said that the childcare...
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...in 1833 by the British economist William Forster Lloyd, who used a hypothetical example of the effects of unregulated grazing on common land (also known as a” common”) in Great Britain and Ireland. In fisheries it is recognized that fish in the ocean are entirely in the public domain belonging...
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...and one in New Haven. “How do you handle 83 clients with two people? How do you get out to every house with just two people?” he said. “It’s not about just these three cities. It’s about New Britain. It’s about Stamford. It’s about Norwalk. We have to start putting...
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...— Ansonia, Bridgeport, Danbury, Derby, East Hartford, Hartford, Manchester, Meriden, New Britain, New Haven, New London, Norwalk, Norwich, Stamford, Waterbury and Windham. Scoville said grants would also be available to childcare and daycare centers that have experienced verbal and physical threats, or belong to a community that has experienced threats...
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...a class discussion about diversity and tolerance,” said John Board, chair of New Britain Pride, a nonpartisan advocacy organization supporting the LGBTQ+ community. To others, the bill poses an unwelcome emphasis on subjects that are currently taught as part of health education, or by parents at home. “As faith leaders...
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A drive down the southern stretch of Route 9 is a scenic one – offering glimpses of the Connecticut River and rolling hills, the famous New England foliage in autumn, and ice-glazed bluffs in winter. Billboards are rare on Route 9. Outside of New Britain – which features a handful...
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...nurses — expressed concerns that medical assistants do not have the training necessary to perform vaccinations. Nurses express concern State Rep. Peter Tercyak, D-New Britain, argued that the bill was being raised purely for economic reasons — a medical assistant, he said, makes a far lower salary than a Licensed...
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...city that would allow us to give some relief to our property owners. – Mayor Harry Rilling, Norwalk In my first year as mayor, medical marijuana had recently been approved, and I fought like hell to get a production facility in New Britain. Unfortunately, in the state bidding process, they...
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...to become a function of “political whim” rather than based on the needs of the students. State Rep. Robert Sanchez, D-New Britain, co-chair of the Education Committee, said he was “disappointed” by the governor’s proposal. “Cities like mine, New Britain, would have the same amount in the next two years,...
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...continue indefinitely to postpone the state’s business, even on controversial bills,” Steinberg said. State Rep. Peter Tercyak, D-New Britain, agreed. “We’ll have a very short list [of bills], and even shorter meetings, if we don’t do things for fear that there’s somebody who can voice their concern that it’s controversial,”...
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...East Hartford, East Haven, Hartford, Meriden, Naugatuck, New Britain, New Haven, New London, Norwalk, Norwich Free Academy, Putnam, Waterbury, and West Haven. A negative correlation between participation and need Brian Kelly, head of schools at Norwich Free Academy, which was selected for the challenge, pointed out that the FAFSA was...
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...“vaccine hesitancy,” even as new strains of SARS-CoV evolve. The latest highly contagious variant, forcing national lockdowns in Great Britain, is fast becoming the dominant strain. This is the biggest public health emergency of our lifetimes. Federal and state governments need to pull out all the stops to get shots...
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...creating this language of words and lines and drawings. It’s helping me to answer, perhaps it’s not giving me the vocabulary, but it’s giving me the tools to answer who I am.” The New/Now show featuring Shantell Martin runs through April 18 at the New Britain Museum of American Art....
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NEW BRITAIN — The City of New Britain is accepting applications for a program that grants loans to individuals and families who earn under a threshold income and want to purchase a home. The funding, which comes from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, acts as a second...
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...Department of Housing. This winter, Wesley Inn and Red Roof Inn are among the 12 hotels providing shelter, with other locations in Hartford, New Haven, Danbury, Stamford, Bridgeport, Milford, Shelton, New Britain and Waterbury, said DiLella. He said that the state had not contracted with hotels in New London or...
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...affect the shoreline towns “in waves.” The four cars stolen were a Highlander, an Escape, a Ford and a Passat. Two of the four were discovered in New Britain; the other two remain missing. No one has yet been identified in connection with the theft. In addition to the four...
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