...the burden off the local tracers. Peter Nystrom, Mayor of Norwich, said that he was also glad that the state was putting more funding behind contact tracing. “Providing extra resources is critical for us,” said Nystrom. “There is a downward trend in Norwich, but it’s still high.” State Sen. Cathy...
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...Pfizer transferred her husband, Richard Steel, to the area. Steel is board president of Art Reach, a nonprofit in Norwich and also hosts a weekly show on Atlantic Broadband, “Stories Worth Telling.” “I think that my life experiences and my career and my family have brought me to this place...
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...Norwich-New London area was one of the four regions with an increase in jobs this month— 900 non-farming jobs were regained in September. However, data shows that the region remains at nearly 11 percent fewer jobs than it had in September of 2019, the largest percentage gap of any region...
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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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...including Salisbury, Sharon and Norfolk, also reported growing student populations — likely from an influx of residents from New York — rising enrollments in Woodstock are an anomaly in eastern Connecticut. Almost every other district in the east, from neighboring Pomfret to Norwich to Waterford, has seen a decline far...
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NORWICH — Nurses at Backus Hospital have reached a tentative agreement with management over a new four-year contract that will increase wages to a level comparable to other hospitals in the area. The agreement was reached after more than twenty negotiating sessions that culminated in a two-day nurses’ strike on...
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...to five of the eleven “red alert” towns, said that he agreed with Mansfield. Mayor Peter Nystrom of Norwich also said that reverting to phase two would have little impact on the city. According to Nystom, most downtown businesses and restaurants in Norwich are so small that they can’t open...
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...it would be been extremely challenging to control and extinguish the fire we experienced last night. Montville’s four independent Fire Departments worked seamlessly on the fireground with Waterford’s Quaker Hill Fire Company and Norwich’s East Great Plain Fire Department. Our tanker operations were quick, smooth and non-stop due to the...
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...the Otis Library in Norwich, said he hoped to use some of the $48,625 that the library will receive to purchase more masks, sanitizers and covers for the computer keyboards. “All of those are an added expense that we hadn’t anticipated,” he said. The Governor’s Office said in a press...
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NORWICH — Nurses at Backus Hospital in Norwich began a two-day strike at 7 a.m. today as contract negotiations between the union and the hospital reached an impasse. A few hundred nurses picketed in the pouring rain, holding signs that read “Nurses Strike for Unfair Labor Practice” and “Honk if...
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Four-time Democratic incumbent Cathy Osten, faces Hebron business owner Steve Weir, the Republican candidate, in the race for the 19th State Senate District, representing Sprague, Hebron, Columbia, Franklin, Ledyard, Lisbon, Marlborough, Montville and Norwich. Osten, an Army veteran and long-time corrections officer and supervisor,has been co-chair of the Appropriations Committee...
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...semester — including New Haven, which began the school year with 19 percent of students identified as disconnected. Bridgeport, Meriden, New London, and Norwich — after week 2 numbers exceeded a 60 percent failure to participate — all followed a similar pattern of improving numbers. Of those 15 districts, six...
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NORWICH — Nurses at Backus Hospital in Norwich are prepared to strike next week if the union and the hospital cannot come to an agreement over a new contract. The Backus Federation of Nurses, part of the local AFT, gave notice on October 2 that the strike is scheduled to...
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...to a statement released by the state Department of Health, the city of Norwich reported 84 new cases between September 13-26, and has the highest positivity rate in the state, at 24 individuals testing positive per 100,000 residents. The department recommended that residents of Norwich limit trips outside and avoid...
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For years, advocates, nurses, and patients have been warning about the dangerously low staffing levels in many Connecticut nursing homes. The recent closure of a nursing home in Norwich is a clear example that our overworked frontline nurses are not being listened to. Almost two thirds of Connecticut coronavirus deaths...
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...recipients of the grant include the Airline Trail, Greater Norwich and the Waterfront Community. Regan said he wants the marketing partnership to become a yearly program. “This is only going to grow,” he said. Applications for the 2020 grants will be accepted until October 31. There is an option to...
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...created serious challenges for local domestic violence agencies. The Hartford Police Department reports a 13.18% increase in “domestic calls” from March through June — a category that includes domestic violence related incidents — compared to the same period last year. Norwich reports a jump from 64 domestic calls in March...
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...towns and schools. In smaller cities, like Manchester, Norwich, Groton and East Haven, between 25 and 30 percent of students are opting for remote learning. In smaller, more rural districts like Lyme-Old Lyme, Coventry, and Region 4, comprising of Chester, Essex and Deep River, only about 10 percent of students...
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...it. My characters were the kind of people he said he knew from his hometown and growing up.” The series was filmed in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., but the novel was set in Three Rivers, Connecticut, a fictionalized combination of Lamb’s home town of Norwich, with bits of New London, Groton and...
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...the polls, which takes only seconds to tally, an absentee ballot in two envelopes takes about a minute to open and process. That may not sound like a lot of time, but according to registrars like Dianne Slopak in Norwich, it adds up. “The volume is huge and the process...
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...of parents have decided to send their kids to school, but about ten percent of students will instead use remote learning, including four or five preschoolers. Along with the districts of East Lyme, Norwich and New London, Old Saybrook has also opted to begin the school year with a hybrid...
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...night. By the end of Wednesday night, Norwich Public Utilities had restored power to 5,500 of the 6,500 affected customers. The utility expects that 99 percent of its customers will have power by the end of Thursday, just two days after about a third of Norwich’s 20,000 customers lost power....
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...percent of the Norwich police force were ready to retire early if the bill went into effect as they understood it. According to Mitchell, the law would have a detrimental effect on police officer morale, but “not a great impact on cases, a much greater impact on taxpayers who end...
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...the possible costs for municipalities and the possibility that police officers would leave or retire rather than work under provisions in the bill. According to Osten, 20 percent of the Norwich police force was ready to retire early if the bill went into effect as they understood it. Somers said...
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...in concert with our strategy on allocations and issuances.” The commission approved each provision of the $545 million bond package, which included $200 million for schools and school construction and $220 million for transportation projects. Specific bond provisions include a $7 million grant to fund remediation of the former Norwich...
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...Putterman said. At least forty seven non-profit institutions affiliated with the Catholic Church were listed in the database, including the Archdiocese of Hartford, the dioceses of Norwich and Bridgeport, individual parishes and charitable groups. They received between $11.7 and $29.2 million, according to the data. Overall, 91 religious institutions received...
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...Connecticut, said Montanaro. One is an 1891 building that housed Central Baptist Church in Norwich, which closed its doors on May 31 and combined with First Congregational Church. Montanaro said she’s concerned that churches won’t know about the resources they have available to maintain the buildings. Restoration funding Preservation Connecticut...
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For many 2020 high school and college graduates the future feels uncertain. Finding a job or starting college during a global pandemic is far from a straight-forward decision. But for Chris Daley of Plainfield and Chance Weber of Lisbon, 2020 graduates of Norwich Technical High School, the opposite is true....
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...Norwich, said he and his family visited the park every Sunday when he was a kid. “When I was little, it was such a great place in the 1960s and 1970s and it’s still great. The beach is beautiful, the sand is tremendous. It’s a real wholesome park for families.” ...
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...change in population with as low as just 50 to 60 patients coming into the emergency department,” said Dr. Richard Goulding, a physician at William Backus Hospital in Norwich. Typically, the hospital sees about 150 emergency room patients each day. “The low acuity stuff just disappeared while higher acuity increased…...
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