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1 week ago | 
theinnercitynews.com | Karla Ciaglo |Kalleen Ozanic
by Karla Ciaglo and Kalleen Rose OzanicA crowd estimated by Capitol police at more than 10,000 gathered peacefully on the Capitol’s south lawn Saturday as part of the national No Kings demonstrations, a movement opposing what organizers describe as the rise of authoritarianism, political violence in the United States, and the recent deployment of National Guard troops and Marines to California.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
wiltonbulletin.com | Kalleen Ozanic
Grey seal Mikey, the newest addition to Norwalk's Maritime Aquarium, was born at the Brookfield Zoo Chicago on Feb. 17, 2024. Maritime Aquarium/Contributed PhotoGrey seal Mikey, the newest addition to Norwalk's Maritime Aquarium, was born at the Brookfield Zoo Chicago on Feb. 17, 2024. Maritime Aquarium/Contributed PhotoNORWALK — Visitors to the Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk will have to be a bit patient to get their first peek at the attraction's newest pinniped.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
ctinsider.com | Kalleen Ozanic
NORWALK — With the opening of its first Connecticut location around the corner, Wegmans is hosting a hiring event Wednesday to fill over 200 jobs. The company announced last month the Norwalk store would open in the second quarter of 2025, though Wegmans Senior Public Relations Coordinator Marcie Rivera said an April opening would not happen, putting the window between May and June.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
thehour.com | Kalleen Ozanic
NORWALK — A new clinic will increase health care access in the new year for low-income uninsured residents who are “totally falling through the cracks of the health care system.”That’s according to Americares Free Clinics Executive Director Karen Gottlieb, who opened the nonprofit’s first ever clinic, in Norwalk, when she joined in November 1994.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
thehour.com | Kalleen Ozanic
NORWALK — South Norwalk Electric and Water is looking to increase water rates “across the board” by 9% each of the next three years after instituting a 10% increase in July 2024. SNEW’s November draft report explaining the proposed rate increase says the water distribution system in South Norwalk has “significant infrastructure needs” after “decades of deferred capital investment” and says the utility company’s operating costs have increased substantially in recent years.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
ctinsider.com | Kalleen Ozanic
NORWALK — The first Wegmans grocery store in Connecticut may open sooner than expected. The company now says the store will open in the second quarter of 2025, meaning between April and June. Wegmans representatives previously said they aimed to open in the summer. Wegmans Senior Public Relations Coordinator Marcie Rivera said in an email on Tuesday that a summer opening is still the goal, though an exact opening date is undetermined — though “it definitely won’t open as early as April,” she said.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
ctinsider.com | Kalleen Ozanic
NORWALK — A luxury condominium building comprising 12 units sold for $4.8 million last month. Skyview 21 LLC bought the Skyview Gardens apartments and condominiums at 21 Seir Hill Road in Norwalk from three different owners with a Citizens Bank mortgage, public land records dated Nov. 12 show. Skyview 21 LLC bought units from A&E Tomas Associates LLC for $2 million; units from Joseph & Taylor Associates LLC for $2 million; and units from Anthony J Melillio Jr. for $800,000.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
ctinsider.com | Kalleen Ozanic
NORWALK — Allison and Austin McChord, the philanthropists behind plans to bring new life to Manresa Island, have first donated a new park in South Norwalk. The pocket park, between Day and Water Streets on Burritt Avenue, adds greenery and permeable gravel to a part of the city full of impervious surfaces — like roads, roofs, parking lots and driveways — that don’t absorb rainwater and instead run off into storm drains and beaches.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
ctinsider.com | Kalleen Ozanic
NORWALK — When a critical bridge spanning Interstate 95 was damaged in a fiery crash in May, state leaders estimated it would take a year to repair. Instead, the Fairfield Avenue overpass was rebuilt and reopened exactly seven months later. How did CDOT’s contractor, Yonkers Contracting Co., and nine subcontractors, finish it five months early and $3.2 million under budget?
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
ctinsider.com | Kalleen Ozanic
NORWALK — If you’ve been to the top of the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, the Grand Canyon, or Niagara Falls, to name just a few landmark locations, you’ve likely seen a Tower Optical Co., Inc. binocular viewer. Tourists across North America may be too busy looking through Tower Optical’s binocular viewers to realize they bear the name of a small harbor city in Connecticut.
