...Wilcox said he had interviewed attorney Christopher Hodgson, with the firm Berchem Moses, who is the town attorney for Stratford and attorney for the police commissions in Guilford, Groton and West Haven. He is also the labor attorney for several towns. According to Wilcox, Hodgson said he could give a...
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GUILFORD — School Superintendent Paul Freeman is requesting a nearly six percent increase for next year’s budget, a rise which he said was driven mainly by a spike in the cost of staff medical benefits. The increase of six percent, or $3.6 million, would bring the district’s total budget to...
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...budget office must draft a proposal for a state child tax credit within six months if that federal credit is not renewed. State Rep. Sean Scanlon, D-Guilford, last year proposed a $600 per-child tax credit for Connecticut families who make less than $200,000 per year. Grossman suggested that the federal...
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...taken. Even for towns that received their expected number of test kits, demand quickly exceeded supply. In Guilford, which received 3,476 kits, First Selectman Matt Hoey said that the 3,000 kits made available to the general public were spoken for within five minutes of opening up online registration. “We opened...
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...an oyster boat in the Thimble Islands; seeing sunrise with a group of goose hunters in a cornstalk blind in North Franklin; watching bald eagles hunt in the McKinney Wildlife Refuge in Guilford, and cruising the Connecticut River during the final hours of the long career of the Captain of...
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...Those students are allowed to attend class, but are still prevented from participating in athletic and extracurricular activities. Guilford Superintendent of Schools Paul Freeman told members of the town’s Board of Education on Monday that Screen and Stay, combined with the rise in COVID cases, was forcing their nurse directors,...
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...well as Durham, Guilford, and Wallingford. “We have a criminal justice system that doesn’t provide any accountability for juveniles when they commit crimes and we’d like to restore some of that. If a child doesn’t have consequences for their actions they wind up in a bad place as an adult.”...
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...Haven, West Hartford, Manchester, Rocky Hill, Fairfield, Guilford, Wethersfield, and Hamden, the latter having the largest per-capita municipal debt in the state. State government is ultimately on the hook for the municipal liabilities, unless it wants to allow municipalities to file for bankruptcy — as state government should have had...
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...a fifth of the district’s total expenditures. In 2019-20, the costs increased to 13.7 million, or about 23 percent of the district expenditures. Over the course of those seven years, the number of special education students in the district increased from 352 to 382. Paul Freeman, superintendent in Guilford, said...
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...is expected to end the calendar year with an operating surplus of $183 million, and will have an estimated balance of $424 million in June 2022. But that funding, according to State Rep. Sean Scanlon, D-Guilford, would not be enough to pay for the state’s infrastructure obligations. “Even with our...
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...idea of combining Madison and Guilford into a single district, saying that he believed this would be a smart idea for two districts experiencing declining enrollment. Cooke said he wasn’t aware of any discussions to combine with any of the neighboring districts. He said that he didn’t believe combining districts...
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...and not moving much. What about on the local level here in Connecticut? It was much more of a mixed result in Connecticut, with the Guilford Board of Education race getting turnout way up and Democrats winning. In other towns where there weren’t as many big policy discussions going on,...
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...of several undercurrents at play in Guilford. What has actually happened in this community? This spring the Guilford Board of Education announced its commitment to a Social Justice and Equity Initiative in the Guilford Public Schools .There was almost immediate praise for the board’s position by a large segment of...
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Reflecting on the results of Tuesday’s municipal elections, political leaders, operatives and observers around Connecticut reported better-than-expected results for Republicans, with bright spots for Democrats in the high-profile Guilford Board of Education race and other pockets of the state. Republican Minority Leader Vincent Candelora, whose district includes North Branford and...
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To the Editor: Re (“From 5% in Hartford to 61% in Guilford — Voter Turnout By the Numbers,” Nov. 4) It’s concerning for sure, that turnout in New London was barely higher than it was for the August referendum on the police staffing mandate. Interestingly, results from this year’s local...
