by Kimberly Glassman | Feb 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
From demolition of a portion of the former Founders Plaza office park to the sale of town-owned property for a 400-unit apartment complex, 2025 will be another year to push ahead large-scale economic redevelopment projects in East Hartford. Town staff are setting the...
by Kimberly Glassman | Feb 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
A Hartford-based rail advocate who travels frequently, Casey Moran, has pitched an idea to build a rail line that would connect Bradley International Airport to the region’s rail network. The Bradley Airport Rail Link would provide a one-seat train ride to...
by Kimberly Glassman | Feb 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
A new, undated memo from the DOT directs the department to give grant preferences to “communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average.” The action comes after the DOT announced that Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy — who was confirmed to...
by Kimberly Glassman | Jan 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
Residents on both the east and west sides of the city say they live with intolerable traffic noise caused by highway construction projects and hope state officials can help. Two years ago, the state Department of Transportation embarked on a $500 million highway...
by Kimberly Glassman | Jan 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
The administration of President Donald J. Trump has informed the Connecticut Department of Transportation it would, “to the maximum extent permitted by law,” link federal transportation funding to policies on masks, vaccines, tolls and immigration enforcement. The...
by Kimberly Glassman | Jan 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
A renewable energy company has proposed a 12,000-panel solar farm on Lantern Hill Road. The proposal before the Connecticut Siting Council, by North Haven-based Greenskies Clean Energy, LLC, would transform 28 acres near the border of Ledyard into a 4.99-megawatt...