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Two New Country Club Proposals Do Not Include Golf

|Date: December 14, 2018

Two New Country Club Proposals Do Not Include Golf

The Woodbridge Board of Selectmen has set a date of Monday, December 17, for a public information session ...

The Woodbridge Board of Selectmen has set a date of Monday, December 17, for a public information session regarding two new proposals for the use of the Country Club of Woodbridge. The two proposals ...

December 14, 2018
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Town Faces Multiple Capital Projects

|Date: December 14, 2018

Town Faces Multiple Capital Projects

The town’s departments submitted their capital requests for the 2019-2020 fiscal year, and even if the ma ...

The town’s departments submitted their capital requests for the 2019-2020 fiscal year, and even if the majority of these requests is unlikely to make it through the budget vetting process, there are s ...

December 14, 2018
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Selectmen Unanimously Vote to Close the Pool at the Country Club

|Date: December 14, 2018

Selectmen Unanimously Vote to Close the Pool at the Country Club

Faced with declining summer pool membership on the one hand and the need for substantial investment to re ...

Faced with declining summer pool membership on the one hand and the need for substantial investment to repair the pool itself, the Board of Selectmen at its November meeting decided unanimously to clo ...

December 14, 2018
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“Stuff a Cruiser”

|Date: December 14, 2018

“Stuff a Cruiser”

On Saturday December 1, 2018, members of the Woodbridge Police Department, in conjunction with Starbucks ...

On Saturday December 1, 2018, members of the Woodbridge Police Department, in conjunction with Starbucks and Katz’s Deli, conducted a holiday toy drive to collect donations for the Connecticut Childre ...

December 14, 2018
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Amity Regional High School Art Students Give Back

|Date: December 13, 2018

Amity Regional High School Art Students Give Back

On December 13th, Amity Regional High School’s National Art Honor Society hosted the annual Empty Bowls e ...

On December 13th, Amity Regional High School’s National Art Honor Society hosted the annual Empty Bowls event. This grass roots event invites our community to help those who are less fortunate in our ...

December 13, 2018
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Senator Logan Favored to Win Second Term in Recount

|Date: November 16, 2018

Senator Logan Favored to Win Second Term in Recount

The November 6 mid-term election stirred up emotions nationwide, but even this corner of Connecticut saw ...

The November 6 mid-term election stirred up emotions nationwide, but even this corner of Connecticut saw its share of election drama, with the results in the 17th state senatorial district requiring a ...

November 16, 2018
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Mrs. Connecticut Is Cheerleader-In-Chief For Her Home State

|Date: November 16, 2018

Mrs. Connecticut Is Cheerleader-In-Chief For Her Home State

Many members of the Beecher Road School community know Teresa Nakouzi as a talented teacher and the schoo ...

Many members of the Beecher Road School community know Teresa Nakouzi as a talented teacher and the school’s language arts specialist. But lately she has been seen at public events in the area, weari ...

November 16, 2018
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Zoners Get Pushback from Residents on Proposed Revision

|Date: November 16, 2018

Zoners Get Pushback from Residents on Proposed Revision

The Woodbridge Town Plan and Zoning Commission has agreed to scrap any reference to a T4 zone in the prop ...

The Woodbridge Town Plan and Zoning Commission has agreed to scrap any reference to a T4 zone in the proposed regulation revision after it got increasingly hostile push-back, mainly from residents of ...

November 16, 2018
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In Woodbridge – Democrats Carry Election Day

|Date: November 16, 2018

In Woodbridge – Democrats Carry Election Day

Pouring rain notwithstanding, voter turnout at the mid-term elections was unusually high. About 75.6% of ...

Pouring rain notwithstanding, voter turnout at the mid-term elections was unusually high. About 75.6% of eligible voters came out to cast their ballot, either at the polls or ahead of time by absentee ...

November 16, 2018
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As Nights Grow Longer United Illuminating Helps Communities Light the Streets for Less

|Date: November 16, 2018

As Nights Grow Longer United Illuminating Helps Communities Light the Streets for Less

With the long nights of winter looming, United Illuminating, a subsidiary of AVANGRID, Inc. (NYSE: AGR), ...

With the long nights of winter looming, United Illuminating, a subsidiary of AVANGRID, Inc. (NYSE: AGR), is helping communities save energy and money by installing efficient LED street lighting across ...

