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Town To Hire Consultant for Country Club

|Date: August 25, 2022

Town To Hire Consultant for Country Club

Couples may hire a counsellor to help them navigate difficult situations in their lives, and the town is ...

Couples may hire a counsellor to help them navigate difficult situations in their lives, and the town is attempting a similar route in its effort to determine the best way forward for the former Count ...

August 25, 2022
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Amity Schools Relax Pandemic Rules

|Date: August 25, 2022

Amity Schools Relax Pandemic Rules

Students Expected to Mask When Symptomatic When students return to school next week, pandemic mitigation ...

Students Expected to Mask When Symptomatic When students return to school next week, pandemic mitigation practices will no longer be required for healthy individuals. Following the State Department o ...

August 25, 2022
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Amity: What to do with the surplus?

|Date: August 25, 2022

Amity: What to do with the surplus?

When residents voted down the Amity School District budget twice this spring, the fact that the District ...

When residents voted down the Amity School District budget twice this spring, the fact that the District has been carrying vast surpluses seemed to rub many people the wrong way, even if long-standing ...

August 25, 2022
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Town Celebrates Its ‘Most Valuable Asset’

|Date: June 23, 2022

Town Celebrates Its ‘Most Valuable Asset’

Picking up a beloved tradition after a Covid hiatus, the town celebrated its most dedicated volunteers wi ...

Picking up a beloved tradition after a Covid hiatus, the town celebrated its most dedicated volunteers with an outdoor ceremony on June 1 on the lawn in front of the Center Building. Calling volunteer ...

June 23, 2022
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Beecher Graduates Get Their Diplomas

|Date: June 23, 2022

Beecher Graduates Get Their Diplomas

Some 127 Beecher Road School sixth graders crossed the stage to receive their diploma on Friday, June 17. ...

Some 127 Beecher Road School sixth graders crossed the stage to receive their diploma on Friday, June 17. The ceremony took place outside, on the lawn in the back of the school. First Selectman Beth ...

June 23, 2022
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Town Submits Affordable Housing Plan

|Date: June 23, 2022

Town Submits Affordable Housing Plan

The Board of Selectmen, at a May 25 meeting, adopted a plan for housing opportunity submitted by the ad h ...

The Board of Selectmen, at a May 25 meeting, adopted a plan for housing opportunity submitted by the ad hoc Housing Opportunity Study Committee, and subsequently submitted that plan to the state, as r ...

June 23, 2022
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Third Time’s The Charm: Amity Budget Passes

|Date: June 23, 2022

Third Time’s The Charm: Amity Budget Passes

The Amity Board of Education in a last-ditch effort managed to convince enough voters — at least in Woodb ...

The Amity Board of Education in a last-ditch effort managed to convince enough voters — at least in Woodbridge and Bethany — to pass its 2022-23 budget in a third referendum on June 14. In Orange, th ...

June 23, 2022
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Amity Hires Assistant Superintendent

|Date: May 26, 2022

Amity Hires Assistant Superintendent

The Amity Regional School District will have a new leadership profile with the hiring of an assistant sup ...

The Amity Regional School District will have a new leadership profile with the hiring of an assistant superintendent. The Board of Education voted unanimously on May 9 to hire Frank A. Purcaro to fil ...

May 26, 2022
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Senior Center Plans Moving Forward

|Date: May 26, 2022

Senior Center Plans Moving Forward

The town’s Human Services Department has been advocating for a renovation of the Senior Center for years, ...

The town’s Human Services Department has been advocating for a renovation of the Senior Center for years, and this year it seems that the project is finally coming to fruition, thanks in part to two s ...

May 26, 2022
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Finance Board Sets Mill Rate for Fiscal Year ‘23

|Date: May 26, 2022

Finance Board Sets Mill Rate for Fiscal Year ‘23

The Woodbridge Board of Finance at its May 19 meeting set a mill rate of 43.77 for real estate and person ...

The Woodbridge Board of Finance at its May 19 meeting set a mill rate of 43.77 for real estate and personal property for the Fiscal Year starting on July 1, to pay for an expenditure package of $53,82 ...

