Jarrod Wardwell

2 days ago | ctinsider.com | Jarrod Wardwell

EASTON - First Selectman David Bindelglass said what will end up being a six-year tenure as Easton's top elected official will end in November. Bindelglass, a Democrat, said he will not run for reelection as first selectman this year as his third term in office gets ready to expire. He was first elected in 2019 and won a pair of subsequent reelection bids in 2021 and 2023.

3 days ago | ctinsider.com | Jarrod Wardwell

FAIRFIELD - Fairfield's property taxes will jump by roughly 1.75% in the next fiscal year, surpassing last year's mill rate increase, but still a much lighter blow than officials initially expected. The town's mill rate will increase from 27.9 to 28.39 with the start of the 2025-26 fiscal year on July 1, taxing residents $28.39 for every $1,000 in assessed property value. The increase is Fairfield's largest since 2018.

3 days ago | minutemannewscenter.com | Jarrod Wardwell

FAIRFIELD — Fairfield's property taxes will jump by roughly 1.75% in the next fiscal year, surpassing last year's mill rate increase, but still a much lighter blow than officials initially expected. The town's mill rate will increase from 27.9 to 28.39 with the start of the 2025-26 fiscal year on July 1, taxing residents $28.39 for every $1,000 in assessed property value. The increase is Fairfield's largest since 2018.

4 days ago | ctinsider.com | Jarrod Wardwell

EASTON - Easton voters approved the town's next budget this week, finalizing a 2.65% spending increase driven by increasing education costs. The nearly $51.3 million budget passed a town referendum Tuesday with a 632-153 vote - a turnout that represents roughly 10% of the town's estimated population but an uptick from last year's 700-person showing. Easton's mill rate is set to take its largest leap since 2020 as the budget goes into effect, with a 3.96% jump from 29.54 to 30.71.

4 days ago | ctinsider.com | Jarrod Wardwell

More than 1,300 households and businesses across Connecticut were without power on Saturday evening, according to the state's utility companies. Eversource reported 1,314 of its customers had no power as of 7 p.m., claiming nearly the total pool of outages in the state Saturday afternoon. United Illuminating (UI) reported nine outages around the same time. Simsbury, Clinton, Killingworth were hit the hardest with a respective 425, 266, 194 outages, according to Eversource.