GROTON — The Groton Police Department is launching a new database to aid officers interacting with individuals with autism and disabilities. The Citizens At Risk Database, or CARD system, stores information about individuals who are on the autism spectrum or have handicaps or other disabilities. The system is voluntary –...
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...stealing good ideas from other states,” said Cheeseman. “In any realm of state government, we need to see the best ideas out there.” State Sen. Heather Somers, R-Groton, who was also a founding partner of the medical device manufacturer Hydrofera, said that insurance companies should be required to make public...
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...to administer vaccinations. The bill passed in the House, receiving the support of community health centers, physicians and the Connecticut Hospital Association. However, the bill was never passed by the Senate. State Sen. Heather Somers, R-Groton, said she believed that the COVID vaccine was particularly challenging to administer because of...
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...marketing Digital marketing campaigns are another popular use for the funds. The Thames River Heritage Park is using the $9,000 in grant money, plus $4,500 it raised independently, to create a series of 30- and 60-second videos featuring nine New London and Groton historical sites it partners with. Amy Perry,...
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...Groton school district. “Groton has about 1000 military-dependent children who live in military housing, and because their parents don’t pay property taxes on their military housing, the town misses out on that revenue.” The bipartisan “Impact Aid Coronavirus Relief Act” will allow school districts to receive the same federal Impact...
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GROTON — For years, plans to redevelop five vacant school buildings in Groton have inched ahead, but with the first project — a 280-unit apartment complex — set to break ground as soon as next year, town officials say they hope that new developments will attract many of the thousands...
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...covered, according to the state website. There are also no-cost options available for testing. Community Health Center is holding free drive-through or walk-up testing in Middletown, Meriden, Old Saybrook, New London and Groton, and other locations throughout the state. Other free testing locations can be found on the state’s website....
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...Waterbury, Bridgeport, Shelton, Wallingford, Hamden and Region 14 – have reverted to remote learning from Nov. 30 to Jan. 18. Many others, however, are relying on remote learning for at least a week after the Thanksgiving break. Michael Graner, superintendent of schools in Groton, said that his district had decided...
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...only around specific water bodies. The town of Groton mandates a 100-foot review area, which expands to 200 feet around five specific brooks, and to 150 feet around four specific streams, named in the regulations. Other towns, including Killingworth and Old Lyme, maintain expanded review areas around seasonally dry vernal...
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...says that their production levels have remained the same as always — albeit with COVID precautions. “It’s a little more challenging, you have to sanitize and everything, but other than that, we’re keeping pretty busy.” Facchini said that the station, which serves Groton, Ledyard, Stonington, North Stonington, and Voluntown, occupies...
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GROTON — State Sen. Heather Somers is pushing for Gov. Ned Lamont to allow trained EMTs to test firefighters at local fire stations once a week for COVID-19 as a proactive measure against the spread of the virus. “So many of these firehouses are volunteers. They’re taking time off to...
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...and it’s made people particularly proud of southeastern and shoreline Connecticut because of our folks in Groton at Pfizer. Still, though, we have a big task ahead, which is to create a vaccine supply chain. Rep. John Larson and I announced a bill this week that would use the Defense...
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...the amount of produce they are ordering. Whittle’s produce ready to ship to schools last year (Courtesy of Rik Whittle) Ernie Koschmieder, food service director at Groton Public Schools, said that Groton cafeterias normally serve 3,800 to 4,000 meals each day, but now the number has dropped to between 1,200...
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...in Mystic, City of Groton and Town of Groton. “We’re large enough, but small enough to accommodate projects like a bathroom or a kitchen all the way to large scale whole rehab — a bank or a medical facility,” said Preka, who is a board member of the Home Builders...
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...races, incumbents across the region held their seats despite strong challengers in tightly-contested elections. State Sen. Heather Somers, R-Groton, defeated two-time Democratic challenger Robert Statchen, who also carried the Independent and Working Families party lines, by 988 votes, with an unofficial tally of 24,802 to 23,814. She will represent the...
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...other problems that exist within this system. Betsy Moukawsher, the town clerk of Groton, said that opening up the envelopes early meant that you have to take out the inner envelope, paperclip one to the other, and then worry about having to keep everything together. “It’s really time consuming,” she...
