Hartford, CT
Business
Featuring A Huge Patio, Wood-n-Tap Opening 9th Restaurant Soon Featuring A Huge Patio, Wood-n-Tap Opening 9th Restaurant Soon
Featuring A Huge Patio, Wood-n-Tap Opening 9th Restaurant Soon Wood-n-Tap is planning to open its 9th restaurant since the regional chain first opened in Hartford 18 years ago. The newest Wood-n-Tap is expected to open in November in the Big Y Plaza on Palomba Drive in Enfield, according to the Hartford Business Journal. The Enfield location will feature a large outdoor patio with its own bar and seating for more than 200 people. Under normal, non-pandemic conditions, Wood-n-Tap in Enfield would be able to accommodate nearly 450 guests between outdoor and indoor dining. (In an effort to limit the spread of COVID-19, restaurants in Connecticut - and …

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by Kristin Palpini
Torrington, CT
News
COVID-19: Five CT Healthcare Facilities Cited By Feds For Violations COVID-19: Five CT Healthcare Facilities Cited By Feds For Violations
Covid-19: Five CT Healthcare Facilities Cited By Feds For Violations Five healthcare facilities in Connecticut were among 112 that have been cited for violations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the start of the pandemic in March through Thursday, Oct. 15, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited 112 establishments for violations relating to their response to the virus, resulting in proposed penalties totaling $1,603,544.  OSHA said that the inspections resulted in violations for failure to: Implement a written respiratory protection program; Provide a medical evaluation, respirator fit tes…

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by Zak Failla
Hartford, CT
Business
COVID-19: Five Connecticut Care Centers Fined For Worker-Safety Violations COVID-19: Five Connecticut Care Centers Fined For Worker-Safety Violations
Covid-19: Five Connecticut Care Centers Fined For Worker-Safety Violations OSHA has issued fines to 5 Connecticut care facilities for failure to adequately protect employees during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced fines for 27 companies across the U.S. due to violations that occurred from Oct. 9-15. In Connecticut, the businesses that were fined by OSHA are: Wintonbury Care Center, Bloomfield The Children’s Center of Hamden, Hamden Chelsea Place Care Center, Hartford Trinity Hill Care Center, Hartford SecureCare Options, Rocky Hill. Each business was assessed a $15,422 fine and cited for a violation of…

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by Kristin Palpini
Hartford, CT
News
COVID-19 Infection Rates Are Highest In These 14 Communities COVID-19 Infection Rates Are Highest In These 14 Communities
Covid-19 Infection Rates Are Highest In These 14 Communities COVID-19 infections have been shooting up across the Northeast and there are about a dozen Connecticut cities and towns have been hardest hit. As of Monday, Oct. 12, there are 14 Connecticut cities and towns that have the highest infection rates - 221-370 people infected with COVID-19 per 10,000 residents, according to CTDataHaven, which is tracking infections as well as deaths. These communities are: Danbury - 369 cases per 10,000 people Bloomfield - 306 cases Bridgeport - 303 Stamford - 296 Hartford - 294 Somers - 284  Norwalk - 269 East Hartford - 250 Rocky Hill - 247 Wate…

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by Kristin Palpini
Hartford, CT
Police & Fire
Active Search: Police Seek Florida Vehicle With Gun Connected To Vehicle Break-Ins Active Search: Police Seek Florida Vehicle With Gun Connected To Vehicle Break-Ins
Active Search: Police Seek Florida Vehicle With Gun Connected To Vehicle Break-Ins Police are searching for a black vehicle, possibly with Florida plates, wanted in connection to multiple vehicle break-ins. The person driving the vehicle reportedly “brandished a firearm” the last time it was spotted, police said. On Monday, Sept. 28, at around 1 p.m., Rocky Hill Police said they are “actively searching” for the vehicle. Police said the car may have been involved in vehicle break-ins in the West End of town. The photo provided came from the Whitewood area. The vehicle was last seen in Newington. Police are asking anyone who sees this vehicle to call 911 and the police …

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by Kristin Palpini
Worcester, MA
Police & Fire
Trend: Tasty Displays Of Support For Police More Common After BLM Trend: Tasty Displays Of Support For Police More Common After BLM
Trend: Tasty Displays Of Support For Police More Common After BLM Pies, pizzas, cupcakes, cookies, grinders, and more tasty foods are being dropped off at local police stations across Connecticut and Massachusetts as people more and more express their gratitude toward officers. Public displays of support for the police have increased along with the launch of the “Back the Blue” campaign, which started in response to the “Defund the Police” campaign and the Black Lives Matter protests sparked by the Minneapolis police killing George Floyd on May 25. Tasty displays of gratitude toward the police are becoming more common.Rocky Hill PD Officers say they …

