by Kimberly Glassman | Feb 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
A new rehab hospital that planned to open this spring on the city’s west side has requested a six-month extension due to what it called “extenuating circumstances not entirely within” its control that pushed back the project’s expected construction completion date....
by Kimberly Glassman | Feb 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
The design phase for the first project of the “New Mix” program to reconstruct the network of bridges and elevated ramps of the so-called Mixmaster interchange of Interstate 84 and Route 8 is nearing completion. The designs for the removal of the Exit 21...
by Kimberly Glassman | Feb 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
Gov. Ned Lamont, whose 2019 tolls plan amounted to a high-speed tire blowout at the start of his first term, declared a new champion of tolls: President Donald Trump. Lamont, in his Feb. 5 budget speech to lawmakers, described a memo from the U.S. Department of...
by Kimberly Glassman | Feb 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
City leaders’ ongoing plans to improve downtown’s walkability, appearance and economic viability received a recent boost with a $4 million state grant. The new funds will support the $17 million Streetscape Renaissance Project, which calls for redesigned sidewalks and...
by Kimberly Glassman | Feb 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
State Sen. Cathy Osten, D-Sprague, has said she will continue to advocate for a bill calling for an economic study of the area surrounding the Mohegan-Pequot Bridge despite the public-hearing testimony of two state commissioners who suggested last week that a pending...
