The Nutmeg State was paying for 50 percent of the cost of this program.

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Sikorsky employs 9, 000 workers in the Nutmeg State, most of them at Stratford.

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At one point Friday night, for instance, Connecticut's emergency management agency warned on Twitter that "a wide ban of extremely heavy snow" was moving through the central and eastern parts of the Nutmeg State, dropping snow at a staggering rate of 4 to 5 inches an hour.

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