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    Local officials confident state still on board with offshore wind

    Local officials confident state still on board with offshore wind
    Gov. Ned Lamont may have balked at the most recent opportunity to sign a deal to supply more offshore wind power to the state, but local officials remain optimistic that a $310 million investment in State Pier was a sound one.

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    The City Council on Monday will consider resurrecting a joint budget task force with the school board that will function as a sort of early fiscal warning system before formal spending plans are introduced.
    Norwich Public Utilities is seeking city approval this fall to launch three major water system upgrade projects totaling $13.6 million in the spring.
    Montville ― Two “old, creepy” murals at Mohegan Elementary School were recently replaced with new ones painted in the summer by three members of the school’s staff. The p...
    The Board of Selectmen on Wednesday appointed one tenant and one landlord to the Fair Rent Commission, rounding out the five-member group.

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    The East Lyme Land Trust wants the town to spend another $400,000 on 5 acres of water frontage adjacent to the town’s $1.6 million swath of protected space near Pattagansett Lake.
    Mystic ― Families spent time searching for their pumpkins Thursday at Whittle's Willow Spring Farm. Michael Frey said he and his wife have been coming to the farm every ...
    The state Appellate Court has upheld a decision that five retired members of the Town of Groton Police Department should receive the same health benefits as employees.
    New London has begun soliciting for a new deputy police chief, a job that’s gone unfilled for seven years.
    New London ― The American Independence, a cruise ship with American Cruise Lines, traveled up the Thames River to New London around sunrise Thursday. The boat, which acco...

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    Two Norwich buildings were sold for $380,000 at a commercial real estate auction Wednesday to developers who plan to renovate them for apartments and storefront commercial space.
    A pedestrian remained in critical condition Wednesday after being struck by a motor vehicle on New London Turnpike, near Stanton Elementary School.
    A 23-year-old man held on a $5 million bond and poised to go to trial in the shooting death of a Norwich woman can post bond if his family can come up with the $350,000 to secure his release.
    Representatives of local, state and federal agencies played the part of evacuees during a Fishers Island evacuation simulation.
    Brick & Basil Wood-Fired Pizza opened Wednesday in the former Yantic River Inn building next door to where owner John Ryan had operated a trailer-based pizza shop for nearly 10 years.
    Rejecting arguments for a more lenient sentence, a judge in New London sentenced 43-year-old Jonathan K. Olsen to two years in prison for running over and killing a bicyclist in Stonington last year.
    Republican Mike France, a candidate for the 2nd Congressional District, has invoked ire for a tongue-in-cheek social media post promoting Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
    New London — Connecticut College saw a substantial rise in its Black and Latino student enrollments for its 2028 graduating class, while the white and Asian-American popu...
    Police were called out to New London high school on Wednesday for a reported “weapons call” that police said led to a lockdown that was quickly resolved.
    The former First Congregational Church annex in New London was demolished this week. Crews will begin the painstaking work of clearing rubble from the adjacent church collapse site.