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Health Headlines: Is ‘Ozempic personality’ real?
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) – In today’s health headlines, 20 percent of pasteurized milk samples contain bird flu virus fragments, what to know about the first HIV cases transmitted by cosmetic injections and is “Ozempic personality” real?. An internal medicine and obesity medicine specialist at Yale...
2024 Restaurant Spotlight: Meagher's Irish Pub Celebrates 10 Years
This week’s Restaurant Spotlight is on Meagher’s Irish Pub, located at Charles Pointe, Bridgeport. The locally-owned eatery celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. The eatery features favorites such as burgers, tacos, and wings, as well as specialty items including Irish Reubens, Celtic Knots, Corned Beef and Cabbage, and their famous deep-fried pepperoni rolls. The bar features beer on tap and a full line of spirits, including several varieties of Irish Whiskey.
Officials: Schools not facing redistricting ‘crisis’
WESTPORT — The Board of Education has set guiding criteria for elementary school redistricting in the 2025-26 academic year, but the urgency expressed when planning started a year ago seems to have dissipated. “This is not a crisis. This is not a catastrophe,” Supt. of Schools Thomas Scarice told...
3 Local Restaurants Taking Their Talents Across State Lines
Photographs: Adam Goldberg by Andrea Carson; Juile and Dana by Frances Denny; Bill Taibe, contributed. Gone are the days when suburbs in Fairfield County are longing for New York restaurants to make their way east. From inventive Pan-Asian flavors to bagels born during the pandemic and a brand which has gone from granola to glam, our culinary masterminds in Westport are taking their inspired ideas to New York, Colorado and, we hear, beyond….
New Traffic Pattern Coming To Easton Streets
Church Street between Wood Avenue and North 7th Street will reverse direction and become a westbound one-way, according to officials. Meanwhile, Wood Avenue between North 8th Street and Northampton Street will reverse to become an eastbound one-way. The changes go into effect on Wednesday, May 1. to follow Daily Voice...
Save Our Stepney Task Force encourages beautification, smart planning
A plan to widen Main Street 25 years ago posed a threat to the character of the Stepney section of town. Many of its historic buildings, as well as a section of the green, would have had to be removed to pave the way for the roadwork on Route 25.
Ridgefield’s Keeler Tavern
In 1772, Timothy Keeler and his wife, Esther, opened T. Keeler’s Inn in what had once been a private home in Ridgefield (built by Keeler’s grandfather, Benjamin Hoyt). Keeler’s tavern had only served weary travelers and sociable locals for a few years before the town of Ridgefield played host to the only inland battle fought in Connecticut during the Revolutionary War.
Pet of the Week: Romeo
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) – This week’s Pet of the Week is Romeo!. The 1-year-old tabby cat is available at the New Haven Animal Shelter. Shelter friends say he’s very well-behaved with a great disposition. Call the animal shelter at 203-946-8110 if interested in adopting.
Portable Bathrooms Multiply On Green
An accumulation of feces, old clothes, and drug paraphernalia prompted the city to increase the number of portable restrooms on the New Haven Green from two to six, as city officials search for a more permanent bathroom solution. Those six units mark a small expansion of restroom options at the...
CT Trooper Struck By Car During I-95 Bridgeport Traffic Stop
The Fairfield County incident happened at around 8:30 a.m. Monday, April 22, on I-95 in Bridgeport. According to the agency’s accident report, the trooper’s SUV was parked behind another car on the right shoulder of the interstate south of Exit 30 when a driver in the center lane lost control and struck the metal guardrail.
Viral video gives closer look at crimes committed by ‘CT Kia Boyz’
(WFSB) - A viral YouTube documentary about the “CT Kia Boyz”, a group of teens known for stealing cars across the state, has racked up millions of views in a matter of days. The video takes a closer look at car thefts in Connecticut and the teens committing...
CT towns weigh affordable housing, wetlands protection
Last month, Newtown, Connecticut’s Inland Wetlands Commission narrowly voted to allow a 117-unit housing development between here and nearby Taunton Lake. The local land trust appealed that vote over concerns about stormwater runoff into the wetlands. Newtown’s one of several Connecticut towns where groups known as inland wetlands commissions...
Monroe Planning and Zoning Commission to consider workforce housing
MONROE, CT — Workforce Housing is a form of housing geared toward helping people, such as teachers and police officers, to be able to afford to live in the towns they work in. Unlike affordable housing under 8-30g, towns write their own regulations for Workforce Housing, outlining the details, such as where it can be built.
Plans for a Marijuana Outlet Spark Lively Opposition in Stamford and Darien
STAMFORD – Residents of The Cove came out Tuesday for their waterside neighborhood just south of Interstate-95. They do not want the Zoning Board to approve a retail outlet for marijuana for 1308 East Main St., as the Planning Board has recommended. Enough is enough, residents said during a...
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