Stimulus: Weatherization program is ‘a job producer’ having created or retained 80 jobs.

The statewide weatherization program — funded with $64 million in federal stimulus money — rolled up Thursday morning to Lancaster's multifamily colonial in Hartford's North End. The cellulose insulation that Paris' crew from Zerodraft was shooting into Lancaster's drafty walls will help her and her tenant cut down on their heating bills.

And this work is keeping weatherization companies like Paris' busy in metro areas across Connecticut.

"There is nothing in those walls," said Lancaster, clutching her robe closed and peering into the holes that the crew had drilled though the clapboard in the front of her house. "No wonder I have to sit down every time I read my gas bill."

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Stimulus: St. John’s Co. Florida wins energy conservation grant

Historic City News local reporters have been informed that St. Johns County has secured a statewide competitive energy conservation grant that will provide $437,902 for two projects.


St. Johns County is proud to be one of only fourteen applicants in the state to receive this funding, which is a result of the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009.

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