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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 7:30 pm
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Rejoice Operating Manager Mark Rubie with budtender Miranda Carbajal (left) and Mackenzie Belyea, inventory lead.
SEYMOUR – The first recreational marijuana retailer to set up shop in the lower Naugatuck Valley held its grand opening Wednesday (Oct. 9).
Rejoice, a cannabis retailer, is located in the Seybridge Plaza, 39 New Haven Road, in the former Trilogy restaurant space.
The Seymour store is the second location for Rejoice. They opened a store in Meriden earlier this year.
The Seymour store (recreation only) offers both walk-in and online sales of a variety of recreational cannabis products, including flowers, pre-rolls, edibles, vaporizers and concentrates. Prices range from around $30 for a pack of five pre-rolled joints to $55 for a quarter ounce.
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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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Press Release | Oct 7, 2024 7:07 am
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SEYMOUR — The Seymour Democratic Town Committee held the Kennedy-Pawlak Awards Dinner on September 29 at Brookside Inn, Oxford. The event drew a crowd of DTC supporters as well as Lt. Governor Susan Bysiewicz, CT Democratic Party Vice-Chair Jimmy Tickey, and former Seymour First Selectman Paul Roy.
This year’s honorees were the late Colleen Fries, and Edward Strumello. Colleen was an attorney who practiced law at Bai, Pollock, and Dunnigan and later was a founding partner of Coyne, von Kuhn, Brady and Fries, LLC. In addition, Colleen served on the Board of Directors of Living in Safe Alternatives (LISA), an organization that offers alternative living situations for children and youth. Colleen was also vice president for Seymour Pink, Inc.
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Jean Falbo-Sosnovich | Oct 7, 2024 5:24 am
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A photo of the Bungay School from Google Maps.
SEYMOUR – The Bungay Elementary School Building Committee will hold two public sessions to discuss whether the 70-year-old school needs an expansion, a ‘like new’ renovation, or a new building.
The sessions will take place at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 8 and Oct. 16 at Bungay School, 35 Bungay Road.
Fred Stanek, a member of the Seymour Board of Selectpersons, is the chairman of the building committee.
He said at a Selectpersons meeting last week that the public will hear from Antinozzi Associates of Bridgeport. The board hired the company in August for $44,000 to do a feasibility study and facility assessment. The firm is reviewing the school’s infrastructure and developing conceptual design plans and cost estimates for the three options.
