by | May 16, 2025 12:16 pm | Comments (0)
ANSONIA – The Ansonia Senior Center (65 Main St., second floor) will host a scam and fraud prevention presentation event at 1:00 p.m., June 10.
Please call 203 – 736-5933 to reserve a spot.
by | May 16, 2025 4:35 am | Comments (0)
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by | May 15, 2025 8:26 pm | Comments (0)
Upcoming budget dates.
ANSONIA – A subcommittee of the city’s school board voted Thursday (May 15) to recommend about $403,000 in program cuts in advance of a third budget referendum scheduled for May 23.
The new proposed school budget is $39,157,414.05. That’s a 4.2 percent increase over the current year budget – but $403,305 less than the budget voters rejected at two previous referendums.
Members of the Board of Aldermen are scheduled to host a budget hearing over Zoom at 6 p.m. Monday (May 19) and then, at a public meeting immediately thereafter, vote to send the budgets to referendum.
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by | May 15, 2025 11:42 am | Comments (0)
SHELTON — Valley United Way invites the community to its Annual Meeting and Dinner on Wednesday, June 26, 2025, at 5 p.m. at the Courtyard Marriott in Shelton.
This signature event brings together local leaders, volunteers, nonprofit partners, and supporters to celebrate the past year’s impact and look ahead to the opportunities and challenges of the coming year.
Dinner is included.Tickets are $70 and can be reserved online at valleyunitedway.org/annualmeeting.
This year’s keynote address will be delivered by Andrea Barton Reeves, Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Social Services, a recognized leader in social impact and systems transformation.
Two distinguished community leaders will be honored with the Charles H. Flynn Humanitarian Award:
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by | May 15, 2025 11:26 am | Comments (0)
ANSONIA — Assumption School is a fully accredited Catholic school consisting of prekindergarten (three and four year old classes), a full-day kindergarten, and grades one through eight.
We strive every day to fulfill our mission to educate the whole child spiritually, academically, and socially in a safe, nurturing environment that defines the experience of a Catholic school education.
Assumption provides a balanced academic curriculum that integrates technology, faith, culture, and life. Here we are all a family and everyone is welcome!
by | May 15, 2025 5:44 am | Comments (0)
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This week we take a look back at 1952, when the phrase “The greatest thing since sliced bread!” became a thing made famous by entertainer Red Skelton, some 24 years after sliced bread was invented.
It was also the year that Tony the Tiger started telling people that Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes were “Gr-r-reat!”
Fun fact: Thurl Ravenscroft is best known for supplying the voice of Tony and was the same guy who sang “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch,” in the original “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” TV special (although many people mistakenly think it was narrator Boris Karloff).
Here’s what was happening in the lower Valley, according to Evening Sentinel mircrofilm (available at public libraries in Derby and Seymour).
by | May 14, 2025 10:23 am | Comments (0)
ANSONIA — The following information was taken from the City of Ansonia Facebook page:
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by | May 13, 2025 5:49 pm | Comments (0)
DERBY — Derby was named and officially designated as a township on May 13, 1675, making May 13, 2025 the community’s 350th anniversary.
To celebrate, a team of volunteers on the Derby 350 Anniversary Celebration Committee organized a year’s worth of events, which kicked off May 13.
The Valley Indy opted to do a very special “This Week In History” focusing on how The Evening Sentinel covered Derby’s 300 anniversary in 1975.
The excerpts below are all from the May 14 and May 15 1975 editions of the Sentinel, concentrating specifically on Derby’s 300th.
by | May 13, 2025 3:45 pm | Comments (0)
ANSONIA — Ten community gardens across the Valley are about to launch their 2025 growing season. Valley Community Gardens is a collective of communal growing spaces created to increase access to fresh fruits, vegetables and herbs and encourage neighbor-to-neighbor connections. Gardens are open to all and require no buy-in or plot rental.
The towns of Derby, Ansonia and Shelton all have functioning community gardens that allow residents to ‘rent a plot’ in order to grow and manage in their own space; however, waiting lists for a plot can be lengthy. The Valley Community Gardens, originally installed in 2017 by Valley United Way and later managed by Massaro Community Farm, are run communally, inviting anyone to participate in the entire garden, harvesting as they need or donating items to the nearest food pantry. Gardens are run by volunteer leaders who help coordinate instruction-led days in the garden, as well as ensuring gardens have basic supplies like seeds and seedlings, tools and access to water.
“We know that gardening knowledge has often skipped a generation,” says garden facilitator, Caty Poole, who served as Executive Director at Massaro Community Farm from 2012 – 2023. “People often see community gardens and think, ‘I’d like to do that but don’t know how’ or ‘I can’t do that by myself’.”
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by | May 13, 2025 12:43 pm | Comments (0)
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ANSONIA – Here are some highlights from the Ansonia Police Department’s calls for service from May 5, 2025 through May 11, 2025.
It is a partial list of calls, curated by The Valley Indy. The goal is to give the public a head’s up on what’s happening in the community.
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.
Ansonia police received 291 calls for service and made 10 arrests between May 5, 2025 and May 11, 2025.
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