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FILE 2024: Staff gather to celebrate the reopening of the Hartford Public Library downtown branch. The library is a nonprofit and while it currently processes passport applications, it confirmed its status as an approved processing center is now under review by the federal government.
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Nonprofit CT libraries to discontinue passport application services
Eddy Martinez
Stamford, Farmington, Ridgefield and Norwich have nonprofit libraries and all have confirmed they will stop accepting passport applications on Feb. 13.
Scotland Town Clerk Sharon George enters the Scotland, Connecticut, post office. A federal bill sponsored by Democratic Congressman Joe Courtney would consolidate Scotland’s has six zip codes, an uncommonly high number for a town of less than 1600 residents and only 600 addresses. “If you live in Scotland and your address is Hampton, and you're a woman in labor,” said George, “The last thing you're thinking about is, wait, that's my mailing address. So a lot of times we have our birth certificates, and until mom and dad come in looking for it, I don't even realize it's missing.” January 20, 2026.
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A small Connecticut town’s federal push to consolidate its 6 ZIP codes
Abigail Brone
FILE: Monopole power lines are pictured in Bourne, Mass. on Tuesday, April 4, 2023, near the Cape Cod Canal. The Connecticut Siting Council (CSC) Thursday, rejected United Illuminating’s (UI) application in a final decision which mirrored its earlier decision made in October to reject a plan to install monopoles in Fairfield and Bridgeport.
Raquel C. Zaldívar
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CT Siting Council rejects United Illuminating’s Fairfield monopole appeal
Eddy Martinez
Fourteen train cars carrying liquified natural gas derailed Thursday, Feb. 5, and at least five landed in a river in Mansfield, officials said.
Mark Mirko
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About a dozen train cars derail in CT, sending materials into nearby river
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House and Senate Democrats, pictured in a TV monitor, hold a joint news conference on DHS funding negotiations in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, February 4, 2026. From left are Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., House Democratic Caucus chair Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, D-Mass., Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn.
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