The state will award $5.3 million in grants to 17 towns for capital improvements to roads, sidewalks, buildings and parks, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's office announced.
State public health officials will approve a new manager at a Litchfield nursing home that also was fined $2,000 after state inspections found staff prepared inadequate meals and openly referred to residents as monkeys, The Associated Press reports.
A pair of Connecticut advertising-marketing firms have merged into a full-service operation serving in-state and New York metro area clients, authorities say.
The federal Small Business Administration is offering aid to Fairfield and Litchfield County farm-related ventures, liked fish farms and feed and seed suppliers, hurt by last winter's late frosts and freezes.