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HBJ PHOTO | STEVE LASCHEVER Jay Williams is the president and CEO of the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Dr. Andrew Agwunobi has returned as the CEO of UConn Health, after a short stint in an executive role with health insurer Humana.

The federal government has awarded about $16.4 million for infrastructure projects in Hartford and other parts of the state, including increased service on the CTrail Hartford Line, and funding to further study plans to lower and cap Interstate 84 to reconnect Hartford’s North End with surrounding neighborhoods.

There were 287 victims of investment fraud in Connecticut in 2023 who lost a total of $30.5 million, according to a recent analysis by Carlson Law, a Florida-based law firm that represents investors in high-stakes financial disputes.

Nonprofit healthcare provider Charter Oak Health Center has named an industry veteran as its new president and CEO.

Contributed Lincoln Logistics center, owned by Lincoln Equities Group LLC, consists of two reinforced-concrete buildings on 64.5 acres at the corner of Route 312 and Pugsley Road in Brewster, New York.

COSTAR Sturm, Ruger & Co. has its corporate headquarters in Southport, at 1 Lacey Place.

The state has launched a new grant program to boost supply chain companies in Connecticut by helping them expand and increase production capacity.The launch of the $25 million Strategic Supply Chain Initiative was announced by Gov. Ned Lamont and state Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) Commissioner Daniel O’Keefe Thursday in New Haven.The program, administered by the DECD, offers grants of $500,000 to $5 million for projects that will increase supply chain companies’ production capacity.

Contributed Danbury-based FuelCell Energy's new 14-megawatt fuel cell park in Derby.

Republicans in the state legislature have proposed a plan to reduce energy costs, in an effort to provide relief to consumers as Connecticut faces the second-highest electricity costs in the country after Hawaii.