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The State Education Resource Center will move its headquarters and dozens of employees to the former Timexpo Museum in the center of Waterbury beginning in early January. After years of negotiation, the quasi-public education agency last week signed a 10-year lease of the three-story brick building at 175 Union St., inside the Brass Mill Commons shopping center. Officials say the lease will bring new life to a building that has been vacant since the museum closed in 2015 and bring SERC’s consulting and training services close at hand to Waterbury public schools.

The State Education Resource Center will move its headquarters and dozens of employees to the former Timexpo Museum in the center of Waterbury beginning in early January. After years of negotiation, the quasi-public education agency last week signed a 10-year lease of the three-story brick building at 175 Union St., inside the Brass Mill Commons shopping center. Officials say the lease will bring new life to a building that has been vacant since the museum closed in 2015 and bring SERC’s consulting and training services close at hand to Waterbury public schools.

Polluted by more than a century of metal manufacturing, the 17.4-acre former Anamet manufacturing campus near the center of Waterbury has sat abandoned and decaying for nearly two decades, visited mostly by homeless individuals, drug users and vandals. The city of Waterbury and state have poured more than $5 million into cleaning and preparing the property for reuse, much of it going into demolition of crumbling buildings. An additional $4 million in state brownfield grants has been earmarked for continued cleanup.

In a comprehensive study involving one of the largest-ever samples of post-mortem brains, scientists at the Lieber Institute for Brain Development, in collaboration with researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, have pinpointed significant differences in gene expression in two specific regions of the brains of hundreds of patients who had bipolar disorder.

The First Coast Regional Spelling Bee will be held on April 1 via Zoom