November 16, 2018
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Registrar Expects Lively Turnout For Mid-Terms

|Date: November 05, 2018

Registrar Expects Lively Turnout For Mid-Terms

Voter registration has been swift in Woodbridge in the weeks leading up to the 2018 mid-term election. “ ...

Voter registration has been swift in Woodbridge in the weeks leading up to the 2018 mid-term election. “We’ve been getting a lot of registrations,” said Registrar of Voters Anna Dickerson, adding, “w ...

November 05, 2018
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Sustainability Means Going The Extra Mile

|Date: November 05, 2018

Sustainability Means Going The Extra Mile

Eva Glassman, seated, a recent Amity graduate, helped the town complete the application for sustainabilit ...

Eva Glassman, seated, a recent Amity graduate, helped the town complete the application for sustainability certification. First Selectman Beth Heller was grateful for her volunteer work. “You have in ...

November 05, 2018
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Woodbridge Veteran’s Day Ceremony To Be Held Monday November 12th

|Date: November 05, 2018

Woodbridge Veteran’s Day Ceremony To Be Held Monday November 12th

The Town’s annual Veterans Day Ceremony will be held at 11:00 am on Monday, November 12th 2018. The cere ...

The Town’s annual Veterans Day Ceremony will be held at 11:00 am on Monday, November 12th 2018. The ceremony will take place inside The Center Gym (4 Meetinghouse Lane). The public is invited and en ...

November 05, 2018
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Meet Officer Matthew Lima

|Date: November 05, 2018

Meet Officer Matthew Lima

The Woodbridge Police Department recently welcomed a new patrol officer. Officer Matthew Lima was sworn- ...

The Woodbridge Police Department recently welcomed a new patrol officer. Officer Matthew Lima was sworn-in during the October 9, 2018 meeting of the Woodbridge Board of Police Commissioners. Officer ...

November 05, 2018
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Elm City Trailer Moves To New Woodbridge Home

|Date: November 05, 2018

Elm City Trailer Moves To New Woodbridge Home

Elm City Trailer, one of the state’s largest trailer companies, has moved to Woodbridge at 240 Amity Road ...

Elm City Trailer, one of the state’s largest trailer companies, has moved to Woodbridge at 240 Amity Road. Well known area resident, Bobby Fantarella, President of the five year old firm needed more r ...

November 05, 2018
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Troop 907 Takes A Look Back And Celebrates The Present

|Date: November 05, 2018

Troop 907 Takes A Look Back And Celebrates The Present

Boy Scout Troop 907, which meets each Thursday night at the First Church of Christ, this year marked its ...

Boy Scout Troop 907, which meets each Thursday night at the First Church of Christ, this year marked its 50th anniversary. The Scouts celebrated in style at a church luncheon on Oct. 28, with local an ...

November 05, 2018
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Arden’s Garden To Enhance Town Green

|Date: October 04, 2018

Arden’s Garden To Enhance Town Green

The town was good to the Clark Family and now its descendants want to give back to the town. Just a few ...

The town was good to the Clark Family and now its descendants want to give back to the town. Just a few months after Arden Clark Gordon’s passing in December 2017, her daughter, Robin Gordon Schaffer ...

October 04, 2018
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Beecher Community Commemorates One Of Its Own

|Date: October 04, 2018

Beecher Community Commemorates One Of Its Own

The Woodbridge Board of Education last month kept a moment of silence in honor of a recent graduate, who ...

The Woodbridge Board of Education last month kept a moment of silence in honor of a recent graduate, who had passed away just a few days prior. Logan Pierce Testa died Friday, September 14, 2018 of a ...

October 04, 2018
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Robert Fragione—Connecticut Association of Schools Middle Level Exemplary Educator of the Year

|Date: October 04, 2018

Robert Fragione—Connecticut Association of Schools Middle Level Exemplary Educator of the Year

Mr. Robert Fragione, Music and Band teacher at the Amity Middle School in Bethany, was selected by The Co ...

Mr. Robert Fragione, Music and Band teacher at the Amity Middle School in Bethany, was selected by The Connecticut Association of Schools (CAS) as the recipient of the CAS 2018-2019 Middle Level Educa ...

October 04, 2018
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Officials Look Into Air Conditioning Failures At School

|Date: October 04, 2018

Officials Look Into Air Conditioning Failures At School

Two years after a $14-million renovation, the Beecher Road School building has experienced two major brea ...

Two years after a $14-million renovation, the Beecher Road School building has experienced two major breakdowns of its new heating and air conditioning system, one during the winter break, when frozen ...

October 04, 2018
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