...of their lives. Jacqueline LeBlanc Middletown, CT Here are some helpful links that provide more insight into how this issue is actually affecting transgender youth: Journalist Sam Levin interviewed kids across the U.S. about the Republican bills targeting their rights for The Guardian. Many have faced these attacks for years...
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...developments in Essex, have so far not attracted people from Connecticut’s cities. At H.O.P.E. Partnership’s newly opened Lofts at Spencer’s Corner, for example, the 17 affordable units attracted one family came from Middletown and one from East Haddam, but the other units were rented by local families with children already...
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...begin to take steps to fix it and people who see those problems and don’t. — Tucker McLean Salls, Middletown … One size does not fit all. Please leave Planning, Zoning, and Development up to the individual towns and cities. The local residents and property owners know best what fits...
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...protect jobs in the state. Susan Halpin, a lobbyist for the Connecticut Association of Health Plans, which represents the insurance industry, echoed this. “[The public option] puts us out of business, if you take it down to its full conclusion,” said Halpin. Concerns State Sen. Matt Lesser, D-Middletown, co-chair of...
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...of the 2019 lawsuit State Rep. Quentin Phipps, D-Middletown, said this could mean a loss of funding in the prisoner’s district of residence, where the prisoners often have relatives. “We have members of our community that are entitled to resources and support and assistance and care, and those resources will...
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MIDDLETOWN — City Hall and Russell Library will provide free, public WiFi networks as part of a statewide initiative to bring reliable internet access to underserved communities, Gov. Ned Lamont announced Tuesday morning. In a press conference in Middletown, Lamont said that these locations will be the first of 200...
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...talks about the fact that he was the youngest legislator, the youngest African-American legislator, that he would be the first Latino mayor. The mayor of Middletown is 27, and if Aundré gets elected he’ll be 26, so then he’d be the youngest mayor in the state. To me, this is...
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...site, and have some creative uses for it in the future,” Florsheim told his Facebook audience. Middletown voters overwhelmingly approved the $5 million open space bond in 2019. It is Middletown’s fourth open space bond since voters approved the first in 1989 – a $5 million package that allowed the...
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MIDDLETOWN — NRG Energy, a New Jersey-based energy company, announced on Monday that it was selling 4.8 gigawatts worth of “non-core fossil assets” to a subsidiary of Boston-based ArcLight Capital Partners for $760 million. An NRG spokesman confirmed Tuesday that the sale includes all four of the company’s power plants...
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MIDDLETOWN — A gas-fired power plant that drew controversy over plans to build a new turbine was among the fossil fuel plants NRG Energy is selling, Middletown Mayor Ben Florsheim said Monday night. NRG announced Monday that it was selling 4.8 GW of fossil fuel generating assets to Generation Bridge,...
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...of the farmers. Farmers can use the website to upload inventories, and let shoppers browse the produce. For pick-up, Ostfeld also runs two Saturday pop-up markets in East Lyme and Middletown. She said that all of the farmers she partners with are committed to sustainable practices — rotating crops, composting...
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...a big supporter of legalization, but from what I’m reading, people still have a lot of concerns with this proposal from an equity standpoint, but I’m confident those will get ironed out. I think Middletown would be a great location for a dispensary. There is a medical dispensary right over...
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...to move backward.” State Sen. Matt Lesser, D-Middletown, said he thinks these measures will be important for people who can’t get to the polls on election day — individuals who work multiple jobs, for instance. But allowing for early voting and no-excuse ballots would require a statewide referendum and an...
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MIDDLETOWN — A plan to replace two aging turbines on a Middletown natural gas-fired power plant will wait at least another year after the project failed to secure funding through the regional energy market this week. Princeton-based NRG’s plans to replace two gas-fired turbines built in 1958 and 1964 at...
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...around Killingly in that way, this far in the process,” Needleman said. Needleman said he has similar concerns about efforts to stop the replacement of two decades-old turbines at a gas-fired plant along the Connecticut River in Middletown. “We all want to move away from fossil fuels,” Needleman said. While...
