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ShopRite, PriceRite employees to have temperatures tested before work
Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Wakefern Food Corp., the retailer-owned grocery cooperative that operates ShopRite and PriceRite Marketplace supermarkets in New York and Connecticut, has initiated new safety measures to ensure employees and vendors with COVID-19 do not set foot in their stores.According to the company, all stores will use noncontact forehead infrared thermometers to take the temperature of associates and vendors when they arrive for work. Any person who is found with an elevated temperature will...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Wakefern Food Corp., the retailer-owned grocery cooperative that operates ShopRite and PriceRite Marketplace supermarkets in New York and Connecticut, has initiated new safety measures to ensure employees and vendors with COVID-19 do not set foot in their stores.According to the company, all stores will use noncontact forehead infrared thermometers to take the temperature of associates and vendors when they arrive for work. Any person who is found with an elevated temperature will...WW…
Connecticut casinos record dismal October slot revenues
Sign inPassword recoveryRecover your passwordyour emailSign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Connecticut’s tribal casinos limped out of October with slot revenues that were considerably lower from the levels recorded in both the previous month and one year earlier.Mohegan Sun, which is owned and operated by the Mohegan Tribal Nation, announced October slot revenues of $35.8 million, down from the $40.3 million level set in September and a drop from the $43.7 million level recorded October 2019.The amount slot bettors...…Sign inPassword recoveryRecover your passwordyour emailSign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Connecticut’s tribal casinos limped out of October with slot revenues that were considerably lower from the levels recorded in both the previous month and one year earlier.Mohegan Sun, which is owned and operated by the Mohegan Tribal Nation, announced October slot revenues of $35.8 million, down from the $40.3 million level set in September and a drop from the $43.7 million level recorded October 2019.The amount slot bettors...WW…
WestportNow to cease publishing
Sign inPassword recoveryRecover your passwordyour emailSign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.The hyperlocal news resource WestportNow has announced it will cease publication at the end of the month after nearly 18 years in operation.The announcement follows last week’s death of , an Emmy Award-winning reporter who founded and published WestportNow since March 2003. In a statement on the WestportNow site, Joseloff’s children Anna-Liisa Nixon and Ben Joseloff cited their father as an indispensable aspect of WestportNow’s...…Sign inPassword recoveryRecover your passwordyour emailSign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.The hyperlocal news resource WestportNow has announced it will cease publication at the end of the month after nearly 18 years in operation.The announcement follows last week’s death of , an Emmy Award-winning reporter who founded and published WestportNow since March 2003. In a statement on the WestportNow site, Joseloff’s children Anna-Liisa Nixon and Ben Joseloff cited their father as an indispensable aspect of WestportNow’s...WW…
Amazon officially opens Danbury delivery station, offers 100 jobs
Sign inPassword recoveryRecover your passwordyour emailSign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Amazon’s new delivery station in Danbury is seeking to fill more than 100 full- and part-time jobs.The 148,000-square-foot facility at 8-24 Old Sherman Turnpike receives packages from neighboring Amazon Fulfillment and Sortation Centers, loaded into delivery vehicles and delivered to customers in order to “help speed up deliveries,” according to the retail behemoth.In celebration of the Danbury delivery station launch, Amazon...…Sign inPassword recoveryRecover your passwordyour emailSign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Amazon’s new delivery station in Danbury is seeking to fill more than 100 full- and part-time jobs.The 148,000-square-foot facility at 8-24 Old Sherman Turnpike receives packages from neighboring Amazon Fulfillment and Sortation Centers, loaded into delivery vehicles and delivered to customers in order to “help speed up deliveries,” according to the retail behemoth.In celebration of the Danbury delivery station launch, Amazon...WW…
Former Disney exec claims tenants in Greenwich mansion have become squatters - Westfair Communications
