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By: Sean Crose “We have a kid in the boxing room right now,” Paul Norris tells me. “He’s 225 pounds. He pushed my tooth in the other day.” We’re standing

By Elio Gugliotti, Editor BEACON FALLS — Even though the Naugatuck YMCA’s service area includes Beacon Falls, the nonprofit organization doesn’t have much, if any, of a presence in town. That is likely to change soon. Officials have started preliminary discussions with Naugatuck YMCA CEO Mark LaFortune about the borough-based organization running programs in town. “There’s a lot of really cool things that I think we can do and we can work together on,” LaFortune told the Board of Selectmen and Board of Finance during a joint budget workshop April 27. The town sponsors youth activi...

164 NAUGATUCK — The Naugatuck YMCA’s preschool and early learning center received community support to provide child care for infants and toddlers. The YMCA received $500 donations from the Fortney family and Thomas and Emily Saunders as well as a $6,000 donation from the Naugatuck Rotary Foundation to fund a room for infants. The Connecticut Community Foundation gave the YMCA a $10,095 grant to finish work for a room for 1- and 2-year-old toddlers. The money was used to build the room and purchase supplies and equipment. “This effort is a testament to the community’s support of the Y...