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“We’re putting her story back together:” Missing gravestone to be returned Saturday
The gravestone of a daughter of a former slave that was missing from Norwich for decades will now be returned to the Norwichtown Burying Ground. The headstone of Dezenah Zibbere, who died aged 11 in 1781, will be returned to her plot, beside the grave of her sister, during a ceremony on Saturday at 1 p.m. The ceremony will then continue at the First Congregational Church, by the Norwichtown Green, Norwich City Historian Dale Plummer said. ...
Norwich receives $12M in grants for mill demolition, waterfront improvements
Sep. 24—When Gov. Ned Lamont visited the Norwich marina on Aug. 1, he turned around in the parking lot and looked at the blighted former Marina Towers building. "What are your plans for that?" he asked. City leaders had a ready answer for the governor, saying they had submitted a grant application to assess, remediate and begin demolition of the long-vacant Marina Towers. The three-story, ...
Montville discusses what it would do in case of a disastrous flood
Sep. 25—MONTVILLE — The town's fire marshal and the public safety commission on Monday discussed what the town would do in the event of severe flooding, like the disaster that washed away bridges and led to two deaths in Oxford last month. The Oxford floods were caused by heavy rainfall. Fire Marshal Paul Barnes told the commission Monday that the National Weather Service's initial forecast ...
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 ...
Vernon to begin work on $400,000 sidewalk improvement project next week
VERNON, Conn. — Vernon’s latest sidewalk improvement project is scheduled to begin next week. The $400,000 project aims to improve pedestrian movement and safety in downtown Vernon and is the latest step in an ongoing program that is using both local tax dollars and grant funding to improve sidewalks, the town said.
Quarry proponents plan Mount Decatur historic site
Sep. 26—LEDYARD — Gales Ferry Intermodal LLC, which has proposed a controversial 40-acre quarry at the former Dow Chemical site off Route 12, now has plans to deed 3.5 acres of Mount Decatur to a national archaeological group to preserve the historic site. It has agreed to fence off the area and make it part of the National Register of Historic Places and plans to fund a book about military ...
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 ...
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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