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Fire rips through business in Gales Ferry
GALES FERRY, CT (WFSB) - A big fire ripped through a business in Gales Ferry on Wednesday night. According to investigators, it broke out in a building at R.B. Kent & Son Inc on Baldwin Hill Road. Firefighters said they responded around 9 p.m. The fire chief told Channel 3...
Menapace challenges Cheeseman again for 37th House seat
Incumbent state Rep. Holly Cheeseman, R-East Lyme, and Democratic challenger Nick Menapace will again face off in November after being nominated at their respective conventions this week. Cheeseman, who was nominated unanimously by her party, is vying for a fifth term. The district covers East Lyme and portions of Montville...
New London officials scramble to address $800K state funding shortfall ahead of budget vote
New London ― What was expected to be a routine City Council vote next week to approve the proposed 2024-25 city and school budgets has gotten more complicated with the loss of $800,000 in expected state education aid. The council is slated on Monday to hold its third and...
Barstool's Dave Portnoy reviews Old Lyme pizzeria months after reopening from fire
Barstool Sports found Dave Portnoy has reviewed roughly 40 pizza places throughout Connecticut, and on Wednesday he made a surprise visit to Sapore Pizzeria and Bar. “It was just business as usual, just a regular Wednesday,” Sapore manager Sarah Saunders said. It was just a regular Wednesday, for a...
Old Lyme Rethinks Allowances for Self-Storage Businesses in Town
OLD LYME — Two months after the Zoning Commission agreed to a six-month moratorium on applications for self-storage units, the commission to the first steps toward prohibiting new units in the town’s... Haven’t subscribed yet? Click here to register. CT Examiner is just $20 a year. And...
Waterford data center opponents urge NRC to step in, block proposal
Waterford ― Residents battling the plan to locate a data center on Millstone Power Station land called Thursday night for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to block the proposal. After picketing outside Town Hall prior to a public meeting hosted by NRC officials, more than a dozen residents put...
NBC CT Responds helps New London Maritime Society recover almost $20k
Something was not adding up for a New London nonprofit when its bank account was short almost $20,000. New London Maritime Society fought for months to get its hands on its hard-earned cash with no luck. That is until NBC CT Responds came to the rescue. “It takes a lot...
Nicer weather Friday after incredible Thursday rains in Rhode Island
Bullseye! A rain bullseye, that is – right over parts of our area. A month’s worth of rain in less than 12 hours. New London to New Bedford saw a general 3-4″, but southern Rhode Island saw anywhere from 5-6″ of rain between last night and this morning.
A CT woman unapologetically uses her family’s incredibly famous name. It’s never for herself.
A Connecticut woman is the granddaughter of two of the most famous actors and comedians ever. And as the granddaughter of the legendary duo of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, she is doing some name-dropping to raise money and awareness for a cause that’s not funny at all. Julia Arnaz Massey, 53, a regular person who lives in Milford, loves dogs and is a domestic violence survivor, is putting the ...
Backus Hospital internships for people with disabilities are a win-win: a 60-second read
United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) of Eastern Connecticut will run the Project SEARCH internship program at Backus Hospital in the fall. This unpaid internship will give people aged 18-35 with intellectual or developmental disabilities various jobs around the hospital for nine months, while they learn skills to get into the workforce.
Mitchell stuns No. 9 Salisbury to reach NCAA regional championship round; Avery Point ousted
The Mitchell College baseball team scored one of its biggest wins in program history on Saturday. And the Mariners did it at a perfect time. Riding senior righthander Cam Varney’s masterful one-hitter, Mitchell stunned ninth-ranked Salisbury, 5-1, in NCAA Division III regional winners bracket action at Govoni Park in Babson Park, Mass.
High school notes: Waterford’s Madison LaForte plans to follow her dad’s footsteps into coaching
Madison LaForte’s older brothers played lacrosse in college, Michael for Grove City College and later Babson and Mason at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, where their father, Ray, is the head men’s lacrosse coach. “I would even say more, not to throw my brothers under the bus,” Maddie...
NCD Use Subcommittee Formed
A subcommittee formed to study the approved zoning uses of the Neighborhood Commercial District (NCD) has begun meeting. A list of potential amendments for the district is being developed. The Zoning Commission announced on March 25 that it would form a subcommittee to study all approved uses in the NCD...
Revolution Wind hits ‘steel in water’ milestone
New London – Revolution Wind, a joint project of Eversource and Ørsted that uses State Pier as its turbine-assembly headquarters, announced Friday that it has hit the first milestone along the way toward creating clean power for more than 350,000 homes in Connecticut and Rhode Island. The so-called...
Old Saybrook Voters Pass $51.4M Budget
On May 14, Old Saybrook voters overwhelmingly approved the 2024-’25 fiscal year budget of $51,440,046 by huge margins. The total budget combines spending requests for both the town and the Board of Education (BOE). The BOE budget is $28,829,506, a $975,812 or 3.38 % increase. The town budget is $21,447,238, a $187,490 or 0.87 % increase.
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