Wed. Aug. 25, Milford Green Drinks. 6:30 -8:30 p.m., Bridge House Restaurant, 49 Bridgeport Ave., Milford. via Wed 25th, Milford Green Drinks. 6:30 -8:30pm, Bridge House Restaurant, All Jobs Into Lean Green Jobs? – GREEN DRINKS. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with
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Once again, a private developer, Albert Gary, wants to buy part of what is known as Brackett Park in Hartford’s North End and build housing on it. He should leave open space open. Luckily, prior attempts to grab the 7.4 acres of precious open space in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods failed. A group
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The region’s overpopulation of deer cost Fairfield County towns more than $170 million a year in health care costs from tick-borne Lyme disease, car repairs and landscaping, according to a groundbreaking report bound to spark further debate on the issue of suburban hunting. via Excess deer population has its costs – Connecticut Post. Blog this!
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If anyone doubted that Connecticut’s train commuters like their bar cars, a new survey puts that notion to rest. Ninety percent of people who took the survey by the Connecticut Rail Commuter Council want bar car service to continue on Metro-North and 82 percent said they use the cars when their train has one. via
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Middlebury, Connecticut-based Chemtura Corp, a producer of specialty chemicals, will pay $26 million to clean up 17 contaminated sites located in 14 U.S. states, under an agreement announced Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Justice.

The settlement also requires Chemtura to perform further cleanup at the Laurel Park Inc Superfund site in Naugatuck, Connecticut, as provided in an existing consent decree.

Stevens Street is in the Hill section of the city, one of three neighborhoods where the Annie E. Casey Foundation is investing $500,000 to help rehabilitate 15 homes that will become affordable housing for individuals and families. The $500,000 went to the Greater New Haven Community Loan Fund, to boost the nonprofit’s Real Options Overcoming
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The Shoreline Greenway Trail creators have run into a few speed bumps in creating a multi-town nature trail, and the road to completion may be getting a bit bumpier. Guilford First Selectman Joseph Mazza and Branford First Selectman Anthony “Unk” DaRos said Tuesday they will keep their portions of grant money for the trail, though
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WEST HAVEN — The state Department of Transportation has received bids for construction of the Metro-North train station, and is expected to award a contract to the low bidder in September. Assistant City Planner Harry Eberhart confirmed the DOT had recently received eight bids. The lowest was $37.3 million from Manafort Brothers Inc. in Plainville.
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The city is now offering enhanced recycling to residents. Residents no longer have to separate their paper recyclables from their bottles, cans and plastics, the public works department announced Friday. via Bristol expanding recycling program – The Bristol Press. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via
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PLYMOUTH — The Connecticut Water Co. is inviting the public to two open houses in September to view the North Street reservoir property that is up for sale. The town is interested in buying the 177-acre property, which includes a 39-acre reservoir. In May, the town applied for a $500,000 state grant to help with
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GUILFORD — A revised proposal for residential wind turbines breezed through the final steps of the Planning and Zoning Commission’s approval process at Wednesday night’s meeting. Members unanimously approved the ordinance, which will allow residents to erect wind energy systems up to 120 feet tall in their yards. via Guilford OKs rules on wind turbines
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WESTBROOK — Resident Colin Bennett, a marine science technician in the Coast Guard Reserve, said he has let out a tentative sigh of relief after working for weeks to clean up oil in Venice, La., after the BP explosion. via Westbrook man wraps up work on oil spill – The New Haven Register. Blog this!
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HAMDEN — Think of it as the big scrape. An entire neighborhood, poisoned for decades by industrial waste buried beneath homes, yards, schools and playgrounds, is poised for the largest residential cleanup in state history. Evidence of contaminated soil surfaced a decade ago when the Board of Education, intent on renovating the former Hamden Middle
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The Nutmeg State will come up short on the $17 million a year it had hoped to collect from unclaimed nickel deposits on water and soda bottles, WCBS 880 Connecticut Bureau Chief Fran Schneidau reports. It turns out people are redeeming the bottles themselves, or perhaps buying less bottled water. LISTEN: WCBS 880 Connecticut Bureau
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DANBURY — Several City Council members are requesting that the full council explore ways to preserve the Lee Farm property as open space. The issue of preserving the land, which lies near Wooster Heights and Starrs Plain roads, came to the forefront recently when military officials announced that a portion of the Lee Farm property
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Having spent years watching public transit agency buses lumbering mostly empty along city and suburban streets, many of Connecticut’s pipe-dreaming officeholders have been inspired by the federal government. Why not match the mostly empty buses with a mostly empty commuter railroad system from New Haven to Hartford to Springfield, Mass.? via CHRIS POWELL: Commuter rail
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Sens. Chris Dodd and Joe Lieberman have announced nearly $15 million in four federal grants for transit improvement projects throughout Connecticut. The Connecticut DOT was granted the funds by the Federal Transit Administration for a series of projects benefiting Hartford, West Hartford, New Britain, Newington and Bridgeport.

Two grants totaling nearly $6 million will be used for land acquisition, professional services, and site work for the New Britain-Hartford Busway.

I would encourage every citizen who sees an area for improvement to step up and work with others to make Bristol an even better place to live. Instead of tearing down our city, why not take on the challenge of raising our ranking to the top 10 nicest places to live in the United States?
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This fall, in the first major building project that Simsbury has had in three years, a developer plans to break ground on the first phase of an outpatient medical facility called Dorset Crossing. The site is along Route 10 about a half-mile south of the Granby line. And in the spring, another developer hopes to
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GLASTONBURY – Town crews are planning to build an access road and parking area at the former 152-acre Longo property, now known as Minnechaug Farm — the town’s last operating dairy farm. The property abuts another 62 acres donated to the town by Harry and Butch James. Several miles of trails run through the properties.
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