ANSONIA/DERBY – The Valley Rough Riders have won their first state little league baseball title — and they’re looking for the public’s help to play for a shot at the Little League World Series.
The team is hoping to fundraise $9,000 by next week. Click here to make a donation.
You can also support the team by attending a ziti dinner night on Monday (July 14). The dinner is 5 — 8 p.m. at St. Sebastian Club (86 Father Salemi Dr.), Ansonia. Admission is $10 and there will be a raffle.
The following is copy-pasted form the team’s SpotFund donation page:
Pool Photo Courtesy of Ned Gerard/Hearst Connecticut
Members of Christine Holloway’s family sit behind Jose Morales as the jury delivers a verdict of guilty on all at his murder trial at state Superior Court in Milford April 22, 2025.
ANSONIA – Jose Morales is scheduled to be sentenced on Monday (July 14) for murdering Christine Holloway in 2019.
Morales, 48, faces up to 65 years in prison.
A jury found Morales guilty in April of murdering Holloway in her Myrtle Avenue home in December 2019, then cleaning up the scene.
Vanessa Morales, the then-one-year-old daughter of Holloway and Morales, has been missing since the murder.
Morales has been in state custody since Dec. 3, 2019, when he was arrested on weapons charges. Police charged him with murder and tampering with evidence in February 2020.
Emergency response vehicles on George Street July 10.
ANSONIA – Fire crews were on George Street this afternoon (July 10) to respond to a report of a smoke-filled basement.
There were no injuries, according to Ansonia Fire Chief Jay Fainer.
Fainer said a call came in reporting a possible structure fire at around 4:20 p.m. Firefighters arrived and found a basement full of smoke, but no fire.
“A dryer was smoking, it turns out, and the directions for the dryer were in the dryer vent,” Fainer said.
Firefighters disconnected the dryer and ventilated the basement, Fainer said. He said the smoke didn’t spread through the rest of the house.
Ansonia Corporation Counsel John Marini discusses the middle school land purchase with the Board of Aldermen via Zoom July 8.
ANSONIA – Members of the Ansonia Board of Aldermen voted July 8 to spend $4.5 million to buy land on Pulaski Highway for a new middle school.
The board voted 11 – 0 to buy 25 acres at 64 – 78 Pulaski Highway.
Ansonia Corporation Counsel John Marini said the project will be reimbursed in part by the state. He said city tax payers should ultimately pay around $585,000 for the land.
However, that final bill estimate is based on a reimbursement rate of 87 percent, which was the prevailing rate passed by state lawmakers last year.
Alderman Steven Adamowski, who abstained from voting, said the state will need to review the purchase before guaranteeing that reimbursement rate. He said the city could be on the hook for more than $585,000, depending on how that review turns out.
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Jean Falbo-Sosnovich | Jul 9, 2025 5:14 pm
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Laurean Vazquez Limauro, a personal trainer who owns Leading Level Fitness in Shelton, loads canned goods onto a palette Wednesday, July 9, during TEAM, Inc's bi-monthly food drop to fill the shelves of Valley food banks and pantries.
SEYMOUR – One in three Valley residents are struggling, faced with the daily choice of paying the bills or putting food on the table.
According to a recent community data report compiled by the Valley Council on Health & Human Services, the rate of food insecurity in the Valley has grown from 14 percent to 19 percent over the past three years.
Those numbers will likely only get worse, according to Lillian McKenzie, development and communications manager with TEAM, Inc., the Valley’s community action agency.
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Straight from the digital files of The Evening Sentinel, courtesy of The Ansonia Historical Commission, this week we take a trip back to 1930, the year construction on the Hoover Dam (originally called Boulder Dam) began, marking a significant infrastructure and engineering project during the Great Depression era.
Herbert Hoover was the 31st President of the United States, but Babe Ruth, the “Bambino” and “the Sultan of Swat” made more money than the President, ($80,000 vs $75,000). When asked about that, Ruth responded, “So what, I had a better year than he did.”
Incoming Fire Chief Jay Fainer addresses the crowd.
ANSONIA – Ansonia’s newest fire chief comes from a five-generation family of city firefighters.
Chief Jay Fainer took his oath, along with the department’s four assistant chiefs, at a ceremony Monday (July 7). He takes over from Chief Alex Horjatschun, who had served in the position since 2023.
Chief Fainer, who has volunteered the department for nearly 30 years, said his newest post is an honor.
“It is truly the greatest honor of my life to be sworn in as chief of the Ansonia Fire Department,” he said to the crowd at the Charters Hose Co. firehouse. “This moment is especially meaningful to me because nearly 100 years ago, on July 20, 1925, my great-grandfather Stephen Fainer was elected to this very fire house. Tonight, almost a century later, my children, Stephen and Gabby, were sworn in as junior members.”
ANSONIA — Each week The Valley Indy requests a call list from the Ansonia Police Department.
The following calls are highlights from the calls for service.
The goal is to give the public a head’s up on what’s happening in the community aside from straight arrests.
Note: generally, this publication does not post the names of people charged with misdemeanors, the names of victims, or numbered residential addresses.
The following post contains calls to police that were placed between June 30 and July 6.
