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Tonight, im Lauren Demarco thaa a im matt ackland. We begin with the protest that took over the national mallall today and even filledan pennsylvania avenue. D aven hundreds of thousands of peoplef showed up for the womens march on washington. Wash the crowd was bigger than organizers expected and included plenty of actors, musicians and activists. Organizers even had to change their plans to march to the t white house because there were too am people to fit along the original route. Fox5 as Lin...

Connecticut taxpayers could cover up to $80 million in renovation costs for the XL Center arena in downtown Hartford under the budget deal struck by Gov. Ned Lamont and legislative leaders this week. Among the multitude of provisions in the budget compromise is the outline of a deal that would see Los Angeles-based entertainment and events company Oak View Group bear at least $20 million in XL Center renovation costs in return for a long-term agreement to manage the roughly 15,500-seat sports an...

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Polluted by more than a century of metal manufacturing, the 17.4-acre former Anamet manufacturing campus near the center of Waterbury has sat abandoned and decaying for nearly two decades, visited mostly by homeless individuals, drug users and vandals. The city of Waterbury and state have poured more than $5 million into cleaning and preparing the property for reuse, much of it going into demolition of crumbling buildings. An additional $4 million in state brownfield grants has been earmarked fo...

Hartford is preparing an ambitious $250 million redevelopment of the commercial core of its Parkville Neighborhood. The plan centers on a $50 million application for state development dollars, which would be leveraged with $200 million from other sources, including possibly from the city, private investment and elsewhere.  Broadly, the plan would boost residential development, job training and new manufacturing development. Many of the finer points of the plan are not being released yet by offi...

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REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN 153 WATERBURY — Journalists from the Republican-American, The Sunday Republican and rep-am.com were recognized with 12 awards, including four first-place finishes, in the annual New England Newspaper & Press Association’s Better Newspaper competition. The regional news organization held its annual conference and awards announcements virtually this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Awards were announced in stages Thursday and Friday during the online meeting of journ...

Nation emerges stronger from challenges Watertown Democratic Town Committee Chairman Jeff Desmarais watched the inauguration from home Wednesday, and said he felt a sense of relief and cautious optimism that he hasn’t felt in a long time. “There is a lot of work to do, and it will be overwhelming not only for the new president but for all of us, but I think that the challenges we face, and the effort to overcome them, will make us a stronger, safer and maybe even kinder nation.” He offere...

The Kinneytown Dam in Seymour is shown Dec. 28. -STEVEN VALENTI/REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN SEYMOUR — It has been centuries since the Naugatuck River had runs of alewife, shad, striped bass or other fish that move from fresh water to the ocean and back again. A series of dams dating back to the 1700s helped fuel the Naugatuck Valley’s industrial might but prevented spawning runs of fish. The area’s industrial legacy also led to heavy pollution. Older locals recall the river running different colo...