Bill Cummings

3 weeks ago | middletownpress.com | Liz Skalka |Bill Cummings

STAMFORD — A Shippan Avenue bar recently added a new game for customers to play as they eat, drink and watch a game on TV. Fiddler’s Green was one of the first retailers in the state to offer Keno, the gambling game rolled out last week by the Connecticut Lottery. Article continues below this adA bar may seem like an unusual spot to beta-test a scratch-off lottery game, but that’s part of the draw of Fiddler’s Green, which offers several lotto and arcade games.

1 month ago | ctpost.com | Bill Cummings

Employee Lindsay Edwards moves a pallet of food items to storage at the Connecticut Foodshare distribution center, in Wallingford, Conn. Feb. 4, 2025. Ned Gerard/Hearst Connecticut MediaEmployee Lindsay Edwards moves a pallet of food items to storage at the Connecticut Foodshare distribution center, in Wallingford, Conn. Feb. 4, 2025. Ned Gerard/Hearst Connecticut MediaA woman picks out items at Greater Waterbury Interfaith Ministries’ food pantry, in Waterbury, Conn. Jan. 28, 2025.

1 month ago | ctinsider.com | Bill Cummings

Connecticut schools and food pantries will lose nearly $10 million in federal funding used to buy locally produced farm products under new spending cuts by the Trump administration. "We had been planning on this money," said Jason Jakubowski, president of Connecticut Foodshare, which distributes food and meals through 600 pantries and 110 distribution trucks.

2 months ago | middletownpress.com | Bill Cummings

State inspectors are faulting five nursing homes for failing to establish adequate infection prevention plans and not separating patients as the coronavirus spread through their facilities. The nursing homes — located in East Haven, Seymour, Orange, Chester and Waterford — have collectively had 77 confirmed and probable coronavirus deaths. Article continues below this adThe facilities were surveyed last month after Gov. Ned Lamont ordered spot inspections of the state’s 215 nursing homes.

2 months ago | stamfordadvocate.com | Bill Cummings

East Haven, Connecticut - Wednesday, April 08, 2020: Whispering Pines Nursing Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in East Haven. Coronavirus / Covid-19Peter Hvizdak / Hearst Connecticut MediaWhispering Pines Nursing Rehabilitaition and Nursing Center in East Haven is among the nursing homes that have seen many of its residents become infected with the coronavirus and die from COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. Gov.