November 20, 2009
Valley Local News
Toy drive opens season of giving
Written by Susan Hunter
Friday, 20 November 2009 09:34
DERBY — The Valley Toys for Tots toy store campaign coordinated by Team Inc. has a new location this year, but its goal is the same.
The toy distribution and related toy collection events aim to make the holiday season brighter for more than 1,500 Valley children who may not otherwise find new toys under their Christmas tree.
“You people bring a smile to children’s faces,” Diane Stroman, Team Inc.’s vice president of development, told the business leaders and service providers gathered at the Toys for Tots kick-off breakfast at John J. Sullivan’s on Nov. 12.Moon walker visits Seymour
Written by Susan Hunter
Friday, 20 November 2009 09:27
SEYMOUR — It’s not every day that an astronaut comes to town. But it happened on Saturday when Apollo 12 Astronaut Alan Bean visited the Greenwich Workshop Gallery on Main Street in Seymour to sign copies of his book “Alan Bean: Painting Apollo, First Artist on Another World.”
Bean is an artist, and reproductions of his oil paintings were exhibited at the Gallery to mark the 40th anniversary of his Apollo 12 mission, which launched on Nov. 14, 1969.
Bean also visited the Seymour gallery in 2003, said Michael Meskill, co-owner of Greenwich Workshop Publishing.Truck school may be a sure thing
Written by Susan Hunter
Thursday, 19 November 2009 13:20
SEYMOUR — The Planning and Zoning Commission that twice rejected putting a trailer truck driving school in the center of Seymour has approved a temporary special permit for Allstate Commercial Driver Training School to operate the school at 249 Pearl St.
The commission voted its approval on Nov. 12, following years of legal wrangling that culminated in a recent state Supreme Court order.
Had commissioners not granted the permit, they would have been in contempt of court, said Attorney Ian Cole, who works for Attorney Dominick Thomas, Allstate’s lawyer.Old Leather Man takes on new life
Written by Susan Hunter
Thursday, 19 November 2009 13:11
SEYMOUR — Seymour residents learned a lot more Sunday about The Old Leather Man, a mysterious wanderer who trekked through Western Connecticut on a monthly circuit more than a century ago.
He may have walked through Valley towns, said Dan DeLuca, a Meriden resident who has been researching the Old Leather Man for the past 21 years and is the author of “The Old Leather Man: Historical Accounts of a Connecticut and New York Legend.”
DeLuca’s research started after a Meriden historian and collector asked him what he knew about the Old Leather Man.Garden hose case may head to trial
Written by Susan Hunter
Thursday, 19 November 2009 12:48
The case of Mustafa Salahuddin, the Ansonia police officer charged with stealing a $20 garden hose from the police department, will probably go to trial in January, according to Rob Serafinowicz, Salahuddin’s lawyer.
“That’s the way I perceive it,” Serafinowicz said following a Nov. 16 court proceeding in Derby Superior Court. Judge Burton Kaplan continued the case until Jan. 12.
That would give Serafinowicz time to review a second internal affairs investigation conducted by the Connecticut State Police that focuses on misconduct and contains numerous interviews.More Articles...
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