Naugatuck News

NAUGATUCK a ' Tonighta TMs Board of Education meeting, at which the school systema TMs governing body had previously hoped to resolve its more than $2 million budget shortfall, has been postponed indefinitely.

NAUGATUCK a ' It's three months into the academic year, approaching the halfway point of the fiscal year and the school board is without a definitive plan to bridge a projected budget gap of at least $2 million.

Thursday's news from the U.S. Department of Labor that unemployment in Connecticut had jumped from 8.4 to 8.8 percent lent an air of irony to that night's Sixth Annual Business Meeting of the Naugatuck Economic Development Corporation , where officials acknowledged the challenging economy but expressed hope about the future.

Four months after the borough hired the Hartford-based firm JCJ Architecture to perform a facilities utilization study of the school district, the company is preparing to make suggestions about how the district can best meet the needs of its 11 public schools over the next decade.

Two Naugatuck Valley towns have apparently been chosen for the setting of a new movie that will hit theaters late next year.

Brussels might be the best place to make a business connection inside the North Atlantic Treaty Organization , the 28-nation military alliance based in the Belgian capital.

NAUGATUCK a ' Mayor Bob Mezzo has a plan to bridge the school system's projected $2 million budget gap while avoiding massive layoffs and program cuts in the district's 11 public schools.

The philosophy behind the borough's unprecedented "tri-board" meeting between the boards of Mayor and Burgesses, Education and Finance was met positively by officials for its promotion of transparency and communication.

Toddler Riley Greene raced around a Children's Center classroom, first busying himself building a tower from oversize Lego blocks, then switching to Play-Doh crafts, completely unaware the center will soon celebrate its 38th anniversary.

WATERBURY a ' The Naugatuck Greyhounds were surely hoping for a state title to complement the NVL crown they won last week.

Government Announcements Submitted by Samuel Gold, Council of Governments of the Central Naugatuck Valley, on 2009-11-12.   The Council of Governments of the Central Naugatuck Valley will host two public workshops to present information and gather input on the proposed Naugatuck River Greenway in Thomaston, Watertown, Naugatuck, and Beacon ...

I recently got a chance to sit down with Adam Lopez, drummer for the locally-based pop-rock band To Write a Riot! to discuss their record, "The Party Law," their recent national tour, their music, and their desire to spread their message of hope and inspiration to middle- and high-school students.

NAUGATUCK a ' Mayor Bob Mezzo says teachers may have accepted a cost-savings plan worth about $570,000 if the school board had given them some incentive.

Several local emergency management directors are questioning the state's rush to award a no-bid contract for an emergency alert system when another option priced at about a third of the $1.4 million cost had been previously considered.

Just six days after the class meets, at which no girl could break the 19-minute mark, six went sub-19 Friday afternoon in a blazing State Open at Wickham Park.

WestConn police arrested a 21-year-old student after a professor reported that someone was stating racial obscenities in a classroom building on campus Thursday afternoon.

Students were evacuated from City Hill Middle School in Nautatuck amid a fire Thursday morning.

When the economy goes down, fraud goes up. Authorities say it's happening right now with insurance fraud when people may fake or exaggerate injuries to collect lucrative benefits.

A half-dozen years ago, at the peak of a building boom reshaping the Naugatuck Valley, a hot-tempered developer of strip malls named James Botti boasted that he had enough evidence of small-town graft to "collapse town hall" just by calling the FBI .

From the three-story house near the top of Oak Avenue, one of the tenants could look down at Borough Hall, where municipal inspectors work.