Monthly Archives: May 2010
NVL baseball, softball tourney matchups set
The matchups for this week's Naugatuck Valley League baseball and softball tournaments have been released with all four area teams qualifying for league postseason...
CN Headlines 05-21-10
One budget passes and another stalls, Peter Jurzynski readies for another swim across the English Channel, and a helicopter lands in the borough on...
Drums for Troops: Students’ efforts lauded
BEACON FALLS — Capping a week of owning up to one’s activities—or lack thereof—during the Vietnam conflict, Woodland Regional High School Principal Dr. Arnold...
Local Iraq veteran returns to students’ cheers
Children at Laurel Ledge Elementary School greeted U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Gregg Baluha of Beacon Falls as he arrived home Wednesday from his...
Naugatuck budget to yield half-mill hike
NAUGATUCK — Borough officials have approved a 2010-11 budget representing a $758,340, or .74 percent, overall increase, which hinges upon a 1.6 percent, half-mill...
Borough health budget up; VNA, HRD to fold?
NAUGATUCK — The borough’s overall health and welfare budget will receive an approximately $32,000 bump in funding over the current year in the 2010-11...
VFTM: Wearing excitement under my sleeve
“Fifteen more minutes,” Al Pistarelli assures me as he passes for the fourth time in 10 minutes. He’s been huffing back and forth between...
Citizens split about $5.86m BF budget
BEACON FALLS — The Board of Selectmen and Board of Finance presented their revised 2010-11 municipal budget to a crowd of more than 100...
CLISE: Jurzynski to swim channel again
He’s at it again. Peter Jurzynski this summer will once more attempt to swim across the English Channel. The borough man, who turns 59...
Pain in the gut: Alfiere’s absence tests WRHS
BEACON FALLS — It’s essentially useless, but it probably just cost Katie Alfiere and the Woodland softball team a heck of a lot.
In just...