by Joelyn Leon | Jan 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
For Mayor Roberto Alves, a multimillion-dollar project to improve downtown’s walkability is just one small piece of the puzzle to creating a revitalized city center. The city’s ongoing streetscape project could be that injection. It will enter its second phase,...
by Joelyn Leon | Jan 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
City leaders have approved spending $2.6 million in state infrastructure funds to build a new booster pump station that supplies water to the community college area. The Bartholomew Road Booster Pump Station, built in 1969 and located in an underground vault at the...
by Joelyn Leon | Jan 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
“Nuclear power already provides most of our carbon-free power. That’s why we’re working with the federal government to find ways to expand nuclear capacity here in Connecticut,” he said, then added, “Before you rule out natural gas … that’s where most of our power...
by Joelyn Leon | Jan 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
After years of broken promises and delays the Congress Street Bridge linking downtown and the East Side over the Pequonnock River may finally after nearly three decades be rebuilt thanks to a massive infusion of federal dollars. On Thursday U.S. Rep. Jim Himes and...
by Joelyn Leon | Jan 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
The borough’s $14.8 million downtown infrastructure project is scheduled to be completed by Oct. 15, Mayor N. Warren “Pete” Hess said. The project involves upgrading Church and Maple streets, the Maple Street bridge and the intersection near Water Street. A little...
by Joelyn Leon | Jan 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
The city was approved for a $2 million federal grant to come up with ways to knit back together neighborhoods cleaved when I-91 was built in the 1960s, officials said Thursday. The “Reconnecting Neighborhoods” grant comes from the U.S. Department of...
