...— 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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NEW LONDON — Gov. Ned Lamont and Rep. Joe Courtney shared their economic optimism for southeastern Connecticut at a press conference in New London on Wednesday morning. Courtney offered details of President Joe Biden’s newly announced plan to aid the offshore wind industry with low interest loans and expedited federal...
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...affects more than female athletes. At risk mothers and their daughters seeking sanctuary from abusive domestic partners will find no peace of mind in shelters like New London’s www.safefuturesct.org. Biological males will have full access to women’s shelters, bathrooms, living quarters because these facilities will be compelled by Joe Courtney’s...
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...riddled with falsehoods. Connecticut taxpayers are getting a bargain! Sean B. Goldrick Greenwich, CT After a career in international finance, specializing in Asian equities and corporate analysis, Goldrick’s opinion writing has appeared in a variety of publications including the Washington Post, Providence Journal, The Day of New London and Hartford Courant....
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...Total employment has dropped 7.2 percent since February 2020, when the state unemployment rate was 3.7 percent. Employment in the Norwich-New London-Westerly labor market area, which covers southeastern Connecticut, did not change in February, according to the department. Pandemic-related job losses have continued to affect mainly the lowest earners in...
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...a public health crisis, and here in Connecticut, town councils in 20 different municipalities, including New London, Colchester, and Hartford have also passed similar declarations. Black and Latino residents of Connecticut are less likely to be insured than white residents, and are more likely to die before reaching adulthood, according...
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So you have a child who loves insects, airplanes and playing with a toy doctor’s kit. You want to send her to a science-focused magnet school in New London, but you live in Montville. The way it works today, the state will provide some funding to the magnet school to...
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...New London, said that legalizing accessory dwelling units, known as ADUs, is a proven method on meeting public needs for housing. “While ADUs are allowed in much of Eastern Connecticut, many towns require public hearings. These strict requirements make it very difficult for Eastern Connecticut residents to build ADUs,” she...
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...I had students at the middle school level who were completely illiterate. That set me on a path to learn more,” said Amy Geary, the director of literacy support at the Interdistrict School for Arts and Communication in New London. “I was on a quest to find out how to...
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NEW LONDON — A four well-regarded actors will perform readings of four short stories by authors with roots in Germany, China, Nigeria and the Dominican Republic in a virtual performance hosted by Connecticut College next week. The actors include Kate Burton of Grey’s Anatomy, Laura Gómez of Orange Is the...
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NEW LONDON — Although restrictions are lifting and the vaccine rollout is underway, New London’s small business owners say their revenues remain far below what they saw before the pandemic began. Rod Cornish, owner of Hot Rod Cafe on Bank Street, said he’s taken advantage of any opportunity to bring...
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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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...of the two Berlin-based artists said recently to the New York Times. But upon the exhibit’s unveiling in the brutal winter of 2021, nearly a year into a global pandemic, its stylish optimism already feels like an artifact from a bygone era. Like most major cities around the world, New York...
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...and mandates that New London receive PILOT payments for property owned by the Connecticut Port Authority. Connecticut has had a PILOT program for years, but it has been severely underfunded, with distressed municipalities like New London, New Haven and Hartford receiving between 20 and 30 percent of what they would...
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...Coast Guard museum is something the federal government can play a role in. Every other service has multiple museums in various places around the country, and the Coast Guard doesn’t have one. Having that Coast Guard museum on the waterfront in New London in the same vicinity as the academy...
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...argue that a police presence in the schools increases juvenile arrest rates and creates a military presence within the school system. “It doesn’t send the right message to have a police officer with a gun in school,” said Curtis Goodwin, a New London city councilman and chair of the town’s...
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NEW LONDON — “Animals in fables are kind of a bridge to humans. Symbolically, the animals take on human characteristics, that’s what I was trying to get at,” said painter Brian Keith Stephens, whose show, “Almost True Tales” at the Lyman Allyn Museum incorporates animals in mythology, folklore and culture. ...
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...leadership on this important project, and for his commitment to New London and Southeast Connecticut.” The long-awaited agreement includes the potential for $250,000 to $750,000 each year in additional funding for New London if the joint venture, called Northeast Offshore or NEO, meets specific energy thresholds with the state. For...
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...eager to discuss opportunities for UK investment and business cooperation in the offshore wind industry, a 20-gigawatt, $70 billion business which may in part be operated soon out of Bridgeport and New London. Abbott touted the UK as not only home to the single largest wind farm in the world,...
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...funding and that New London should receive PILOT payments for property owned by the Connecticut State Port Authority. What the bill does not include, however, is a means of funding the expanded PILOT program. State Rep. Toni Walker, D-New Haven, co-chair of the Appropriations Committee, said that the funding would...
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New London’s Foreign Trade Zone #208, which now covers all of New London County, will hold an introductory webinar on Feb. 24 at 10 a.m. covering benefits and features of the foreign trade zone program. Dan Carstens, a trade and logistics specialist accredited by the National Association of Foreign Trade...
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...levels, income from interest and other investments goes directly into the treasury, thereby reducing our taxes. If Hartford isn’t farsighted enough for a public bank, I’d like to see one in New London County. So would the Green Party. Scott Deshefy is biologist, ecologist and two-time Green Party congressional candidate....
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...ensure the City of New London receives payment in lieu of taxes and that small ports and host communities, specifically the Mayor of New London, are represented on the board of the port authority. “And we want to make sure that RFP’s are being followed, that contracts are being honored....
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...their estimates for the dollars that would come in as a result of the bill, and I don’t think it allocates nearly enough to distressed municipalities. We have two from the list, Norwich and New London, in our neck of the woods, and I don’t think they get nearly enough...
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...from Old Lyme’s beach communities, which could be pumped a mile or so west to the Connecticut River, will instead be pumped 15 miles east to New London, where it is treated and released in the Thames River. Likewise, garbage collected in Lyme, Old Lyme and Essex – and 48...
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...the municipalities. According to Petrini, Yale-New Haven Hospital pays $3 million in yearly voluntary payments to the city. Surviving together in New London New Haven is not the only city that loses large sums of money in taxes from exempt properties. New London is home to Connecticut College, which according...
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...putting this grant together was to revisit and critically examine mythologies in New England,” said Christine DeLucia, assistant professor of history at Williams College. Tinted portrait of Antoine DeSant (c. 1816-1886), who was born at Boa Vista, Cape Verde Islands. DeSant went on whaling voyages out of New London in...
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...bringing in locals who might otherwise not know how to go about getting vaccinated. Nutmeg has four locations in Southern Connecticut — in Moodus, Higganum, Centerbrook and Taftville — and are opening a fifth location in New London in April. McKenna said that many people in the community had problems...
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...in New London and Windsor. Amtrak had until July 26, 2010 to comply with the ADA, passed in 1990. At New London, the complaint alleges that Amtrak failed to provide routes from buildings to passenger platforms that are accessible to and usable by people with disabilities, and failed to make...
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...within a 45-minute drive, from the Bushnell and Hartford Stage to the Shubert and Yale Repertory in New Haven to the Garde and Eugene O’Neill theaters in New London and Waterford. “Anyone who’s interested in the theater could spend four days here and have a ball,” Riley said. “It’s not...
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