Board narrows field for school business manager
Naugatuck officials narrowed the search to three candidates for the Board of Education Director of Business Services post. Interviews were held with six applicants. Jo Ann Keating, who held the job since 1992, resigned in June and the board plans second interviews in weeks. The finalists are all state certified business managers with strong finance backgrounds. Keating’s salary was 68,000 annually.
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Naugatuck
Board of Education
Jo-Ann Keating
Alice Carolan
Robert Cronin
Keating
Barbara Jewis
Brian Bedard
Carolan
Cronin
Wolcott
Bedard
Jo- Ann
Seymour borough weighs private tax collection deal
Mayor Barth cites a $1.1 million payment to Seymour as evidence a private firm could boost tax collection. Angram Business Services already handles Seymour liens with a 99.25 percent rate, though Tax Collector Kogut warns of lost interest and ongoing costs. Proposals from firms, including Angram, are due in Town Hall next Tuesday at 1 p.m.
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Seymour
Timothy Barth
Barth
Naugatuck
Angram Business Services Inc
Angram
Town Hall
First
John O’toole
Henry Kogut
Kogut
Board of Mayor
Boro readers complete summer challenge with Dr Seuss theme
Nearly 1,000 borough children from kindergarten through eighth grade finished the Howard Whittemore Memorial Library Summer reading program coordinated by Children's Librarian Terri Rung. The start date June 15 aimed to keep kids reading all summer with the Oh the Places You’ll Go theme encouraging outdoor adventures with a book.
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Borough
Howard Whittemore Memorial Library
Terri Rung
Rung
Dr. Seuss
Bridgeport diocese mute on priest's whereabouts
In New Haven the Bridgeport Diocese seeks to distance itself from Rev Laurence Brett amid a civil lawsuit alleging sexual abuse of a Stamford altar boy in the 1960s. Attorney Joseph Sweeney argued the diocese minimized contact after sending Brett to a psychiatric center in New Mexico following a separate 1964 abuse incident. The trial, involving Frank Martinelli now 50, accuses the diocese of negligence for failing to protect a Stamford parish.
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New Haven, Conn
Bridgeport
Stamford
Joseph Sweeney
Laurence Brett
New Mexico
Milwaukee
Frank Martinelli
McVeigh issues no remorse at sentencing in Oklahoma City bombing
In Denver, victims hear Timothy McVeigh offer no apology as he accepts the death sentence for the April 1995 attack that killed 168 and injured over 500. He faults the government, while relatives express anger and sorrow. Defense plans appeal and notes the solemn day of judgment.
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Denver
Charles Tomlin
Marsha Kight
Roy Sells
Oklahoma City
Timothy McVeigh
McVeigh
Supreme Court
Louis Brandeis
Tomlin
Rick
Sells
Lee
Federal
Waco
U.S
Richard Matsch
Brandeis
Stephen Jones
Joseph Hartzler
Jones
10Th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Borough workers vote to reject contract in arbitration
The Chapter 89 union rejected the borough’s three year contract for about 50 clerical workers, mainly over a $10 health care co pay. Arbitration was set to proceed after talks spaced through last week. Union president Celia Urbano and Personnel Director James Amann met to formalize the process.
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Chapter 89
James Amann
Celia Urbano
Amann
Urbano
Unabomber case seeks special treatment in trial
Defense lawyers Quin Denvir and Judy Clarke ask for an expanded juror pool and private questioning to obtain candid responses. They contend media coverage of Theodore Kaczynski’s case surpasses any prior American trial, and seek greater power for defense to strike jurors along with civil and criminal trial comparisons.
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Sacramento
Theodore Kaczynski
Quin Denvir
Judy Clarke
Oklahoma City
Timothy McVeigh
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Frank Bruce
Beacon Falls
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Seymour Church
Denise Lavoi
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Ann Bancroft
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