GUILFORD – Wary that asking for more sidewalks could leave the town fighting an appeal, the Guilford Planning and Zoning Commission is asking the developer of a proposed 100-unit affordable housing complex to compromise and construct limited sidewalks from the two apartment buildings to the road. Amy Blume, the attorney...
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...Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, said he doesn’t know that’s the case. “We have no pharmaceutical harvest that we are aware of,” Gates said. “Anything is possible, but that industry is pretty well regulated.” State Sen. Christine Cohen of Guilford, who helped shepherd the crab bill through the legislature,...
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GUILFORD — Superintendent Paul Freeman said Monday that the district plans to add two new staff positions to the district’s special education department and include questions in the district’s annual climate survey directly related to special education services. The changes were in response to ten anonymous letters of complaint against...
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...needed to determine the winner. Dropping out of the balloting after a second round of voting was Rep. Hilda Santiago, of Meriden; Maritza Bond, of New Haven, and Rep. Josh Elliott, of Hamden. Receiving the Democrats uncontested nomination for State Comptroller was State Rep. Sean Scanlon, D-Guilford, who is co-chair...
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GUILFORD — A change in state law could allow Guilford schools to begin an Open Choice program with New Haven Public Schools as soon as September 2023. The Open Choice program allows students from urban school districts such as New Haven, Bridgeport and Hartford to send a number of students...
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...process called “dual teaching,” or sometimes known as a “hybrid model.” The bill will also allow Guilford to establish an Open Choice program with New Haven – bringing urban children to the suburban schools – and require the teaching of Asian American and Pacific Islander studies in K-12 schools beginning...
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...tonight is truly historic. It’s historic in the fact that it cuts taxes more than we have been able to … in the last decade,” said State Rep. Sean Scanlon, D-Guilford, chair of the Finance committee. But State Rep. Holly Cheeseman, R-East Lyme, said that while the tax credits were...
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...State Sen. Rob Sampson, R-Wolcott, the lone vote against. State Rep. Sean Scanlon, D-Guilford, co-chair of the Finance, Revenue, and Bonding committee, said Stratford-based Sikorsky is trying to win two contracts to build “future vertical lift” helicopters for the Army. If Sikorsky is awarded both contracts, the state will grant...
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...cause a significant reduction in the ability for these vehicles to travel long distances and adopting these standards would serve to reduce the availability of these services for long-distance travel, pushing consumers back into personal vehicles and drastically increasing overall energy consumption,” DeVivo wrote. State Sen. Christine Cohen, D-Guilford, said...
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...and fewer than the roughly 419 units needed to meet the 10 percent threshold under 8-30g. For Fairfield, the formula currently calculates a “fair share” of 2,015 new affordable apartments – compared to the roughly 1,557 new affordable units needed to meet a 10-percent cap in the town. In Guilford,...
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...maximum monthly housing cost would be $1,046, according to the plan. Blume said it isn’t “financially feasible” to make more of the units “affordable” than the 30 percent required by the 8-30g. Developer says it is meeting need in Guilford Guilford has a total of 228 “assisted” housing units, and...
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...questioned how else to fund the measure. State Rep. Sean Scanlon, D-Guilford, emphasized that the proposal would not require a tax increase or additional spending, but would use funds that already exist. “Person after person in this meeting has said they want to solve this problem. If not now, when,...
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To the Editor: The Town of Guilford narrowly avoided a disaster of its own making in the November 2021 election. We had some of our votes taken away 15 years ago by a Charter Revision, leaving us vulnerable to the Democrats’ and Republicans’ Town Committees to choose our Board of...
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...$59 for a monthly pass, while CT Transit charges $1.75 for a single ride and $3.50 for an all-day pass. State Rep. Sean Scanlon, D-Guilford, co-chair of the Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee, said there were 2.1 million rides across Connecticut’s bus system last month, and said bus ridership never...
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...one boat,” Skrybailo wrote. “It was not a large boat, maybe 35 feet, and was headed out for a day trip. This is not only heartbreaking, but infuriating – a true waste of a valuable resource.” Ben Conlon of Guilford reported a similar incident from last summer. “I went to...
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The latest in a wave of drive-thru restaurants gaining approval along the shoreline is a Dunkin Donuts on an undeveloped stretch of Boston Post Road in Guilford, approved by the town’s Planning and Zoning Commission on Wednesday. Frank D’Andrea, who is vice-chair of the commission and recused himself from this...
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...if the pediatrician could simply “walk them down the hall” to see the social worker. Wanczyk-Karp said he spoke with State Rep. Sean Scanlon, D-Guilford, the chair of the state finance committee, about a proposal in which the state would pay pediatric offices 50 percent of the cost of hiring...
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GUILFORD — In recent interviews for the district’s diversity and equity initiative, Guilford teachers asked for a clear indication from the administration that they will be supported when they engage with controversial topics in the classroom. Minority students interviewed for the initiative voiced concerns that teacher hesitation at times leaves...
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GUILFORD – One of the greatest challenges State Rep. Sean Scanlon sees in his exploratory run for State Comptroller is simply making people aware of what the job entails. “A lot of people don’t know what the office does, but what the office does is relevant to a lot of...
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...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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