By Cate Hewitt — A nearly three-year standoff about public access is nowhere near resolution between Old Lyme and the owner of a historic landing on the Connecticut River. Nevertheless, the town announced Friday it will move ahead with installing signage on the property, establishing rules for public use.

By Jason Vallee — When Jay Douglas purchased the Mechanic Street Marina in Pawcatuck in 2016, his wife Suzie Flores said the couple was looking for a productive, innovative way to spend their winter months out on the water. The couple wanted an activity that could potentially help to improve waterways, provide a secondary income and encourage economic growth and healthier living.

By Luke Hajdasz — Who’s allowed and how much you pay to be at certain Connecticut beaches could soon change.

By Elizabeth Regan — Old Lyme, CT — The “unorganized public” is victorious again in a fight for beach access going back to 1952. Seventy years ago and again in 2018, residents of the Sound View Beach area took Miami Beach Association to court to force the removal of a fence standing between members of the public and an 800-foot-long stretch of sand left to them in perpetuity by a developer.

By Thomas Frank — An investigation by POLITICO's E&E News reveals systemic favoritism toward wealthy and white people in a federal program that lifts homes above rising floodwaters.

By Ken Dixon — A New Haven state representative’s proposal to equalize beach access throughout Connecticut was the focus of sharp criticism Monday from suburban officials who claimed that even their own highly taxed residents have a hard time getting into small parking lots at a time when the lingering COVID pandemic has attracted more visitors than ever over the last two years.

By Gayle Fee — Taylor Swift was onstage with the Rolling Stones in Chicago last night — which was good news for Watch Hill, R.I., where some beach-goers are disgruntled about their new celebrity summer resident.

By Kathy Leonard Czepiel — Connecticut has 253 miles of shoreline, but in the late 1960s only seven miles of it were accessible to the public. That rankled activist Ned Coll, and he set out to do something about it.

By Alex Kuffner — In a bid to reduce the potential damage from flooding caused by storm surges, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has put forward a $58.6-million plan that would largely be funded through taxpayer money to lift up 341 private structures on the Washington County coast.

1994 VIDEO — A segment from Michael Moore's TV Nation (1994) in which correspondent Janeane Garofalo investigates the so-called public beaches of Greenwich, CT that are reserved only for residents of Greenwich.