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14/01/2025

Legal arguments in a case that has energized Fairfield and (to a lesser extent) Bridgeport...

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14/01/2025

About a hundred neighbors packed Town Hall to capacity on Monday.

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14/01/2025

OLD SAYBROOK — The town’s Police Commission voted 6-0, with one abstention, on Monday to freeze an annual salary increase for Chief Michael Spera.

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14/01/2025

STAMFORD – It’s a tale of boilers gone bad. Now two city-owned community center buildings need significant repairs.

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13/01/2025

The owner of the popular restaurant Stonebridge has agreed to pay $875,000 to a Shelton man who claimed in a lawsuit he was severely injured when the restaurant’s bartender crashed into his car after drinking on the job.

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13/01/2025

STAMFORD – A parcel in a deeply desirable downtown spot is so small and constricted that it’s been considered undevelopable.

The lot at West Park Place, facing Columbus Park, is a remnant of 1960s urban renewal.

It abuts Curley’s, the little silver diner with the big red sign that fought the city and developers to keep its downtown address.

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12/01/2025

The perfect Sunday read... thank you, Jacques Pépin (and Brian Scott-Smith for the interview).

He’s the quintessential American chef with a French accent. Jacques Pepin, who has called Connecticut home for almost 50 years, turns 90 later this year and shows no signs of […]

12/01/2025

Interviewing Jacques Pepin || A damning police report in Old Saybrook || Halls Road takes big step forward || Tong Speaks- https://mailchi.mp/ctexaminer.com/sunday-digest-may-12-6743684

10/01/2025

A Superior Court judge will begin hearing arguments Monday on whether the Connecticut Siting Council arbitrarily picked its own route for high-power lines through Bridgeport and Fairfield, ignoring the opinions of residents and officials from those communities.

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10/01/2025

BRIDGEPORT – Pointing to “alarming” cuts to district staff and a slew of special education complaints, members of a State Board of Education committee said Thursday that they plan to bring Bridgeport schools’ $32 million budget deficit to the attention of the entire board and the Education Commissioner within the next few weeks.

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10/01/2025

A significant step forward in plans to redevelop Old Lyme's Commercial District -- with a up-tempo timeline, according to Attorney Bill Sweeney.

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10/01/2025

OLD SAYBROOK— Town officials tiptoed around the findings of an outside study released Wednesday that painted a damning picture of the local police department, and suggested that high turnover rates and staffing shortages were the direct result of a “toxic” and “unpleasant” work environment under longtime Chief Michael Spera.

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10/01/2025

Angela Carella has the latest on 3 new ordinances in Stamford aimed at improving the quality of life for local residents in the city.

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09/01/2025

MADISON — Town officials are looking at holding a second referendum on the Academy School community center project after costs for the project skyrocketed far above the approved budget.

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09/01/2025

The latest on sharp cuts proposed for 4th and 5th graders in Madison schools...

MADISON — Parents of 4th and 5th graders are protesting potential schedule changes next year that could significantly decrease the amount of arts and world language instruction these students receive. […]

09/01/2025

Parents of 4th and 5th graders in Madison are protesting potential schedule changes next year that could significantly decrease the amount of arts and world language instruction these students receive.

MADISON — Parents of 4th and 5th graders are protesting potential schedule changes next year that could significantly decrease the amount of arts and world language instruction these students receive. […]

09/01/2025

Bridgeport school officials say the State of Connecticut hasn't given them enough money to run the district. Parents grilled school leaders yesterday about what the $32 million budget shortfall will mean for student programs.

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09/01/2025

Civil rights attorney DeVaughn Ward will remain the state prison system’s ombudsman if Gov. Ned Lamont accepts an advisory board’s top choice in a second attempt to fill the job.

But Ward and the Correction Advisory Committee both say more funding and resources are needed to effectively do the job.

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