Robert Miller: A coalition s effort to improve CT recycling
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Newspapers, cans, bottles and other recycled material sits in a huge pile at the Winters Bros. Waste Systems of Connecticut recycling facility on White Street in Danbury.Hearst Connecticut Media file photo
In 1991, the state passed its mandatory recycling law.
In the three decades that have passed, much has changed. But not the laws, or people’s habits. They pull their garbage and recyclables to the curb for pick-up and think they’ve done their part.
“Something like 85 percent of people in the state want to recycle properly and they think they are doing it properly,” said Bethel First Selectman Matt Knickerbocker.
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Stew Leonard s partners with Norwalk s Los Poblanos to sell its burritos
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Stew Leonard’s is now selling burritos from Norwalk’s Los Poblanos restaurant at its Norwalk and Danbury grocery stores.Contributed photo /Stew Leonard’s
It started as a casual lunch, and then evolved into a partnership between a Norwalk Mexican restaurant and a family-run Connecticut grocery store.
Brothers Andrew and Will Hollis, grandsons of Stew Leonard, Sr., first ordered burritos during a lunch visit to Los Poblanos one day last summer. They were impressed by the size of the item “like a football,” Andrew said but also by the restaurant’s homey, welcoming setting, as owner Juan Bautista and his wife cooked in the kitchen and served diners in the tiny space.
Something is terribly wrong : Duff criticizes Norwalk police investigation into spitting incident
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State Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff joins Governor Ned Lamont as he holds a bill signing ceremony for House Bill 7010, An Act Concerning the Authorization of State Grant Commitments for School Building Projects, Friday, October 9, 2020, at Norwalk High School in Norwalk, Conn. A new Norwalk High is included in this construction bill.Erik Trautmann / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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Norwalk Police Chief Thomas Kulhawik speaks at Norwalk High School before the program, Choose2Live, presented to 11th and 12th graders by M. Quentin Williams, founder and chairman of Dedication to Community (D2C), former FBI agent and federal prosecutor, Thursday, January 26, 2017 in Norwalk, Conn.Erik Trautmann / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
‘Stop demonizing each other’: With a new president, and a country deeply split, can we heal?
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NEW HAVEN It’s a new year, with a new president and a new Congress, but the United States of America is far from united, as President Joseph R. Biden Jr. noted in his inaugural address.
Nearly three weeks after a massive crowd of Trump supporters marched on the U.S. Capitol with a mob later storming the building the nation remains deeply split, with question about how and whether it can heal, leaders and experts say.
It’s been brewing for years.