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...guidance counselor or a librarian in all the public schools. It’s a pattern that’s repeated in Hartford and Middletown. According to Elicker, Yale University pays $13 million in voluntary payments to the city. But if the University and Yale-New Haven Hospital were not provided with tax-exempt status, the tax revenue...
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...focus on COVID recovery. However, State Rep. Quentin Phipps, D -Middletown, said that the things the bill would provide for — homes, healthcare and improvements in the schools — were even more critical during a time of pandemic. “We want everyone to have their home of choice,” said Phipps, who...
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...permits for a gas pipeline that will fuel the new plant in Killingly and for a plan to replace turbines at another gas-fired plant in Middletown. “While the news that market forces might put [the Killingly plant] to rest is welcome, we really think action needs to be taken because...
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...life for products,” said Kim O’Rourke, the recycling program coordinator for Middletown. “This would help transition pick up away from municipalities to producers, reducing the cost for the taxpayer.” This year the focus is on passing legislation that would establish a tire, gas cylinder and paper and packaging extended product...
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...Kevin Elak, acting director of health for the City of Middletown, said that prior to this week, they also had not received any doses of the vaccine. When he made the request, Elak said, he was told that the number of the requests from the health departments were double the...
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...means that health departments left with excess doses must quickly find an alternate or lower-priority person to vaccinate, or let the doses go bad. That’s the position Middletown found itself in when it was left with ten excess doses over two days of administering the vaccine to city firefighters last...
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MIDDLETOWN — A major energy company is pitching its replacement of two nearly 70-year old natural gas-fired turbines at a Middletown power plant as environmentally friendly, but local and statewide advocates for renewable energy question why new fossil fuel-fired infrastructure is being built at all. Princeton-based NRG has proposed replacing...
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...closings, drivers will be detoured up to 29 miles through local roads to reach one of only two other bridges that cross the Connecticut River in the southern half of the state – the Arrigoni Bridge on Route 66 between Middletown and Portland and the Baldwin Bridge on Interstate 95...
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...pandemic hit, but lawmakers from both parties agree that the pandemic has added urgency, and pushed government solutions to the forefront of what some until recently have treated as largely a personal problem. “If your neighbor doesn’t have health insurance, that affects you,” said State Sen. Matt Lesser, D-Middletown, who...
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...company does not offer in Connecticut. Walgreens offers the rapid ID NOW tests in Middletown, Torrington and Orange, and the PCR diagnostic tests at four locations in Fairfield County, and one in East Hartford. The website to make an appointment for a Walgreens-administered test now asks users for health insurance...
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...with hotels to move people out of crowded, congregate living spaces out of concern for COVID outbreaks among people without housing. In a similar effort, the state is using federal money to contract with hotels to keep warming shelter capacity at pre-pandemic levels this winter. In Middletown, the state has...
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...well,” said Department of Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona. Since September, multiple school districts have been forced to transition one or more of their schools to remote learning after large numbers of staff were exposed to a positive COVID case and advised to quarantine. These include three schools in Middletown, two...
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MIDDLETOWN — The beauty of the tasting room at Spoke + Spy Ciderworks in Middletown is that customers can try a variety of ciders to see what they like, said owner Ron Sansone. “I think a lot of people have preconceived notions of what dry is, and it’s maybe the...
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...Bridgeport, Hartford, Middletown, Danbury and Waterbury — in part to make this comparison. In one example, out of the 8,659 absentee ballots that Middletown received, 99 were rejected. This represents 1.1 percent of the total number of absentee ballots received. Ashley Flynn-Natale, the town clerk, said that 20 of those...
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...Ferry Street in Middletown’s North End in 1920. Vitale’s mother, Constance Marino-Vitale, opened Marino’s Restaurant in 1941. Both were staples of the Italian-American community in Middletown until the restaurant closed in 1992. When Vitale and her friend Carla Marino opened back up Marino’s in a new location on William Street,...
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