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The New Britain Racial Justice Coalition led an event, with City Council members and activists to call for action to address housing costs, unavailability and poor living conditions. Coalition Director Alicia Strong was joined by housing activists in calling for more action to make housing available and direct the community’s resources help city residents. Joining […]

Calling for housing as a human right, the New Britain Racial Justice Coalition is planning to demand affordable housing in the city at a Housing for All Rally and Winter Mutual Aid Event.

Calling the suspension of New Britain assistant public defender Joshua Perldeiner, “part of a concerning series of attacks on pro-Palestine voices across Connecticut and the United States,” the New Britain Racial Justice Coalition said it supports Perldeiner. The organization called for, “respectful and constructive conversations to address the concerns raised by this incident and stands […]

Central Connecticut State University Office of Equity and Inclusion and Division of Student Affairs hosted a “Unity-Peace Walk” on Friday to provide, the University says, “a demonstration of support for peace around the world, starting with the Central campus.” “The purpose of the event is to reaffirm and remind all members of the university community […]

The New Britain City Council, at the first meeting since the 2023 election, elected and named its key leaders for the next two year term. Ward 5 Council member, Alderperson Francisco Santiago (D-5) was elected as the Council’s President Pro Tempore, which, under the city Charter is essentially the deputy mayor. Ald. Santiago is a […]

Today, on Veterans Day, New Britain and the nation solemnly remember all of our veterans’ sacrifices and offer them our thanks. It has always been important to the people of New Britain to remember, honor and thank veterans who have served our country, especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice. The 2023 observances in the […]

The city of New Britain is to hold inauguration ceremonies for newly elected and re-elected local officials.

At the first meeting of the newly elected Democratic-majority City Council, Ward 4 Council member-elect John McNamara and Ward 5 Council member-elect Francisco Santiago have proposed a resolution to commence engineering work to advance the Allen Street Drainage Improvements/Reconstruction Project. A number of residents of a neighborhood to the southwest of CCSU, including Newbury, Hampton, […]

City election officials have published the official vote totals from the 2023 New Britain election, with the results being, The New Britain Progressive, a publication of the New Britain Independent Newspaper, Inc. is free to read and community supported. http://newbritainprogressive.com. Please feel free to help the New Britain Progressive with a donation, and you are […]

Democratic mayoral candidate Chris Anderson sounded like the victor in the election Tuesday, in spite of not winning, himself, as Democrats thunderously celebrated apparently winning a majority on the City Council and a majority of the Board of Education seats up for election this year. Democrats won the Council elections in wards 2, 3 and […]