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East Lyme Board of Selectmen takes another look at populating the Fair Rent Commission
Sep. 27—EAST LYME — The five-member Fair Rent Commission was down two members in its first week of existence. The Board of Selectmen will meet Wednesday to fill the vacancies left when one member declined to accept his appointment and another turned out not to be a registered voter. The move comes after the selectmen's decision last week to appoint one Republican tenant, one Republican ...
Montville seeks to make Route 32 more walkable
Sep. 27—MONTVILLE — Residents may soon be able to walk from Chili's to Cook Drive with a sidewalk under their feet. That's because the town, which recently received a $378,000 state grant aimed at making communities more walkable, has proposed using the money to build sidewalks on two small strips of Route 32. The two sidewalks would fill gaps in the existing sidewalk in the area. One would be ...
Developer seeks financing approval for apartments at former Groton Inn & Suites
Sep. 26—GROTON — The developer and owner of a project to renovate the former Groton Inn and Suites at 99 Gold Star Highway into apartments are requesting approval for a financing mechanism for the 112-unit development. The owner, Arizona-based Community Finance Corporation, is seeking tax-exempt revenue bonds through the Public Finance Authority of Wisconsin to finance the project. The Public ...
East Lyme lost $261K by underbilling laundromat, restaurant for water and sewer use
Sep. 25—EAST LYME — The town has seen an estimated $261,070 in revenue go down the drain. That's because for almost 20 years it underbilled a plaza at 135 Boston Post Road, which is home to It's a Wash Laundromat, charging it just one-tenth of its actual water and sewer usage after a meter was incorrectly programmed in 2002. The shortfall amounts to 4.4 million gallons of unbilled water and ...
After decades of standing vacant, Reid & Hughes building renovations in full swing
Sep. 26—NC Norwich ― Standing inside on the second floor of the Reid & Hughes building Thursday morning, a worker in a lift machine outside slowly rose into view to continue restoring the historic building's late 19th-century façade. Several members of the Norwich Community Development Corp. got a close-up look at the renovations now in full swing at the long-vacant department store building ...
Eversource volunteers assist in Connecticut River cleanup
Eversource employees across Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire worked along the Connecticut River Friday with thousands of community members for the Connecticut River Conservancy's 28thth annual Source to Sea Cleanup.
Connecticut celebrates 50 years of WIC
HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — The Connecticut Department of Public Health celebrated the 50th anniversary of its Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program on Friday. The program has worked to improve birth outcomes, provide nutrition services and reduce the cost of health care. As it looks forward, it also plans to modernize for how people find […]
CMEEC executive pensions, legal fees at stake in latest court filings
Sep. 25—The pension of former Norwich Public Utilities General Manager John Bilda and another executive's efforts to reinstate payment of his legal fees are among the latest issues being argued in the lengthy corruption cases involving lavish trips to the Kentucky Derby and a West Virginia golf resort. The continuing civil and criminal cases in federal and state courts follow the U.S. ...
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