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Ethan 193 Fry | Mar 9, 2016 3:07 pm
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ANSONIA — A $5,000 raise given by Ansonia Mayor David Cassetti to a land use official who began working for the city last year prompted some heated discussion at an Aldermen’s meeting Tuesday.
During a back-and-forth with Cassetti, Third Ward Alderman Joseph Jeanette Jr. accused the mayor of making an end run around the Aldermen in granting the pay bump.
“Why do we need our Aldermen here if you’re just going to give raises without even consulting us?” Jeanette said.
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Ethan 193 Fry | Mar 7, 2016 5:41 am
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The former Shelton official who stole nearly $1 million in taxpayer money has been released after serving less than half her prison sentence.
Sharon Scanlon, 51, left York Correctional Institution in Niantic Jan. 16, roughly 24 months into 54-month prison sentence handed down by a judge at Superior Court in Milford two years earlier, after she pleaded guilty to first-degree larceny and first-degree forgery.
Click the play button below to listen to the parole hearing.
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Eugene Driscoll | Feb 24, 2016 12:14 pm
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Emails between Mayor Anita Dugatto’s office and senior center director Sarah Muoio show no conflict between the pair in the weeks leading up to Muoio’s dismissal.
Dugatto fired Muoio Jan. 21. The mayor was criticized at the time because Muoio was mourning the death of her father, and Dugatto would not explain her decision.
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Eugene Driscoll | Feb 23, 2016 3:13 pm
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A bevy of elected and appointed government officials went behind closed doors last week to discuss legal expenses connected to an order from state environmental regulators.
State law allows government officials to meet in nonpublic “executive sessions” in certain situations, such as when government officials are talking about legal strategy, or negotiations involving lawsuits.
But bills, including legal fees, are usually discussed in public, because it is the public’s money.
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Eugene Driscoll | Feb 8, 2016 9:56 pm
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DERBY — Derby Mayor Anita Dugatto broke her silence Monday on her decision to fire the city’s director — by calling the police.
The mayor filed a complaint “asserting financial irregularities by former Derby Senior Center Director Sarah Muoio,” according to a statement from Derby police.
No dollar figures attached to the city’s allegation were made public.
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Eugene Driscoll | Feb 3, 2016 1:23 pm
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The former Derby senior center director’s personnel file shows no disciplinary problems, and the mayor who fired her remains silent as to what triggered the move.
Mayor Anita Dugatto took the unusual step last month of firing Sarah Muoio just before her father’s funeral. Muoio did not respond to messages seeking comment.
The Ansonia Board of Education’s finance committee voted Jan. 13 to seek an increase of 7.7 percent from the city to fund the school district in 2016 – 2017.
That’s a year-to-year increase of about $2.3 million.
Will they get it?
“Absolutely, positively not,” Mayor David Cassetti said.
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Eugene Driscoll | Nov 25, 2015 4:54 pm
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A Derby committee met at 7 a.m. Sunday to review the qualifications of engineering firms the city is being forced to hire because of an order from the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP).
The meeting’s unusual time and lack of advance notice has raised concerns among both Democrats and Republicans in Derby.
The former Shelton official who stole nearly $1 million in taxpayer money has been released after serving less than half her prison sentence.
Emails between Mayor Anita Dugatto’s office and senior center director Sarah Muoio show no conflict between the pair in the weeks leading up to Muoio’s dismissal.
A bevy of elected and appointed government officials went behind closed doors last week to discuss legal expenses connected to an order from state environmental regulators.
The former Derby senior center director’s personnel file shows no disciplinary problems, and the mayor who fired her remains silent as to what triggered the move.
A Derby committee met at 7 a.m. Sunday to review the qualifications of engineering firms the city is being forced to hire 
If you are late paying local property taxes, state law says you must be hit with interest penalties.