BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut, Nov. 4 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: * * * - $1.6 million for 25 grants benefiting New England * * * Top federal and state environmental officials from New England and New York announced 35 grants totaling $2.6 million to local state and local government and community groups to improve the health and ecosystem of Long Island Sound. Twenty grants totaling $1.4 million benefit Connecticut. Three grants totaling $250,000 benef  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 -- The Environmental Protection Agency announced that it expects to award up to four discretionary grants for environmental education in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $300,000 with a ceiling of $100,000 for each award in the program. The agency said the grant was associated with environment. The agency description of the grant states: "The purpose of the Environmental Edu  more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, Nov. 8 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont, Christina E. Nolan, issued the following news release: United States Attorney Christina E. Nolan announced today the rollout of a Law Enforcement Reading Program. The U.S. Attorney's Office created this program for purposes of outreach to children in rural communities. Under the program, local police officers will read a book to students in grades 1 through 3 in the classroom, then engage in open-ended discussion of t  more