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The Farmington Historic District Commission approved a picket fence at 7 Church Street on May 19 and called it the last exterior detail on a house it had reviewed in stages since March 2025.
Jack Beckett·Jul 24, 2026
The new oil tank behind 772 Farmington Avenue was installed, the bollards reset, and the screening panel built and painted before the Farmington Historic District Commission ever voted on it.
Jack Beckett·Jul 23, 2026
Farmington's bicycle and trails committee met July 15 with six members absent and a short agenda, but a full to-do list: new trail signs, a bollard question, Safe Routes to School talks, and a…
Jack Beckett·Jul 21, 2026
Farmington's newly seated Fire Station Building Committee held its first meeting Friday, taking control of a Town Council-scoped plan to build two new fire stations and renovate the historic Village…
Jack Beckett·Jul 20, 2026
The Farmington Town Council voted unanimously to build a sidewalk along Meadow Road, approving the revised Option 2 alignment after two years of hearings, a deferral, and a redesign.
Jack Beckett·Jul 16, 2026
Farmington's Town Plan and Zoning Commission unanimously rejected all four applications behind the Enclave at the Farmington River, the 237-home development proposed along the river between…
Jack Beckett·Jul 15, 2026
The pump station that turned up corroded pipe in June is now, per the superintendent, 100 percent done, short of calibrating the new flow meter.
Jack Beckett·Jul 12, 2026
Farmington's Green Efforts Committee spent its July meeting not dreaming up new initiatives but narrowing the ones it already has, settling on four goals it might actually complete: waste reduction…
Jack Beckett·Jul 11, 2026
The owner of a West Avon Road house bought her first home, was told a grassy bowl out back was hers, and dug it into a pond.
Jack Beckett·Jul 10, 2026
The $16M renovation of Farmington's 1928 town hall is essentially done. At its June 23 meeting, the Ad Hoc 1928 Building Committee turned to the project's last mile: a signage and wayfinding package…
Jack Beckett·Jun 30, 2026
Farmington's Town Council reviewed Town Manager Kathleen Blonski behind closed doors on June 23, then returned to open session and unanimously extended her contract through June 30, 2030, raised her…
Jack Beckett·Jun 27, 2026
A new Connecticut law, Public Act 25-1, forces Farmington to approve two-to-nine-unit housing in its commercial and industrial zones with no public hearing.
Jack Beckett·Jun 25, 2026
Noble Energy withdrew both its wetlands and zoning applications for the proposed diesel truck stop on 86 acres above Batterson Park Pond, ending a fight that drew an intervener, dueling hydrology…
Jack Beckett·Jun 19, 2026
Farmington's Architectural Design Review Committee spent a second evening shaping the 237-unit Enclave at the Farmington River down to the brick, the dormers, and the fences.
Jack Beckett·Jun 18, 2026
The Farmington Bicycle and Trails Advisory Committee narrowed its plan for Highlands bike-route signs to two nearly identical streets on June 9, a red route off Crestwood and a blue off Briarwood.
Jack Beckett·Jun 15, 2026
The Unionville Historic District and Properties Commission approved a rooftop solar array and two EV chargers at 796 Plainville Avenue on June 11, with no objection to how the panels would look from…
Jack Beckett·Jun 14, 2026
A planned electrical upgrade at Farmington's Yukon Road pump station uncovered hydrogen sulfide corrosion eating through the discharge pipes.
Jack Beckett·Jun 13, 2026
Three Farmington bodies weigh in on the fate of the Noble Energy truck stop, but the elected Town Council, the one residents keep asking to stop it, doesn't actually decide.
Jack Beckett·Jun 13, 2026
Farmington's Town Council issued two unanimous negative referrals June 9, opposing the Noble Energy truck stop at 8261 Fienemann Road and a separate National Land Holdings residential project, even…
Jack Beckett·Jun 12, 2026
The Farmington Town Plan and Zoning Commission voted 4-2 on June 8 to deny a special permit for a new home at 8638 Pine Drive.
Jack Beckett·Jun 11, 2026
Noble Energy wants to build a diesel travel center and warehouse on 86 acres that drain toward Batterson Park Pond — the public pond the state is spending roughly $10 million to restore.
Jack Beckett·Jun 6, 2026
Two weeks after the May 14 ribbon cutting, the Ad Hoc 1928 Building Committee approved $17,700 for a standalone air-conditioning unit serving the new Town Hall's server room — and pushed exterior…
Jack Beckett·May 30, 2026
At the May 26 Farmington Town Council meeting, Westview resident Tim Kelly asked the council for an inventory of the town's current volunteer-firefighter ranks by decade — twenties, thirties…
Jack Beckett·May 29, 2026
A Life Scout in Troop 170 of Unionville presented his Eagle Scout project to the Farmington Town Plan and Zoning Commission on May 27: demolish the deteriorated wooden kiosk at the Red Oak Hill…
Jack Beckett·May 29, 2026
