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Hartford, East Hartford mayors to look into sharing jobs, services

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Hartford, East Hartford mayors to look into sharing jobs, services

On a bridge spanning the river that divides their communities, the young and recently elected mayors of Hartford and East Hartford outlined a commitment Thursday to find ways to share services, a simple concept long viewed as political folly in Connecticut.

Mayor Arunan Arulampalam, 39, of Hartford and Connor Martin, 33, of East Hartford, two Democrats elected on the same night a year ago, spoke of an all-inclusive look at their governments but avoided any reference to “regionalism” in favor of the less provocative and more precise term: “shared services.”

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