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Jean Falbo-Sosnovich | Oct 15, 2024 1:31 pm
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Reporter Jean Falbo-Sosnovich once again hijacked the Microfilm time machine at Seymour Public Library to bring you the very best in local news from 1968!
Monday, Oct. 14, 1968
$5,000 In Clothes Taken From Men’s Store ANSONIA – Some 50 suits and 75 trench coats were reported missing from the B&L Mean’s Store, 116 Main St., Ansonia, early Sunday morning after an apparent burglary earlier in the night.
Berthold Levi, an owner of the store, told police the value of the stolen goods was estimated at $5,000.
An hour before the burglary was discovered, Patrolman Walter Hartsburg spotted a car with six youths in it on Main Street. When he approached the car, it sped off and turned onto Railroad Avenue, going up the street against one-way signs.
It was not known by police whether the two incidents were related.
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Press Release | Oct 14, 2024 12:35 pm
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HARTFORD – Gov. Ned Lamont today announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is making a schedule change to Connecticut’s two recently opened Disaster Recovery Centers (DRCs) that have been providing in-person support with applying for federal disaster assistance to those impacted by the August 18, 2024, severe storm and flooding.
Effective at the close of business on Monday, October 14, 2024, the DRC located at Our Lady of Fatima Church in Wilton is permanently closing.
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Press Release | Oct 14, 2024 7:41 am
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WETHERSFIELD – Connecticut Department of Labor (CTDOL) Commissioner Danté Bartolomeo announced that FEMA has authorized the agency to launch federal Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) for those residents who experienced job interruption or loss due to the August 2024 flooding.
Disaster Unemployment Assistance is a federal program that supports workers whose employment was lost or interrupted by a major disaster and who are not eligible for regular state unemployment insurance benefits.
DUA covers workers, some residents who are self-employed, and the surviving spouses of heads of household who died due to the storm.
President Biden approved Connecticut’s major disaster declaration for the FEMA Individual Assistance Program for Fairfield, Litchfield, and New Haven counties, areas that experienced extreme rain and flooding on August 18 – 19, 2024. Governor Ned Lamont announced business recovery centers to help employers apply for federal aid.
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Jean Falbo-Sosnovich | Oct 9, 2024 5:33 am
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Reporter Jean Falbo Sosnovich broke into the time machine at the Seymour Public Library to bring readers back to 1986!
Please note we’re not publishing the names of people who were accused of crimes and such 38 years ago because we were in sixth grade and not allowed to follow the cases in court.
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Jean Falbo-Sosnovich | Oct 9, 2024 4:30 am
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Geralyn O'Neil Wild, chief operating officer CT Coalition Against Domestic Violence with Adanna Springer, a survivor.
SHELTON– Every nine seconds, a woman is abused in the U.S., and one in four women and one in seven men are victims of domestic violence at some point in their lives.
Those statistics from BHcare’s The Umbrella Center for Domestic Violence were shared with the 50 people who gathered for a candlelight vigil Tuesday (Oct. 8) to honor survivors and victims.
The annual event took place at Veteran’s Park in Shelton. Some 75 white t‑shirts, featuring painted-on messages of hope and survival, were strung between trees that lined the walkway leading into the park’s pavilion.
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Jean Falbo-Sosnovich | Oct 1, 2024 6:50 pm
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Jean Falbo-Sosnovich traveled to Seymour Library to hijack their microfilm to bring to you exactly what was happening in the lower Naugatuck Valley back in 1972!
Lake Zoar – Beginning on October 19, 2024, FirstLight will conduct a drawdown of Lake Zoar at the Stevenson Dam to conduct its annual maintenance and inspection activities. The normal summer operating range of the station is from 103’-100.5’, and the drawdown will target an elevation of 98.5’. The drawdown will lower lake levels to minimum pond levels and aim to return to normal operating elevations on October 28, 2024, as river conditions allow.
All homeowners are encouraged to remove structures, boatlifts, and docks from Lake Zoar to prevent ice or flood damage from occurring during the winter months. All work planned to occur along the shoreline requires prior permitting from FirstLight, who can be contacted at www.firstlightpermits.com.
