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State Audit Finds Port Authority Failed to Bid Out $800K Contract

State Audit Finds Port Authority Failed to Bid Out $800K Contract

by Joelyn Leon | Aug 4, 2023 | Uncategorized

In its first report since a scathing 2019 audit led to then-Executive Director Evan Matthews being fired and the Office of Policy and Management gaining oversight of the quasi-public agency, auditors said the authority didn’t open bids before awarding a $794,790...
State Audit Finds Port Authority Failed to Bid Out $800K Contract

CT’s infrastructure czar visits three Greenwich sites for potential federal spending

by Joelyn Leon | Aug 3, 2023 | Uncategorized

State officials made a trip to Greenwich Friday to visit some sites that may be eligible for Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act money, including the neglected dam on the Pemberwick River that hadn’t been inspected in more than a decade. Connecticut is slated...
State Audit Finds Port Authority Failed to Bid Out $800K Contract

Second Norwich business park readies for takeoff

by Joelyn Leon | Aug 3, 2023 | Uncategorized

Plans were filed this week seeking state and federal approvals for a proposed access road into 384 acres of land in Occum, where Norwich plans to create a second business park. Each of three large condo lots shown on plans filed in the Norwich city clerk’s office...
State Audit Finds Port Authority Failed to Bid Out $800K Contract

Luxury housing at Seely School site seen as boon to EB workers

by Joelyn Leon | Aug 3, 2023 | Uncategorized

New luxury apartments, designed to ease pressure on the local housing market as Electric Boat ramps up hiring, are coming to the site of the former William Seely School off Route 12. The 304-unit housing development, called Triton Square, will feature a yoga studio,...
State Audit Finds Port Authority Failed to Bid Out $800K Contract

Latest federal funding provides further lift to Meriden airport

by Joelyn Leon | Aug 3, 2023 | Uncategorized

Meriden-Markham Municipal Airport will receive a $1.4 million grant from the federal government to repave the southern section of its taxiway, the latest in a series of improvements to the municipal airport. The funding was awarded through the Federal Aviation...
State Audit Finds Port Authority Failed to Bid Out $800K Contract

EPA: Raymark cleanup costs in Stratford increase by $45 million

by Joelyn Leon | Aug 3, 2023 | Uncategorized

The ongoing effort to remove thousands of truck loads of toxic waste buried across town by the defunct Raymark Industries is now expected to cost around $140 million, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. That figure is up from the $95 million the agency...
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