Safer walkways along Fairfield Beach Road, more flood prevention near the shore and a revamped, ecofriendly parking lot are all due to arrive near the Penfield Pavilion this summer. Public Works Director Richard White laid out his plans for projects in the area this week. For more on this story, visit: Fairfield Plans Safer Walk,
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We can all agree that energy independence is a worthy objective, right? Alternative energy sources like solar power can help free the United States from fossil fuels and the grip of unstable Persian Gulf states. And wind power — wait, not so fast, says “Windfall,” Laura Israel’s urgent, informative and artfully assembled documentary. An account
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At issue is a more than $80 million backlog in applications for assistance through Connecticut’s Underground Storage Tank Petroleum Cleanup Program — and hundreds of gasoline stations that fuel industry representatives say are at risk of going out of business. The warning letter, issued Jan. 26 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s regional office in
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GREENWICH, Conn. — Greenwich’s state representatives applauded single-stream recycling, promoted ecological awareness and promised to vote for environmentally friendly legislation as they met with the public at an annual environmental forum. For more on this story, visit: Greenwich Reps Outline Environmental Imperatives | The Daily Greenwich. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend
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The General Assembly has passed a number of laws in recent years to protect bicyclists. Motorists must give bicyclists a three-foot clearance on the road, for example. Cars cannot overtake a bicycle traveling in the same direction and “cut it off,” or make an abrupt right turn in front of the bicycle rider. These are
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If Collinsville has become a destination, the Farmington River is no small part of that allure. For the month of February, the Gallery at Canton Public Library features an exhibition by Tom Cameron, a photographer who has captured the Farmington River’s wild and scenic beauty and whose photography underscores the magic of this magnificent resource.
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Check out this opportunity if you get the chance………. Sick of those high utility bills? Well we have just the solution for you! The City of New Haven is offering free home and apartment energy assessments to city residents this winter. A typical assessment can save over $250 per year on your utility bills! (That’s
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Rep. Tim Bishop (D-Southampton), is the ranking minority member of the House’s Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee and a member of the Congressional Long Island Sound Caucus. Leah Schmalz is director of legal and legislative affairs for Save the Sound, a program of Connecticut Fund for the Environment. The Long Island Sound recently received a
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In the 17 years Andy Rzeznikiewicz has been land manager for the Connecticut Audubon Society Grassland Bird Conservation Center in Pomfret, the land under his protection has grown from 154 acres to 700. For more than three years, Rzeznikiewicz has been at the front of efforts by Pomfret to purchase land or development rights in
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What’s a first-time father, at age 41, fresh out of the Alaskan wilds where he counted fish for wildlife agencies, supposed to do for work in New York City, months after the collapse of Lehman Brothers? For Connecticut native Mike Freeman, a reflective Gen X guy who feels more comfortable sidestepping grizzly bears in the
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In its official response to a complaint in federal court, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission accused the state of Vermont of sitting on its hands when given the chance to properly raise issues before the agency. Because of its inaction, claimed the NRC, Vermont has no standing to question the validity of the license renewal granted
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commissionhas issued a “Notice of Violation” to the Connecticut Yankee nuclear facility over the apparent partial ownership by two foreign companies of the dismantled power plant on the Connecticut River in Haddam Neck. Although the plant was idled in 1996 and fully decommissioned in 2007, it is still considered a nuclear
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I live in Connecticut partly by choice, but mostly by coincidence. I left Ohio to attend Trinity College in Hartford on a full scholarship. When I graduated, I faced two options. I could leave Connecticut and start fresh in Tampa, Fla., living for free with my favorite grandparent, or I could accept the job that
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Visitors to the newest exhibition at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History will have an opportunity to investigate our origins as hunter-gatherers, explore an interactive timeline on the history of food, and identify popular processed foods by only their ingredients. “Big Food: Health, Culture and the Evolution of Eating” opens on Feb. 11 and
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The Register’s Community Media Lab welcomes new blogs by two well-known area experts: Dr. Andrea Silber, who will discuss breast cancer in Get Healthy CT, and Chris Zurcher, who edits CT Environmental Headlines. For more on this story, visit: YOUR OPEN NEWSROOM: Welcoming two new blogs on the environment and on breast cancer – The
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The Town of Farmington now has a joint Conservation and Inland Wetlands Commission, established Thursday night at a special Town Council meeting. For more on this story, visit: New Conservation, Inland Wetlands Group Established – Farmington, CT Patch. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit
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Officials at Entergy Vermont Yankee have refused the state’s request to test for radioactive tritium in a former drinking water well at the plant site in Vernon. As VPR’s John Dillon reports, the state wants the testing in order to learn more about where the tritium is moving. Vermont Public Radio reports. For more on
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Middle school students who like to get their hands dirty can become apprentices at the Wakeman Town Farm, taking a role in planning, designing and planting the gardens there. The after-school program for boys and girls in grades six through eight will be conducted most Thursdays from 3 to 5 p.m. at the town farm,
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Kip Kolesinskas, the state soil scientist for Connecticut and Rhode Island for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service from 1991 to 2011, has joined the New England office of the American Farmland Trust. For more on this story, visit: The Day – Farmland trust names conservation scientist | News from southeastern Connecticut.
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New Milford has a proud farming past, and — unlike many other former agrarian communities — the town has made a commitment to maintaining farming as part of its future. We applaud that commitment and hope future community leaders will show the same respect for the preservation of farming and open space that past and
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