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...it was 30.01 percent. Of course, the more interesting story is the turnout of individual towns, where voters flock to the polls to have their say on contentious local issues, but rarely turn out in numbers for votes on obscure boards and commissions. In Guilford, one of the most high...
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...3,092 votes. [Note these figures have updated] Jennifer Baldwin, Moira Rader, Arnold Skretta Guilford’s new Board of Education OLD LYME — Reviewing ballots after polls close. GUILFORD — As the dust settles at the Guilford polling sites, the magnitude of the voter turnout in the town is becoming apparent. At...
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Guilford Selectman Sandra Ruoff, a Democrat, is running for re-election on the ballot alongside Democratic incumbent Louis Federici, incumbent Republicans Susan Renner and Charles Havrda, and Green Party candidate Justin Paglino. CT Examiner spoke with Ruoff about her bid for reelection, thoughts on Guilford’s Board of Education race, and goals...
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Guilford Selectman Charles Havrda is running for re-election on the ballot alongside fellow Republican incumbent Susan Renner, incumbent Democrats Louis Federici and Sandra Ruoff, and Green Party candidate Justin Paglino. CT Examiner spoke with Havrda about his bid for reelection, thoughts on Guilford’s Board of Education race, and goals for...
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Guilford Selectman Louis Federici is running for a second term on the ballot alongside fellow Democratic incumbent Sandra Ruoff, incumbent Republicans Susan Renner and Charles Havrda, and Green Party candidate Justin Paglino. CT Examiner spoke with Federici, who is also an attorney, about his bid for reelection. This interview has...
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...about his run, and policy priorities if elected. This interview has been edited for clarity. How did you decide to run for local office in Guilford? My focus in politics often gets drawn to national affairs, but this year, Guilford has been particularly interesting because of our Board of Education...
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GUILFORD — A plan to build a two-building apartment complex with 100 units in Guilford has been filed under the state’s affordable housing statute, 8-30g. Connecticut Affordable Housing Initiative, a company registered to James McMahon, plans to build the apartments on Hubbard Road, near Interstate 95 in Guilford. The project...
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...to COVID-19, according to superintendent Brian White. The district is not alone with high numbers of quarantined students. Lyme-Old Lyme has had 41 students sent home to quarantine since classes began, Guilford has reported a total of 110 student quarantines and according to the State Department of Education it’s a...
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...Guilford, among others. The campaigns had contracted with Blue Edge Strategies, a Manchester-based firm that consults for Democratic campaigns. Yesterday, two Guilford residents, Deborah DeMusis and George Mack, held a press conference to announce that they were filing a complaint with the State Elections Enforcement Commission regarding the mailing of...
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To the Editor: My name is Abby Moore and I am a senior at Guilford High School. As many of you may know, a group calling themselves, “Truth in Education,” (TIE), has been working to overtake many of the seats on the Guilford Public Schools Board of Education. And while...
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GUILFORD — A “fusion slate” of Democratic and Independent candidates for the Guilford Board of Education spoke to CT Examiner about their views on the district’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiative, the importance of maintaining top-rated public schools and how the board can improve education with the larger community. In...
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...from Guilford. I’m from Manhattan. So out here made sense, but, when we came here, you know, especially during the pandemic, the customer base changed right under our feet … we noticed that the tourists are 90% of our business for a good portion of the year, which changed the...
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GUILFORD – Shellfisherman Kim Granbery chose winding Hoadley Creek to grow seed oysters because of what he calls its exceptional mix of near-pristine salt and fresh water, flowing over a bed of fertile silt deposited for millennia among the Thimble Islands. “The oysters like brackish water as opposed to higher...
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...a medical or religious exemption. School employees are allowed to opt-out of the vaccination, but must undergo weekly testing for the virus. All the employees listed under the order were required to receive the first dose of a vaccine by September 27, Of the districts stretching from Waterford to Guilford...
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Right-wing extremists now control the Republican Party in Guilford. Gone is a party that believes in community service. In its place are angry people intent on taking down a quality institution, the Guilford Public Schools. Connecticut Statutes enabling the creation of Boards of Education state: “Each local or regional board...
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