Norwich

For the first time in its 25 year history, there will be no minor league baseball played at Dodd Stadium in Norwich this season. However, the seats will not be empty all summer long. The Greater Norwich Area Chamber of Commerce is finalizing plans to host the annual summer Rock the Docks concert series at the stadium. The concert is…

For the first time in its 25 year history, there will be no minor league baseball played at Dodd Stadium, but the Norwich Sea Unicorns are making sure the stadium is used this summer.

All references to Christopher Columbus will be removed from an Italian heritage monument in Norwich. The Norwich Italian Heritage and Cultural Committee announced in a press release their decision to remove a carving of Columbus’s face and his name on the monument, which is erected near the Chelsea Parade in Norwich. “Norwich’s Italian Community is very sensitive to the...

Freeport McMoRan, a major employer in Norwich, is closing its Norwich plant due to a downturn in business and economic impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic. The closure is expected to affect 107 workers. In a notice to the Department of Labor, the manager of the Norwich plant, James Hodson, wrote that the company has reviewed operations in light of the,…

Freeport McMoran announced it will be closing their Norwich location after nearly 40 years in the city.

The Italian Heritage Monument in Norwich no longer contains references to Christopher Columbus with the goal of refocusing the message and meaning of the tribute

Summer Break is officially here, capping off an unprecedented school year. But while schools have been closed, food services teams have not stopped working. According to a 2020 survey, there are more than 117,000 children in Connecticut suffering from food insecurity. With so many families out of work because of the pandemic, those numbers are likely higher now. School districts…

A 27-year-old Norwich man died in a motorcycle crash in Clinton over the weekend. Police said Brett Salter was traveling north on Route 145 around 9:30 p.m. on Saturday when he lost control and went over the guardrail just south of the Clinton Country Club. Police and firefighters responded to the scene and tried to save Salter, but he was…

Protesters organized in the City of Norwich three times in the last week. Two protests are scheduled for the upcoming weekend. It is a level of public discourse and protest that Mayor Peter Nystrom (R) has never seen. “Not in my lifetime, no,” said Nystrom. “Not the level of anger, sadness, the volume of people. Nothing ever like this.” Norwich…

A professor at UConn has been tracking many protests since the women’s marches in 2017 and shares what he has learned

A 52-year-old-man found dead in a Norwich apartment Wednesday afternoon had been shot several times and police said he appears to have been targeted. Police responded to Laurel Hill Avenue at 1:45 p.m. Wednesday after receiving reports of an unresponsive man and found a 52-year-old man dead inside his residence. Police believe he was shot sometime early in the morning…

A 14-year-old boy suffered smoke inhalation during a fire in Norwich on Wednesday morning and was taken to the hospital, according to fire officials. Crews responded to a home on Stonington Road at 8:10 a.m. after a fire on a porch extended to the inside of a house. Officials from the fire department said a 14-year-old boy who was out…

Police arrested a woman on Monday after investigating a racist incident at a Starbucks in Norwich last week. A confrontation between two women in a Norwich Starbucks drive-thru ended in a racist incident Tuesday morning. Holly Chalifoux, 22, of Moosup, was arrested after police received a walk-in complaint from Marcela Lee. She claimed that she was intimidated based on her…

A confrontation between two women in a Norwich Starbucks drive-thru ended in a racist incident Tuesday morning. Marcela Lee, a black woman who was buying her breakfast at Starbucks, said that a white woman behind her in line started revving her engine and yelling at Lee that she was late for work. What happens next was captured on a Facebook…

A woman attacked with a racial slur at a Norwich Starbucks returned to the location to thank the employees there for their support

A woman in Norwich wanted to thank the Starbucks workers who supported her after witnessing another woman call her a racist slur.

A woman’s morning coffee run in Norwich became confrontational when she was attacked with a racial slur

Norwich Police are investigating a racist incident that happened at a Starbucks in the city Tuesday morning. It was captured on Facebook Live by Norwich resident, Marcela Lee. “This is the treatment that we get,” said Lee, in reference to the video she recorded. Lee, a black woman, said that she was getting breakfast at Starbucks on her way to…

A group of people filled the lawn outside of Norwich City Hall Tuesday, calling for an end to violence and racism in their community and across the country. “I don’t want to die without seeing peace in the world,” said Makayla Vaughters, one of the high school students who organized Tuesday’s protest. “I think it is important for the...

A peaceful protest took place through downtown Norwich amid calls for change and justice