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As area utilities get ready for growing season, how much can CT residents expect to pay for water use this summer?
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Putnam Reservoir in Greenwich, Conn., photographed on Tuesday, June 23, 2020.Tyler Sizemore / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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For most of Connecticut, spring and summer months are peak usage periods for the state’s water utilities.
As a result, customers maintaining a lush, green lawn, slaking the thirst of garden vegetables or washing a car may end up paying higher premiums from Aquarion Water in Bridgeport, Connecticut Water Co. in Clinton and the Regional Water Authority in New Haven.
Plants stolen from Woolworths passage in Stamford returned
| Updated: 08:49, 02 April 2021
Three decorative planters that disappeared from Stamford have been returned.
The display, installed in Woolworths passage on Sunday by volunteer group Stamford in Bloom, went missing hours later.
Police were involved in investigating it as a theft and the Mercury ran an appeal for information.
The plants were returned with a sorry message
Today (Friday, April 2) the three pots complete with plants had reappeared with a note attached to one.
The note read: Saw this in the Mercury that they had been stolen! I truly believed they had been fly tipped there as many items are often left there and I thought I would rehome them.
CT auditor claims animation company Blue Sky Studios received $49 million in excessive tax credits
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Former Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy, center, in June 2011 at Blue Sky Studios in Greenwich, Conn., alongside Catherine Smith who led the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development during Malloy’s administration; and Brian Keane, then chief operating officer of Blue Sky.Helen Neafsey / ST
As Walt Disney backs up the trucks in Greenwich to load up the remnants of Blue Sky Studios the animation studio is set to close next week is it making off with $49 million in Connecticut incentives that never should have been awarded?
Bridgeport man granted probation in Westport Panera Bread robbery scheme
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Exterior, Stamford Courthouse, Sept. 20, 2019.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media
STAMFORD A Bridgeport man accused of conspiring to steal from the Panera Bread he worked at in Westport was granted a pretrial probation program which could see his charges dropped.
Judge Gary White granted Rochelle Smith, 25, accelerated rehabilitation at Stamford Superior Court Tuesday, which will see Smith placed on one-year probation.
Smith told White on Tuesday that he had “made a big mistake” back in October 2019 when he and friend put a plan in motion to try and steal a wallet containing $7,000 that had been left at the Post Road East eatery.