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...Light Health District, said that the contact tracing in the area has “increased dramatically” in the last few weeks. The most recent data from Ledge Light shows a large spike in cases since September 26th. Last week, the district reported 215 new cases, driven largely by New London and Groton. ...
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...at the nuances of the legislation more carefully before saying what exactly needed to be changed. Energy reliability May proposed looking into the idea of additional municipal electric utilities, like those in Norwich and Groton, to give towns more control over where their energy is sourced, to make energy providers...
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...enough could be candidates… or trained to be. A few years back General Dynamics’ Electric Boat in Groton needed 4000 welders to build submarines so they turned to the local community colleges to help teach them for jobs starting at $16 an hour. Could a new New Deal be a...
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...this will provide some meaningful relief versus spreading the funds too thin,” he said. State Sen. Heather Somers, R-Groton, said the process of working with DEEP to create the criteria was quite involved. “It’s never as quick as it needs to be, especially for commercial fishermen,” she said. She said...
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...professionalism and dedication of crews from: East Great Plain, Quaker Hill, Salem, Gardner Lake, Laurel Hill, Preston, Gales Ferry, Bozrah, Colchester, Franklin, Center Groton, Mohegan Tribe Westbrook, Old Saybrook, Griswold, North Stonington, Portland, East Haddam, Westfield, Middlefield, Essex, Lyme, Old Lyme, Chester, Baltic, Windham Center and Flanders. In addition to...
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Republican State Sen. Heather Somers is running for a third term in the 18th district against Democrat Robert Statchen. This is the second time the two have competed for the chance to represent the towns of Griswold, Groton, North Stonington, Plainfield, Preston, Sterling, Stonington and Voluntown in the State Senate....
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...week of September. In contrast to reported improvements in disadvantaged schools, Region 4 reported an increase from 10 percent to 18 percent in disconnected students enrolled in remote learning. Other districts in the region, including Groton and Lyme-Old Lyme reported higher numbers of disconnected students at the end of September....
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GROTON — A state proposal to reconfigure lanes on a road near Electric Boat’s Groton campus could be a key piece of a proposed bike-friendly corridor along the shoreline from Rhode Island to the Connecticut River, but the Connecticut Department of Transportation says there isn’t room on the road for...
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COVID positivity rates in southeast Connecticut have grown significantly this week, according to data from state and local health departments. According to Ledge Light Health Department, which encompasses East Lyme, Groton, Ledyard, Lyme, New London, North Stonington, Old Lyme, Stonington, and Waterford, the region has confirmed 154 new COVID cases...
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...of every American more than his ego. Matthew Shulman Groton, CT [1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/first-u-s-coronavirus-death-happened-weeks-earlier-originally-believed-n1189286 [2] Corona virus data [3] American Battlefield Trust (American Revolution Facts) [4] Guy Gugliotta, “New Estimate Raises Civil War Death Toll,” New York Times, April 3 [5] https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/statistics-civil-war [6] Spanish American War Casualties [7] https://www.ajc.com/news/anniversary-world-war-2/#:~:text=7%2C%201941.,1%2C364%20days%20that%20America%20fought. [8] https://www.npr.org/2020/09/14/912524343/woodward-addresses-criticism-that-he-shouldve-detailed-trump-interviews-earlier...
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Republican candidate Lauren Gauthier is running against two-term incumbent Democrat Christine Conley for state representative in the 40th district, which includes Groton and Ledyard. Gauthier works as a special projects manager for Norm Bloom & Son oyster farm in Norwalk. She is a member of the Groton Representative Town Meeting...
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...Given the number of resignations of local officials and public employees in recent weeks due to their actions on social media — a Danbury Public School Teacher, a Groton Board of Education member, the Westbrook Fire Chief, a Stonington Police Commissioner and leadership of the Madison Republic Town Meeting and...
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...alcoholic stepfather, attending an arts academy for Native Americans, facing teenage pregnancy and living in poverty, and her involvement with the 1960s Native Rights Movement while at the University of New Mexico. Jessica Franco, librarian at Groton Public Library, also said she thought the book would resonate with the larger...
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What Hartford needs is a proven record of leadership and results, and that’s why we must re-elect Senator Heather Somers. Before her two terms as our state senator for the 18th district, Heather Somers served on the Groton Town Council for eight years, and as Mayor of Groton for two,...
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