NORWICH — At St. Vincent de Paul Place in Norwich, 916 families found help at the food pantry this November. Last year, the pantry served 701 families in November, typically the busiest month, according to Tim Hathaway, marketing coordinator for St. Vincent de Paul Place. The nonprofit, which is a...
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...to Norwich.” The campaign is a partnership between the City of Norwich and the Norwich Community Development Corporation. Nystrom said that the campaign would highlight local landmarks — the Benedict Arnold walking tour, the mansions of the so-called Millionaire’s Triangle, and the area’s history with the Mohegan nation. At the...
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...are so ingrained in culture they’re easily weaponized. Let’s holster the cell phones and focus on real victims, the countless laid low by diseases, cruelty, climate change, famine and war. White privilege is no Rapunzel. Scott Deshefy is two-time Green Party congressional candidate and a columnist for the Norwich Bulletin...
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...Norwich Community Development Corporation, who led CT Examiner on a tour of downtown Norwich on Tuesday afternoon. The corporation was founded in 1963 as a nonprofit economic development partner to help local government foster private investment in the city. Vincent has an office in Foundry 66, a building which houses...
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...Norwich given other shelter options available, though some space could be added later. In the “decompression” effort to get people out of crowded shelters as COVID started spreading through Connecticut in March and April, the state had people staying in 13 hotels. Later with the warmer weather, the state reduced...
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...positive effect. Pete Nystrom, the mayor of Norwich, called the new fines “extreme.” Nystrom said that the increased penalties send the message that Connecticut is not a friendly place to do business. Nystrom said he was not aware of any businesses in Norwich being fined over non-compliance. According to Nystrom,...
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...slows down. By noon, Norwich had exceeded the total voter turnout for the 2018 election, said Osten. Kevin Saythany, vice chairman of the Norwich Democratic Town Committee and member of the Norwich Board of Education, was holding signs for the Democratic candidates, including Osten. Saythany said he wanted to thank voters...
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...many New Londoners will opt to come out to the polls on election day rather than request absentee ballots. Derell Wilson, president of the Democratic Town Council in Norwich, predicts that the same will happen in Norwich. “I think there’s a high number of people who still feel comfortable voting...
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...approach. In Norwich, Osten focused her efforts on houses with registered Democrats. Weir knocked on doors of registered voters regardless of party. State Sen. Cathy Osten knocks on doors in Norwich (CT Examiner/Elizabeth) Asked whether she feels safe interacting in-person with strangers as cases rise across the state, Osten contested...
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...will be happening to your current Medicare Plan from your provider. “This is a very important letter to read and understand,” says Laura Crews, director of benefits access at Senior Resources Agency on Aging based in Norwich. “It’s going to explain the changes your current drug plan will be undertaking....
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...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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