Jennifer Hubbard has published a memoir that shares with readers the days, weeks, months, and now years of struggles and triumphs following the death of her daughter Catherine on 12/14.
Trinity Episcopal Church will be offering outdoor worship at 11:15 on Sunday mornings, in the “back yard” by the gazebo.
Those who are able are invited to join church members for Chapel in the Garden,...
The 13th year of serving the residents at The Lutheran Home of Southbury as their chaplain has been the most challenging yet for one Sandy Hook resident.
Trinity Episcopal Church is hosting an online program this month that ties in to a documentary by a woman whose forefathers were part of the largest slave-trading family in this country’s history.
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You are correct, Bruce. I know how hard these plans are to put together, but I still believe that we can have more definitive and measurable goals. I know there are a number of units coming online, and the community truly needs them. If only we can move the development of affordable housing to more of a partnership between the community and the developers than the adversarial tug-of-war it seems to be now, that would be good progress.
I agree, but we need to make sure they are pedestrian activated. The ones on Glover were supposed to be by order of the Police Commission, but the ones installed by Public Works were the cheaper flashing light. A couple of extra dollars are worth the lives it can save.
We have been doing the planning work. The State of Connecticut mandates every municipality to develop an affordable housing plan under C.G.S. §8-30j by June 1, 2022, to specify how they “intend to increase the number of affordable housing developments in the municipality.”
In lieu of all eighteen municipalities in the Western Connecticut Region duplicating efforts to research, document and analyze affordable housing, the Council of Governments decided to work collectively by splitting the work into two parts:
Regional Toolbox
Specific, Policy Driven Municipal Annexes.
