First Selectman Fred Camillo proclaimed Wednesday, April 21 as the official Patricia Burns Day in Greenwich as the Greenwich Commission on Aging and the Senior Center honored her retirement after 9 years as the Board Chair of the Greenwich Commission on Aging. In a small in-person gathering at the Senior Center, 299 Greenwich Avenue, board…
STAMFORD, CT – Today Mayor David Martin announced Stamford’s new Residential Food Scrap Recycling Program — providing residents an environmentally safe way to dispose of food scrap waste. “If we can get a substantial portion of that food waste out of the garbage and into composting — it not only saves us money, but it…
STAMFORD, CT – Mayor David Martin announced lthe Katrina Mygatt Recycling Center will add an additional day of operations and be open every Friday beginning this past Friday, April 9. This updates the Recycling Center’s operational hours to Tuesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 7 am to 2 pm. “My budget proposal this year will fully…
HARTFORD, CT – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies, on Wednesday applauded the inclusion of rail funding in the American Jobs Plan as laid out by the Biden administration this morning: “The rail funding proposed in President Biden’s American…
It’s that time of the year again when we shift the clocks one hour forward and when Daylight Savings Time begins. This year this happens late overnight tonight, when 2 a.m. will instantly become 3 a.m. and although we will lose an hour of precious sleep time, the promise of getting an “extra” hour of…
WETHERSFIELD, CT – Connecticut payroll employment was essentially unchanged in January 2021, dropping just 100 jobs (‑0.01%) after a revised 4,600 (‑0.3%) decrease in December 2020. This is the third monthly job loss after six consecutive seasonally adjusted monthly jobs gains. Statewide employment is now 127,300 (-7.5%) positions lower than a year ago at 1,570,700…
Wilton, CT – The cars were snaked through Wilton Library’s parking lot up to its Drive-Thru Window like a conga line, with drivers eager to receive their free copies of Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir, the Wilton Reads 2021 selection. With the library’s choice of Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey, the community will explore racism…
GasBuddy is warning motorists last week that the national average may breach $3 per gallon by Memorial Day after OPEC’s meeting today closed with no meaningful increase in oil production. The group’s large cuts to oil production in 2020 will generally be extended, with just Russia and Kazakhstan granted small exemptions to raise oil production…
HARTFORD, CT – Governor Ned Lamont on Tuesday announced that the Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has launched a revitalized web portal for the agency that also increases the number of transactions customers are able to complete online. New online services added during this launch include the ability to request a duplicate driver’s license,…
Starting Monday, February 8, the Wilton Library will resume in-person services, albeit by appointment only. Patrons that would like to take advantage of what the library and its facility has to offer can schedule a time to visit the building Mondays through Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. According to the library, the appointments…