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By Andreas Yilma Citizen's News PROSPECT -- Town officials are moving ahead to determine how to spend federal COVID-19 relief funds after gathering data from a town survey. The town received $1.4 million out of its total $2.8 million federal American Rescue Plan Act funds in June 2021 and $400
By Katrina Scalise Republican-American PROSPECT -- The town will receive $1.4 million in grant funding from the Small Town Economic Assistance Program next month, and will vote on how to spend the funds Aug. 15. A town subcommittee has been meeting over the course of the past year to discuss h
By Andreas Yilma Citizen's News PROSPECT -- Prospect residents on Tuesday approved a resolution to purchase a fire truck from The Volunteer Fire Department of Prospect, Inc. after the department acquired the newer apparatus. Town officials held a town meeting where a little more than a dozen m
Wallingford mayor apparent winner of 20th term, closest race in 30 years- WALLINGFORD — For the first time in 30 years, a Democratic candidate came within 1,000 votes of beating Republican incumbent Mayor William W. Dickinson Jr., who won a 20th consecutive term Tuesday.“The vote stands for what people are thinking right...
Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP At least one town in Connecticut won’t join the rest of the state in allowing recreational marijuana stores. Prospect is a conservative-leaning suburb of Waterbury, in the state’s Naugatuck Valley. Town officials voted unanimously to block retail sales at a Planning and Zoning Commission meeting. “I’m totally against this coming in," said Prospect resident Rich Blank at the meeting. "I’m totally against the law being passed, even, but I have no say in that of course. I just don’t want to see it get into the hands of kids. It’s gonna be a total me...