Press Conference with Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty
TIME: Plan to arrive at 9:00am (Begins at 9:30 sharp)
DATE: Tuesday August 30, 2016
PLACE: I-84 Project, Waterbury
Congresswoman Esty is our Representative on the U.S. House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee!
I hope you can join us and show our support for continued attention to the Nation’s Infrastructure!
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Eastern League President To Speak At Dunkin' Donuts Park Press Conference Thursday
HARTFORD — The head of minor league baseball's Eastern League will be at the still-uncompleted Dunkin' Donuts Park to speak with reporters on Thursday, two days after the Hartford Yard Goats released a schedule that will have the team playing its first home game at the stadium on April 13.
Construction delays forced the team, a Double A affiliate of the Colorado Rockies, from its home field during this year's inaugural season.
Joe McEacharn, league president, will be joined Thursday morning by team owner Josh Solomon and I. Charles Mathews, head of the Hartford Stadium Authority, the team announced Wednesday afternoon.
The team's general manager, Tim Restall, said the officials will give an update on "the progress of the stadium."
Mathews said he planned to attend the press conference to "make sure that the Eastern League, the team and the city understood that there's no space" between them. "We are fully supportive," he said. Earlier this week, Mayor Luke Bronin said the city had rejected a proposal from the Yard Goats to loan the city money to finish construction in return for conditions favorable to the team. He said the city, though it shares a sense of urgency to complete the ballpark, would work with Arch Insurance to finish the work. Arch, the surety guaranteeing completion of the ballpark, has been investigating who is at fault for construction delays and cost overruns, and trying to determine how work should proceed.
On Wednesday, Mathews said that while the city could not agree to Solomon's proposal to loan the city money, the city was considering making a counterproposal should an agreement with Arch Insurance fall through. CLICK TITLE TO CONTINUE
Wind Developers Look to Goshen as Potential Site for Connecticut's Second Wind Farm
Drivers going through Colebrook on Route 44 may notice the state’s first two commercial turbines towering over treetops a short distance from the road. Now, the owners of those turbines are proposing to build a second, larger wind farm in the nearby town of Goshen.
Wind energy development in Connecticut has been challenged by the state’s small size, scarcity of wind, and the lingering effects of a three-year ban the state placed on turbine construction while it figured out how to regulate them.
But BNE Energy of Colebrook is eyeing a tract of heavily forested land owned by the Torrington Water Company in Goshen as a potential site to build six more turbines. At peak, the new wind farm would produce four times as much electricity as the farm in Colebrook.
"It's a great location. In our opinion, it's one of the best, if not the best site in Connecticut," said Paul Corey, BNE's chairman. "From looking at all factors: the water company owns over 5,000 acres of land, we'd literally be on a ridgeline, there's very few houses in the area."
BNE CEO Greg Zupkus said although the property is surrounded by protected watershed land, it could still one day be sold for development. He said building turbines there could help preserve open space.
“[That] means no chemicals from lawns flowing down the hills. No oil dripping off a truck in their driveway, or a car dripping in the driveway and the rain washes it through the forest into the reservoir," Zupkus said. CLICK TITLE TO CONTINUE
Storrs campus opens $105 million dormitory
STORRS University of Connecticut sophomores Lana Delasanta and Cassandra Cavallaro were among the first students on Wednesday to move into NextGen Hall, the first completed building under the Next Generation Connecticut expansion initiative.
State and university officials are touting the eight-story, 210,000-square-foot, 727-bed dormitory as a place where like-minded students majoring in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) can collaborate and study together.
Delasanta and Cavallaro said they are looking forward to doing just that.
“I love it, especially with the study room down the hallway,” said Delasanta, a cognitive science major from Rhode Island. “There’s so many places in this building where people can work together and collaborate in learning communities. … I like communal-style living because it’s easier to meet people.”
“It is beautiful,” added Cavallaro, a nutritional science major, also from Rhode Island. “It is so much nicer than the dorm I stayed in last year.”
