In this very special episode of 'Navel Gazing: The Valley Indy Podcast,' Seymour's Stephan Behuniak and Ansonia's David Papcin enter the political thunderdome in a no-holds-barred Texan death match for the hearts and minds of Naugy Valley young folk.
OK, not really.
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Behuniak is the vice-president of The Naugatuck Valley Young Democrats, while Papcin is the president of the newly-formed Valley Young Republicans.
In the interview they talk about the race to succeed respected Valley Rep. Linda Gentile, a Democrat from Ansonia; the controversy over Justice Andrew McDonald -- and just what their respective organizations are trying to establish in the lower Naugatuck Valley.
Behuniak, by the way, is an elected member of the Seymour Board of Selectmen, and he is also the chairman of the Seymour Town Democratic Committee.
Papcin, at just 19 years of age, is already a member of the Ansonia Board of Apportionment and Taxation, and he is running to be chairman of the Ansonia Town Republican Committee.
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In this very special episode of Navel Gazing: The Valley Indy Podcast, the reporters respond to a reader angry that the publication did not write a news story from his point of view.
Three students in Derby called for tougher gun regulations while students in Shelton carefully avoided making policy recommendations during separate events marking Wednesday’s “National School Walkout.”
Click play to listen to commentary and clips from the students in Derby and Shelton, along with interviews with school officials from Derby.
Students all over the U.S. organized events at 10 a.m. March 14 to mark the one-month anniversary of the mass murder of 14 students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.
While the local “walkout” participants were anything but monolithic, the movement’s general goal is to end the mass shootings that seem to have become epidemic.
In this episode of 'Navel Gazing: The Valley Indy Podcast,' reporter Eugene Driscoll interviews Seymour High School juniors Eliana Arroyo and Rachel Moon.
Eliana plays Auntie Em and Glinda in the upcoming production of "The Wizard of Oz" at Seymour High School.
Moon plays the Wizard, and is also serving as technical director.
This episode is sponsored by ValleyGivesBack.org.
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy and Jim Gildea talk train service funding problems in the latest episode of "Navel Gazing," The Valley Indy's weekly talk show.
Gildea, a Derby resident, is chairman of the <a href="http://ctcommuterrailcouncil.org/" title="Connecticut Commuter Rail Council">Connecticut Commuter Rail Council</a>.
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