Tag: Prospect
Prospect budget increase climbs to 5.13%
PROSPECT — The Town Council has adopted a 2010-2011 budget that tacks another $9,500 onto Mayor Bob Chatfield’s original, recommended $327,000 increase, bringing the...
Local officials advocate census participation
Two days after census forms were due, many local residents still had not returned them, though response rates in all three towns met or...
Registrars take 11 percent budget increase
PROSPECT — The town may save money on labor by using electronic ballot-counting machines, but technology comes with its own unique costs.
The Town Council...
Library’s proposed increase scaled back
PROSPECT — Members of the Public Library Board appeared before the Town Council Monday night to petition against Mayor Bob Chatfield’s recommended halving of...
Officials agree: LRMS roof a necessity
PROSPECT — A quarter of an inch. It’s a seemingly negligible measurement, in the scheme of a 59,736 square-foot roofing project, but it is,...
Mayor seeks 5 percent spending increase
PROSPECT — Mayor Bob Chatfield on Tuesday unveiled a proposed $6.9 million 2010-11 budget that would increase spending by 5 percent.
The spending plan is...
Large-scale construction project approved
PROSPECT — Zoning officials have approved a new 30,000-square-foot banquet facility off Route 69.
The Planning and Zoning Commission recently passed a special permit for...
Sunday-morning crash claims Prospect man
NAUGATUCK — Police are investigating a Sunday morning car accident that killed a 77-year-old Prospect man. George Hall, of 8 Highland Drive in Prospect,...
Year in Review: Ten stories that shaped 2009
If it’s true that we learn more about ourselves during tough times than in easy ones, 2009 must have been highly educational for many...
One dead in Prospect structure fire
PROSPECT — State police and the Prospect Volunteer Fire Department reported one death in a Wednesday-morning structure fire at a 62 Summit Road home.
The victim’s identity has not yet been released, and the cause of the blaze is still pending investigation from the Connecticut State Police and Fire Marshal.
Prospect Mayor and Assistant Fire Chief Bob Chatfield said the call came in at 7:11, and firefighters were on the scene at 7:12.
When they arrived, he said, smoke was seeping from windows, doors, and through shingles on the roof; it wasn’t until a window gave and the flame was thus oxygenated that it really erupted.
About fifty Prospect firefighters battled the inferno, many of them new members for whom this was their first major call. All told, Fire Chief Marty Lautenschlager said, it took them about 45 minutes to extinguish the fire, and no one was injured.
