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Steelpointe Harbor developer welcomes tenant, eyes Bridgeport coal plant FacebookTwitterEmail 1of6 Brian Doyle sews tack webbing onto a sail that is 43 meters tall and 14 meters wide at North Sail in Milford.Johnathon Henninger / For Hearst Connecticut Media file photoShow MoreShow Less 2of6 Matthew Hunt, a 4 year worker at North Sail in Milford, waits for the tream to be ready to move the Wally 80 sail on April 7, 2017. At this point the sail is just a "blank," one single sheet of carbon fiber...

MRWC Announces Three Fairfield Cleanups Written by Mill River Wetland Committee Fairfield, CT - Mill River Wetland Committee (MRWC) announces 3 Fairfield cleanups as part of their 2021 celebration of Earth Month. MRWC and Action Waste have partnered with organizations across the spectrum of Fairfield’s environmental advocacy groups to offer opportunities for citizens of all ages to combat plastic litter, including the increased use of personal protective equipment (PPE) like masks,...

Written by Sarah Clark Fairfield County, CT - Thursday, April 8, Senator Tony Hwang (R-28) moderated an Informational Forum on the proposed project to divert water within the Greater Bridgeport system (which includes the towns of Bridgeport, Fairfield, Weston, Easton and the Mill River Watershed) to lower Fairfield County towns by increasing from the current 6.9 million gallons per day (MGD) and doubling to 14.2 MGD for the next 25 years.  The program and the insightful panelists provi...

Posted: Apr 08, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: April 8 This is a sketch of what the new, $5 million curling club proposed for Mill River will look like. Applications for funding went in this week. If they can secure funding, construction could start on the new rink this fall. (West Prince Curling Inc.)

For decades, Draper Corp. loomed over Hopedale The Milford Daily News HOPEDALE — With sounds of an excavator in the distance picking up tons of dirt, local historian Dan Malloy recounted growing up in town when the dominant force was Draper Corp. Not only was the business the lifeblood of the town, providing 4,200 jobs at its peak and award-winning housing, the factory was also, at one point, the biggest automatic loom maker in the world, producing more than 2,000 looms a month, according t...

Environmental Concerns RE Aquarion Plan to Divert Bpt System Water Written by Carol Barrios Fairfield, CT - Mill River Wetland Committee (MRWC) announced it has filed for Intervenor status, along with the Town of Fairfield, and other environmental advocacy groups in response to Aquarion Water’s application to the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (CT DEEP) seeking approval to transfer up to 14.2 million gallons of water per day for 25 years from its Gre...

Local roundup: MVCS girls cruise in state tournament opener Sydney Goodwin Modified: 3/16/2021 10:25:10 PM QUECHEE — The third-ranked Mid Vermont Christian School girls basketball team quickly put to rest any upset concerns, opening Tuesday night with an 18-3 run en route to a 69-22 victory over 14th-seeded Richford to open the VPA Division IV playoffs. Sydney Goodwin led the MVCS attack with 26 points, including 12 from the free-throw line. Rachel Horner-Richardson and Hayley Goodwin each ha...

Fairfield opposes Aquarion project designed to improve drought conditions in southwest CT FacebookTwitterEmail Volunteers from Trout Unlimited affix discarded Christmas trees to the banks and bed of the Mill River in an effort to restore its banks and natural flow in August of 2018.Contributed photo / Nutmeg Trout Unlimited FAIRFIELD — An Aquarion proposal to divert water to southwestern Connecticut has drawn backlash in Fairfield where the conservation commission says the project could harm ...

Local roundup: Perreault, WRV nearly surprise Proctor Ella Perreault Modified: 3/12/2021 3:52:36 PM PROCTOR, Vt. — If anyone is going to keep the Proctor High girls basketball team from winning the VPA Division IV state title later this month, they’ll have to find a way to shut down the Phantoms’ Maggie McKearin first. White River Valley did just that on Thursday night, although it wasn’t quite enough to avoid a 44-35 defeat. The Wildcats’ Ella Perreault drew the assignment of silenci...

HATFIELD – Jim Crowell of Hatfield ventured down to the Mill River dam by the Old Mill to do some fishing on Thursday and even though temperatures have been noticeably warmer, his spikes came in handy for the icy walk down to the shoreline. Crowell...