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Published April 15. 2021 11:15AM | Updated April 15. 2021 10:03PM Stonington — State Rep. Greg Howard, R-Stonington, will host an Earth Day cleanup of the Pawcatuck River on Saturday, April 24. The cleanup will take place from 9 to 11 a.m. with parking on Stillman Avenue Extension. Howard asks anyone interested in participating to register at repgreghoward.com/earthday.  All necessary personal protective equipment, including masks and gloves, as well as garbage bags will be provided while supplies last.  

The move falls short of demands by a citizens' climate convention set up by Macron, which had called for flights to be banned if trains could cover the same distance in under four hours. The government already told Air France it had to cut short-haul flights in return for a public aid package to help it weather a downturn caused by Covid-19 restrictions. The draft law means that competitors cannot lay a claim to those routes either. The bill ran into fierce resistance from MPs from south-western France, home to the Airbus aircraft maker and many of its sub-contractors. Joel Aviragnet, a Soci...

A number of companies say it disenfranchises some voters. Some, such as Delta Air Lines and Coca-Cola, are based in Georgia, where state lawmakers have the power to raise state taxes. Delta chief executive Ed Bastian said in a public memo that his decision to speak out was informed by discussions with leaders and employees in the Black community. The companies criticising the law so far represent a sliver of the US business landscape. Yet they are part of a growing group of companies shedding their reluctance to speak out on politically controversial social issues that matter to many of their...

Groton — Two sailboats that were blown ashore on a beach at Bluff Point State Park and Coastal Reserve during a storm last October remain abandoned months later. The vessels, named Waypoint and Motivation, on the sandy shore have piqued the interest of passersby, such as Stephanie Belser, who walks the Bluff Point trails every two or three days. Belser said she first noticed the boats, located pretty far down what is officially called Bushy Point Beach, a day or two after a nor'easter in October. She called the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to report them a...

Stonington — The proposed Mystic River Boathouse Park project, which has made little progress since residents approved a $2.2 million bond to buy and develop the Route 27 site in 2016, has now taken two major steps forward. On Wednesday, the Board of Selectmen voted to sign a memorandum of understanding with the Stonington Community Rowing Center that delineates the obligations of both parties in the development and operation of the public park. The agreement is expected to help the rowing center raise funds as it formalizes its ability to use and develop the town-owned si...