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Statewide home sales strong in May

 June 19, 2013; Updated: 12:16 pm

Connecticut home sales rose 17 percent in May compared with the same month last year, but prices were only marginally higher, according to a report released today by RE/MAX of New England.
State...

Amarin drug to get hearing Oct. 16

 June 19, 2013; Updated: 11:23 am

Amarin Corp. plc, the Irish biotech with research-and-development headquarters in Groton, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will convene an advisory committee Oct. 16 to consider a supplemental new drug...

Survey indicates state businesses back sustainability

 June 19, 2013; Updated: 11:06 am

State businesses' buy-in to environmentally friendly initiatives has waned over the past three years, according to survey results released today by the Connecticut Business & Industry Association.

Rhode Island goes all in starting today

 June 19, 2013; Updated: 12:08 am

Lincoln, R.I. - The people sitting at the blackjack tables Monday at Twin River were the first in a new pool of gamblers that the venue expects to draw into its revenue stream with the start of a full casino operation.

Twin...

Region's home sales surged in May

 June 19, 2013; Updated: 12:28 am

New London County home sales were up dramatically in May compared with a year ago — the best month for total single-family sales in the past six years — but prices fell modestly.

Coldwell Banker makes acquisition

 June 19, 2013; Updated: 12:09 am

Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, which has offices around the region, announced Tuesday the acquisition of Century 21 - Greengarden Realty Inc. in Bridgeport.
The Bridgeport office and a...

Tractor Supply is coming to Colchester

 June 18, 2013; Updated: 11:03 pm

The Commercial Record reported this week that contruction has begun on a new tractor retail store at a 23-acre site. Tractor Supply will be located at 150 New London Road in Colchester and should be open for business later this year.

Chafee to appear at Misquamicut

 June 18, 2013; Updated: 11:03 pm

Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee and Westerly Town Manager Steven Hartford will address the 14th annual Misquamicut Business Association meeting at 8 a.m. Wednesday at Paddy's Beach.

The MBA is the organization that puts on Misquamicut...

Housing dedicated for low-income residents in New London

 June 18, 2013; Updated: 12:07 am

New London - A college student studying to be a dental hygienist and a single mom with three teenagers will be the tenants in a newly renovated HOPE house on Summer Street that was dedicated Monday.

Workers, public officials protest closure of AT&T call center in New London

 June 17, 2013; Updated: 4:28 pm

About 30 members of the Communications Workers of America union, joined by New London Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio and state Rep. Ernest Hewett, protested Monday outside the AT&T call center, saying corporate greed was driving a move to shift local...

Old Saybrook's Dock & Dine ready to rise above damage from Sandy

 June 16, 2013; Updated: 11:16 pm

Dock & Dine plans to reopen Friday in a renovated building that was damaged by Superstorm Sandy. After this season it will be torn down to make way for a new restaurant that will be raised to avoid future flooding.

Gift card policies should be posted

 June 16, 2013; Updated: 12:47 am

rank E. Bradley of New Britain, wanted to do something special for his wife on Mother's Day. So he went to Art of Touch in Newington and purchased a gift certificate for a half-hour massage, a facial and hand treatment for $103.87.

But it...

Route 85 dinosaur entrepreneur turning his energies to antiques

 June 15, 2013; Updated: 12:12 am

Salem businessman Roger Phillips turned a passion for fossils into Dinosaur Place; now, his collection of old machines and other unusual items has morphed into a new store on Route 85 called Nature's Art Village: PAST Antiques Market.

Lighthouse Inn once again heads for auction block

 June 15, 2013; Updated: 11:48 pm

State Marshal Joe Heap, who is overseeing the auction, said this week that the Business Loan Center, which took over ownership of the historic inn after a previous owner defaulted on a mortgage, has decided to walk away from the property and let it...

PROGRAM ON CPTV TO FEATURE PEQUOT MUSEUM

 June 15, 2013; Updated: 10:36 am

The Mashantucket Pequot Museum will be featured during a broadcast of a Connecticut's Cultural Treasures episode on Connecticut Public Television at 8 p.m. Thursday.
The show will be rebroadcast at...

Lusher is named top Realtor

 June 15, 2013; Updated: 11:03 pm

Marilyn Lusher of Waterford has been named 2013 Realtor of the Year by the Eastern Connecticut Association of Realtors.

Lusher, of RE/MAX Home Team in Waterford, was honored earlier this week at an assocation event at the Spa at Norwich Inn...

Bleak outlook seen for region's jobs

 June 14, 2013; Updated: 11:42 pm

Even as Connecticut as a whole posted "one of the healthiest job gains of the recovery" last quarter, the Norwich-New London region continues to bleed jobs, according to a new University of Connecticut report.

And the summer issue of The...

Pfizer's new top pills not selling fast

 June 14, 2013; Updated: 12:12 am

New York - Pfizer's touted two new drugs aren't selling as fast as the company anticipated, a top executive said Thursday, though the drugmaker expects the pills should still become blockbusters.

Eliquis, a blood thinner, and...

AT&T to close one NL office

 June 14, 2013; Updated: 11:42 pm

New London - AT&T confirmed Thursday that it will be closing its office at 200 State St. as part of a reorganization, but said another location on Washington Street will not be affected by the move.

AT&T employees at the State Street...

Nonprofits get People's grants

 June 14, 2013; Updated: 11:42 pm

People's United Community Foundation announced this week more than $30,000 in grants to local nonprofits.

The foundation, philanthropic arm of People's United Bank, gave its largest donation, $12,000, to the Franklin-based Eastern...

Casinos report modest declines in May slot revenues

 June 14, 2013; Updated: 11:32 pm

Southeastern Connecticut's casinos experienced their lowest declines of the year in monthly slot revenues last month.

Jackson Laboratory official to address chamber group

 June 14, 2013; Updated: 11:42 pm

The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine will be center stage next Friday when the Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut hosts a business breakfast featuring one of the lab's top officials.

Michael E. Hyde, vice president for...

Pfizer gets $1.38B patent settlement

 June 13, 2013; Updated: 10:24 pm

Pfizer Inc. will receive about $1.38 billion in a settlement with Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd. and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. over a nearly decade-old patent case, the company said Wednesday.

The total settlement, to be...

High prices slice personal income in Connecticut

 June 13, 2013; Updated: 10:24 pm

Hartford - Personal income for Connecticut residents rose a weak 2.2 percent in 2011, lower than the rest of the United States, according to federal data released Wednesday.

The Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis...

Former Pfizer workers eligible for federal benefits

 June 13, 2013; Updated: 10:24 pm

About 20 former Pfizer Inc. employees and contractors in Groton have been certified as eligible for federal benefits because their jobs were sent overseas, the state Department of Labor said Wednesday.

Workers associated with Pfizer's...

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