A long holiday weekend is a day longer for many state employees.
Monday is the second of seven state furlough days for Connecticut state employees. In an effort to save money, most state agencies are closed.
Here’s how it will affect you. If you won big in the lottery over the weekend, you’ll have to wait one more day to collect your winnings. The Connecticut lottery is closed. So are the departments of Education and of Labor.
Legal goings on in the state will be limited. The Office of the Chief State's Attorney in Rocky Hill is closed but the Offices of the State's Attorney in the Judicial District and Geographical Area courts will operate on a limited basis.
The courts are open, however, so if you have jury duty you still have to go.
If you need to get across the Connecticut River today, you'll need to take a bridge, not a ferry.
Both the Rocky Hill-Glastonbury Ferry and the Chester-Hadlyme Ferry are not running Monday due to the state-mandated furlough.
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The ferries will resume their normal service Tuesday, July 7. The next state furlough day is Nov. 27.
The furloughs come under a agreement between the state and employee unions to help close the state's budget gap. State workers agreed to take one unpaid furlough day before June 30 and three furlough days in each of the next two fiscal years.
