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Public Hearing On Proposed Ansonia Budget Scheduled For Monday, May 6

Posted: May 5, 2024 7:03 pm

ANSONIA — A public hearing on the city budget is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Monday, May 6 in front of both the Board of Aldermen and the Board of Apportionment and Taxation.

The meeting will be held online using the Zoom video conference platform, according to an agenda posted to the city’s website.

Mayor David Cassetti unveiled a budget April 25 that will add 0.25 mills to the mill rate.

If the budget is accepted as proposed, a single-family house on Holbrook Street assessed at $180,000 would pay $45 more per year in taxes.

A house on Gardners Lane assessed at $248,000 would pay $62 more per year.

A house on High Acres Road assessed at $366,000 would pay $91.50 more per year.

The proposed budget is a $2.6 million increase from the 2023 – 2024 budget of $64.5 million approved last June. Most of that change is driven by an increase in the education budget, from $35.8 million to $37.6 million (about a $1.8 million, or 5 percent, increase).

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Softball 'Pink Game' Fundraiser Is Saturday, May 4

Posted: May 3, 2024 7:11 am

DERBY — The annual Derby softball ​‘pink’ game is scheduled for Saturday, May 4. See the flyer for details.

The games are played at Red Clynch Memorial Field at Payden Park off Chatfield Street in Derby.

Ansonia Residents Aren’t Sold On WPCA Sale

Posted: May 1, 2024 6:06 am

Former Ansonia Alderman Wiliam Phipps speaks at Tuesday's public hearing.

ANSONIA – Ansonia city officials say that selling the city’s sewer system will bring needed repairs and cut costs for residents. On Tuesday (April 30), about two dozen residents presented a harsher view of the sale.

At a public hearing attended by at least 60 residents, corporation counsel John Marini delivered a presentation supporting a proposed sale of the city’s Water Pollution Control Authority (WPCA) to Aquarion, a private utility company. After the floor was opened for public comment, residents questioned nearly every aspect of the deal.

The video from the meeting is posted at the bottom of this story.

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Seymour House Fire Was Accidental, Marshal Says

Posted: Apr 30, 2024 5:40 pm

This contributed photo shows flames on the front porch of a house in Seymour.

SEYMOUR — The fire marshal said a fire at a two-story house at 4 Laurel Lane Tuesday (April 30) was started by accident.

Seymour Fire Marshal Timothy Willis said the fire was reported at 11:22 a.m. on the front porch.

“The fire was accidental and caused by careless disposal of smoking materials,” Willis said.

More than 50 firefighters from the Seymour Fire Department, with assistance from neighboring fire departments in Ansonia, Beacon Falls and Oxford, responded to the scene, according to Seymour Fire Chief Chris Edwards. Derby fire department crews provided station coverage for Seymour.

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Posted: Apr 29, 2024 2:08 pm

NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER – THURSDAY, MAY 2

Posted: Apr 29, 2024 9:49 am

The Sarah Riggs Humphreys-Mary Silliman Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) reminds everyone that Thursday, May 2, 2024 is the National Day of Prayer.

The National Day of Prayer is an annual observance held on the first Thursday of May inviting every one of all faiths to pray for the nation. The tradition began in 1775 when the First Continental Congress called for a national Day of Prayer, continued when President Lincoln called for a Day of Prayer in 1863 and was made into law in 1952 by a joint resolution of Congress and signed into law by President Truman. 

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