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Enter Hearst Top Workplaces contest; deadline extended FacebookTwitterEmail 2of5 ICON International Executive Vice President of Operations Richard Upton chats with coworkers at the company's headquarters in Greenwich, Conn. Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. The specialized finance company focuses on corporate barter transactions to help companies restore value to underperforming assets and fund corporate expenses. For the tenth conseecutive year, ICON International has been recognized in Hearst Connecticut Media Group's Top Workplaces list.Tyler Sizemore / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less ...

Dan Haar: Urban health centers seek to bend rules for vaccine equity FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT - MARCH 14: Volunteer Catalina Horak speaks with Haitian immigrant Anaida Jean-Pierre, 92, after she received the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine on March 14, 2021 in Stamford, Connecticut. The non-profit Building One Community organized the event to administer the Moderna vaccine to more than 350 people from the immigrant community. The vaccines were supplied by the federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Vaccine recipients are due to return in April for ...

Stratford has until Friday to figure out how to allocate COVID-19 stimulus bonanza FacebookTwitterEmail Stratford Mayor Laura Hoydick leads a remembrance vigil for COVID-19 victims and survivors on the one-year anniversary of the first U.S. death from the virus outside City Hall in Stratford, Conn. on Monday, March 1, 2021.Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut Media STRATFORD — A federal windfall of tens of millions of dollars is headed to town, but how taxpayers will benefit remains up in the air. Mayor Laura Hoydick, who has until Friday to present her budget proposal, said Tuesday she’s...

Dan Haar: Expect strife from this massive federal outlay FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker and Sens. Chris Murphy, center, and Richard Blumenthal hailed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Monday. The bill, combined with a smaller stimulus adopted in December, will send $5.8 billion to city, town and state coffers in Connecticut.Mark Pazniokas /The CT MirrorShow MoreShow Less 2of5 3of5 4of5 Gov. Ned Lamont welcomes the federal pandemic relief bill and wants to make sure the state stays “flexible” and “nimble” in how it spends the money heading into public cof...

DPH chief: Primary care docs likely to offer COVID vaccines by fall FacebookTwitterEmail A file photo of Connecticut Public Health Commissioner Dr. Deidre GiffordH John Voorhees III / Hearst Connecticut Media Responding to objections from doctors who want to provide COVID-19 vaccinations within their own offices, the state’s top public health official said Thursday she expects primary care physicians to be able to offer inoculations by late summer or early fall. The Connecticut State Medical Society is raising the concern, pointing to difficulties some patients have finding vaccine appointm...