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    City Council approves modified New London city and school budget plans

    The budgets each show a $1 million increase and combined with the revaluation means an average $750 tax bill increase for residential property owners.

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    Norwich has an opportunity to lure a new minor league baseball team to Dodd Stadium with some effort, key stadium advocate Glenn Carberry told the City Council Monday.
    The announcement comes nearly six months after residents voted 367-245 to borrow the $15.5 million to pay to install air conditioning in five of the town’s six school buildings.
    The $5.5 million expansion project will serve the two communities where residents over age 50 comprise about half the population.
    State Rep. Christine Conley, D-Groton, is being challenged by Groton Representative Town Meeting member Susan Deane-Shinbrot.

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    Republican incumbent Doug Dubitsky will face Democratic challenger Aaron Spruance this fall for the 47th state House district seat.
    Three-term incumbent Republican state Rep. Brian Lanoue was endorsed unanimously for the 45th District state House seat, while district Democrats continue to seek a candidate to oppose him.
    As self-storage facilities continue to pop up across the region and state, we’ll be looking at why this type of business is so popular and why some communities don’t want any more of them.
    A pilot program at Norwich Technical High School this year to train students to test and repair automotive emissions systems was successful and will expand to other tech schools.
    Now 21, and a first-generation college graduate of a Dominican family, Giana De La Cruz on Sunday addressed 380 of her classmates and thousands of friends and family members as the class speaker at Connecticut College’s 106th Commencement.

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    New London ― Hundreds of motorbikes gathered downtown Sunday for the Blessing of the Bikes organized by the New London Motorcycle Club at the Waterfront Park. The annual...
    The town wants the future developer of the former Groton Heights School to keep the historic two-story structure, if feasible.
    The Blissworks Yoga and Healing Arts studio on State Street is poised to close after two decades in downtown New London.
    A new state marketing campaign aims to promote the humble oyster and the people who get them from the seabeds to local restaurant kitchens and diners’ plates.
    A civil lawsuit judgment against New London has led to calls for the dissolution of a shade tree commission and the repeal of 14-year-old inspection and maintenance rules.
    The state plans to begin replacing the bridge, carrying Groton Long Point Road over the Amtrak railroad, in two years.
    Ledyard Bill Library hosted founder Henry Bill’s 200th birthday party Saturday.
    Mall owner comments on it plans for Waterford property in wake of its agreement to sell another of its Connecticut properties, the Enfield Square mall it purchased in 2019.
    Maria Cruz-Saco, a Connecticut College-endowed professor of economics, has been honored by the college for her research regarding Latin American economies.
    The budget ― which includes town operations and capital expenses as well as the town’s share of the Lyme-Old Lyme school spending plan ― is down about $1 million, or 7.8%, from current spending.