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In New Milford, talks are centering around a building on East Street that until recently served as the headquarters of the Board of Education. The building is now empty after mold was discovered in it. The talks are aimed at deciding if it’s worth spending many millions of dollars to repair the building to bring it up to code. There are now plans to decommission the building’s boiler and drain the piping to kill off some of the mold.
Last Friday, members of the Connecticut Department of Liquor Control along with members of the Danbury Police Special Investigations Division and officers from the Patrol Division, inspected seven area businesses to ensure their compliance with State of Connecticut liquor laws. The investigation began after the Danbury Police Department received a growing number of complaints. Four businesses were cited. The full list of those businesses is available below: ************************************************* 1- La Costenita: Found to have no patio permit, Unlawful Conduct (Hookah smoking) 2- La ...
A new report is good news for Danbury construction workers. During the first six months of 2023, total construction spending in the United States amounted to $917.4 billion—an inflation-adjusted increase of 16.5% from the same period in 2020. As of this past July, there were over 7.9 million people employed nationwide in construction, an all-time high. Construction workers in the Danbury metro area earn a median annual wage of slightly more than $7,000 more than the national average.
Big things are happening at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield. The museum has received $500,000 from the state’s Good to Great Grant Program to implement major renovations of the exterior campus. While the attendance at the museum is respectable by any measure, a planned outdoor renovation is expected to draw even more visitors. The $3.25 million renovation of its 3-acre campus will include new and more accessible pedestrian pathways to link Main Street and the sculpture garden, along with amphitheater seating. Groundbreaking is scheduled for this fall, with a reopening s...
A group of teenagers in Ridgefield is now pushing for limits on gas-powered leaf blowers… claiming that among their favorite things to do on Sunday mornings is to sleep in. They say they can’t do that because all too often they are awakened by the loud noise of leaf blowers outside their windows. The teens… along with some adult volunteers… are now busy, trying to collect hundreds of signatures for a petition that would limit the use of gas-powered leaf blowers to six-week spring and six-week fall cleanup seasons and in emergency situations such as hurricanes or high...