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Newtown battle over ‘top-tiered’ soccer complex pits artificial turf against sensitive environment

Newtown battle over ‘top-tiered’ soccer complex pits artificial turf against sensitive environment

by Kimberly Glassman | Oct 21, 2025 | Uncategorized

A plan for a Route 25 soccer complex that has gained the support of at least 100 Newtowners may require the developer to hire an independent engineer to review environmental impacts of the fields’ synthetic turf. A conservation activist and two members of the town’s...
Newtown battle over ‘top-tiered’ soccer complex pits artificial turf against sensitive environment

Former Route 9 eyesore in Middletown reborn as apartments

by Kimberly Glassman | Oct 20, 2025 | Uncategorized

The long-vacant Alfredo’s Riverside Restaurant, hard by Route 9 South and in the shadow of the Arrigoni Bridge, is being reborn as apartments — part of a developer’s broader effort to breathe new life into neglected city properties. The brick building at...
Newtown battle over ‘top-tiered’ soccer complex pits artificial turf against sensitive environment

Detours, lane closures and more among upcoming CT road projects. Here’s where.

by Kimberly Glassman | Oct 20, 2025 | Uncategorized

Drivers on portions of Route 2 can expect to see some road work later this month. The work in Colchester will be on Route 2 westbound at the Exit 20 off-ramp to Route 149, which will be closed, and there will be a detour, according to the Connecticut Department of...
Newtown battle over ‘top-tiered’ soccer complex pits artificial turf against sensitive environment

Shelton close to $4M in state funds to remediate Canal Street site for apartment plan

by Kimberly Glassman | Oct 16, 2025 | Uncategorized

Shelton Economic Development Corp. President Sheila O’Malley said the city is hoping to be awarded roughly $4 million in state grant money to remediate 235 Canal St., former home to Apex Tool & Cutter Co. The money will be used to remediate the property, which is...
Newtown battle over ‘top-tiered’ soccer complex pits artificial turf against sensitive environment

How do you move a river? Waterbury Mixmaster overhaul could do just that

by Kimberly Glassman | Oct 16, 2025 | Uncategorized

After a years-long study, the state Department of Transportation has narrowed down the possible design options for a long-term overhaul of the congested, crash-prone interchange of Interstate 84 and Route 8 in Waterbury known as the Mixmaster. A key difference between...
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