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Bagel Rescues Senator On Food Stamps

by Paul Bass | May 21, 2013 10:43 am

Posted to: Ansonia, Derby, Oxford, Seymour, Shelton

On his first day of trying to eat for under $5, Chris Murphy found the first sustenance he could afford en route to a flight at 1 p.m.—and he had to forgo the schmear.

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Ansonia Home Searched In Case Of Murdered College Student

by Ethan Fry | May 20, 2013 3:18 pm

Posted to: Ansonia, Police

Police investigating the murder of Eastern Connecticut State University student Alyssiah Wiley searched an Ansonia home over the weekend in connection with the probe.

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Seymour Business Trains Veterans For The Long Haul

by Ethan Fry | May 20, 2013 8:27 am

Posted to: Seymour

A program funded by the federal government is allowing a Seymour trucking business to train unemployed military veterans for high-demand jobs.

The Allstate Commercial Driver Training School on Pearl Street offers programs for obtaining Commercial Driver’s Licenses.

And through a program called the the Veteran Retraining Assistance Program (VRAP), unemployed veterans between the ages of 35 and 60 can apply for up to $1,564 per month for 12 months to pursue job training in the field.

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Things To Do This Weekend

by The Valley Indy | May 16, 2013 2:04 pm

Posted to: Ansonia, Derby, Oxford, Seymour, Shelton

Spring is in full swing and that means a ton of stuff to do for you and your family.

If you’re sponsoring or organizing an event and you don’t see it on the list below, please register for the Valley Indy self-serve calendar and post your event.

We don’t post all the events emailed to us because of sheer volume. You people host a lot of events.

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Mother: Ansonia An ‘Area Of Interest’ In Missing Daughter’s Case

by Ethan Fry | May 15, 2013 9:40 pm

Posted to: Ansonia

The search for an Eastern Connecticut State University student missing since last month came to Ansonia this week.

The mystery surrounding the disappearance of 20-year-old Alyssiah Wiley has attracted statewide attention since state police announced she was missing April 26.

Wiley’s mother, Corrinna Martin, spent Tuesday and Wednesday evenings canvassing Ansonia neighborhoods spreading the word about her daughter’s case.

Martin said that while her daughter didn’t have friends or family in Ansonia, it is an “area of interest.”

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‘Cooking Matters’ For Derby’s Irving Students

by Leah Salomoni | May 15, 2013 9:12 pm

Posted to: Derby, Education

A group of fifth graders at Derby’s Irving School were guinea pigs in chef hats on Friday.

Students in Stacey Wasilnak’s class took part in a pilot program that aims to support a school-based obesity prevention initiative, developed and funded by Griffin Hospital and the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center (PRC).

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Derby Seeks ‘Sure-Footedness’ In Next Redevelopment Try

by Susan Hunter | May 14, 2013 10:49 pm

Posted to: Derby

Derby’s Redevelopment Agency met for the first time in more than a year Tuesday, where city officials said three developers are interested in bringing new activity to parts of the city’s long-stalled downtown redevelopment zone.

The city has been trying for years to spur new businesses in the area that stretches along Main Street next to the Housatonic River from roughly the Derby-Shelton Bridge to the former Lifetouch property.

In the latest in a series of setbacks, the preferred development agreement with California-based Eclipse Development Group expired April 18 due to the company’s inability to secure a viable anchor tenant for the area.

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Seymour Ex-Cop Takes Dispute With Town To FOI Commission

by Jodie Mozdzer Gil | May 14, 2013 12:34 am

Posted to: Seymour, Police

Did Seymour’s Board of Police Commissioners violate the law by having department brass sit on executive session interviews of job candidates?

That’s the question at the center of a complaint currently under review by the state Freedom of Information Commission, part of a larger battle between retired Detective Sgt. Ronald Goodmaster and the Seymour Police Department and Board of Police Commissioners.

Goodmaster’s FOI complaint was the subject of a two-hour hearing at the FOI Commission last week. His lawyer says the complaint is just one of a “vast morass” of issues that will likely culminate with a lawsuit.

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Derby Budget Cycle Marked By Cooperation, Some Tax Relief

by Eugene Driscoll | May 12, 2013 11:34 pm

Posted to: Derby

What a difference a year makes.

The Derby tax board May 7 approved a preliminary budget for next year that includes a slight tax decrease for city taxpayers.

A final vote on the budget will happen Tuesday (May 14). The May 7 vote was the anti-climax of a drama-free budget cycle in Derby.

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Seymour Rejects Budget Proposals—Soundly

by Ethan Fry | May 9, 2013 8:35 pm

Posted to: Seymour, Seymour Budget

Seymour’s Board of Finance will meet Monday (May 13) to hammer out a budget request more acceptable to voters after residents rejected spending plans for 2013-2014 totaling $53.26 million by wide margins at a referendum Thursday.

The town budget proposal of $22,208,664 was rejected 735 to 571.

Voters cared less for the Board of Education’s $31,052,984 proposal, which went down 817 to 487.

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