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Ethan 193 Fry | Sep 23, 2013 9:27 am
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Ansonia native John Denton, a filmmaker currently living in San Francisco, plans to shoot a film in Ansonia beginning next June.
Titled “Ansonia,” the film is about a man in his 20s who suffers a breakdown and returns to his hometown to find meaning to his life.
The Valley Indy asked Denton about the film and his background in an e-mail Q&A below.
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‘Q&A: Ansonia Native Plans Film In City Next Year’
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The Valley Indy | Aug 13, 2013 11:19 pm
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GIna Scarpa, a lifelong Shelton resident, recently started her own local small business marketing company, Branch Out.
The business offers services ranging from social media strategies to website design to preparing press releases for companies looking to get more exposure. Click here to visit her businesses’ website. Click here to read the official company blog.
Scarpa answered a few questions about herself and her new business last week via an e-mail Q&A with the Valley Indy.
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‘Q&A: Shelton Resident Building Small Business By Helping Others Grow Theirs’
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The Valley Indy | Aug 12, 2013 10:23 pm
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“Chef Wanted” host Anne Burrell, who in May filmed an episode of her Food Network reality cooking show at Seymour’s Tavern 1757 on Route 34, spoke to the Valley Indy by phone last week about the shoot, her two days in the Valley, motorcycles, and airports, among other topics.
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‘Q&A: Food Network Host Talks Valley Visit’
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Ethan 193 Fry | Nov 15, 2012 9:58 pm
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Peter Burns, an Ansonia native currently working as a political science professor in New Orleans, had some time on his hands after Hurricane Katrina swept through the Southeast in 2005.
Displaced from his home, the UConn grad — and fervent basketball fan — began researching and writing a book about the school’s basketball program under former head coach Jim Calhoun.
The book, “Shock The World: UConn Basketball In The Calhoun Era,” was published last month. Burns will be making some appearances in the area to sign copies. The Valley Indy also sent Burns some questions about the book that he answered via e‑mail.
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‘Valley Native Pens Book About UConn’s Calhoun Era’
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Ethan 193 Fry | Oct 8, 2012 9:32 pm
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Lou Owens has a simple message to entice new drivers to his business, Badge Academy of Driving in Derby, which opened in June.
“I know what gets kids in trouble,” Owens, who retired from the Ansonia Police Department after nearly three decades, says.
Owens retired in March as a sergeant after 28 years on the job.
Who better to teach young people how to drive than a guy who used to pull them over?
The Valley Indy stopped by the business — at 117 New Haven Ave., phone number 203 – 516-5051 — Monday to talk with Owens about his new venture.
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‘Retired Ansonia Sergeant Opens Driving School In Derby’
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Eugene Driscoll | Oct 2, 2012 6:16 pm
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After an investment of more than $2 million, Tavern 1757 is open for business at 371 Roosevelt Drive in Seymour.
The Italian restaurant is owned by Tony Mavuli, who owns the venerable Inn at Villa Bianca next door.
Tavern 1757 was built on the site of the old Smith-Tomlinson House, a salt-box-type structure.
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‘Tavern 1757 Opens In Seymour’
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Eugene Driscoll | Sep 14, 2012 8:16 am
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Employees from GE in Shelton volunteered to clear overgrown brush in order to make way for a natural playground at the Redwing Pond House Preschool on Milan Street.
About a dozen GE employees were at the preschool by 8:30 a.m. Thursday, clearing a copious amounts of tall brush by hand to make room for the playground.
The GE crew was connected to the preschool through the Valley United Way’s Corporate Volunteer Council.
The Valley Indy snapped the photos you see here and then engaged Jacqueline Lema, the school’s director/head teacher, in an e-mail Q&A about the project.
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‘GE Volunteers Help Create Natural Playground In Ansonia’
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Eugene Driscoll | Aug 4, 2012 9:49 am
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A hard-rocking heavy metal band from the Valley will be in the spotlight this weekend after winning a battle of the bands last month at Toad’s Place.
The win earned the band, “Lightsbane,” a performing slot sometime Sunday in the massive Rockstar Energy Drink “Mayhem Festival,” which is kicking off this weekend at the Comcast Theater in Hartford.
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‘Metal Band Set To Represent The Valley At ‘Mayhem Festival’’
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Eugene Driscoll | Apr 3, 2012 7:36 pm
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Ken Hughes, a Derby native and a member of the city’s Board of Aldermen, is also the superintendent of parks in Norwalk (population 86,000).
Hughes was hired in 2009 and was recently profiled in Turf Magazine, a trade publication that reaches about 75,000 readers a month.
Click here to check out the article in all its glory.
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‘Q&A: Creeping Out Derby’s Ken Hughes’
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Jodie Mozdzer Gil | Feb 29, 2012 9:13 pm
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Shelton resident Fred Musante, a former Huntington Herald and Connecticut Post reporter, has always been a storyteller.
Now he’s shifted from straight news to fiction with the recent self-publication of two novels that take place in Connecticut. “Night of The Witch“ is available on e‑readers like the Kindle and the Nook. “The Angel’s Messenger“ is available in paperback, or on e‑readers.
Musante, 62, recently sat down with the Valley Indy to talk about life as a writer.
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‘Q&A: Journalist, Author Fred Musante’
