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North Haven neighborhood says feral cats are terrorizing the town
NORTH HAVEN, Conn. — North Haven neighbors said an abundance of feral cats have been impacting their quality of life, but now, some people are accusing the community of being heartless cat killers. The town's animal control announced a plan on Facebook Friday to trap and euthanize the cats,...
Exploring the Creepy Abandoned Buildings of Connecticut’s Mansfield Training School Hospital
WARNING: Under no circumstances should you enter this property. By doing so, you risk bodily harm and/or prosecution for trespassing on private property. According to Wikipedia, a hospital was built in 1860 and offensively titled "The Connecticut School for Imbeciles." 55 years later, in 1915, the name was changed to the Connecticut Training School for the Feebleminded, which is also equally offensive. In 1917, it merged with the Connecticut Colony for Epileptics (founded at Mansfield in 1910) and acquired its present name, the Mansfield Training School and Hospital.
CVS to lay off 2,900 'primarily corporate' roles
HARTFORD, Conn. — CVS Health said Monday that they are planning to lay off 2,900 employees nationwide, including Hartford-based health insurer Aetna, saying they'll be able to share more detail on the impact in Connecticut after the corporation files official notice with the Department of Labor, which should be next week.
Dreamer Organizer Ties In Climate
Tabitha Sookdeo has a new job helping undocumented young people stay settled here — and addressing the conditions that lead some others to come here. To her, the two issues, immigration reform and climate change, are related. “It’s all connected,” Sookdeo said during a conversation Thursday on WNHH FM’s...
United Illuminating signals it’s seeking increase in CT electric rates. It wants $105M new revenue
United Illuminating said Monday it has made what is likely to be an unpopular decision to return to state regulators and ask for another $105 million in revenue to be raised through customer electric rates. The company’s decision to seek regulatory permission to raise rates follows widespread consumer protests over an increase last summer in the public benefit portion of electric bills – the ...
Waterbury police addressing communications, staffing issues
Staffing shortages, communications and best practices in policing. These are the things the Waterbury Police Department needs to work on, according to a recent analysis of the police department. The City of Waterbury hired the national consulting firm, BerryDunn, to analyze the city’s emergency services. As a part of its assessment, BerryDunn reviewed the operations […] The post Waterbury police addressing communications, staffing issues appeared first on Connecticut Inside Investigator.
New Haven centers get $600K to boost mental health services
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Two New Haven community health centers are celebrating increased federal funding. Fair Haven and Cornell Scott Hill Health Centers are both getting hundreds of thousands of dollars. The emphasis for this new funding is not physical health, but mental. The Fair Haven Community Health Center is building and expanding. It […]
New halal restaurant offers a taste of the Middle East in CT. No travel necessary.
Waterbury resident Abdul Said used to travel hours for halal food. During one of his trips to Kanoon smokehouse in Clifton, New Jersey — 100 miles and just under two hours from the Brass City — he got to know the founders of the restaurant and asked how he could bring his own Kanoon to his new hometown. That was in March 2023. Said closed on a Waterbury property located at 91 Scott Road in ...
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