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According to the Danbury Fire Department, an observant city police patrol unit happened to notice some black smoke billowing in the area of Old Newtown Road in the early morning hours on Friday (January 29). After a quick survey of the area, the police unit determined that a box truck belonging to Berkshire Food Distribution had caught fire.
From there, the police patrol unit immediately notified the fire department, advising them that the truck was parked very close to other box trucks, which could be potential means for the blaze to spread.
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The City of Danbury also has a master plan to purchase 210,000 square feet of office space from The Summit s owners and turn it into classrooms and labs for 1,400 Danbury middle and high school students.
But some issues need to be addressed. CT Insider has reported that to receive the state grant, which includes an 80% reimbursement of the school s estimated $90 million costs, blueprints must be handed over to the state by October 1. To get an idea of what this mega corporate complex looks like, check out this video produced in 2011 when it was still The Matrix.
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East Hartford s Rentschler Field has been announced as one, and I saw that the Xfinity Theater and it s massive parking lot is a big testing site. In Waterbury, the NVCC/Waterbury UConn campus is a massive area with a lot of unused parking lot space, but it s another longtime Waterbury higher learning institution that is being offered up as the location for New Haven County s first drive-through mass vaccination site.
According to a press release from Post University, the University located on Country Club Road in Waterbury has partnered up with Waterbury Hospital to open up New Haven County s first mass COVID-19 vaccination drive-thru site this Monday, January 25. If you qualify under Connecticut s Phase 1A or 1B, you can make an appointment, which is required to get the vaccine, by