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Ansonia Woman Wants To Sue Over Fire Truck Crash

by Jodie Mozdzer | Feb 10, 2012 4:19 pm | Comments (3)

An Ansonia woman who collided with a city fire truck in December has notified the city she intends to file a lawsuit.

Susan Boroski suffered broken bones, bruises and cuts after the crash on Dec. 15, her lawyer Gregory O’Brien wrote in a notice to the city.

Boroski collided with an Ansonia fire truck at the intersection of Kingston Drive and Main Street as firefighters were responding to a call.

Police determined Boroski was at fault for the accident.

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90-Day Plan At The Ansonia Housing Authority

by Jodie Mozdzer | Feb 9, 2012 8:21 pm | Comments (0)

The Ansonia Housing Authority’s interim executive director while spending the next 75 days reviewing how the operation is running — and making sure it is in line with the regulations of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Jimmy Miller, the deputy executive director of the Housing Authority of New Haven, is splitting his time between the two entities while the Ansonia Housing Authority looks for a new executive director.

Miller was brought on board on Jan. 25, about a month after the previous executive director, James Finnucan, resigned from the post.

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Ansonia Police Probe Report Involving PTO

by STAFF | Feb 9, 2012 10:27 am | Comments (0)

Ansonia police confirmed Thursday they are probing a complaint involving funds from the John G. Prendergast School’s Parent Teacher Organization.

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Boys & Girls Club Offers Science Mentoring Program

by Jennifer DeLeon | Boys & Girls Club of the Lower Naugatuck Valley | Feb 9, 2012 10:26 am | Comments (0)

The Boys & Girls Club of the Lower Naugatuck Valley has started the Immersion Mentoring Program, a new science-based mentoring program with 40 mentees and 10 mentors as a part of its partnership with Immersion Learning, a division of the Sea Research Foundation, Inc..

In January, the Club was announced as a sub-grantee of a $1 million grant awarded to Sea Research by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) to establish the Immersion Mentoring Program within other Clubs in 11 states, including Alaska, Arizona, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, Vermont, Virginia and Washington.

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Assumption School Honor Rolls

by Assumption School | Feb 8, 2012 1:53 pm | Comments (0)

Mrs. Kathleen Molner, Principal of Assumption School, Ansonia has announced that the following students have attained honor roll status for the second marking period:

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Assumption School Fire Prevention Poster Winners

by Assumption School | Feb 8, 2012 1:48 pm | Comments (0)

Winners of the Fire Safety Poster Contest from Assumption School in Ansonia.

Two of the winners, Christopher Hughes and Jordyn Davis were also chosen to go on to the Countrywide Contest.

Ansonia Offers Housing Rehab Grants

by Carol Forcier | City of Ansonia | Feb 8, 2012 11:06 am | Comments (0)

The City of Ansonia has been awarded a grant for housing rehabilitation for low-and moderate-income homeowners.

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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)

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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Mohegan Bus No Longer Stops In Ansonia Or Shelton

by Eugene Driscoll | Feb 7, 2012 1:54 pm | Comments (2)

A bus line that took people from Ansonia and Shelton to the Mohegan Sun casino in Uncasville has been canceled.

DATTCO, a transportation company that provided the buses, announced it was eliminating the lower Valley stops Jan. 30.

“They’re not coming to Ansonia or Shelton. The Valley run is gone,” said Rose Marie Spatafore of E-Z Travel on Kingston Drive.

She had lobbied DATTCO for several years to provide the bus service from Ansonia to Uncasville.

The bus line’s Ansonia stop outside Spatafore’s business launched in August 2010 with much hoopla, but it just never caught on locally, Spatafore said.

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Ansonia Board of Aldermen Meetings Will Air On Public Access

by STAFF | Feb 7, 2012 1:47 pm | Comments (0)

Comcast Public Access (Channel 10) will begin airing Ansonia Board of Aldermen meetings on Feb. 16, according to Alderman John Marini.

The meetings will be aired every Thursday from 6 to 7 p.m.

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