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Workers at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale and the Hyatt Regency Greenwich say they’re increasingly frustrated by slow contract negotiations. They are willing to walk off the job, joining thousands of other workers nationwide prepared to go on strike over mounting anger over what they say are low wages and poor working conditions.

In Fairfield County, Laura Nelson of Redding jogged by a collapsed guardrail passing over a stream, on Old Stagecoach Road, just hours after the street flooded.

The postponement of the start to the fall semester comes amid a state lawsuit and investigation into Paier College.

The federal government is giving New England $389 million to improve the electrical grid. º£½Ç»»ÆÞ officials say that will mean cheaper, cleaner electricity in the long run.

Pacific House, a men’s only shelter in Stamford, is addressing º£½Ç»»ÆÞ’s affordable housing crisis by renovating older homes and making them habitable for homeless residents.

Food donations tend to level off during the summer months, but the Paris 2024 Olympic Games are helping to buck the trend, especially in Fairfield County. That’s according to Karen Saggese, co-site director for Food Rescue Fairfield County. The group collects donated food from retailers and food service companies and delivers them to local nonprofits.

An important milestone is rapidly approaching. The workers unionized last year, after years of what they claim are abusive management and poor pay per previous reporting from º£½Ç»»ÆÞ . But since the union has yet to get a contract, workers could potentially vote to remove the union as their representative if the two sides don’t agree to a contract a year after forming the union, according to union advocates.

Municipal officials in towns across º£½Ç»»ÆÞ have taken action to promote more civil political cultures within their communities — even before the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.

Independent and Republican voters in º£½Ç»»ÆÞ say they have mixed feelings on Vice President Kamala Harris being the likely Democratic nominee for president.

º£½Ç»»ÆÞ Attorney General William Tong now wants the state to give his office more authority to go after potential price gouging at major grocers.