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Jean Falbo-Sosnovch | Apr 25, 2024 7:56 pm
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SEYMOUR — The town and school budgets are scheduled to go to a public referendum from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, May 2 at the Seymour Community Center on Pine Street.
Budget Basics
The budgets are asked as separate questions on the ballot.
Combined they total $66.6 million. The town side of the budget – public works, town hall, the police department and all town departments – totals $26.6 million.
THEVALLEY (ANDBEYOND) — The Great Give, an annual online fundraiser that benefits just about every nonprofit group in the greater Naugatuck Valley, is scheduled to start at 8 a.m. Wednesday, May 1 and continue until 8 p.m. Thursday, May 2.
Last year’s Great Give raised more than $3.4 million for nonprofit organizations, including $12,000 for The Valley Indy, which uses The Great Give as its annual reader drive.
Please consider supporting The Valley Indy by making a tax-deductible donation at Donate.ValleyIndy.org.
The Valley Indy will also be live from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. on May 1 and from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. May 2 interviewing various Great Give groups and local leaders.
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SPONSORED POST | Apr 24, 2024 9:41 am
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RESOLVED: That taxes on the Motor Vehicle Grand List levied against all taxable motor vehicle property in the Town of Seymour shall be due and payable in two equal installments, one half thereof on July 1, and the second half thereof on the following January 1, commencing with the October 1, 2024 Grand List. Any tax, the aggregate amount of which shall not exceed $500.00, shall be due and payable in one payment on July 1.
The Board of Selectpersons of the Town of Seymour (the “Board”) shall be the authority authorized to name Facilities and Areas as hereinafter defined own.cl by the Town of Seymour in accordance with the following procedure:
1. A proposal to name a Facility or Area, or to change or otherwise modify the name of Facility or Area, shall be presented in writing to the Board. The proposal shall identify the Facility or Area, the proposed name and the reason or background for the proposed naming of the same;
The Great Give is almost here! The following press release was sent by the Valley Community Foundation:
“So far more than 57 Valley nonprofits — more than ever before — have signed up to participate in the 2024 Great Give on May 1 – 2.
The 36-hour online fundraising extravaganza, created by The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven (TCF) in 2010, unites donors with area nonprofits in a fun and engaging way.
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CT NEWS JUNKIE | Apr 23, 2024 6:38 am
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HARTFORD – State lawmakers who say they’ve heard from constituents about incessant noise from large solar projects are pushing for more local control of where those projects can be built.
“(Communities) have no authority when noise becomes a burden,” said state Rep. Jaime Foster, D‑Ellington.
Foster, other lawmakers, and local officials have been dealing with complaints from neighbors of a solar array in East Windsor for years. Among the issues, they say, is that municipalities have no ability to limit when a project can be built. That power rests with the Connecticut Siting Council.
“The problem is that it is an overreach by the state,” said Rep. Carol Hall, R‑Enfield. “Local municipalities can’t regulate (where solar projects are built), They have zero control and say.”
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Jean Falbo-Sosnovich | Apr 21, 2024 5:02 pm
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An image showing the land where the zone change was requested.
SEYMOUR – The Seymour Planning and Zoning Commission denied a request Thursday (April 11) to change the zoning on three Pearl Street properties from residential to multi-family.
The commission voted 3 – 2 in favor of the zone change.
However, the zone change request faced strong opposition from neighbors who circulated a petition with 47 names.
The town verified the names on the petition and found 31 percent of the people signing were surrounding landowners. That percentage triggered a rule in Seymour land use regulations dictating that a two-thirds vote from the commission was needed to approve anything.
That meant four commissioners had to vote ‘yes’ for the approval to stick.
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Jean Falbo-Sosnovich | Apr 19, 2024 6:59 am
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Former Seymour Police Officer Jonathan Martin, in a photo taken from Facebook.
SEYMOUR – A former Seymour police sergeant subject to five internal affairs investigations in two years voluntarily surrendered his Connecticut Police Officer Certification.
The move means the former officer, Jonathan Martin, cannot work in law enforcement in Connecticut. However, he can apply to get his certification back next year.
His name will be included on a national list of decertified officers, and he will appear on the state’s Police Officer Standards & Training (POST) website.
“Jonathan Martin has voluntarily surrendered his certification and the case has been closed,” Richard Green, a POST spokesman, told the Valley Indy via an email.
The Valley Indy left a message with Martin’s lawyer.
WPLR morning show hosts Chaz &AJ invited The Valley Indy onto their program on Thursday (April 18) to talk about an article where Chaz’ name was mispelled.
