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Some new options are now on the table as New Milford schools continue to try to deal with late buses, due mainly to a lack of drivers. All-Star Transportation in New Milford has been trying desperately to recruit bus drivers for the New Milford school district, but those efforts are still not producing desired results. Now, the school district is allowing families to drop children off early and offering after-school care for affected students.

Outgoing Danbury Mayor Dean Esposito graciously wished Danbury Mayor-elect Roberto Alves ‘best of luck’ at his final council meeting last Thursday night. That meeting was the last one before Mayor-elect Alves and several new council members are sworn into office. Mayor Esposito congratulated the incoming Mayor Elect Alves, his administration, and the newly elected and returning council members.

The opening of the fall firearms deer season here in Connecticut is on Wednesday, November 15. Specific deer hunting season information is available online at https://portal.ct.gov/DEEP. Hunting is allowed on private lands and in most state forests and wildlife management areas, and some state parks. Regulated deer hunting has proven to be an ecologically sound method of managing deer populations and provides an opportunity to obtain a locally-sourced, sustainable food source.  

A woman from Ridgefield was assaulted in a park in Westchester County, New York and police there say it all was because of a verbal argument over a dog. Police in Westchester County arrested 57 year old Dawn Reich and her husband, 66 year old Steven Reich, who they say hit the woman and smashed her cell phone with a rock after telling her to put her dog on a leash. The victim suffered a head wound. Dawn Reich is charged with third-degree assault. Steven Reich is charged with fourth-degree crimin...

The U.S. Justice Department is awarding $8.8 million to various Connecticut municipalities and the state for the hiring of more police officers, combating heroin trafficking, reducing school violence and to support community policing. The awards to Connecticut state departments and municipalities is part of a total $334 million being distributed across the country as part of the Justice Department’s Comprehensive Strategy for Reducing Violent Crime.

Eversource says their continued work schedule that includes trimming or removing trees along about 72 miles of roads in Danbury will help reduce power outages in the future. Eversource is addressing trees that threaten electric reliability in 131 communities… including Danbury… this year. The utility says weak, diseased, and hazardous trees are generally the primary cause of power outages, especially during a storm, and trimming helps to improve day-to-day reliability. They say the...

Eversource is eying the use of a new type of “smart electric meter” that would be able to provide customers with real-time information and billing alerts that they claim would help customers trim energy costs. The new cutting edge technology… according to Eversource… would also mean crews would be dispatched faster after a power outage, and customers would be able to have better information about when their power would be restored too. The utility has made a request to ...

United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut officially has opened the ‘Food Farmacy of Greater Danbury.’ It has all come about with the support of a $1,050,000 grant. The Food Farmacy is a grocery-style food pantry co-located with the Connecticut Institute for Communities’ Community Center in downtown Danbury. Physicians and health care providers “prescribe” healthy foods for screened patients. To learn more about the Food Farmacy of Greater Danbury, visit www.uni...

It’s that time again… remember to turn your clocks back this weekend, as we fall back an hour to standard time at 2am Sunday. Back in 2019, lawmakers in Washington passed bills to make daylight saving time permanent. In March this year, the idea was reintroduced in our nation’s capitol in both chambers of Congress but so far, it hasn’t moved out of committee.

A severe shortage of bus drivers is affecting schools across the country, and it’s being felt locally too. A bus driver shortage in New Milford has resulted in some students arriving to school as much as two and a half hours late. Some parents are now complaining that their children have sometimes come home as much as an hour-and-a-half late. School officials responded, saying they are working with the bus company to try to address the situation.