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Eugene Driscoll | Jan 23, 2025 4:05 am
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DERBY – Members of the city’s planning and zoning commission Tuesday (Jan. 21) rejected a zone-text change that could have opened the door to high-density housing atop ‘Telescope Mountain.’
Several commissioners said they were not anti-development – but they said almost no one liked what was being presented, especially the public.
The vote to reject the zone-text change was 4 – 2. Commissioners Albert Misiewicz and Raul Sanchez voted against rejecting the proposed change.
Summit Hill LLC owns four undeveloped parcels off Mountain and Summit streets nicknamed “Telescope Mountain.” State business records list the principal of the company as Eric Brennan of the John J. Brennan Construction Co. in Shelton.
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Eugene Driscoll | Jan 14, 2025 5:47 am
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DERBY – According to a police report, the Derby fire marshal was driving a city-owned vehicle when he was charged with driving under the influence.
David Marcarelli was charged in North Haven with operating under the influence on Dec. 23. The North Haven Police Department released a crash report to The Valley Indy on Jan. 13 detailing the allegation.
The city allows Marcarelli to drive a city-owned fire marshal truck.
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Jasmine Wright | Oct 22, 2024 8:30 pm
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ANSONIA – City government broke the law by taking 123 days to release documents connected to a straightforward public records request, according to a hearing officer’s report for the state’s Freedom of Information Commission
Theresa Conroy, a former state representative and current member of Seymour’s Board of Selectpersons, filed a public records request in Ansonia in September 2023. She asked to see the employment contract for Kurt Miller.
Miller works part-time as Ansonia’s budget director. He also holds a full-time position as Seymour’s chief administrative officer.
ANSONIA – The Ansonia Planning & Zoning Commission proposed a temporary moratorium on smoke shops during their regular monthly meeting on Aug. 26.
“The purpose of the moratorium would be to give the commission time required to draft and consider regulations that would regulate smoke shops and tobacco stores,” consultant David Elder told the commission.
Members of the commission said that smoke shops in town have had issues with police as well as labor violations. The commission wants a moratorium on new shops while they draft regulations.
The commission scheduled a public hearing on the moratorium for Sept. 16 at 6:30 p.m. It will be conducted via Zoom.
ANSONIA – A meeting to discuss vehicle break-ins is scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday (Sept. 6) at Hilltop Hose Co. No. 5, 80 Pulaski Highway.
UPDATE: The City of Ansonia has rescheduled this meeting for a date to be announced. It with be held at the Ansonia Senior Center.
Ansonia Police Lt. Patrick Lynch said police will talk about how to protect vehicles from thieves, review current property crime stats, and to listen to people from the Hilltop neighborhood about their concerns.
“This is a statewide issue. You have these groups, predominantly juveniles, who go around packed into a car – four to six people, usually in a stolen car – who go into a neighborhood and start checking door handles,” Lynch said. “If a car door is open, they’ll go in. If it’s a push-button start and the car starts, that means somebody left a keyfob behind. And they take that car.”
Lynch said there have been four vehicle break-ins on the Hilltop and two attempted break-ins since July 1.
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Eugene Driscoll & Jasmine Wright | Aug 5, 2024 6:05 am
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ANSONIA — DERBY – Earlier this summer incumbent state Rep. Kara Rochelle had a small lead in the money race over her challenger, Ansonia Mayor David Cassetti.
“Kara for Ansonia & Derby” raised $6,298 from individual donors as of June 30, according to the campaign finance disclosures due on July 10 with the state. “Cassetti For State Rep” had raised $5,913, according to its July 10 filing.
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Jean Falbo-Sosnovich & Jasmine Wright | Jul 31, 2024 7:57 pm
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ANSONIA – An elected official from Seymour is alleging that Ansonia’s administration violated state law when it took more than three months to provide an employment contract for a top official.
According to a hearing before the state’s Freedom of Information Commission on June 3, Theresa Conroy filed a request to view the city’s employment contract for its budget director, Kurt Miller, in September 2023.
Conroy, a Democrat, currently serves on the Seymour Board of Selectpersons. She is also a former member of the state legislature.
SEYMOUR — Valley Independent Sentinel freelance reporter Jean Falbo-Sosnovich won two journalism awards for her in-depth reporting about a retired Seymour police officer.
Falbo-Sosnovich won first place in the investigative category in the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists 2023 ‘Excellence in Journalism Awards.‘
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Jasmine Wright | Jun 16, 2024 1:59 pm
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ANSONIA – The Ansonia board of education voted to adopt a budget for the 2024 — 2025 fiscal year on June 12, about two weeks after the city passed a budget that allots $37.6 million to the school district.
The move is largely ceremonial, since that allotment is already finalized. However, it also marks the first time this year that any details of the board of education’s spending has been made public in a single budget document.
The Breakdown
The new budget is a $1.8 million, or five percent increase over last year’s budget. The largest increases were in employee pay and benefits, which together increased by about $1.2 million.
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Jasmine Wright | May 30, 2024 8:52 pm
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ANSONIA – Ansonia’s Board of Aldermen voted to adopt a $67.1 million budget for fiscal year 2024 — 2025 that carries a 0.25 mill rate increase on Thursday (May 30).
The new budget will take effect July 1.
Alderman Steven Adamowski abstained from a vote to accept the budget’s expenses. He raised concerns that the Ansonia Board of Education – which, at $37.6 million, makes up 56 percent of the total budget – had not made any details of its funding request available to the public.
“Not to see a budget, or not to have a budget submitted by the board of education, is unprecedented. I don’t know if that’s ever happened in any Connecticut municipality in history,” Adamowski said. “In any event, I don’t see how we can approve the budget without having a budget from the board of education.”