TORRINGTON – The federal government this week began disbursing stimulus checks worth $1,200 to most Americans to help them weather the economic downturn caused by COVID-19. Americans who filed last year with direct deposit information are seeing the payment pop into their account without having to lift a finger. But what about people whose tax […] LOG IN to your account REGISTER to access your 5 FREE ARTICLES a month. Print Subscribers click here to ACTIVATE your access PURCHASE a Digital...

WATERBURY — Stop & Shop on Monday called for grocery workers to be designated as extended first responders or emergency personnel during the coronavirus pandemic. Stop & Shop President Gordon Reid issued a joint statement with United Food and Commercial Workers International Union President Marc Perrone calling on state and federal governments to make the […] LOG IN to your account REGISTER to access your 5 FREE ARTICLES a month. Print Subscribers click here to ACTIVATE your access PURCHASE a...

WATERBURY — Local companies are re-evaluating their long term work-from-home policies in light of the coronavirus pandemic. The disease has forced companies to shutter their offices and establish robust work-from-home infrastructure to keep productive as Connecticut’s lockdown stretches into a second month. “I think the possibility does exist that, moving forward, we will allow that […] LOG IN to your account REGISTER to access your 5 FREE ARTICLES a month. Print Subscribers click here to...

WATERBURY — Waterbury Hospital nurses and technicians are being denied tests for the coronavirus while other staff are getting them, and working conditions are not safe for workers, according to union leaders. The Western Connecticut Area Labor Federation on Monday held a teleconference with 40 hospital employees who allege the hospital is looking to cut costs and is not protecting front-line workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. “If these health care workers get sick, there’s going to be no...

TORRINGTON — For more than 60 years, Daley Moving & Storage has moved the rich and famous from one house to the next. Now, the locally owned moving company has a home of its own, in the city’s industrial park, at 230 Ella Grasso Ave. “We have been saying we’ve got to find our own […] LOG IN to your account REGISTER to access your 5 FREE ARTICLES a month. Print Subscribers click here to ACTIVATE your access PURCHASE a Digital subscription Use the form below for instant purchase of an online...