May 26, 2022
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Amity Principal Moves On, Search Is Underway

|Date: May 26, 2022

Amity Principal Moves On, Search Is Underway

Amity Regional High School Principal Anna Mahon announced last week that she accepted the position of Ass ...

Amity Regional High School Principal Anna Mahon announced last week that she accepted the position of Assistant Superintendent in Brookfield, a K-12 district. Her last day at Amity is July 31. “Amit ...

May 26, 2022
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Annual Meeting to Be Held at High School

|Date: May 05, 2022

Annual Meeting to Be Held at High School

The town’s Annual Meeting will be held on Monday, May 16, at 7:30 p.m. in the Brady Auditorium at Amity R ...

The town’s Annual Meeting will be held on Monday, May 16, at 7:30 p.m. in the Brady Auditorium at Amity Regional High School. The town’s registrars of voters, Anna Dickerson and Pennel Hamilton, will ...

May 05, 2022
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Electric Vehicles Attract Attention at Earth Day Event

|Date: May 05, 2022

Electric Vehicles Attract Attention at Earth Day Event

A mini cruise of electric cars attracted attention at the town’s Earth Day event on April 23. Org ...

A mini cruise of electric cars attracted attention at the town’s Earth Day event on April 23. Organized by Woodbridge resident and Tesla owner Kent Golden, several owners of electric vehicles ...

May 05, 2022
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Racial Slur Allegations Lead to Student Protest at Amity

|Date: May 05, 2022

Racial Slur Allegations Lead to Student Protest at Amity

In Addition to Disciplinary Actions, Administration Adopts Restorative Practices A group of some 100 Amit ...

In Addition to Disciplinary Actions, Administration Adopts Restorative Practices A group of some 100 Amity students participated in a sit-in in the main hallway at the high school on April 6, to draw ...

May 05, 2022
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Amity High School Students Stage Mock Fatal Car Crash

|Date: May 05, 2022

Amity High School Students Stage Mock Fatal Car Crash

Amity High School’s SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions) club staged a mock fatal car crash with ...

Amity High School’s SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions) club staged a mock fatal car crash with students acting out the parts of victims of a drunk driving crash. It was a powerful visual r ...

May 05, 2022
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Amity Athletics Celebrates Its Alumni

|Date: May 05, 2022

Amity Athletics Celebrates Its Alumni

Life’s ups and downs, its challenges but also its lighthearted moments were front and center as a new gro ...

Life’s ups and downs, its challenges but also its lighthearted moments were front and center as a new group of successful Amity alumni were inducted into the Amity Athletic Hall of Fame and the Hall o ...

May 05, 2022
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Housing Plan Is Taking Shape

|Date: April 14, 2022

Housing Plan Is Taking Shape

Some 25 interested residents were in attendance at an informational meeting on housing in town, a meeting ...

Some 25 interested residents were in attendance at an informational meeting on housing in town, a meeting conducted on Wednesday, March 30, by the Woodbridge Housing Opportunity Study Committee. It t ...

April 14, 2022
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WPD Donates to Ukraine

|Date: April 14, 2022

WPD Donates to Ukraine

Several weeks ago, Officer Joseph Kubik of the Woodbridge Police Department reached out to his Ukrainian ...

Several weeks ago, Officer Joseph Kubik of the Woodbridge Police Department reached out to his Ukrainian friend, Yuriy Faryna, a Woodbridge resident, regarding the possibility of helping the people of ...

April 14, 2022
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Town Hosts Earth Day

|Date: April 14, 2022

Town Hosts Earth Day

Clean out your closets this Earth Day – residents are invited to bring many recyclable and reusable items ...

Clean out your closets this Earth Day – residents are invited to bring many recyclable and reusable items to the Library Lawn on Saturday April 23 from 10 am -1 pm. There is no rain date. This event ...

April 14, 2022
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Vote May 3 – Amity Budget Referendum

|Date: April 14, 2022

Vote May 3 – Amity Budget Referendum

Facts to Consider regarding the Amity Budget Request Student Enrollment and Staffing: Student enrollment ...

Facts to Consider regarding the Amity Budget Request Student Enrollment and Staffing: Student enrollment at Amity has in fact dropped by 425 students since 2009 - 2010. Despite this fact staff has inc ...

April 14, 2022
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