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The move will turn the group’s South Meadows recycling facility into a transfer station as MIRA prepares for a similar fate for its larger, separate trash-to-energy plant on nearby Maxim Road next year after the state refused to subsidize hundreds of millions of dollars in upgrades to the MIRA facilities.

Paul Brassil of Medfield has joined the company as senior vice president/chief information officer and will oversee PCU’s information technology and digital innovation efforts. Brassil has more than 25 years of experience in the information technology leadership field with entities such as Commonwealth Medicine (a division of UMass Medical School), the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, EMC Corp. and Siemens IT Solutions and Services Inc. He holds an MS in computer information systems from Ben...

Staff report The 131st Annual Eastern Connecticut State University commencement exercises will take place in person May 15, adjacent to the Eastern campus at 83 Windham St., Willimantic.   To ensure the safety of graduates, their guests and other attendees, the university will follow strict social-distancing protocols and other current guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Connecticut State Department of Public Health. Accordingly, graduates will be limited to two guests each, and...

Published March 12. 2021 11:33AM  Jim Izzo, Special to The Times Since March is Women’s History Month, what better time to introduce an excellent book that honors 13 Connecticut women by profiling their lives and their “lasting social, political, and cultural contributions to both their own state and to their nation.” The book is “More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Connecticut Women” by Antonia Petrash. Size doesn’t matter, not in terms of the length of this book (150 pages) or in te...

Published March 12. 2021 6:52AM  Roberta J. Vincent, Special to The Times The following three celebrated athletes all took different paths to stardom and garnered different results as well. James Justice, Class of 1973 Justice played baseball and basketball at the freshman, JV and varsity levels and football at the freshman and varsity levels. He also was a member of the track team. He was named Class Athlete and received the Robert O. Fletcher & Charles Willey Cup. Justice started competitive...

Mon, 03/08/2021 - 1:00pm The City of Rockland and the Town of Thomaston are among recipients of municipal stream crossing grants awarded by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection in 2021. Maine voters approved a bond package in 2018 that included $5 million dollars for vital infrastructure improvements at municipal stream crossings. These monies fund competitive grants that match local funding for the upgrade of culverts at stream crossings on municipal roads. The awarded pr...

Middletown-area residents make honors lists, graduate Press Staff FacebookTwitterEmail Coastal Carolina University CONWAY, S.C. — Coastal Carolina University graduated local students during its all 2020 commencement ceremony Dec. 11. They are: Zak Gardiner, a finance major from Portland, and Rachel Russo, a management major from Clinton. Gettysburg College GETTYSBURG, Pa. — Students with a quality-point average in the range of 3.300 to 3.599 for a semester’s work are placed on the dean’...

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DANIELSON — A 40-year-old Willimantic woman will be sentenced to two years in prison for injecting a man with a fatal dose of cocaine in Windham, prosecutors said. Teresa Deriso, previously of 820 Wethersfield Ave., Apt. G6, in Hartford, pleaded guilty on Friday in Danielson Superior Court to one count of second-degree manslaughter in connection with the Oct. 3, 2017, death, Windham State’s Attorney Anne Mahoney said. Under an agreement with the state and special public defender Robert Kapp...