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Auditor: School Board Fund May Become Problem

by Ethan Fry | Feb 11, 2012 7:49 am | Comments (0)

A fund set up by the Board of Education last summer with leftover money from a self-insurance program could lead to confusion if not addressed, an auditor told the Board of Aldermen Thursday.

David Cappelletti, of Woodbridge-based Levitsky and Berney, PC, who raised the issue while reviewing an audit of the city’s funds, said that while the Board of Education acted within its own rules to set up the reserve account, which currently has $212,000 in it, he recommended that the city’s aldermen “at least consent” to what the school board did.

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Officer Suffers Hand Injury During Private Duty Job

by STAFF | Feb 10, 2012 11:11 am | Comments (0)

Police ticketed a local man Wednesday after his car struck the hand of an officer directing traffic downtown.

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Shelton Farm Looking For Interns

by Keith Padin | Jones Family Farms | Feb 9, 2012 10:37 am | Comments (0)

Jones Family Farms in Shelton is currently accepting applications for college-aged students who are looking for a paid summer internship.

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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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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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Valley Realtors Host Legislators For Luncheon

by STAFF | Feb 7, 2012 1:32 pm | Comments (0)

The Valley Association of REALTORS, Inc. hosted a general membership luncheon on Feb. 1 at Antonio’s restaurant in Ansonia.

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VA Seeing Spike In Homeless Vets With Families

by Peggy McCarthy | Feb 7, 2012 1:12 pm | Comments (0)

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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Navel Gazing: Meet The New Guy

by STAFF | Feb 6, 2012 11:04 pm | Comments (2)

In the latest edition of the Valley Indy podcast, we introduce new reporter, Ethan Fry.

Fry, who started Feb. 1, will be covering Shelton and Oxford for the Valley Indy.

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Shelton’s Anti-Zoning Zoning Commissioner

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

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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