When Spencer Lancaster, a World War II Army veteran, bought a house in New London in 1972, the neighbors circulated a petition to keep him out. Lonnie Braxton II, a Navy veteran who tried to buy a house in New London around the same time, watched his friends at Electric...
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On Friday, the State Bond Commission is expected to vote on more than $1.2 billion of borrowing, including the final portion of public funding for the controversial redevelopment of New London’s State Pier, and much smaller amounts for renovations of Three Rivers Community College and other projects around the region....
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...train service between New London and New York City –maintaining stops along Shore Line East and then providing express service from New Haven to New York. A similar service would serve the Hartford Line, making regular stops between Hartford and New Haven before switching to express service to New York....
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...saw an ad in a wooden boat magazine looking for brave souls to sail around the world. So I sold everything and moved to New Zealand to crew on an old cargo ship. I sailed from New Zealand to Norfolk Island in the South Pacific and I stayed on that...
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...to stand up our small businesses downtown and help with everything else we’re trying to accomplish here.” Reyes, who said he grew up in New London, told the audience that the success of New London was due to the hard work and contributions of the city’s residents and businesses. “It’s...
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...We also added $2.3 million, or 37 percent, to the town’s rainy day fund,” she said. She currently volunteers for Care & Share food pantry in East Lyme. Previously she served on the town’s Economic Development Commission and volunteered for New London Main Street. Alberti said there were many reasons...
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...energy exhibit. bolster the life-saving work of the aquarium’s Animal Rescue Program, and create a brand new, state-of-the-art exhibit centered around the potential of ocean wind energy. Also in the audience were State Rep. Holly Cheeseman, R-East Lyme, New London Mayor Mike Passero and Groton City Deputy Mayor Gweneviere Depot. ...
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...New London Cares project. It requires participating municipalities to send peer navigators out to address the health care and social needs of people with opioid use disorder. The peer navigators will also receive updated training on non-coercive and non-stigmatizing methods for engaging people with opioid use disorder. This important new...
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...provider must first determine that the individual is at a high risk of retaliation or violent injury from another act of violence. SB 241 is of particular interest to New London. This bill allows the legislature to review the payment in lieu of taxes program (PILOT) to the Port Authority...
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...people of color and Black and Brown people needing to have this,” said State Rep. Anthony Nolan, D-New London. “But I also have to speak for the Black and brown people that don’t want to see legalization of marijuana. There are many out there, especially in my community, that do...
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...challenge may be even more daunting. New London alone plans to use the grant money to hire 10 additional subject teachers, five special education teachers, and five teachers to reduce class sizes for one year. The district also plans to hire four preschool teachers and 12 paraeducators for two years. ...
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...Energy Parks was the developer and the plan was to locate the solar array inside an abandoned gravel pit below the Providence-New London Turnpike. “We would have argued for some bigger buffers around that vernal pool in the middle, and maybe some additional buffers where it came close to residential...
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NEW LONDON — Frank Maratta, owner of the new City Dock Restaurant/Oyster Bar, donned his sunglasses and sat down at a two-top not far from the enormous dark blue shipping containers where customers were ordering food and drinks. It was Wednesday afternoon after the restaurant’s soft opening on Saturday. “I...
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...can’t make the 5:25 p.m. Shore Line East, there won’t be another commuter train leaving New Haven until 9:25 p.m. Haynes can still hop a 7:37 p.m. Amtrak on route from New Haven to New London — but for an additional $20 ticket each ride. So with Yale now calling...
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...from its past “misdeeds.” “I think that the opportunities for this emerging industry of offshore wind gives us many economic opportunities – not only for the great ports in New London and Bridgeport – but for properties that go north from New London up toward Norwich,” Formica said. “I think...
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...Monday for the 472-foot ship, named Charybdis, which will operate first from State Pier in New London to install Ørsted-Eversource’s 704-MW Revolution Wind and 924-MW Sunrise Wind farms. Neither Dominion Energy nor Eversource would disclose the cost of the charter agreement due to “commercially sensitive information.” Ørsted could not be...
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...are here in the city.” The legislature’s proposal would increase New London’s funding by about $1.1 million next year over the governor’s budget. If the funding were sped up to 2028 levels, New London would have received an additional $9.4 million next year. Further study Joe DeLong, executive director of...
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...Alliance. “We don’t want to have anything to spread in any of these facilities. My mantra is ‘Let’s open right the first time,’” said Dillner. Susan Tamulevich, executive director of the Custom House Maritime Museum in New London, said that she has been watching the webinars all year. She said...
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...million to New London and $9.7 million to Norwich next year alone according to the nonprofit School and State Finance Project. Proponents argued in a public hearing in March that this would bring needed dollars to the districts sooner rather than later. “More than ever, communities require greater resources to...
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NEW LONDON — Sea Services North America has begun hiring fishermen to provide marine services and safe navigation for offshore wind projects, including the joint ventures of Ørsted and Eversource in the Northeast. “Our mission is to increase fishermen safety, provide opportunity to the fishermen, while supplying scouts and safety...
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...the Old Saybrook train station at 1:37 and 5:37 p.m. The departure times for the four morning buses would each be pushed back 22 minutes from their current schedule, an attempt to better align the buses with Shore Line East trains to New Haven and New London. The proposed schedule...
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...from a parent facing a bullying issue in the schools, and a homeowner on Hartford Ave in Old Lyme who can’t get in and out of her driveway after the installation of new curbing and sidewalks. A few weeks ago, at the New England Newspaper & Press Association’s annual awards,...
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...way of ensuring the best education and economic and health outcomes for families in Waterbury, Norwich, New London, at a likely cost of pennies on the dollar compared to the outcomes of disconnection. That said, if the idea, in part, is to raise everyone’s rates to fund broadband internet for...
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The owner of a road salt distributor forced off of the New London State Pier to make way for offshore wind developers filed an objection with the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, to permit approvals failing to accommodate his business. Steve Farrelly, owner of the road salt distributor DRVN,...
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NEW LONDON — Artist Kern Bruce began painting a mural at the pop-up show, “Shades of Melanin,” at Cultured Studios Friday night. “Over time the mural is going to grow and I’m going to be incorporating people that are in the gallery tonight writing different messages about what they’re grateful...
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Vaccination clinics across the state are allowing people to receive vaccinations without having an appointment, according to an announcement from Gov. Ned Lamont on Monday. In Middlesex and New London Counties, vaccine clinics offering walk-in appointments include The Yale New Haven Health Clinic at Mitchell College in New London Greenville...
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NEW LONDON — “I’m interested in relationships, how we relate to each other, whether it’s standoffish or tensioned,” said artist Susan Lisbin, whose solo exhibition,” The Human Side, opened Thursday at the Catherine Fosnot Art Gallery and Center. Her pieces — oil paintings and clay sculpture — explore organic and...
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In an effort to clear the record after a contentious board meeting on Tuesday, Deputy Secretary for the Office of Policy and Management Kosta Diamantis told CT Examiner that rising cost estimates for redeveloping State Pier in New London were the direct result of efforts to be transparent with the...
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The Connecticut State Bond Commission approved an additional $55 million for the New London State Pier redevelopment project on Friday – which officials said is now estimated to cost a total of $235.5 million. The costs for controversial plans to redevelop the State Pier into a staging ground for planned...
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NEW LONDON — Grids, patterns and the color pink are a few of the themes that artist Richard McDonough explores in his solo show, “Two Turloughs,” at the Catherine Fosnot Gallery. McDonough, who is 25 and lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., is a painter who likes to construct objects, whether as...
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