(Left to right) Quintin Simjouw, EJ Smith, Luke Camara, Johnathan Zuckerman, and Luca Tecci.
DERBY – Derby High School sophomore Luke Camara knows that some families in Derby struggle to put food on their tables. He saw it when he was a student at Irving School, the city’s westside elementary school.
“There were some students who were coming to school in the same clothes, things like that,” Luke said. “It made me mad and it made me sad. But there was really nothing an 8‑year-old kid could do.”
Fast forward about eight years – and Luke is doing something about it.
Luke, a scout with Troop 3, is trying to become an Eagle Scout. For his Eagle Scout project he wants to build self-serve food pantries outside Irving School, Bradley School, and on the high school-middle school campus on Chatfield Avenue.
“This is my attempt to help now, when I actually can,” Luke said.
ANSONIA/SEYMOUR – A New York man was arrested Jan. 6 and charged with ten building violations across two commercial plazas in Ansonia and Seymour.
Eshagh Malekan, 71, of Mineola, N.Y., was charged with three counts of fire code violations at the Seymour Plaza on First Street, as well as seven counts of building code violations at the Maple Street Plaza in Ansonia.
Malekan was arraigned at Superior Court in Derby on Jan. 21.
According to the Ansonia arrest warrant application, one of Malekan’s tenants at the Maple Street Plaza at 27 Maple St. complained to the building department in January 2023. He said that water was leaking in through the roof and covering the floor, preventing him from accessing an electrical panel.
DERBY – Members of the city’s planning and zoning commission Tuesday (Jan. 21) rejected a zone-text change that could have opened the door to high-density housing atop ‘Telescope Mountain.’
Several commissioners said they were not anti-development – but they said almost no one liked what was being presented, especially the public.
The vote to reject the zone-text change was 4 – 2. Commissioners Albert Misiewicz and Raul Sanchez voted against rejecting the proposed change.
Summit Hill LLC owns four undeveloped parcels off Mountain and Summit streets nicknamed “Telescope Mountain.” State business records list the principal of the company as Eric Brennan of the John J. Brennan Construction Co. in Shelton.
SEYMOUR – In the hours before Christopher Stanley allegedly stabbed Rhahzhem Turner to death in a house on Ajellos Farm Road, the two had been arguing at a family gathering, police documents say.
Stanley, 33, was arraigned at Superior Court in Derby on Tuesday (Jan. 21) on charges of murder and first-degree assault. He stands accused of stabbing two people on the evening of Jan. 19.
His next court date is Feb. 13 at Superior Court in Milford.
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(Left to right) Quintin Simjouw, EJ Smith, Luke Camara, Johnathan Zuckerman, and Luca Tecci.
DERBY – Derby High School sophomore Luke Camara knows that some families in Derby struggle to put food on their tables. He saw it when he was a student at Irving School, the city’s westside elementary school.
“There were some students who were coming to school in the same clothes, things like that,” Luke said. “It made me mad and it made me sad. But there was really nothing an 8‑year-old kid could do.”
Fast forward about eight years – and Luke is doing something about it.
Luke, a scout with Troop 3, is trying to become an Eagle Scout. For his Eagle Scout project he wants to build self-serve food pantries outside Irving School, Bradley School, and on the high school-middle school campus on Chatfield Avenue.
“This is my attempt to help now, when I actually can,” Luke said.
ANSONIA/SEYMOUR – A New York man was arrested Jan. 6 and charged with ten building violations across two commercial plazas in Ansonia and Seymour.
Eshagh Malekan, 71, of Mineola, N.Y., was charged with three counts of fire code violations at the Seymour Plaza on First Street, as well as seven counts of building code violations at the Maple Street Plaza in Ansonia.
Malekan was arraigned at Superior Court in Derby on Jan. 21.
According to the Ansonia arrest warrant application, one of Malekan’s tenants at the Maple Street Plaza at 27 Maple St. complained to the building department in January 2023. He said that water was leaking in through the roof and covering the floor, preventing him from accessing an electrical panel.
Queer rights advocates and city officials gathered at the New Haven Pride Center Friday to send a resounding message: that no presidential executive…
more »
HARTFORD, CT – Senate Democrats announced Friday morning two more priority bills aimed at addressing the spiraling cost of healthcare for state… more »
HARTFORD, CT – Republican legislators brought the Trump administration's immigration policies to the forefront at the state Capitol on Thursday when… more »
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