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The town plans to join the Connecticut Municipal Development Authority (CMDA) in its latest effort to bolster economic development in the Route 1 downtown area.CMDA is a quasi-public authority established by the state legislature and the governor's office to help towns and cities achieve their development goals, particularly creating housing...
The Town Council has chosen Spinnaker Real Estate Partners and its proposal for an apartment complex as the preferred development team and project concept for the redevelopment of the Pleasant Valley School property.The Norwalk-based company is proposing to construct 300 market-rate and affordable apartments with outdoor space for tenants and...
An online “geography resource” that regularly singles out U.S. locales has taken a shine to southeastern Connecticut.In an article posted last Wednesday, World Atlas identifies “8 Places To Call Home in Connecticut in 2025,” putting New London, Groton and Norwich, in that order, at the top of the list.Colchester, a...
A new initiative will look at how increasing different housing types, such as townhouses or cottage communities, could help meet Groton’s demand for housing as the defense industry expands.The town received a $350,000 grant from the Department of Defense Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation for a “Mission-Compatible Missing Middle...
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...
