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A dozen dirt bikes and ATVs seized by city police in May 2020.
Police arrested a 21-year-old who participated in a Long Wharf street takeover — just days after Mayor Justin Elicker testified before the state legislature in support of a bill that would expand penalties for street racing.
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Carlos Reyes-Couvertier with his daughter Andrea 25 years ago.
When Carlos Reyes-Couvertier found his long-lost daughter after 25 years of searching, he felt a surge of joy — while sensing a long road toward healing ahead.
“We have some sense of happiness, but the chapter is not closed yet,” he said at a press conference Wednesday afternoon.
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Farnam's Carol Horsford (right) with CT Tenants Union Prez Hannah Srajer: Don't protest the wrong people.
1455 State's Lauren Palulis (at mic): "Our electric bills have been insanely high."
(Updated) “We have bills here that are sky high,” Lauren Palulis said, as she confronted her temporary landlord with a copy of her apartment’s $702.38 electric bill for the month of January.
“Call the electric company and PURA” if you have complaints about the cost of electricity, replied her landlord for-now, Farnam Realty’s Carol Horsford. Make sure the city’s Building Department properly inspected the complex’s insulation. But don’t protest a group that has no power over the price of power.
That scene — and reckoning over rising utility costs — played out during a protest on the sidewalk in front of Farnam Realty’s downtown office at 107 Whitney Ave.
