SeCTer breakfast focuses on region’s ‘strengths and opportunities’
5 Dec 2018
Economic Development
As president of the Eastern CT Workforce Investment Board, John Beauregard hated giving presentations from midway through the Great Recession until about 2014. He said he would walk into a room and be "a wet blanket."
But he was happy to be at Port 'N Starboard for the annual breakfast of the Southeastern Connecticut Enterprise Region (seCTer) on Wednesday, bringing news about the positive ways in which the local economy has "decoupled itself from the state."
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