Connecticut Postings

The leadership of the Trumbull Pisces swim team is currently discussing what direction it will take the organization.

Meeting minutes from a Pisces board meeting in August, 2011, suggest that board members have discussed making it a private team. The minutes were kept by Donna Smith, who was later ousted from the board for insubordination. The minutes were submitted to the Parks and Recreation Department by Smith. They are not the official, authorized version of the minutes, board member and former Pisces president Tom Collins said. The team has not submitted an authorized version to Parks & Rec yet.

Smith’s minutes say (emphases are Smith’s):

“- Trying to form a PRIVATE TEAM

- Tom stated that making the Trumbull Pisces a PRIVATE TEAM is Coach Mike’s and Coach Shane’s ideas.

- Tom was going to first meet with Mary Markham of the Trumbull Recreation Dept and Tim Herbst – First Selectmna to propose using the Hillcrest pool and paying the town if we can take on OUTSIDE SWIMMERS.

- Tom stated the town could increase from 100 to 200 or more swimmers

- Nothing has changed now.

- Coaches want to have a PRIVATE TEAM

- Tom wants to help facilitate the coach’s goals”

Kickoff Rally @ 2 p.m.

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Nichols United Methodist Church

35 Shelt0n Road, Trumbull

CROP Hunger Walk No. 38

Sunday, May 6, 2012

1:30 p.m. to 5

United Congregational Church (corner of State Street and Park Ave., Bridgeport)

- Supporting ’10 Local Food Programs

- In the past 37 years over $1.6 M has been raised for hunger programs

For more information, call 203-375-1284

BRIDGEPORT-A severely decomposed male body was found in an abandoned home at the corner of Brooks and Arctic Street late Friday night.

Police believe the man had been dead for quite some time.

They are investigating the discovery as a suspicious death. They have not yet identified the individual.

The area where the body was found has long been a site of drug dealing.

STRATFORD-Fire raced through a living room in a single-family home on Huntington Road early Saturday evening.

Firefighters battled freeze cold and a stubborn fire before bringing in under control in the home located at 528 Huntington Road.  Assistant Fire Chief Thomas Murray said firefighters were on the scene for nearly two hours.

The cause of the blaze is still under investigation.

A building official was on the scene last night.

No one was injured in the blaze.

The preliminary round of the Greater Bridgeport Symphony’s Carlson-Horn Competition for young instrumentalists has been rescheduled for Sunday, Jan. 22, at the University of Bridgeport.

The finals, open to the public, of the Carlson-Horn Competition has been postponed to March 4 at the Steinway Recital Hall in Westport.

Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch has declared a snow emergency that will be in effect citywide beginning 10 p.m., Friday through Sunday at 10 p.m.

During the snow emergency all city residents should heed alternate side of the street parking rules. Residents should move their cars to the odd-numbered side of the street on odd-numbered days, and on the even-numbered side of the street on even days.

For example, by 12:30 a.m., on Sat. January 21, cars should be parked on the odd-numbered side of the street. By 12:30 a.m., Sunday, Jan. 22, residents should park their cars to the even-numbered side of the street.

Parking is not permitted on any designated snow emergency street. For safety purposes, residents and business owners are asked to comply with the ban so that snowplows can efficiently clear the streets.

Due to the storm, the City’s Transfer Station will be closed on Saturday, Jan. 21 and will reopen for regular business hours on Monday, Jan. 23.

Mayor Bill Finch urges city residents to heed all emergency warnings and to drive safely during the storm, which is expected to drop from 3 to 5 inches of snow in the area.

“I urge everyone to stay off the streets as much as possible to allow our plow crews to do their work, and to follow our alternate side of the street parking rules,” Mayor Finch said. Storm updates will be posted on the City of Bridgeport Twitter account and Facebook page, as well as local newspaper and television stations.

The Department of Public Works is responsible for clearing snow and ice on more than 276 miles of City-maintained roads in Bridgeport. City crews pre-treat, salt and plow roads in the following order of priority:

Major arterial streets, bus routes, bus stops, and roads that provide access to fire stations and hospitals

Collector streets and routes leading to schools

Once major arterial and collector streets have stabilized, then crews will clear local streets.

The Department of Public Works reminds all residents and business owners to shovel the sidewalk and walkways, including curb cuts, for pedestrian safety. Please do not shovel snow back into the street from your driveway or sidewalk. Anyone found throwing snow back into the street will be subject to a fine.

Important safety numbers to remember:

Call 911 for immediate life-threatening emergencies. Call 203.576.7751 or 203.576.7124 for snow removal concerns.

The next Trumbull Taxpayers’ Association event is scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 24, 7 p.m. Chief of police Tom Kiely will give a special presentation at Police Headquarters on Edison Road.

We have published a photograph of a homicide victim lying — uncovered — on a Bridgeport street this morning. We have done so only after considerable thought and discussion.

This photograph was taken by a teenage girl who goes to the same school attended by Justin Thompson, the 14-year-old shot and killed Jan. 8.

For some reason, police left the body on the Bond Street sidewalk, uncovered, for several hours after it was reported around 4 a.m. The photographer and many other children were forced to walk past it on the way to school.

While publishing this photo may make some people uncomfortable, it is an undeniably powerful representation of the spate of tragedy the city is enduring. Ultimately, what’s unacceptably uncomfortable is schoolchildren having to walk past homicide victims.

- David McCumber, editorial director, Hearst Connecticut Media Group