Valley Independent Sentinel

Meet Dave Lenart, New Chief At Derby Storm Rescue

by Eugene Driscoll | Feb 9, 2012 7:59 pm

Posted to: Derby

David Lenart is comfortable around blood, fires and reporters.

“I’ve been around them all my life. I grew up around it,” said Lenart, the 33-year-old newly elected chief of the Derby Storm Ambulance and Rescue Corps on Olivia Street.

Lenart became chief Jan. 5.

He is a third generation chief. His father, Thomas Lenart, Sr. was a past chief, as was his grandfather, Edward J. Cotter, Jr.

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Defense Lawyer Angry At Derby Judge

by Ethan Fry | Feb 8, 2012 6:01 pm

Posted to: Derby

A Waterbury defense lawyer claims a Derby judge has a grudge against him — partly because of the lawyer’s involvement in the so-called “garden hose cop” case.

The attorney, Rob Serafinowicz, filed an eight-page complaint against Judge Burton Kaplan in September claiming Kaplan has “displayed a clear animus and negative bias” toward him that goes back to 2009.

Serafinowicz claims the alleged grudge has biased Kaplan against his other clients.

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Ansonia, Derby Schools Slated To Gain The Most Under Malloy Plan

by STAFF | Feb 8, 2012 9:40 am | Comments (1)

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

Gov. Dannel Malloy’s office released a statement Wednesday morning saying the state wants to provide more than $50 million in new money to the “Education Cost Sharing” formula — state aid to local schools.

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Report Highlights Some Shortcomings In Seymour Gov’t

by Jodie Mozdzer | Feb 7, 2012 10:13 pm | Comments (1)

Posted to: Seymour

Some Seymour town hall employees haven’t had annual reviews in years.

Half the town’s employees are nearing retirement age — and there’s no succession plan set up.

And First Selectman Kurt Miller has 24 different department heads reporting to him on a daily basis.

Those were some of the highlights from a human resources review of Seymour town employees. Consultants from the Seymour company, The Human Resource Consulting Group, presented their report to the Board of Selectmen Tuesday at Seymour Town Hall.

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VA Seeing Spike In Homeless Vets With Families

by Peggy McCarthy | Feb 7, 2012 1:12 pm

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

Andy and Miriam Miranda don’t fit the historical profile of homeless veterans. Former teachers with master’s degrees who have a six-year-old son, they have lost a house to foreclosure and were evicted from an apartment for falling behind on rent.

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Shelton’s Anti-Zoning Zoning Commissioner

by Ethan Fry | Feb 6, 2012 10:55 pm | Comments (2)

Posted to: Shelton

Call him Shelton’s own Ron Swanson.

Swanson, a character from the NBC show “Parks and Recreation,” has achieved cult popularity as, among other things, a baffling contradiction in terms — a vehemently anti-government government official — one might think could only spring from the laptop of a seasoned sitcom writer.

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Seymour iPads Team Up With Waterbury Symphony Orchestra

by Jodie Mozdzer | Feb 6, 2012 10:38 pm

Posted to: Seymour, Education

A group of Seymour High School students will perform with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra at a concert in May.

They’ll be playing instruments that the orchestra has never before used: iPads.

The performance is part of a ongoing music project at Seymour High School, where teacher Brandt Schneider is using the small touch-screen tablet computers to teach music theory.

And it’s part of a larger relationship between Seymour High School, Western Connecticut State University and the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra.

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Documents Reveal Conflicts Of Interest At Ansonia Housing Authority

by Jodie Mozdzer | Feb 3, 2012 3:57 pm | Comments (1)

Posted to: Ansonia, Your Right To Know

While James Finnucan was in charge of the Ansonia Housing Authority, his family also collected rent from tenants in a Section 8 apartment the Finnucans owned, the Valley Independent Sentinel has learned.

The arrangement was a conflict of interest and Finnucan should have resigned or sought a waiver, according to the regulations of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

However, Finnucan never sought a waiver and he didn’t resign until Dec. 28, 2011 — 17 months after Ansonia Housing Authority employee Gwen Archer first complained about the situation.

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Drug Busts, Larcenies On The Rise In Seymour

by Caitlin Emma | Feb 3, 2012 8:03 am

Posted to: Seymour

Burglaries and larcenies in Seymour went up substantially last year from 2010, according to crime statistics released by the Seymour Police Department.

The numbers also show a 16 percent increase in drug arrests, from 61 arrests in 2010 to 71 in 2011.

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Ansonia Sees Large Increase In Drug Crimes

by Jodie Mozdzer | Feb 1, 2012 9:13 pm

Posted to: Ansonia, Police

Drug violations in Ansonia more than doubled in 2011.

In 2010, the department dealt with 58 drug and narcotics violations — which include arrests and investigations into drug activity.

In 2011, that number jumped to 141 — the highest figure in the last 10 years in Ansonia. That’s a 143 percent increase over one year.

Police Chief Kevin Hale said the increase is a result of the department’s new Anti-Crime Unit — a three-person undercover team of Ansonia officers who have been cracking the drug culture in Ansonia since April.

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