Guilford High to hold program on concussions By Rachael Scarborough King, Register Staff Jan. 31, 2008GUILFORD — With awareness of the long-term problems that head injuries can cause student-athletes on the rise, Guilford High School will hold a concussion management program tonight. The event is primarily aimed at parents, Athletic Director Chip Dorwin said, and is open to the public, not just Guilford residents.The concussion management program will...
Guilford grade school pupil disciplined after bomb note By Rachael Scarborough King, Register Staff Jan. 30, 2008GUILFORD — A Melissa Jones School student will be disciplined after the student left a note on a school bus that mentioned a bomb.The bus driver found several notes, which also included what school officials called inappropriate language. Officials quickly determined that there was no threat, police and the school’s principal said.Principal...
Rail station parking plan delayed By Rachael Scarborough King, Register Staff Jan. 30, 2008 GUILFORD — Despite an overflowing parking lot at the town’s Shore Line East train station, funding for the construction of additional parking areas has been delayed until at least 2009, according to town officials and the South Central Connecticut Regional Council of Governments.The $1.3 million project was scheduled to start construction in 2008, but...
School district, teachers in arbitration over contract By Rachael Scarborough King, Register Staff Jan. 25, 2008NORTH BRANFORD — The school district and the North Branford Federation of Teachers have been unable to reach an agreement on a new contract and are in arbitration, Superintendent Robert Wolfe said this week.The teachers’ contract expires June 30. Wolfe said that the parties have been in negotiations over a new contract for...
Fonicello family sells 9-acre parcel By Rachael Scarborough King, Register Staff Jan. 25, 2008GUILFORD — The Fonicello family, which ran one of Guilford’s best-known agricultural businesses until last January, has sold a chunk of property off of Long Hill Road to Guilford Holdings Inc., a Delaware-based company.According to warranty deeds filed with the town clerk, several members of the family sold the property late last year for a...
Ex-teller charged in $180G bank theft By Rachael Scarborough King, Register Staff Jan. 23, 2008NORTH BRANFORD — A North Haven woman is facing charges that she took about $180,000 in about a year’s time from the Northford Wachovia branch, where she worked as a teller and vault manager, police said Tuesday.Catherine Sullivan, 37, of Hansen Farm Road in North Haven, turned herself in at police headquarters Tuesday afternoon...
Polling Institute gives Quinnipiac a national face By Rachael Scarborough King, Register Staff Jan. 21, 2008HAMDEN — Quinnipiac University political science professor Scott McLean winced when he watched MSNBC-TV host Chris Matthews criticize polling firms — citing Quinnipiac’s by name — for getting it wrong in New Hampshire.Plenty of pollsters lost credibility for predicting Barack Obama would comfortably beat Hillary Clinton, but McLean knew the Quinnipiac University Polling...
Next year’s costs for schools ‘gigantic’ By Rachael Scarborough King, Register Staff Jan. 19, 2008NORTH BRANFORD — Superintendent Robert Wolfe used words like “gigantic” and “very unpleasant” to describe the increases in costs facing the school district when he presented a 2008-09 budget of more than $28 million to the Board of Education this week.The preliminary budget represents a 6.88 percent increase over this year. Wolfe said that...
Union asks school to control bottle waste By Rachael Scarborough King, Register Staff Jan. 18, 2008 NORTH BRANFORD — The school custodial union wants the high school to control the amount of plastic water bottles students take out of the cafeteria after a custodian slipped on a bottle left on a flight of stairs, a union representative told the Board of Education Thursday.Nick Mancini, a custodian at North...
Union grievance targets food, drinks By Rachael Scarborough King, Register Staff Jan. 17, 2008 NORTH BRANFORD — The school custodians’ union, concerned about food and drinks that students take out of the high school cafeteria, has filed a grievance with the school district.The Board of Education will hold a hearing on the grievance at its regular meeting tonight.The issue stems from concerns that students eating and drinking outside...