ContestsNAUGATUCK — While most public attention has been focused on the troubled school budget, new problems are emerging on the municipal side of local finances. The education budget, which funds 11 public schools and makes up about 55 percent of the current $103 million overall town and school budget, has people’s attention because it... »
PROSPECT — The Region 16 Board of Education will learn next week whether it has satisfied taxpayers’ desire to keep spending under control when a $36.6 million school budget goes to referendum. The district will hold its annual meeting Monday at 7 p.m. at Woodland Regional High School, then open polls from 6 a.m.-8... »
NAUGATUCK — The Board of Education last Thursday presented its 2010-11 budget request—which represents an $899,000, or 1.6 percent, increase over the current year’s budget—to the joint boards of Mayor and Burgesses and Finance. The request reflects all of the school board’s recent cost-reducing adjustments: a switch of health insurance benefits managers, the cutting... »
NAUGATUCK — There is something special about the sheer joy on the face of a child as he races around the baseball diamond, capturing the essence of America’s favorite pastime. An overflow crowd was on hand to help usher in the new baseball season at the Union City Little League complex Saturday, under bright,... »
The Naugatuck Board of Education reneges on its decision to close Salem School, the borough projected a revenue loss of over $1 million next year and the Peter J. Foley Little League kicks off its season in honor of the late Dustin Diver on this week’s episode of CN Headlines. »
WATERTOWN — The sluggish, 0-3 start the Woodland baseball team experienced is a thing of the past. The Hawks have reeled off four straight wins, including a 5-2 victory Monday in Watertown, to improve to 4-3 overall and 4-2 in the Naugatuck Valley League. Woodland’s starting pitching remained outstanding, as junior Tom Arsenault made... »
NAUGATUCK — The Naugatuck softball team was cruising along with a 4-0 mark, averaging more than six runs per game, when it took on unbeaten Wolcott last Friday. The bats went silent, the fielding wasn’t as sharp, and Wolcott handed the Hounds their first loss of the season by an 11-1 margin, as Naugatuck... »
Citizen’s News has been nominated by the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists for 20 Excellence in Journalism awards. The nominees include editor Callum Borchers (general reporting, general reporting series, investigative, in-depth, business, arts and entertainment, opinion column, sports column, sports feature, sports news, page-one layout and video storytelling), staff writer Brendan Cox (opinion column,... »
BEACON FALLS — The mood was inquisitive but cordial, suggestive but mostly satisfied, and at the end of Tuesday evening, the town budget that emerged from a public hearing and subsequent Board of Finance meeting was almost identical to the one that entered. The proposed 2010-11 budget now stands at $5.95 million, a $476,554,... »
NAUGATUCK — Mayor Bob Mezzo learned of a projected $1.2 million revenue loss for the 2010-11 fiscal year shortly before the Board of Education met Monday night to pare its budget and prepare a final number to request from Town Hall. So even as the education board strove to find ways to achieve the... »
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