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PROSPECT — The town’s 2020 net grand list increased 3% from 2019. A municipality’s net grand list is a tabulation of the assessed taxable values of real estate, personal property and motor vehicles. The 2020 grand list is $896.6 million, an increase of nearly $24.3 million from 2019. “I think it shows that the town is, in fact, doing very well,” Mayor Robert Chatfield said about the growth. An increase in real estate values drove the overall grand list growth. The assessed value of real estate increased by about $17.9 million, or 2%, to $766 million. Assessor Betsy Qu...

Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering 08 Feb, 2021 Nobel Laureate Paul Crutzen. Photo credit: Carsten Costard, MPI-Chemie Science lost a brilliant researcher and the planet lost a steadfast advocate with the death of Paul Crutzen on Jan. 28. Crutzen, an atmospheric scientist, was one of the first to link human activities to ozone deterioration, leading to the worldwide ban on ozone-depleting substances. He was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, with Mario Molina and F. Sherwood Rowland, for discovering the chemical processes that cause ozone depletion. Crutzen pioneered many ot...

By Elio Gugliotti, Editor Prospect Mayor Robert Chatfield sits with his grandchildren Zachary Latozas, 12, and Mackenzie Latozas, 4, at his home on Jan. 29. Chatfield announced that he will seek his 23rd term as mayor. -JIM SHANNON/REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN PROSPECT — After 22 terms in office, Mayor Robert Chatfield says he still has work to do. Chatfield, a 77-year-old Republican, announced Jan. 29 at his home on Cornwall Avenue that he will seek the Prospect Republican Town Committee’s endorsement to run for a 23rd term as mayor. “I’m a high-energy person and I’m not finished,” said C...

By 10 a.m., several inches of snow had already accumulated in downtown Waterbury. Heavy snowfall with strong winds is expected into Tuesday, with the most intense conditions between 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., according to meteorologist John Bagioni of Fax-Alert Weather Service in Burlington. Gov. Ned Lamont to people traveling CT roads at this time: "I would tell you head home." “This storm will continue to ramp up this morning with the overall nasty combination of heavy snow and strong winds occurring this afternoon on into the mid-evening period,” Bagioni said in his 4 a.m. forecast. Accumulat...

Local first responders, nursing home residents and staff getting inoculated Lisa DeTulio, a registered nurse, gives Beacon Hose Co. No. 1 firefighter and EMT Brayden Alves a COVID-19 vaccination shot at Waterbury Hospital in Waterbury on Jan. 7. -STEVEN VALENTI/REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN The vaccination of nursing home residents and staff as well as first responders in the battle against COVID-19 is underway. Glendale Center and Beacon Brook Health Center, both in Naugatuck, have partnered with CVS to administer the approved Pfizer vaccines to their staff and residents. The nursing homes began to va...