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by Kristin Palpini
Brookfield, CT
News
Popular Longtime WFSB Anchor Dennis House Announces Departure Popular Longtime WFSB Anchor Dennis House Announces Departure
Popular Longtime Wfsb Anchor Dennis House Announces Departure Popular longtime news anchor Dennis House and WFSB-TV jointly announced that after nearly two decades, he's leaving the station. “Words cannot express how grateful I am to have served the great state of Connecticut as a journalist for 28 years at WFSB," said House in a statement on his website. "The station has meant so much more to me than just a job. I’ve grown up here. The people who work here are my family. " House hosted Connecticut's highest rated political show, "Face the State," for the CBS affiliate located in Rocky Hill, won several Emmy Awards and was inducted into the Silv…

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by Christina Coulter
Hartford, CT
News
Town-by-town Outages: 42 Percent Of CT Eversource Customers Without Power Town-by-town Outages: 42 Percent Of CT Eversource Customers Without Power
Town-by-town Outages: 42 Percent Of CT Eversource Customers Without Power More than 540,000 Connecticut residents were still without power Thursday morning Aug. 6, following a nasty tropical storm that ripped through the area Aug.4 Eversource reported Thursday, at 8 a.m. that 542,012 customers were without power- about 42 percent of Connecticut customers are affected. It still may be days until some people are reconnected to electric power. About 1.28 million households have power through Eversource. Some places are still almost completely dark. In Avon, for example, 90 percent of people do not have power. Here’s how your town is doing: Berlin, 2,310 without p…

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by Kristin Palpini
Hartford, CT
News
COVID-19: Here's Rate Of Cases Per Community In Hartford County COVID-19: Here's Rate Of Cases Per Community In Hartford County
Covid-19: Here's Rate Of Cases Per Community In Hartford County Here are the rate of COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people per community in Hartford County: Avon - 781 Berlin - 812 Bloomfield - 2,437 Bristol - 1,028 Burlington - 269 Canton - 906 East Glastonbury - 194 East Hartford - 1,806 East Windsor - 1,389 Enfield - 1,365 Farmington - 847 Glastonbury - 870 Granby - 237 Hartford - 2,164 Manchester - 1,338 Marlborough - 1,510 New Britain - 1,521 Newington - 1,332 North Canton - 184 Plainville - 993 Rocky Hill - 2,105 Simsbury - 536 South Windsor - 656 Southington - 785 Suffield - 991 West Hartford - 1,134 Wethersfield - 978 Windsor - 2,034 Windsor Lo…

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by Kristin Palpini
Torrington, CT
News
COVID-19: These CT Locations Are Offering Drive-Up Testing COVID-19: These CT Locations Are Offering Drive-Up Testing
Covid-19: These CT Locations Are Offering Drive-Up Testing With Connecticut ramping up testing for novel coronavirus (COVID-19) many healthcare facilities and pharmacies are now offering drive-up testing to those advised to get tested by a doctor. More than two dozen drive-up testing facilities that will be open to the public, provided patients have a note from a healthcare professional saying they should be tested for COVID-19. Hospitals providing drive-up testing: Bridgeport Hospital Bristol Hospital Charlotte Hungerford Hospital (Torrington) Danbury Hospital Greenwich Hospital Hartford Hospital Johnson Memorial Hospital (Stafford Springs) Lawr…

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by Zak Failla
Torrington, CT
News
COVID-19 Drive-Through Test Sites Opening At 12 Connecticut Pharmacies COVID-19 Drive-Through Test Sites Opening At 12 Connecticut Pharmacies
Covid-19 Drive-Through Test Sites Opening At 12 Connecticut Pharmacies A dozen new novel coronavirus (COVID-19) testing facilities are opening up at Connecticut CVS locations as the state begins plans to slowly reopen the economy next week. On Friday, May 15, CVS will open the 12 new drive-through COVID-19 test sites throughout Connecticut that will utilize self-swab tests that “mark the next phase of the company’s strategy” in combating the spread of the virus. CVS announced it plans to reach 1,000 test sites by the end of May, the company stated. “While the large-scale test sites we’ve been operating since early April have proven successful, this new approa…

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by Zak Failla
DV Plus - Fairfield, CT
Lifestyle
April Will Be 'Interesting' — Rental Prices Up In This Fairfield City, While Down In Country April Will Be 'Interesting' — Rental Prices Up In This Fairfield City, While Down In Country
April Will Be 'Interesting' — Rental Prices Up In This Fairfield City, While Down In Country The spring rental season deflated as it was about to take off when the March kickoff collided with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Nevertheless,  rents are up in Fairfield County's priciest rental zip code. Typically rent prices increase in March, but according to the nationwide listing service RENTCafé, rental housing searches on its site dropped by 25 percent from March 11 to March 17. Last year in the same week traffic was down 4 percent. The national year-over-year rent increase in March (2.9 percent) was slower than the one in February (3.2 percent), pegging the average…

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by Donna Christopher