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Doncasters Precision Casting announced last week that it has completed a $13 million expansion off Poquonnock Road driven by high demand for its airplane-component line.The 17,000-square-foot expansion, which involves fully automating its shell line that produces metal parts using a mold made from resin-coated sand, is considered a major milestone...
Avery Point program offers college credits, life skills to low-income, first-generation students
Jul 21 2025It was a sunny July morning, and rather than going to the beach, Senjianah Noze, a rising Norwich Free Academy senior, was in a stuffy classroom on the University of Connecticut Avery Point campus.At 7:15 a.m., Noze and 119 other NFA students in grades 9-12 had arrived at the NFA...
As the fog hovering over the redoubt and overgrown earthworks of Fort Griswold Battlefield State Park burned off Saturday morning, the sounds of cawing crows and pattering rain competed with the blares of barges from the nearby Thames River.It was from that waterway 244 years ago that 800 British troops...
A nearly decade-in-the-making plan for an apartment development on Gold Star Highway has met one of the final approval steps it needs to come to fruition.The Planning and Zoning Commission last week approved a plan for 395 market-rate apartments at 517, 529, 553 and 571 Gold Star Highway between the...
The Town Council is proposing to name Norwalk-based Spinnaker Acquisitions LLC as the preferred developer for the former Pleasant Valley Elementary School.After an executive session Tuesday, the Town Council at its Committee of the Whole took an initial vote to designate the company as the preferred developer for the town-owned...
Multi-unit residential developments and active senior housing soon will be allowed in the town's mixed-use industrial zone, amid demand for housing in the area.The zone is located between Route 117, Flanders Road, and the north part of Noank Ledyard Road, and is split by Interstate 95.The Planning and Zoning Commission...
