WASHINGTON, July 3 - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families announced that it expects to award a discretionary grant for Head Start services in Meriden, Wallingford, Southington and Berlin, Connecticut. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $1,240,928. The agency said the grant was associated with income security and social services. The funding is open to state, county, city, township governments; independent school dist  more

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it intends to award a $355,682 cooperative agreement to the Appalachian Trail Conservancy of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, for the completion of cyclic maintenance projects for continued visitor access at the Appalachian National Scenic Trail in Connecticut, Georgia, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, Vermont and Wes  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 3 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - New England Regional Information Office issued the following news release: Two of the four large counties in Connecticut reported employment increases from December 2017 to December 2018, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (Large counties are defined as those with 2017 annual average employment of 75,000 or more.) Acting Regional Commissioner Jim Sibley noted that New Haven County had t  more

WASHINGTON, July 1 - The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it intends to award a $105,000 cooperative agreement to the Farmington River Watershed Association of Simsbury, Connecticut, for wild and scenic river assistance. The funding opportunity number is NPS-19-NERO-0056 (CFDA 15.962). For more information, contact Craig McKaige, 215/597-8863.  more

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- The Defense Contract Management Agency issued the following news: The following contracts with a value of over $7 million were awarded last week and will be administered by the Defense Contract Management Agency. The agency currently manages approximately 350,000 contracts with an overall total value of $5.2 trillion. The agency also currently authorizes $678.4 million in contractor payments per business day. ARMY Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Stratford, Connecticut, was awar  more

WASHINGTON, July 2 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following news release: A Connecticut company has notified the Nuclear Regulatory Commission of the theft of a portable moisture-density gauge containing sealed sources of radioactive material. Tri-State Testing Lab, LLC, of Berlin, Conn., reported that the gauge was locked in the trunk of a car that was stolen from an employee's Tolland, Conn., driveway on June 30. The device contains small amounts of cesium-137 and americium-  more

WASHINGTON, July 1 - The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it intends to award a $327,720 grant to the Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area Inc. for the implementation of management plan for the Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area in Connecticut and Massachusetts. The agency description of the grant states: "The heritage area assists in the promotion, facilitation, and improvement of people's understanding of the important natural, cultu  more