Angela Carella

1 week ago | ctexaminer.com | Angela Carella

By Angela Carella The developer of The Lloyd hotel in downtown Stamford has purchased the YMCA building next door to expand the hotel. City officials attempted to purchase the property to build a recreation center (CT Examiner)CT Examiner is just $20 a year. A one-month trial subscription is just $5. And if you want to unsubscribe? That's online and at the click of a button. No phone calls. No runaround. No hassle.

1 week ago | ctexaminer.com | Angela Carella

1 week ago | middletownpress.com | Angela Carella

NORWALK — Efforts to lure business have in the past set them at odds, but Stamford and Norwalk now are working together on a problem. In a move believed to be unprecedented, the legislative bodies of both cities will seek to pass nearly identical ordinances at the same time. Article continues below this adIt’s a straw law. The measure, announced on Monday, Earth Day, would ban the use of plastic straws and stirrers.

1 week ago | ctexaminer.com | Angela Carella

1 week ago | middletownpress.com | Angela Carella

STAMFORD — Mary Lou Rinaldi has served on the city’s elected boards for 40 years, but her reason for doing so goes back farther than that. It dates to 1899, the year her grandparents arrived from Italy. Article continues below this ad“A long time ago, Stamford welcomed my family,” said Rinaldi, a Democrat running to keep her seat on the Board of Finance. “They were able to build a life here.