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Voters in Connecticut are selecting congressional and state legislative candidates. - Peter Stolzman voted. “I hate missing an election. I think it’s at least my responsibility,” he said.
- Needless to say, more is to come with three more months of campaigning. Neither candidate faces a challenge in Tuesday’s primaries.
- Michelle Louise Bicking, the Green Party candidate for Connecticut governor, said that she can offer something that the state needs — a focus on people, not profit.
- Democrats will make the legislation an issue “for those voting against it,” Senate President Pro Tem Martin Looney of New Haven said in an interview.
- The state Democratic party held its convention Saturday at the Xfinity Theater in Hartford. Erick Russell won the party's nomination for state treasurer.
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- With nearly seven months remaining in the campaign, Gov. Lamont released his second television commercial Tuesday.
- Sen. Steve Cassano, a Democrat first elected to the Connecticut senate in 2010, said Monday that he will run for reelection, disputing statements from Manchester’s Democratic party leader that he had promised to step aside.
- A complaint contending South Windsor Democrats illegally distributed hundreds of absentee ballot applications merits investigation, the State Elections Enforcement Commission decided Wednesday.
- A vote recount was under way Sunday to determine who will be mayor of West Haven, the last major undecided race in Connecticut from last week’s election.
- Despite a Republican trend that covered much of the state on Election Day, Democrats in Avon, Simsbury and West Hartford either made gains or held their ground.
- Town-by-town results from Connecticut's 2021 municipal elections.
- Republican Jeff Caggiano took an upset victory over Mayor Ellen Zoppo-Sassu on Tuesday night, with preliminary numbers showing a roughly 600-vote win.
- New Britain voters on Tuesday made Erin Stewart the longest-serving Republican mayor in the Hardware City's history. Stewart, only the second woman to run the 70,000-population city, turned back a challenge by Democratic state Rep. Bobby Sanchez, whose supporters were eager to elect New Britain's first Hispanic mayor.
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West Hartford Democrats retain control over town council while A Connecticut Party challenge falters
West Hartford Democrats extended their 21-year hold on the town council Tuesday, while Republicans appeared to have shut down a spirited challenge from A Connecticut Party. - High-profile municipal elections drove high voter turnout Tuesday, as some of Connecticut’s largest cities cast ballots for mayor and numerous smaller towns weighed in on contentious local races.
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- UConn men’s basketball head coach Dan Hurley will join his father, Bob Hurley Sr., at the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. on Friday, Aug. 12 as part of the “Hoop Hall Hangout” series.
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- Home heating oil dealers are calling on New England’s governors to halt utility-funded conversions to natural gas and electric heating systems, saying the practice will strain the region’s electric grid.
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- Born in Cuba in the late 1950s, Leora Levy and her family escaped from Fidel Castro’s regime and arrived in the United States with little money but lots of hopes. Now, she has been named as the winner of the highest award of the Connecticut Republican Party.
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- Hartford Public Schools welcomed teachers from Puerto Rico Wednesday as part of the district’s effort to fill vacancies and enhance cultural enrichment through Hartford’s new Paso a Paso Puerto Rico Recruitment Program.
- West Hartford's GastroPark, which has been serving breakfasts and lunches for two years, now is doing weekend brunch.
