SOUTHBURY – Sherman David London, award-winning journalist at the Waterbury Republican-American newspapers, the longest serving member of the state Freedom of Information Commission and a World War II veteran, died Thursday, May 2, 2024. A Southbury resident, he was 102. The cause was heart failure. Mr. London spent about 40 years working as a reporter, columnist and editor at the Republican-American newspapers in Waterbury. When he retired in 1988, he was editor of the newspapers’ editorial