Mar. 9—WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Susan Collins' office announced Maine's share of the $468.7 billion 2024 appropriations package passed by the U.S. Senate on Friday night and signed into law by President Joe Biden on Saturday. The six-bill package, passed by a vote of 75-22, brings $426.6 million to the state. The bulk of it comes from a transportation, housing and urban development bill; an ...
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Mar. 8—EAST HARTFORD — The planned redevelopment project on the Founders Plaza property is still coming, but it's going to come in phases instead of one big chunk. And that's OK with Mayor Connor Martin. "I'm not concerned at at all. We're taking a grand plan and making it a reality, but we're doing it in manageable chunks," Martin said Wednesday. "They're being real and I appreciate that." ...
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Attorney General Andrea Campbell escalated a state dispute with Milton to Massachusetts’ highest court, where she asked a judge to force the town to come into compliance with a transit-oriented development law. Campbell’s lawsuit, filed Tuesday with the Supreme Judicial Court, raises the stakes on what has been voter-backed opposition to a law supporters say addresses the state’s crushing ...
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Feb. 23--NEW LONDON -- If a voice tone could convey a smile, Wes Pulver was practically grinning on Friday as he announced soliciting of construction bids began this week for the National Coast Guard Museum slated to rise later this year on the city's waterfront. "This is the big one and a great milestone for this project," the retired Coast Guard captain and president of the National Coast ...
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SPRINGFIELD — Ten state lawmakers representing Springfield and surrounding communities have asked the Springfield Water and Sewer Commission to reconsider and agree to a project labor agreement. But the agreement, called a PLA, guaranteeing unionized construction workers at the $325 million West Parish Water Treatment Plant, won’t happen, the Water and Sewer Commission said. The unions missed ...
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A Cheshire woman has been sentenced to two years in federal prison and ordered to pay restitution after embezzling nearly $1 million from a construction company in Orange where she worked. Erin Sullivan, 53, faced sentencing Wednesday in Bridgeport federal court where a judge ordered that she serve three years of supervised release once she is free from prison, according to the U.S. Attorney’s ...
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SPRINGFIELD — The Springfield Water and Sewer Commission says a $325 million project will go out to bid without an agreement sought by area unions. A commission spokeswoman said Tuesday the unions missed a Friday deadline and bid documents for the West Parish Water Treatment plant will not include what’s known as a “project labor agreement,” or PLA. The project is needed to help the commission ...
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A state-owned site on the coast of Maine will serve as the location of an offshore wind port critical to developing the nation's first floating offshore wind power research array, the state's governor said Tuesday. Democratic Gov. Janet Mills signed a bill last year that aims to see Maine procure enough energy from offshore wind turbines to power about half its electric ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Monday that the government intends to provide $1.5 billion to the computer chip company GlobalFoundries to expand its domestic production in New York and Vermont. The announcement is the third award of direct financial support for a semiconductor company under the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act. The law enables the government to invest more than $52 ...
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SPRINGFIELD — MassDOT’s Andy Koziol, appointed last week as west-east rail director, says Springfield will get renewed passenger service to Boston and, heading westward, to Pittsfield and Albany, New York. But it won’t all happen at the same time. “It is a program of projects,” he said in an interview after his appointment was made public. “It’s going to be through a series of incremental ...
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