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City Hall in Meriden, April 3, 2012. (Sarah Nathan/Record-Journal)

OPINION: Referendum forces City Council to make tough choices 

The people of Meriden have spoken. They have rejected the City Council’s proposed $198 million budget for 2018-19 and have sent it ...
 
FILE - In this May 16, 2018, file photo, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt appears before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies on budget on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Trump tweeted Thursday, July 5, he accepted the resignation of Pruitt. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
Scott Pruitt is finally out as head of the Environmental Protection Agency.As attorney general of Oklahoma, Pruitt distinguished ...
Photos of five journalists adorn candles during a vigil across the street from where they were slain in their newsroom in Annapolis, Md., Friday, June 29, 2018. Prosecutors say Jarrod W. Ramos opened fire Thursday in the Capital Gazette newsroom. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Thursday afternoon, newsrooms around the world — the Record-Journal included — observed a moment of silence for the five employees ...
Saturday during opening weekend of the Wallingford Garden Market at Doolittle Park in Wallingford June 30, 2018 | Justin Weekes / Special to the Record-Journal
We liked this weekA global financial technology firm announced Tuesday it plans to relocate its headquarters to Connecticut. Seven ...
Previous owner Raymond Czapiga and current owner Walter Paluszewski cut a symbolic ribbon Z. Czapiga & Son in Meriden Wednesday evening, June 20, to celebrate the store reaching 100 years in business. | Bailey Wright, Record-Journal
Three generations of family ownership and a well-placed handoff have added up to a century’s worth of accomplishment for V. Czapig ...
In this June 13, 2018 photo, nine month-old Jesus Alberto Lopez, center, stands with his mother, Perla Murillo, as they wait with other families to request political asylum in the United States, across the border in Tijuana, Mexico. The family, from the Mexican state of Michoacan, has waited for about a week in this Mexican border city, hoping for a chance to escape widespread drug violence at home. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Hundreds of thousands of protesters gathered across the country last weekend in reaction to President Donald Trump’s “zero toleran ...
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FILE PHOTO – MERIDEN, Connecticut - Thursday, July 3, 2008 - Fourth of July fireworks go off at Castle Craig as seen from Hubbard Park on Thursday, July 3, 2008. Rob Beecher / Record-Journal
Unlike Veterans Day and Memorial Day — solemn occasions for Americans — Independence Day is a time of pure celebration. It has bee ...
A student is picked up at the Women and Families Center in Meriden, Thursday afternoon, June 21, 2018. Funding for the School Readiness Program will end on August 24, 2018. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal
Parents are upset that the city has cut funding for the Meriden Women and Families Center’s School Readiness Program, and the cent ...
Meriden City Hall, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal
Now that Meriden’s property tax rate has topped 40 mills — the budget proposal on the table right now would bring the inner-distri ...
Martin Torres, of Meriden, picks up daughter, Angela, 4, at the Women and Families Center in Meriden, Thursday, June 21, 2018. Funding for the School Readiness Program will end on August 24, 2018. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal
We liked this weekCongratulations to the Class of 2018 — the more than 2,000 seniors who graduated this month from our local high ...
View of a group home at 96 Birchcrest Dr. in Southington, Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017. Police have been called to the facility on several occasions. The five-bedroom, two-bath house is one of four short-term assessment and respite homes operated by Bridge Family Center of West Hartford. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal
The rocky relationship between Southington leaders and a local group home for teenage girls shows no signs of improving.Town offic ...
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