Connecticut Firm Seeks Danbury Mall Purchase Option
A small Connecticut computer firm has secured a three month option to buy the 160000 square foot Danbury Mall from West Penn Realty of Pittsburgh. The plan is to relocate as its corporate headquarters with 850 to 1000 new jobs, though the option expires in June amid ongoing talks and a $2.5 million foreclosure suit involving the mall’s owners.
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Danbury
Danbury Mall
West Penn Realty Company
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Connecticut General Life Insurance Company
Samuel Hyman
West Penn
Jack Arcata
AAA
Center
Robert Stevens
Planning Commission
Main Street
Rose Street
Kennedy Avenue
Leonard Farber, Inc
Hartsdale
N.Y. Jand
West
Penn Realty
Grand Way
Union Carbide
New York City
Grolier Tompathy
Sherman Turnpike
U.S
Grofler
Fairfield Tennis Courts Five-Game Tickets Sell for 20
Fairfield residents may buy five night games for 20 dollars at the recreation office on Old Dam road. Tickets redeemable for night play on the Old Dam road clay courts with one week advance reservations and no limit per person. On sale begins June 1 at the recreation office.
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Fairfield
Board of Recreation
Old Dam Road
Clerical Strike Hits Valley Cable Vision
Fourteen clerical and service workers walk out at Valley Cable Vision on Great Hill road amid a Local 142 dispute over union shop status. Manager Jeffrey Reynolds says 16 000 customers may see slowed service and home cable installs delayed while remaining staff keep operations running.
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Seymour
Valley
Cable Vision
Great Hill Road
International Brotherhood of Electrical, Workers
Jeffrey Reynolds
Reynolds
Board Approves 33800 For Town Records Reindexing
Trumbull board unanimously approves a 33800 appropriation to reindex town records from 1950 to 1965 and update 1965 to present volumes by computer printout. Final approval rests with Town Council which previously rejected similar dust cover funds in 1974.
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Trumbule
Board of’Finance
Paul
Timpanelli
Century Old Weather Flags End Nov. 1 at Governors Island
The Coast Guard will discontinue visual small craft warning flags in the Third District by November 1. Boaters are urged to rely on National Weather Service broadcasts as flags for advisories and storm warnings are removed from about 100 locations. The change ends a century old tradition acknowledged as over 100 years old by NWS official James Traver.
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N.Y
Coast Guard
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Delaware-Maryland
Hudson River
New York Bay
Long Island Sound
Delaware River
Bay
National Weather Service
The
James Traver
Schools Close Early Tomorrow for Workshop
A teacher in service workshop is set for tomorrow afternoon, prompting all schools to close around 1:20 p.m. The session, the third of the year, will be held at each school focusing on improving operation policies. Principals and teachers will participate along with the Joint Board of Education and Bridgeport Education Association committee meetings and teacher evaluation.
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Board of Education
Bridgeport Education Association
Nautical history notes on flags and weather broadcasts
Travér reflects on nautical history and sentiment while noting flags described as expensive and inefficient. He mentions discontinued flags in the Great Lakes and West Coast and references the National Weather Service broadcasts that repeat taped messages every four to six minutes and are revised every two to three hours.
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Travér
Great Lakes
West Coast
Council Revokes Fee Seen Stifling New Apartments
The Bridgeport Common Council voted 12 to 4 to revoke a 200 per apartment sewer connection fee for new apartment buildings on Success, Kasper, and Stratford avenues. Alderman Kelley led the reversal, arguing the charge stifled development, while opponents said charges should remain to cover sewer use. The ordinance had stalled in committee for three weeks before this action. The council also ordered sewers installed on Rosemary Drive and reviewed Paul Chagnon’s request to connect his property.
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Common Council
Success
Avenue Ands
ordi-Kasper Drive
Stratford
Kelley
Thomas A. Mulligan, Jr
Rosemary
Drive
Paul A. Chagnon
European Cage Scores in Stockholm Qualification Round
In Stockholm on Monday Hungary defeated winless Scotland 73 to 61. Finland beat Romania 68 to 66 and West Germany edged Sweden 76 to 71 in the European Championship qualification tournament third round. Three of six teams advance to the next qualification stage in Helsinki.
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Stockholm
Hungury
Scotland
Finland
Romania
West Germany
Sweden
Helsinki
Plane Crashes in Fairfield Meadow Pilot Unhurt
An experienced pilot Dr. Goutell and his 11 year old son were in a Piper Cub that lost power and crashed in a Fairfield meadow after attempting to return to the airstrip behind the Hermenze home. Both occupants refused medical aid. plane sustained significant damage with a crumpled wing tip and broken windshield.
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Fred Hérmenze
Sturges Highway
Fairfield
Goutell
Hérmenze
Ambulahca
Goutéll
Nicholas Stasolla
Siasoila
Gdutetl
Hermenze
Sikorsky Memorial
Fuse Resigns as Chief of Fairfield GOP Panel
Joseph R. Fuse announced his resignation as chairman of Fairfield Republican Town Committee effective after the June meeting due to business demands. He will miss Thursday’s meeting where a new vice chairman is to be elected and noted he has not reconsidered running for the Town Plan and Zoning commission in November. Fuse has chaired the panel since February and served eight years on the TPZ.
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Joseph R. Fuse
Fairfield Républican Town Committee
Fuse
Présby
Becase
Republican Town Committee
Town? Plan and Zoning Commission
TPZ
Expanded home health care a top Connecticut priority
Commissioner William Ratchford told the Lower Naugatuck Valley Community Council that expanding home health care is a top priority for Connecticut. He cited possible savings from fewer nursing home placements and urged regionalized elderly transportation and housing efforts as state budget funds support more senior housing despite inflation.
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Derby
Connecticut
William Ratchford
Lower Naugatuck Valley
Ratchford
Ella T. Grasso
Grasso
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