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Turns Out Former Ansonia Tax Collector Didn’t Resign

by | Oct 13, 2015 6:32 pm | Comments (0)

Bridget Bostic resigned as Ansonia’s tax collector in August 2012 after a Valley Indy story detailed her practice of dispensing receipts to people who had not paid their car taxes.

Or so you were told.

Unbeknownst to the public, the tax collector was allowed to rescind her resignation two weeks after officials publicly announced she had quit.

She then left public service through an early retirement, as state prosecutors reviewed a fact-finding” report prepared by Ansonia city lawyers.

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Derby Soccer: Don’t Steamroll Our Field

by | Jun 16, 2015 8:03 pm | Comments (0)

Derby Youth Soccer League parents are worried they will lose a soccer field at Witek Park as the city and school district moves forward with a plan to reconfigure athletic fields.

But Derby Schools Superintendent Matthew Conway insists no final decisions have been reached and stood up at an Aldermen meeting May 28 to make just that point. He promised to hold public hearings on the issue so that every opinion is heard.

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Ansonia Offers $75,000 To Settle Worker’s Comp Case

by | Jun 14, 2015 9:40 am | Comments (0)

The City of Ansonia will offer up to $75,000 to settle six worker compensation claims and several labor grievances with James Hooker, a public works employee who retired last year.

Aldermen voted unanimously June 9 to authorize the city’s lawyer to write the offer. It could be approved at the July Aldermen meeting.

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Failing Score On Food Service Inspection At Derby Middle School Explained

by | Mar 30, 2015 10:21 pm | Comments (0)

Health code violations at the Derby Middle School kitchen have been corrected, a food services employee told the Board of Education March 19.

The middle school kitchen failed a routine inspection conducted Feb. 5 by an employee from the Naugatuck Valley Health District.

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Ansonia Violated Open Records Law

by | Mar 24, 2015 7:55 am | Comments (0)

FILEA settlement agreement between the City of Ansonia and a former zoning officer that officials have refused to release for nearly a year should not be shielded from the public, a hearing officer for the state’s Freedom of Information Commission has concluded.

The March 5 report of the hearing officer, Clifton Leonhardt, comes two months after the Valley Indy argued during a hearing in Hartford that the document should be divulged.

The city released the document late Monday.

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How ‘Transparent’ Is Your City Hall?

by | Mar 19, 2015 3:58 pm | Comments (0)

Sunshine Week” is an annual push to show the importance of open and accessible government in the U.S.

It started in Florida in 2002, after the state legislature attempted to pass a number of laws that would have gutted the public’s right to know.

Click here for background.

To mark Sunshine Week, the Valley Indy has been tracking our routine efforts to obtain information from local or state government.

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Warrant Provides Details On Former Derby Educator’s Arrest

by | Feb 19, 2015 5:20 pm | Comments (0)

Former Derby High School principal Greg Galliard went to a Starbucks on Dixwell Avenue in Hamden three days before Christmas last December to talk about a union bank account to which he had sole access.

His fellow union members had questions. They had reviewed bank statements. About $13,000 was missing.

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Details Hard To Come By On Alleged Derby Union Theft

by | Feb 18, 2015 7:21 pm | Comments (0)

An Ansonia lawyer representing a former school principal accused of larceny declined to comment on her client’s case Wednesday.

Former Derby High School Principal Greg Gaillard was charged with second-degree larceny Tuesday night.

He is scheduled to make his first court appearance on a larceny charge Feb. 25 at 10 a.m. at Superior Court in Derby on Elizabeth Street.

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