...planned, and without causing traffic backups, Nursick said. That could mean quicker work on projects like the median guardrail replacement on I-395 between Montville and Norwich. “Ultimately, will we have gotten more done or been more efficient? It’s hard to say, because we don’t know what’s going to be taking...
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...“When you have to maintain traffic you basically double the time frame required for a project.” One project that might finish ahead of schedule is the replacement of the median guardrail and grading for proper drainage on I-395 between Montville and Norwich. “At the start of reduced traffic volumes, we...
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...we were starting to see some real success from it. But to now be full-time teachers to our kids and to run a full-time business and our full-time jobs is tough.” Social fabric Jason Vincent, co-owner of Epicure Brewing in Norwich, said the brewery is selling its canned beer and...
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...on Wednesdays What: pre-bagged groceries Who: Anyone How: By appointment, call 860-443-6409 Catholic Charities – Diocese of Norwich at 20 Huntington Street, New London When: 9am to 4pm Monday through Friday What: pre-bagged groceries Who: Anyone How: Just show up! Jewish Federation Senior and Community Services in New London When:...
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...In the Diocese of Norwich, priests are working to ensure that Sunday mass will be available on Facebook Live, as well as by radio, where it has been for more than 50 years, said Wayne Gignac, the director of communications for the diocese. “We’ve really been working hard to maintain...
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...State Sen. Cathy Osten (D-Sprague) later pressed Thames on DECD support for a brownfield remediation project in Preston on the site of the former Norwich Hospital which the Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority hopes to develop into an entertainment attraction. Osten said that about $20 million has already been spent to...
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NORWICH — Top state regulators with oversight over marijuana in Connecticut and Massachusetts discussed the challenges of regulating a substance that remains illegal at the federal level, at a Thursday morning meeting hosted by the Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut. Michelle Seagull, commissioner of Connecticut’s Department of Consumer Protection,...
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...in the village of Higganum within the Town of Haddam, one in the Village of Taftville within Norwich, and one in the Hamlet of Centerbrook, part of Essex. McKenna said that the pharmacy emphasizes a higher level of care by helping patients with medication management to plan out when they...
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...in Old Lyme, the highest turnout anywhere in Connecticut, it’s helpful to keep in mind just how far back these conversations go… “Trolley Traverses Streets of the Artist Colony – Protests Unavailing to Keep Out The Modern Mode of Suburban Traffic – President Wilson Was On The Petition,” a Norwich...
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NORWICH — The Eastern Regional Tourism District board voted on Friday to overhaul district procedures, and add new leadership, in an effort to resolve a breach of contract with the Connecticut Office of Tourism that threatens access to $400,00 in state funding for fiscal year 2019-20, and $160,000 in funding...
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...state’s largest cities — Hartford, New Haven, and Bridgeport — based on response rates from the 2010 census. In southeastern Connecticut, portions of Groton, New London, and Norwich have been identified as prone to undercounting, after only 73 percent or fewer of residents are estimated to have returned census forms...
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NORWICH — Members of an ad hoc committee of the Eastern Regional Tourism District board are convening in Norwich multiple times over the weeks of Christmas and New Year’s Day to meet a January 6 deadline set by the State Office of Tourism, which claims the district breached a contract...
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...in Groton and the Naval Submarine Base in New London. As one of Connecticut’s nine regional councils of government, SCCOG’s duties include coordinating transportation planning for the region, supporting intergovernmental cooperation, and offering advisory expertise to member towns. Its offices are in Norwich and its member towns stretch from about...
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...in the Southeastern Connecticut Regional Resource Recovery Authority about $59 per ton starting in 2021. SCRRRA members include East Lyme, Griswold, Groton, Ledyard, Montville, New London, North Stonington, Norwich, Preston, Sprague, Stonington and Waterford. The difference between the term sheet and what towns are willing to pay makes for “an...
