Guilford offering tax rebate to coax company to stay Rachael Scarborough King, Register Staff10/30/2007GUILFORD — The town is offering its first tax rebate for a business to manufacturing firm Arkwright in an effort to encourage the company not to relocate, First Selectman Carl Balestracci said. By state statute, municipalities can approve tax rebates for new equipment and facilities, Balestracci said. No Guilford businesses have applied for the program...
Suburban farms seek new ways to stay fertile Rachael Scarborough King, Register Staff10/28/2007GUILFORD — With muddy boots and dirt caked on his fingers, Tom Pinchbeck knows his way around a greenhouse. Pinchbeck Roses on the Boston Post Road has been in his family for four generations, after his great-grandfather founded the business in 1929. As the chairman of the Guilford Agricultural Commission, Pinchbeck also knows many of the...
Ghost tour a spirited evening in Guilford By Rachael Scarborough King, Register Staff10/27/2007GUILFORD - A heavy mist drizzled down from the night sky as two "ghosts" stood outside a house on Whitfield Street telling their story to a group of visitors."I'm a great practical joker," one said. "I like to tie things into figure-eight knots, figure eight meaning eternity or the symbol for infinity."The two characters, dressed in...
N. Branford board working on grade-change policy By Rachael Scarborough King, Register Staff10/26/2007NORTH BRANFORD - The Board of Education has started work on a new policy to govern grade changes, following up on recommendations made by the state attorney general's office and a law firm the board hired.The board's policy subcommittee has put together a draft policy regarding the "assignment and changing of student grades." The draft was...
Town will switch 2 schools to sewer line Rachael Scarborough King, Register Staff10/25/2007NORTH BRANFORD — The school district is spending thousands of dollars a month to pump out the failed septic system at Stanley T. Williams School, and the Town Council will borrow money to connect the school and neighboring Totoket Valley Elementary School to the sewer line. Officials discovered a problem with the leaching field at Stanley...
Partnership opens museum doors Rachael Scarborough King, Register Staff10/23/2007NORTH BRANFORD — The school district will partner with the Yale Center for British Art to designate Jerome Harrison Elementary School and Stanley T. Williams School as the first two "museum schools." The designation as part of a pilot program at the museum means that kindergarten through second-grade students at the schools will visit the center at least three times...
Last hearing set for Guilford project Rachael Scarborough King, Register Staff10/18/2007GUILFORD — The Inland Wetlands Commission has already spent four nights on hours-long public hearings over a plan to build a shopping center at the "rock pile" site.But at the Oct. 3 hearing — which was supposed to be the final one — commissioners decided to add another meeting for public comment tonight. Officials said they still have...
New VFW building going up at no cost to members Rachael Scarborough King, Register Staff10/18/2007GUILFORD — When builder Steve Spurrell visited the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall more than two years ago, he said he was looking at how to replace the building’s heating and cooling system.He soon realized that the hall — which he described as "old and tired" — had almost no insulation in the walls,...
No charges to be filed in Guilford book flap By Rachael Scarborough King, Register Staff10/17/2007GUILFORD - Local police and state authorities will not take any action against a former Guilford High School teacher who gave a student a mature graphic novel. English teacher Nate Fisher resigned from his position at the high school in mid-September after giving a 13-year-old student what district administrators deemed an "inappropriate" comic book,...
N. Branford dad charged in threat to coach Rachael Scarborough King, Register Staff10/16/2007NORTH BRANFORD — The father of a North Branford High School cheerleader has been charged with second-degree breach of peace after a confrontation involving the school’s cheerleading coach, police said. Luigi Lavorgna, 43, of the Northford section, allegedly told cheerleading coach Jennifer Miller that he would beat her up and "send people after (her)" following a...