...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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...three cars stolen from East Lyme this summer. One was found in New Britain, another in Westbrook and one in Glastonbury, said Finkelstein. In May, an SUV stolen out of Groton was used in a shooting in Waterbury where one man was killed and a woman was hurt, leading to...
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...collecting responses for the census on September 30, a month earlier than previously stated. According to Elizabeth Porter, chair of the Complete Contact Committee in Groton, the abrupt change in the deadline for collecting responses has created some challenges. “That, to me, was just unfair,” she said. “If you set...
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...“While I commend much of the Governor’s response to the pandemic, and the necessary steps that have been taken to bring down new infections and hospitalizations, I believe our next phase of response and reopening must feature greater collaboration with legislators and local leaders,” said State Sen. Heather Somers, R-Groton....
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...the case of Hartford, the range of students opting for distance learning in the fall did not significantly differ between districts adopting hybrid and classroom learning: between 5 and 30 percent. Despite the promise of smaller cohorts and reduced student interaction in Groton schools, after adopting a hybrid model, the...
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GROTON — The Groton Town Council Committee of the Whole discussed the regulatory barriers and costs of extending sewer service throughout the town during its Tuesday night meeting. Councilor Joe Zeppieri, who raised the possibility of extending municipal sewer to the entire town of Groton, said that in the course...
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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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...going to be hard. There is a huge concern about it among owners,” Foulkes said. “I feel so much more comfortable knowing that I have a good delivery presence.” Over the next year, Ashe said that Shoreline Menus hopes to expand east through East Lyme, Groton, New London and Stonington....
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...director to take the reins in a stabilized environment, equipped with the policy and governance infrastructure necessary for the success of the authority’s projects and mission and for assurance of the public trust,” she said in a release. After the meeting, Sen. Heather Somers, R-Groton, said hiring Henshaw signaled a...
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...Wallingford and Norwich are two of six municipal electric providers in Connecticut, including two in Norwalk, Jewett City, and Groton Utilities, which includes Bozrah Light and Power. Most of the state is served by two for-profit companies, Eversource and United Illuminating. Eversource, which serves over 1.2 million customers across Connecticut...
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...could not have gone through the regular process. I am hearing that we are going to come back later and fix what we may have missed…to me that is not good legislation,” said State Sen. Heather Somers, R-Groton. Looking to the future Both Democratic and Republican legislators expressed concerns about...
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...in the greater Groton, Stonington and maybe Waterford areas where you basically are in pretty tight proximity to major employers that are having kind of a housing crunch. These things are going to be more effective in those places where people want to move because of employment or a combination...
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...numerous police who are great in every community, but we have police that do wrong and we need to hold them accountable,” said Nolan. State Rep. Joe de la Cruz, D-Groton, explains his position on the bill For Democratic members like Cook and Rep. Joe de la Cruz, D-Groton, who...
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...of Skanska construction company and Trevcon II, which signed with AECOM in October 2019, to perform shaft and bulkhead work for the South Yard Assembly Building at Electric Boat in Groton. Kooris said the port authority was working to find a way to extend the time for Skanska and Trevcon...
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...grants ranged from $4,500 to $15,000 and were awarded to: Avon, Barkhamsted, Bethany, Bloomfield, Bozrah, Branford, Brooklyn, Canaan, Canton, Chaplin, Cornwall, Durham, Farmington, Franklin, Goshen, Groton, Hampton, Harwinton, Lebanon, Mansfield, Morris, New Milford, Middlefield, Newington, Newtown, Norfolk, North Stonington, Old Saybrook, Plainfield, Ridgefield, Salem, Shelton, Sprague, Stonington, Suffield, Thompson, Torrington,...
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...weekly during the summer at beaches in East Lyme, Groton, Ledyard, New London, Old Lyme, Stonington, and Waterford. It started sampling on May 20 this year, and conducts weekly tests from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Advisory levels are set by the state: 104 colonies of enterococcal organisms per 100...
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...grant to purchase body cameras was Groton. The State reimbursed the town for $98,998 in 2017, the first year it disbursed grants. After a year of state-reimbursed costs, the town began paying between $25,000 and $40,000 to manage the videos, a relatively modest amount given the size of the Groton...
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