by Joelyn Leon | Feb 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Board of Mayor and Burgesses has voted to discontinue a portion of Water Street to make way for the proposed new train station. Water Street is divided mainly by Maple Street. The section of Water Street from Trinity Health of New England Urgent Care to the Post...
by Joelyn Leon | 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 Joelyn Leon | 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 Joelyn Leon | 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 Joelyn Leon | 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 Joelyn Leon | 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...
