THEVALLEY (ANDBEYOND) — The Great Give, an annual online fundraiser that benefits just about every nonprofit group in the greater Naugatuck Valley, is scheduled to start at 8 a.m. Wednesday, May 1 and continue until 8 p.m. Thursday, May 2.
Last year’s Great Give raised more than $3.4 million for nonprofit organizations, including $12,000 for The Valley Indy, which uses The Great Give as its annual reader drive.
Please consider supporting The Valley Indy by making a tax-deductible donation at Donate.ValleyIndy.org.
The Valley Indy will also be live from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. on May 1 and from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. May 2 interviewing various Great Give groups and local leaders.
DERBY – Gino DiGiovanni, Jr., a city Republican leader, was sentenced to 10 days in jail on Wednesday for his involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol building.
Officials from the federal Bureau of Prisons will determine when DiGiovanni has to report and to which prison.
DiGiovanni will also have 12 months of supervised release, 50 hours of community service, and has agreed to pay $500 restitution to the Architect of the U.S. Capitol.
U.S. Judge James E. Boasberg handed down the sentence April 24 in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.
DiGiovanni previously pleaded guilty to a single charge of misdemeanor trespassing in January.
The Valley Indy left a message with DiGiovanni seeking comment.
DERBY – Federal prosecutors want a judge to sentence Gino DiGiovanni, Jr. to 30 days in jail for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
DiGiovanni’s lawyer is arguing for no jail time, noting that his client has been sufficiently shamed.
DiGiovanni is scheduled to be sentenced in front of U.S. James E. Boasberg on Wednesday (April 24). He pleaded guilty in January to a misdemeanor trespassing charge.
In a previous interview with The Valley Indy, DiGiovanni said he approached the U.S. Capitol with a large group of people after watching President Donald Trump speak at a ‘stop the steal’ rally. He said he got caught up in the crowd and was unable to turn back, and was allowed into the Capitol building by law enforcement.
HARTFORD – State lawmakers who say they’ve heard from constituents about incessant noise from large solar projects are pushing for more local control of where those projects can be built.
“(Communities) have no authority when noise becomes a burden,” said state Rep. Jaime Foster, D‑Ellington.
Foster, other lawmakers, and local officials have been dealing with complaints from neighbors of a solar array in East Windsor for years. Among the issues, they say, is that municipalities have no ability to limit when a project can be built. That power rests with the Connecticut Siting Council.
“The problem is that it is an overreach by the state,” said Rep. Carol Hall, R‑Enfield. “Local municipalities can’t regulate (where solar projects are built), They have zero control and say.”
SEYMOUR – The Seymour Planning and Zoning Commission denied a request Thursday (April 11) to change the zoning on three Pearl Street properties from residential to multi-family.
The commission voted 3 – 2 in favor of the zone change.
However, the zone change request faced strong opposition from neighbors who circulated a petition with 47 names.
The town verified the names on the petition and found 31 percent of the people signing were surrounding landowners. That percentage triggered a rule in Seymour land use regulations dictating that a two-thirds vote from the commission was needed to approve anything.
That meant four commissioners had to vote ‘yes’ for the approval to stick.
SEYMOUR – A former Seymour police sergeant subject to five internal affairs investigations in two years voluntarily surrendered his Connecticut Police Officer Certification.
The move means the former officer, Jonathan Martin, cannot work in law enforcement in Connecticut. However, he can apply to get his certification back next year.
His name will be included on a national list of decertified officers, and he will appear on the state’s Police Officer Standards & Training (POST) website.
“Jonathan Martin has voluntarily surrendered his certification and the case has been closed,” Richard Green, a POST spokesman, told the Valley Indy via an email.
The Valley Indy left a message with Martin’s lawyer.
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THEVALLEY (ANDBEYOND) — The Great Give, an annual online fundraiser that benefits just about every nonprofit group in the greater Naugatuck Valley, is scheduled to start at 8 a.m. Wednesday, May 1 and continue until 8 p.m. Thursday, May 2.
Last year’s Great Give raised more than $3.4 million for nonprofit organizations, including $12,000 for The Valley Indy, which uses The Great Give as its annual reader drive.
Please consider supporting The Valley Indy by making a tax-deductible donation at Donate.ValleyIndy.org.
The Valley Indy will also be live from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. on May 1 and from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. May 2 interviewing various Great Give groups and local leaders.
DERBY – Gino DiGiovanni, Jr., a city Republican leader, was sentenced to 10 days in jail on Wednesday for his involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol building.
Officials from the federal Bureau of Prisons will determine when DiGiovanni has to report and to which prison.
DiGiovanni will also have 12 months of supervised release, 50 hours of community service, and has agreed to pay $500 restitution to the Architect of the U.S. Capitol.
U.S. Judge James E. Boasberg handed down the sentence April 24 in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.
DiGiovanni previously pleaded guilty to a single charge of misdemeanor trespassing in January.
The Valley Indy left a message with DiGiovanni seeking comment.
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