East Hartford has received a $4 million grant to help it purchase the former downtown Post Office on Main Street and renovate the historic building as an annex to the Raymond Library. The $4 million is a part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, the government funding package that will bring $38.7 million to organizations in Connecticut’s Congressional First District. “I am proud to have secured over $38.7 million for Connecticut’s First District that will support victims of gun violence, move our infrastructure projects forward, and provide our community members with resources like workforce training and financial literacy programming,” Larson said. Ideas for the post office addition in 2021 included a coffee shop to help draw more people to the library and a permanent office for Literacy Volunteers of America, Town Council Chair Richard Kehoe said at the time.
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