Norwich City Democrats unanimously endorsed slates of six candidates each for City Council and Board of Education on Thursday, as well as mayoral candidate Mark Bettencourt for the Nov. 2 election.
Rather than nominating individuals, the Democratic Town Committee chose to nominate slates of candidates in one vote, adding one council candidate after the slate was announced. Council candidates will run under the banner, “Responsible Leadership for Norwich, 2021,” and the school board candidates as the “Our Children, Our Future, 2021” slate.
Bettencourt said the major part of the Norwich mayor’s job is economic development. He said incumbent Republican Mayor Peter Nystrom, endorsed by his party Wednesday night, has focused on “big box projects.” Bettencourt said that type of development is needed in Norwich, including plans for a second business park in Occum. But he said the city really needs an investment and focus on neighborhoods to attack blight and improve resi
Norwich Over the past five years, the city has used a federal environmental assessment grant to study prominent properties, from the derelict YMCA on Main Street and the former American Legion in Laurel Hill to the former Hebrew school on Church Street.
With the end of the grant period looming and $35,879 remaining, Planning Director Deanna Rhodes is seeking commercial property owners interested in selling or redeveloping properties with potential petroleum contamination or old underground tanks that pre-date their ownership. The money must be spent by Sept. 30, the close of the current federal fiscal year.
The remaining money is in the petroleum portion of the original grant and can be used to do a phase 1 study, which includes document research on the history of uses for the property and assessments of whether underground tanks might be present and removing them if they pre-date the current property ownership.
Published April 05. 2021 12:01AM
Samuel and Monette Pierre
Coming from Haiti, we feel blessed to call ourselves American citizens and to be able to raise our three beautiful children in a school like the Integrated Day Charter School, because in a great and generous America, you don’t have to speak perfect English to be accepted and to be treated equally, whether it is for work or for school.
Recently, when Governor Lamont announced in his budget the increased funding to charter schools, he simply responded to his duty to make sure that every kid is treated equally by receiving the same quality of education, regardless of which type of public school they choose to attend. He understands that in this country the doors of opportunity must be open for every child.