Monthly Archives: August 2010
Borough adopts blight ordinance
NAUGATUCK — Borough residents who don’t clean up will soon be forced to pay up.
The Board of Mayor and Burgesses this week unanimously approved...
Intramural program formed at City Hill
NAUGATUCK — Students who will lose spots on their athletic teams when City Hill Middle School absorbs Hillside Middle School will be...
Pond will dry up without repairs
BEACON FALLS — Town officials fear Carrington Pond at Matthies Memorial Park will become a swamp if hundreds of thousands of dollars are not...
Local author publishes first novel
NAUGATUCK — Many authors tap into personal experience in their early works and produce semi-autobiographical novels and stories.
Borough author Phil Beloin Jr. takes the...
Surviving the dog days of August
This may sound strange coming from a sports writer, but I wasn’t always a sports fan. Actually, I was introduced to sports as sort...
Off-duty policeman foils burglary
PROSPECT — An off-duty police lieutenant Monday interrupted a burglary in progress at the Prospect Shell station on Waterbury Road (Route 69).
State police received...
Committee recommends demolition
BEACON FALLS — A committee charged to explore municipal uses for property that the town bought in 2008 has recommended tearing down the...
Drug bust connects to borough
A Naugatuck man was one of four people arrested in what state police are calling the largest marijuana bust in Connecticut in at least...
Borough, DOT hoping to strike a deal
NAUGATUCK — ‘Help me help you’ seems to be one premise of an agreement the borough is negotiating with the Connecticut Department of Transportation....
NHS will need to up the ante by 2014
NAUGATUCK — New and stringent state-imposed graduation standards for Connecticut’s public schools could have educational leaders scrambling when they take effect in 2014.
At Naugatuck...