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CT city mourns death of history-making mayor

Maria Madsen Holzberg, the first woman elected mayor in Middletown in 1995, has died, leaving behind a legacy of leadership, advocacy and philanthropy. Madsen Holzberg died after a brief battle with cancer at her Middletown home Middletown — the city that she so fiercely loved for nearly four decades — “]with her husband of 38 […]

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Mayor

Hartford mayor’s legacy leaving office. And what’s next.

Mayor Luke Bronin’s toughest challenge leading Hartford — pulling the city back from the brink of municipal bankruptcy — came in the early days of his administration and might get lost in two terms that were more recently dominated by a bruising, life-changing global pandemic. “It’s easy to forget — eight years on — just […]

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Mayor

Mayor-elect looking to celebrate Hartford

Despite facing major challenges next year, Hartford’s new mayor is looking forward to celebrating the city in an upcoming inaugural ball. Mayor-elect Arunan Arulampalam knows he will be busy with issues once he is sworn into office, but officials will be taking a few hours to tout the capital city on Jan. 4. “I think […]

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City Council

Meriden city manager’s ‘police incident’ prompts city council meeting | #citycouncil

Meriden City Council members will hold a special meeting on Monday to discuss a recent “police incident” involving city manager Tim Coon — who took a leave of absence earlier this year following a DUI arrest in April. “City leadership and the city council are aware of a police incident involving the city manager and […]

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Alaska

Moms for Liberty holding CT rally | #alaska | #politics

With an innocuous-sounding name that is unknown to many voters, a group called Moms for Liberty has been growing rapidly in influence in conservative circles and the national Republican Party. After starting in 2021 in Florida to battle against mask and vaccine mandates in public schools, the parental rights group says it has since grown […]

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