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DERBY — Superintendent Stephen Tracy will be leaving his post here to become the new superintendent for Unified School District #2, the Department of Children and Families announced Tuesday.
The Unified School District #2 oversees the education programs offered at DCF facilities and the educational process of children in the department’s care and custody, according to a DCF press release.
Tracy will be taking over his new role effective July 2.
Whenever a town’s board or commission meets, they have to keep some sort of record of it. It’s so that anyone who wants to know what happened at that meeting can look it up.
Some towns take this charge very seriously. They broadcast the meetings live, have transcripts of the meetings available online, and keep digital recordings.
And then some towns are like Easton. If you want a written copy of the minutes, you might get them through the calendar on the town’s website. If you want an audio recording of the meeting, so you know exactly what was said, you have to request it from the first selectman’s office. And you may not get an immediate response. (I sent a request via email. They sent me a response via postal mail.)
The audio recordings can only be provided to you on audio tapes. So if you don’t have a tape player, you’re out of luck.
I would just like to point out:
This Sony digital recorder costs $63 at Best Buy. You can record up to 536 hours of audio on it. It’s compatible with a Mac or a PC. You just plug it into a computer to upload the files. Files that you can email, burn on to a CD, or post on to the internet. It’s quite an amazing little invention.
Police have released a security camera photo of the suspects in the robbery of the Subway at 1700 Barnum Avenue on Friday.
At 7:50 p.m. two black men aged 18-23 years old entered the restaurant. One wearing a grey hooded sweatshirt brandished a firearm and the other with a black North Face jacket demanded money. Both men fled on foot and with an undetermined amount of cash.
Anyone with information can call the Detective Bureau at 203-581-5201 or Det. James Borrico 203-581-5294. All information receive will be kept confidential.
Remember our Get There project? If you don’t, that’s the one where a group of us reporters gave up our cars for a week to see how navigable Fairfield County is via public transportation. Conclusion: not very! And we heard from a lot of readers who felt the same thing.
And I know, faithful reader, you were sitting there thinking, “man, I wish I could talk to some transportation policy makers about how to improve public transportation.”
Well, wish granted. The Tri-State Transportation Campaign, in partnership with the City of Bridgeport and the Fairfield County Community Foundation, invite you to attend Sustainable Streets: Promoting Safety, Promoting Growth, on April 11. Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch and ConnDOT Commissioner James Redeker will be featured speakers.
Jon Orcutt, Policy Director for New York City Department of Transportation, will be the keynote speaker. As Policy Director at NYCDOT, he helped implement pedestrian plazas in Times Square and elsewhere, built protected bike lanes throughout New York City and laid the groundwork for the upcoming launch of the United State’s largest ‘Bike Share’ program.
The forum is at Housatonic Community College’s Beacon Hall. Registration starts at 8:30 a.m. and the event wraps up at noon. Email rlynch@tstc.org to register.
| HARTFORD – A bill that would increase the penalties for the intentional desecration of war or veterans’ memorials was passed unanimously today by the Judiciary Committee.The bill was proposed after war memorial plaques, some weighing as much as 100 pounds and costing thousands of dollars each, were stolen in Derby and Ansonia.
Called “An Act Concerning Desecration of War or Veterans’ Memorials,” the bill was proposed by a number of legislators including state Reps. Leonard C. Green, Themis Klarides, Linda Gentile, Jason Perillo, Al Adinolfi, Frank Nicastro, Bruce Zalaski, and Christopher Davis.
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TRUMBULL – - First Selectman Tim Herbst announced Monday the appointment of Edward Lavernoich as the town’s new Director of Economic and Community Development. Lavernoich succeeds Deborah Cox as the Town’s director. Lavernoich is currently Deputy Director in the Office of Planning and Economic Development for the City of Bridgeport. During his time in Bridgeport, Lavernoich has served six mayoral administrations and has been promoted five times. Lavernoich is also currently the Executive Director of the Bridgeport Redevelopment Agency, and has served on numerous boards and commissions related to economic development.
“When I interviewed Mr. Lavernoich for this position, three words immediately came to mind in assessing his candidacy – - honest, experienced and hard working,” Herbst said. “Ed has been able to navigate through a whole host of challenges and deliver on the Bijou Square Redvelopment, the Arcade Redevelopment, the West End Industrial Park, as well as high quality residential redevelopment that has occurred throughout downtown over the last few years.”
James Blake, the number 4 ranked tennis player in the world in 2006 and 2007, is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at a fund-raising event for The Child & Family Guidance Center of Greater Bridgeport later this month at the Brooklawn Country Club in Fairfield. Blake, a Yonkers N.Y. native, has homes in Florida and Fairfield and is a graduate of Fairfield High School. His current ranking is no. 74. The Child and Family Guidance Center was founded in 1925 to address the emotional and psychological wellbeing of children and their families. To this end the Center offers a wide range of outpatient mental health and substance abuse counseling services for children under the age of 18 as well as a variety of in-home supportive services to their families. The Center operates three outpatient clinics located in Bridgeport, Stratford, and Fairfield. Services are available in both English and Spanish.
For information on the event, which is scheduled for April 21, call 203-394-6529, ext. 3069, or visit www.cfguidance.org.
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