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Newspaper
Westport News
Location
Westport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1972
Page
1
The Planning and Zoning study committee urges rejection of the floating zone and urges preselecting sites for apartments. It warns PMFD rules could face costly litigation while noting federal or state aid pressures to exempt Westport from housing changes.
The Westport Education Association condemned the Board of Education for declining arbitration on an administrative restructuring dispute. They also announced their selection for one member of a proposed three person arbitration panel, naming William Barney, head of the Stamford Education Association, as a candidate.
In a dispute over a school administrative shakeup the teachers claim a Differentiated Staffing Committee should handle the issue under negotiations. School Board Chairman Leonard Revins says the matter is not arbitrable as it concerns a side letter, citing a State Supreme Court ruling. Harrison notes the group prefers not to engage in legalese.
The RTM public works committee urges the town to acquire Richmondville Avenue known as the half road and convert land west of it into a passive recreation area. The report faults the 1969 P Z subdivision and says Kowalsky Properties should have paved more of Richmondville Avenue. A $61 000 bond to cover road improvements was released in 1971 over objections of a property owner’s attorney.
Unemployed professionals and executives in Westport and Weston begin organizing a joint effort to combat falling living standards and rising economic pressures. W. C. Rockwell reports on the early steps toward uniting the unemployed in a new support and advocacy network.
Police continued the search yesterday for Lawrence Townsend the black militant suspected of shooting two Bridgeport patrolmen R L Simmons and Charles Smith. Townsend previously posted bond in Westport and may be hiding there while appealing a 1971 aggravated assault conviction.
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