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More than a quarter of Connecticut cities and towns have a mask mandate again. A majority only require masks be worn in municipal buildings, like town hall. However, there’s a growing list of communities requiring masks be worn anywhere indoors. South Windsor’s town manager said his community’s Covid cases have doubled in the last two weeks. “We’re way beyond,...

Rashawn Dally learned how to play soccer in Bloomfield and after years of hard work, he went to play at Quinnipiac University and eventually professionally in the USL. Now the 24-year-old wants to help young players by sharing his knowledge and experience. He founded RULLA Sports Empowerment and is hosting the inaugural Kick it with the Pros soccer camp. About…

Rashawn Dally learned how to play soccer in Bloomfield and after years of hard work, he went to play at Quinnipiac University and eventually professionally in the USL. Now the 24-year-old wants to help young players by sharing his knowledge and experience.

More communities in the state are urging people to mask up amid the fast spread of the Omicron variant.

More communities in the state are urging people to mask up amid the fast spread of the Omicron variant. Starting at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Norwalk re-instituted a mask mandate indoors for everyone regardless of vaccination status. And now, West Hartford and Bloomfield are at least advising people to do the same. “I’ve kept my mask on no matter...

More tenants of a Bloomfield apartment complex have come forward with complaints about the problems with the apartment buildings.

Kristine Pisani said her toilet troubles started in March. “Discharge from the toilets went all the way into our bathroom tub,” said Pisani. She said that when the property management company, Up Realty, didn’t respond to her work order, she called a plumber herself. Nearly eight months and more than $800 later, Pisani said she’s still fighting with Up Realty...

More tenants of a Bloomfield apartment complex have come forward to complain about longstanding issues in their buildings.

An unstable railing, a broken door latch, and a hole in the roof are among the complaints tenants of Wedgewood Apartments in Bloomfield shared with NBC Connecticut on Wednesday.

Residents of Wedgewood Apartments in Bloomfield are demanding problems in the building be fixed.

Google is donating $100,000 to Connecticut Foodshare to help boost operations and support local pantries ahead of the holidays. The funding will provide more resources for pantries that want to implement what’s known as the Supporting Wellness at Pantries (SWAP) system. The purpose is to categorize foods based on their nutritional value while also educating donors and those struggle with…

As Connecticut medical leaders wait for the FDA to authorize Covid-19 booster shots for everyone 18 and older, many health care systems are ensuring they provide booster shots to those who are eligible.

Medical leaders in Connecticut say they’ve seen a steady flow of patients coming in to get their Covid-19 booster shots, but with that steady flow there is some confusion about eligibility.

Two men were taken to the hospital after a shooting in Bloomfield on Monday night. Officers were called to Brookline Avenue around 8:45 p.m. after getting a report of multiple gun shots in the area. When police arrived, they said they found a 23-year-old man suffering from gunshot wounds to his torso and legs. He was transported to Saint Francis…

Two families are displaced after a fire at a duplex in Bloomfield Tuesday afternoon.

Police are investigating after a man was killed in a stabbing in Bloomfield early Monday morning. Officers were called to an apartment on Blue Hills Avenue around 12:45 a.m. after getting a report of a domestic dispute involving a stabbing. When police arrived to the scene, they said they found a 28-year-old man suffering from a stab wound to his…

Metlife will be raising its minimum wage to $20 an hour for every employee, the company announced Thursday. The global insurance company will soon raise their minimum wage for its 360 people who currently are employed in the Bloomfield area, primarily at its customer service and operations center.  ​​”We want to provide a highly competitive wage that will help us…

Jeannie Minter is still dealing with the loss of her husband, John, after he died earlier this month due to COVID-19. His death came as a surprise because he was fully vaccinated. “He got both his vaccines,” Minter said. “We were just never comfortable taking off our mask. We would go to church we have our mask on in church,…

Jeannie Minter said she and her husband did everything possible to protect themselves from COVID-19, including getting vaccinated, but both of them contracted the virus last month and her husband, John, died a week later.

Rising COVID-19 cases along with a slowdown of vaccination rates around the country are some of the reasons why the CDC chose to alter its stance on masking when indoors.