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Press Release | Jan 24, 2025 9:13 am
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ANSONIA – Today Mayor Cassetti toured SHW (35 N. Main St.) site along with our engineers from AECOM and approximately 10 interested firms for the demolition of Building 12. Building 12 is the remaining structure on this site and will allow for the creation of three new site pads, an access road and the Johnson Controls’/Bloom Energy’s 10 MW fuel cell project which should break ground in the Spring of 2025.
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Press Release | Jan 24, 2025 9:07 am
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ANSONIA – On Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, the Ansonia Library will celebrate the International Take Your Child to the Library Day. Now in its 14th year, this annual event is a wonderful opportunity for children to have fun while parents and caregivers learn more about their library. Take Your Child to the Library Day will showcase all the free resources local public libraries provide for families.
This year, the library is celebrating with Ice Cream for Breakfast from 9:30 – 10:30 AM (while supplies last). Kick-off Take Your Child to the Library Day with a scoop of ice cream for breakfast! This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Ansonia Library. There is no registration required for this event.
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Jasmine Wright | Jan 24, 2025 5:26 am
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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.
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Jasmine Wright | Jan 23, 2025 4:20 am
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Olson Drive, in August 2024.
ANSONIA – Two Aldermen asked the city why it continues to be involved in the remediation of Olson Drive, more than two years after it was sold to a private developer.
During the monthly meeting of the Board of Aldermen on Jan. 12, the board voted to accept a series of state grants, including a $3.8 million grant for assessment and remediation on Olson Drive. Before voting, however, Alderman Bob Knott asked why public money is still going to the private project.
“This Olson Drive thing is kind of rubbing me wrong. We sold the property and I was all in favor of that,” Knott said.
However, he said, he wasn’t sure why the remediation was receiving public funds. He asked economic development director Sheila O’Malley why that is.
ANSONIA — Police said a 27-year-old Ansonia resident faces three criminal charges after accidentally shooting his girlfriend in her leg.
Casey Barker is charged with second-degree assault, a felony, first-degree reckless endangerment, and illegal discharge of a firearm. The latter charges are misdemeanors.
According to a press release from police, Griffin Hospital staff called Ansonia police Jan. 18 and said they were treating a 27-year-old woman who had been shot in the leg. The woman said she had been shot accidentally while her boyfriend, Barker, was cleaning a gun. She was treated and released.
Police located Barker and pressed charges. They noted several other people were in the house at the time of the incident.
Barker is out on a $10,000 bond pending a March 12 court date.
ANSONIA – The Ansonia Nature Center will host an all-ages educational program to celebrate Groundhog Day on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025. There is a $3 materials fee and you can register at this link.
The Ansonia Nature Center is located on 10 Deerfield Ln. The event description is as follows:
Groundhog Day has been celebrated on February 2nd for nearly two hundred years! Find out more about this quirky folk holiday, as well as what real groundhogs are like in their natural habitat. Watch a live shadow-puppet show, then make your puppet to take home. This program is appropriate for all ages. $3 materials fee.
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Jasmine Wright | Jan 22, 2025 11:09 am
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ANSONIA – Here are some highlights from the Ansonia Police Department’s calls for service. It’s a partial list of calls, pulled by The Valley Indy.
Ansonia police received 350 calls for service and made 17 arrests between Jan. 13 and Jan. 19.
Note: generally, this publication does not post the names of people charged with misdemeanors; the names of victims; or numbered residential addresses. If we publish a suspect’s name, we track the case.
The goal is to give the public a head’s up on calls for police services happening in the community, outside of just arrests.
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Press Release | Jan 21, 2025 3:08 pm
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ANSONIA/DERBY — State Representative Kara Rochelle is seeking input from the people of her district as she continues to prepare for the 2025 Legislative Session. Residents can take the 2025 constituent survey, by visiting: https://www.housedems.ct.gov/Rochelle/2025survey. Residents will also be receiving a copy of the survey in the mail that can be completed and returned to her office.
“I hope residents will complete the survey and will continue to stay in touch with me and share what matters most to them,” Rochelle said in a prepared statement.
The survey will ask residents for their ideas and thoughts on issues that may come up this session, including tax relief for working- and middle-class families, the increasing costs of prescription drugs, addressing the state’s housing crisis, and dealing with the high cost of utilities.
ANSONIA – The Ansonia Public Library will host a presentation on Black history on Wednesday, Feb. 19, at 5:30 p.m. From their website:
In this program, we’ll take you on a tour of items from our collection representing a spectrum of the Black experience in CT. You’ll learn about a Harlem Renaissance writer, Ann Petry, who carefully preserved artifacts chronicling the black community of Saybrook. Examine daguerreotypes by Augustus Washington, who abandoned a successful Hartford photography business to build a new nation in Africa. Browse through the photo album of a Hollywood actress who became a champion of labor rights for black entertainers. Marvel at the gorgeous costumes created by CT’s West Indian community for their annual MAS celebration, and see artifacts documenting the Civil Rights movement in our state.
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Sponsored Post | Jan 20, 2025 7:18 am
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Truckers said goodbye to one of their own with a special caravan in Seymour.
In a trend reflecting national funeral service changes, the Ansonia valley area is seeing increases in creative memorial services to honor the lives of those lost.
“As no two people are alike, no two memorial services are any longer,” states Jerry Macari Jr, President and Senior Director of Miller Macari Family Funeral Home in Seymour. “We take great pride in working with families to create memorial tributes as unique as the person whose life is being celebrated.”
