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Tractor-trailer rolls over in Pawcatuck
PAWCATUCK, CT (WLNE) — The North Stonington Fire and EMS responded to a tractor-trailer rollover Tuesday morning on Route 2 and I-95 offramp. Several other units also responded with personnel to assist with patient treatment.
Connecticut Animal Controls Seeks Public Help After Person Abandons Dogs Tied to a Pole
How a person can ever just abandon their animals I will never know. You see these awful posts of people just dumping their animals because they don't want them anymore. They are a part of your family, how can you just leave them somewhere and drive away?. I have a...
Vegan Kosher-Certifying Rabbi Rides To Felafelier’s Rescue
It’s a miracle how many toppings Eddie Eckhaus can stuff into a felafel sandwich. But he needed more than a miracle to make his felafel storefront succeed: He needed a maschgiach. I.e. a rabbi who certifies that a restaurant serves kosher food. Like Elijah the Prophet on the first...
Yale Men’s Track Team and Seven Athletes Achieve USTFCCCA All-Academic Honors
The Yale men's track and field team and seven individuals receive All-Academic honors from USTFCCCA for the 2023-24 season, with the team boasting a GPA of 3.59. The Bulldogs finished with a GPA of 3.59. For individual honors, athletes must have at least a 3.25 GPA and meet specific performance...
UConn Holds Mobile Summer Institute on Scientific Teaching and Transformation
The Mobile Summer Institute on Scientific Teaching and Transformation brought over 50 faculty, staff, and students from three UConn campuses in May to champion equity and inclusion for enhanced student success. The five-day institute, held at UConn Storrs, served as a platform for attendees to explore sustainable change within classrooms...
Loud Booms Heard In NY, NJ Was Daytime Fireball, NASA Says
Locals reported hearing thunder-like booms and rattling just after 11:20 a.m. Tuesday, July 16. The USGS ruled out earthquakes, and residents across the tri-state reported witnessing fireballs to the American Meteor Society. After hours of anticipating, NASA confirmed a "daylight fireball" over New York City at 11:17 a.m. Reports filed...
Saybrook Point Sidewalks Go to Town Meeting
As part of a town meeting on July 23 Old Saybrook residents can approve an appropriation of $366,640 for a state grant that will pay for the construction of sidewalks in Saybrook Point. The meeting is at 6 p.m. in Town Hall. At a meeting on July 9, the Old...
CLCT to Pursue Potential Open Space Purchase
On July 3 the Clinton Town Council unanimously voted to authorize the payment of $6,275 to support the evaluation of 23 acres of forest land on Killingworth Turnpike for potential purchase by the Clinton Land Conservation Trust (CLCT). The money will come from the town’s open space acquisition fund which...
CT DEEP reports elevated levels of ozone on Tuesday, projects the same for Wednesday
HARTFORD, Conn. — The state’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection witnessed temperatures rise into the mid-90s on Tuesday and projects that similar temperatures will persist into Wednesday. According to a release from DEEP on Tuesday afternoon, the National Weather Service has issued a Heat Advisory for the...
Connecticut marijuana sales outpaced by Massachusetts
Eighteen months after the sale of adult-use cannabis became legal, Connecticut marijuana sales remain lower than Massachusetts but above Rhode Island. The average price per gram of cannabis is also cheaper in Massachusetts than in Connecticut. The average price per gram of cannabis in Connecticut peaked in March, at $12.51 per gram. During June, it […] The post Connecticut marijuana sales outpaced by Massachusetts appeared first on Connecticut Inside Investigator.
Wildfire smoke could make for dramatic sunset in Connecticut
CONNECTICUT (WTNH) — A little nastiness coming through this afternoon as far as the sky goes. We’re going to have a band of wildfire smoke. It should stay high up in the atmosphere, but you might smell this a little bit in some of the higher elevations of Northwestern Connecticut. Between 4 and 7 p.m., […]
Standoff Escalates Over Tiny Shelters
(Updated) As a group of unhoused activists on Rosette Street held a press conference denouncing the city’s bid to shut down their backyard tiny homes, a state marshal arrived with a cease-and-desist letter from the Elicker administration — ordering the group to vacate the “illegal” dwelling units in 24 hours.
“Uncle Chip” Collins Celebrates 100
As guests entered Milton “Uncle Chip” Collins’s 100th birthday party at Amarante’s Sea Cliff, they might have had trouble distinguishing the World War II vet, beloved New Havener, aesthete, and now centenarian from a crowd of dancers. However, Collins could be found by the band, grooving along to swanky jazz.
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