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Consultant sees ‘occupational health issue’ in permit for burning medical waste at CT incinerator
As widespread public backlash builds against Reworld‘s bid to burn medical trash at its Connecticut incinerator, a waste-processing consultant told Southington officials that he’s more concerned about risk to workers than potential hazard to neighbors. “I don’t look at it as a major public health issue; it’s an occupational health issue,” Ed Krisiunas, president of Burlington-based WNWN ...
Connecticut is having its worst whooping cough outbreak in years. What you should know
Have a lingering cough that makes you gasp for air? You may want to ask your doctor about whooping cough, a respiratory illness spreading throughout Connecticut. Since January of this year, the state has recorded 111 cases of whooping cough, a startling ten times more than the 11 cases recorded in 2023. ...
What's keeping drivers from buying EVs? Mostly price.
More drivers are buying them, but electric cars still make up a small share of the market in Rhode Island. A new survey from AAA Northeast of drivers in the Ocean State and its neighbors raises questions about how fast the electric vehicle market share will grow, even as state and federal lawmakers...
Driver injured after striking DOT tractor in Harwinton
HARWINTON, Conn. (WTNH) — Harwinton fire officials say a Department of Transportation tractor was struck on Litchfield Road Wednesday. The incident happened around noon on Litchfield Road/Route 118 near the Route 8 on and off ramps. Fire officials said a vehicle struck the DOT vehicle, which had a mower attached. The vehicle’s driver was transported […]
Stop & Shop Under the Microscope: Harsh Reviews from Connecticut
In July, we reported that Stop & Shop had announced the upcoming closure of several grocery stores in Connecticut. The company's press release stated:. "Quincy, Mass. (July 12, 2024) — Stop & Shop today outlined the next steps in its growth strategy. As part of its commitment to investing in pricing and customer experience, the company will close 32 underperforming stores by the end of the year. Despite these closures, Stop & Shop will maintain a strong presence across its five-state footprint with more than 350 stores. Associates at the affected locations will be offered opportunities at other company locations."
The dewatering of Jobs Pond in Portland, Conn. is close to underway
PORTLAND, Conn. — Portland residents have longed to hear it: the project of dewatering Jobs Pond is close to being underway. The Town of Portland reported the development in a release on Thursday. The town said that in late July, the Board of Selectmen awarded the project to Synder Civil Construction, LLC, which offered the lowest bid.
Exhibition | The Paradox of Pearls
The Paradox of Pearls: Accessorizing Identities in the Eighteenth Century. The Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington, CT, 27 September 2024 — 31 January 2025. Pearls figure prominently in pictures of celebrated and imagined figures across the eighteenth century. Adorning royalty, celebrities, servants, and in fashion plates, the mysterious, opaque, and gleaming white accessory aligns with the mutable, seductive, and threatening emergence of new forms of identity. Worn as jewelry, as embellishments to the body and dress, or embedded in the settings of precious objects—pearls accessorize, highlight, colonize, and perform. As one of the most sought-after commodities of the early modern colonial enterprise, a precious jewel tied to bondage and violence, pearls have a baroque and complex history. Drawing from materials in the Lewis Walpole Library this exhibition will explore the ‘paradox of pearls’ by considering how the varied and often contradictory meanings of this jewel appear in period images and the ways in which practices from the past connect us to the powerful presence of pearls today. The exhibition is curated by Professor Laura Engel of Duquesne University.
Hurricane Ernesto is Gaining Strength: How Will It Affect Maine, New Hampshire, & Massachusetts?
Until recently, New England rarely had to worry about tropical storms and hurricanes. Over the last few years, we have seen that change, though. In September 2023, we had to deal with a pair of back-to-back storms. While those storms had lost much of their strength by the time they reached New England, they did hit us within days of each other. And after dealing with Debby last weekend, we are getting ready to deal with Ernesto this weekend.
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