...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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...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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