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To help with cranberry harvesting, the company recently purchased an Avant 760 compact loader from Alta Equipment.
Oiva Hannula & Sons is deeply rooted in the cranberry farming industry, with a legacy that spans multiple generations. Based in Carver, Mass., the company is run by Scott Hannula, alongside his father, Wayne, and his uncle, Ward, who represents the third and fourth generation in the family to grow cranberries in Carver and the surrounding areas. The company’s journey began with Scott Hannula’s greatgrandfather, who had a cranberry farm during the Great
Depression. After World War II, his grandfather, Oiva Hannula started designing and building cranberry equipment for himself and others, eventually buying cranberry bogs. The business was incorporated in 1976 by Oiva and his sons, Ward and Wayne. Today, Oiva Hannula & Sons owns 240 acres of cranberry bogs and manages an additional 700 producing acres for see CRANBERRIES page 12
New Haven Receives Fed Grant to Plan Ways to Reconnect Areas Split By I-91 Removing physical barriers around Interstate 91, restoring pedestrian routes and building housing could be some of the ways New Haven, Conn., officials hope to reconnect the city where it was divided by the freeway in the 1960s. The Stamford Advocate reported that six city neighborhoods would benefit from the I-91 Neighborhood Reconnection Initiative to knit together areas of New Haven that were separated. The effort is federally funded by the
Reconnecting Communities Pilot grant program. City leaders and elected federal representatives on Jan. 27 laid out some of what the city hopes to learn from a planning process to be aided by the $2 million federal grant. Areas involved include State Street, Union Station, Long Wharf, Audubon Street, Wooster Square, the parts of the city see RECONNECT page 8