Sign inPassword recoveryRecover your passwordyour emailSign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.A former Disney executive is accusing the couple renting his $2.2 million Greenwich mansion of becoming squatters at his property, while the tenants claim their landlord has not been entirely honest in describing the home’s amenities.According to a New York Post report, Lawrence Rutkowski is alleging that A. Mark Getachew and Denora Getachew have not made their $11,000 monthly rent payments at his 9 Stallion Trail property since...…Sign inPassword recoveryRecover your passwordyour emailSign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.A former Disney executive is accusing the couple renting his $2.2 million Greenwich mansion of becoming squatters at his property, while the tenants claim their landlord has not been entirely honest in describing the home’s amenities.According to a New York Post report, Lawrence Rutkowski is alleging that A. Mark Getachew and Denora Getachew have not made their $11,000 monthly rent payments at his 9 Stallion Trail property since...WW…
CT recovers 60% of jobs lost to pandemic; adds 17,000 jobs in September
Sign inPassword recoveryRecover your passwordyour emailSign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.The Connecticut Department of Labor reported the state gained 17,000 net jobs in September, a 1.1% uptick after a revised 21,900 August increase. However, year-over-year employment in the state fell by 103,200 positions, a 6.1% decline and now holds at 1,585,100 seasonally adjusted.Private sector employment increased by 14,700 to 1,359,600 jobs over the month in September, a 1.1% rise, but this level is down by 90,900 jobs since...…Sign inPassword recoveryRecover your passwordyour emailSign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.The Connecticut Department of Labor reported the state gained 17,000 net jobs in September, a 1.1% uptick after a revised 21,900 August increase. However, year-over-year employment in the state fell by 103,200 positions, a 6.1% decline and now holds at 1,585,100 seasonally adjusted.Private sector employment increased by 14,700 to 1,359,600 jobs over the month in September, a 1.1% rise, but this level is down by 90,900 jobs since...WW…
Danbury Hat Tricks await chance to get back on the ice - Westfair Communications
Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.When the Covid-19 pandemic took root in this country, the Danbury Hat Tricks hockey team was in pursuit of the Commissioner’s Cup, the crowning achievement of the Federal Prospects Hockey League (FPHL).“Back in March, we were going into our playoffs,” said Herb Sorcher, managing partner of the Hat Tricks. “We were probably a month away from finishing our season — and then, the shutdown happened. We were hopeful to continue it a month later.”One month passed and regular play did not...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.When the Covid-19 pandemic took root in this country, the Danbury Hat Tricks hockey team was in pursuit of the Commissioner’s Cup, the crowning achievement of the Federal Prospects Hockey League (FPHL).“Back in March, we were going into our playoffs,” said Herb Sorcher, managing partner of the Hat Tricks. “We were probably a month away from finishing our season — and then, the shutdown happened. We were hopeful to continue it a month later.”One month passed and regular play did not...WW…
Sacred Heart U. takes over management of Discovery Museum
Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Sacred Heart University will take over managing Bridgeport’s Discovery Museum beginning on Jan. 1. The financial terms of the agreement were not made public.The museum is currently undergoing a $1.8 million state-funded upgrade to its planetarium, exhibits and classrooms.The university, whose campus is down the street and across the Park Avenue border separating Fairfield and Bridgeport, plans to update the 62-year-old museum’s exhibits and expand its programs in science...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.Sacred Heart University will take over managing Bridgeport’s Discovery Museum beginning on Jan. 1. The financial terms of the agreement were not made public.The museum is currently undergoing a $1.8 million state-funded upgrade to its planetarium, exhibits and classrooms.The university, whose campus is down the street and across the Park Avenue border separating Fairfield and Bridgeport, plans to update the 62-year-old museum’s exhibits and expand its programs in science...WW…
COVID-19 and the media: Responsible journalism or sensationalist overkill?
Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.s the COVID-19 pandemic metastasized from a strange health crisis in other parts of the world into the shutdown of major sectors of American society, mainstream media coverage of the story grew to the point where it is now commands everyone’s attention.Regional media professionals and observers have expressed mixed opinions on how mainstream media is covering the story.Public relations executive Ronald R. Magas is starting to find the coverage more than a little overwhelming.“I’ve...…Sign inWelcome! Log into your accountPassword recoveryRecover your passwordA password will be e-mailed to you.s the COVID-19 pandemic metastasized from a strange health crisis in other parts of the world into the shutdown of major sectors of American society, mainstream media coverage of the story grew to the point where it is now commands everyone’s attention.Regional media professionals and observers have expressed mixed opinions on how mainstream media is covering the story.Public relations executive Ronald R. Magas is starting to find the coverage more than a little overwhelming.“I’ve...WW…