Party host calls Bridgeport murders a nightmare as gunfire at Little League game prompts Lamont visit
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An impromptu memorial sits outside where 2 men were shot to death Sunday.Dan TepferShow MoreShow Less
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Yellow police tape marks off the crime scene as Bridgeport police investigate a double homicide that happened about 2 am at an illegal nightclub at 1023 Main Street in the heart of downtown Bridgeport, Conn. on Sunday, May 16, 2021.Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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BRIDGEPORT The community is grappling with weekend shootings that left two men dead downtown, cast a cloud of fear over an East End baseball field, and drew an impromptu visit from the governor to condemn the violence.
Bridgeport’s re-entry office aims to emerge stronger out of COVID By Brian Lockhart
BRIDGEPORT As the coronavirus swept across Connecticut last year and many stayed home, Earl Bloodworth was instead driving around delivering masks and other personal protective equipment to incarcerated men and women finishing their sentences in local halfway houses.
“You don’t know if that saved a life or not,” recalled Rob Hebert, senior vice president of re-entry affairs for Career Resources, a workforce readiness and employment non-profit that runs a handful of halfway facilities. “That was yeoman’s work.”
And, Hebert said, it was a good example of Bloodworth’s quiet but persistent style as head of the city’s re-entry affairs program, helping inmates returning from prison readjust by finding work, housing, counseling and other needs.
Bridgeport budget cuts tax rate, adds money for schools, counseling
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City councilman Ernest Newton speaks at a news conference at the Morton Government Center, in Bridgeport, Conn. Oct. 20, 2020.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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Scott Burns (D-130th), during Bridgeport Generation Now s City Council Candidate Forum at The Klein Auditorium in Bridgeport, Conn., on Wednesday Sept. 4, 2019.Christian Abraham / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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City Council President Aidee Nieves speaks at a news conference outside the Bridgeport Health Department’s Communicable Disease Clinic in Bridgeport, Conn. Jan. 9, 2021.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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Ganim plans to flat fund schools. Bridgeport school officials, advocates plead for more money.
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Acting Schools Superintendent Michael Testani presents the Bridgeport BOE budget request at Blackham School. Feb. 13, 2020Linda Conner Lambeck
BRIDGEPORT Bridgeport’s proposed municipal budget flat-funds education. School officials and their advocates are sounding the alarm, saying that will hurt the city’s children.
Budget season is in full swing, and education was top of list this week for the City Council. Though the school district requested a $6 million increase to the budget last month, Mayor Joe Ganim included no additional funds for education, leaving the council to decide whether to push back or not.
Bridgeport amphitheater developer gets $50,000 rent request for billboard
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The newly named Hartford Healthcare Amphitheater, currently under construction in Bridgeport, Conn. Feb. 26, 2021.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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Construction continues on the newly named Hartford Healthcare Amphitheater in Bridgeport, Conn. on Tuesday, February 23, 2021. The amphitheater will open for college graduations, the first events to utilize the new venue, on May 15.Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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Principal Howard Saffan gives a tour of the newly named Hartford Healthcare Amphitheater in Bridgeport, Conn. on Tuesday, February 23, 2021. The amphitheater will open for college graduations, the first events to utilize the new venue, on May 15.Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less