In addition to dorm rooms, NextGen Hall has an “Innovation Zone,” featuring a 3D printer and other resources for shared study and projects, a computer lab, work stations, spaces for events, and study lounges.
Most of the students living there are freshmen and sophomores, as well as some upper classmen who hold leadership positions in eight specialized “learning communities,” such as STEM Honors, Women in Math, Science and Engineering, innovation, public health, and economics.
“It looks nothing like any of the dorms where many of you got dropped off by your parents years ago,” UConn President Susan Herbst told a large gathering who attended the opening ceremony. “This is a completely different way to see education and ways to support student success. It won’t be just a place that they come to sleep and hang their clothes; it’s something much more than that and really has an intellectual, educational basis.” CLICK TITLE TO CONTINUE
On Wednesday, Mathews said that while the city could not agree to Solomon's proposal to loan the city money, the city was considering making a counterproposal should an agreement with Arch Insurance fall through. CLICK TITLE TO CONTINUE
Wind Developers Look to Goshen as Potential Site for Connecticut's Second Wind Farm
Drivers going through Colebrook on Route 44 may notice the state’s first two commercial turbines towering over treetops a short distance from the road. Now, the owners of those turbines are proposing to build a second, larger wind farm in the nearby town of Goshen.
Wind energy development in Connecticut has been challenged by the state’s small size, scarcity of wind, and the lingering effects of a three-year ban the state placed on turbine construction while it figured out how to regulate them.
But BNE Energy of Colebrook is eyeing a tract of heavily forested land owned by the Torrington Water Company in Goshen as a potential site to build six more turbines. At peak, the new wind farm would produce four times as much electricity as the farm in Colebrook.
"It's a great location. In our opinion, it's one of the best, if not the best site in Connecticut," said Paul Corey, BNE's chairman. "From looking at all factors: the water company owns over 5,000 acres of land, we'd literally be on a ridgeline, there's very few houses in the area."
BNE CEO Greg Zupkus said although the property is surrounded by protected watershed land, it could still one day be sold for development. He said building turbines there could help preserve open space.
“[That] means no chemicals from lawns flowing down the hills. No oil dripping off a truck in their driveway, or a car dripping in the driveway and the rain washes it through the forest into the reservoir," Zupkus said. CLICK TITLE TO CONTINUE
Storrs campus opens $105 million dormitory
STORRS University of Connecticut sophomores Lana Delasanta and Cassandra Cavallaro were among the first students on Wednesday to move into NextGen Hall, the first completed building under the Next Generation Connecticut expansion initiative.
State and university officials are touting the eight-story, 210,000-square-foot, 727-bed dormitory as a place where like-minded students majoring in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) can collaborate and study together.
Delasanta and Cavallaro said they are looking forward to doing just that.
“I love it, especially with the study room down the hallway,” said Delasanta, a cognitive science major from Rhode Island. “There’s so many places in this building where people can work together and collaborate in learning communities. … I like communal-style living because it’s easier to meet people.”
“It is beautiful,” added Cavallaro, a nutritional science major, also from Rhode Island. “It is so much nicer than the dorm I stayed in last year.”
In addition to dorm rooms, NextGen Hall has an “Innovation Zone,” featuring a 3D printer and other resources for shared study and projects, a computer lab, work stations, spaces for events, and study lounges.
Most of the students living there are freshmen and sophomores, as well as some upper classmen who hold leadership positions in eight specialized “learning communities,” such as STEM Honors, Women in Math, Science and Engineering, innovation, public health, and economics.
“It looks nothing like any of the dorms where many of you got dropped off by your parents years ago,” UConn President Susan Herbst told a large gathering who attended the opening ceremony. “This is a completely different way to see education and ways to support student success. It won’t be just a place that they come to sleep and hang their clothes; it’s something much more than that and really has an intellectual, educational basis.” CLICK TITLE TO CONTINUE