Bridgeport

The City of Bridgeport Receives Grant Funding for Community-led Sustainability Projects

Bridgeport, CT – The City of Bridgeport was recently awarded the Partners for Places grant, led by The Funders Network (TFN) in partnership with the Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN). The $150,000 grant will be partnered with matched funds from the Barr Foundation and William Caspar Graustein Foundation, in which the City has received $90,000. The grant will allow Bridgeport to build community resilience through collaborative environmental education, including the co-creation of a climate resilience curriculum that can be used by community leaders throughout the city. The City plans on building trust and understanding between frontline community residents and local decision-makers while ultimately establishing a training program where community leaders can share knowledge and empower their fellow residents to participate in climate-related…

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F150’s Gone Wild

2024-06-23@10:00pm--#Bridgeport CT-- Two BOLO's (Be On The Look Out) to local police: Police are looking for a maroon and tan F150 with a male driver and a female passenger who robbed someone with a baseball bat in the 950 block of East Main Street. This F150 has a washer/dryer and lawnmower in the back. A second BOLO for a tan F150 with plate 9421DB for almost running down an officer near Bass Pro. They did not say if the two calls are one and the same.

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