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...more than $95 per ton for trash disposal. Early this year, Southeastern Connecticut Regional Resources Recovery Authority (SCRRRA) — serving East Lyme, Griswold, Groton, Ledyard, Montville, New London, North Stonington, Norwich, Preston, Sprague, Stonington and Waterford — signed a 10-year agreement to dispose of solid waste at the Wheelabrator facility...
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...$59 per ton. SCRRRA manages waste disposal and recycling contracts for 12 contiguous member towns — East Lyme, Griswold, Groton, Ledyard, Montville, New London, North Stonington, Norwich, Preston, Sprague, Stonington and Waterford. Together, the 12 towns generate about 135,000 tons of trash per year. In recent weeks, SCRRRA’s member towns...
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...Musical Masterworks annual outreach program, Project Fusion will be presenting 13 programs over four days in seven different schools in New London and Norwich during the week before the performance. As far as learning and playing the saxophone, Sawzin said, “It’s easy to make a sound, it’s super-difficult to make...
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...town’s Economic Development Commission, had contacted him about starting a pharmacy in East Haddam. Nutmeg Pharmacy was formed in the past year out of a partnership between several independent Connecticut pharmacies, McKenna said. They currently have locations in Higganum, in Essex’s Centerbrook hamlet, and in Norwich’s Taftville village. Bordonaro’s Pharmacy...
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...be brought here. “It makes no sense to me in terms of our transportation woes, and the fact that we’ve got Norwich Tech, Grasso Tech, the Workforce Investment Board — we’ve got all of the right pieces here. It’s just a matter of making it an attractive community to locate...
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...Peter Davis, a former Norwich city planner, the commission rewrote the city’s POCD in-house and from scratch, transforming it into a concise and coherent marketing document in an effort welcome developers and investment. “The goal with this was to scale it down and make it attractive so it’s something that...
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...to help them understand what other towns are doing rather than reinvent the wheel.” Over half of the state’s municipalities have registered with the program. Among those towns in southeastern Connecticut are Old Lyme, Chester, Clinton, East Lyme, Essex, Groton, Norwich, Stonington, North Stonington, and Waterford. Old Saybrook and New...
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...Waterford, Groton, Montville, Ledyard, and Norwich to assemble a portfolio of sites that were accessible to State Pier by rail or barge and that he had already met with interested Dutch and UK-based companies. “We’ve already met with 2 companies now one from the UK and one from the Netherlands...
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...or even suggest a local manufacturing of the components, or a specific use for the Central New England rail line that runs from New London through Montville, Norwich, and Willimantic to the Massachusetts border. That line was recently upgraded with an $8 million federal TIGER grant, and an additional $4.8...
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...years as he’d been alive, only to come out of the system as an adult, on parole, and to be put in the community and expected to thrive — it’s incredibly challenging,” said Bryan Geyer, a social worker in the fatherhood program at the Madonna Place in Norwich, tracing the...
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...the state capacity for funding.” Stonington, Norwich, New London, Bozrah and Groton submitted applications. “Our committee reviewed the applications and toured all the sites individually. The COG agreed that Norwich’s project on New London Turnpike of a complete street improvement was our top priority,” Butler said. “All of the projects...
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...look like us. In a 2010 news article in the Norwich Bulletin, spurred by a special issue of The Connecticut Economy: A University of Connecticut Quarterly Review, James Mosher raised questions of whether “people who look like us” is also another way of saying “old”: …zoning laws in some towns...
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...week 90 or even up to 100 people would come,” said Tia Smith, the current coordinator of food pantry volunteers from St. Ann’s parish. “People have heard either how good the breakfast is or how complete the pantry is. We’ve ended up with a lot of guests from Norwich and...
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...$600,000 for debris removal. On a positive note, the debris removal is likely to cost less than $600,000, he said. For removing the debris in three weeks time, Wiese Construction Inc., of Norwich, bid $259,000 and Standard Demolition Services Inc., bid $327,300. At the request of the Environmental Protection Agency,...
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