In this episode of 'Navel Gazing: The Valley Indy Podcast,' reporters Eugene Driscoll and Ethan Fry try to break the Ansonia school funding battle into the simplest components.
The school board has a lawsuit pending against city government for taking $600,000 away from the schools earlier this year.
The city says the money was initially given last year under the assumption the school would not be receiving "alliance district" money from the state.
Ansonia schools received the state money, but argues the take back is in violation of state law.
It's complicated.
The Valley Indy was denied access to an internal affairs report concerning a police officer who had been arrested in connection to a domestic violence incident.
So The Valley Indy filed a complaint with the state's Freedom of Information Commission to force the document to be released to the public.
Click the play button to listen to testimony recorded in front of a hearing officer in April.
The complaint is still pending.
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Derby Mayor Rich Dziekan and Carmen DiCenso, the city's economic development liason, are the guests on the latest episode of 'Navel Gazing: The Valley Indy Podcast.'
Dziekan and DiCenso talk about a tax incentive program currently in the works, Big Y, the Route 34 widening project, blight, and efforts to unload 15 city-owned properties.
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A rundown of storm-related news as of 9 p.m. Wednesday.
This podcast includes an interview with Seymour Deputy Fire Marshal Timm Willis.
Seymour Deputy Fire Marshal Timm Willis talks about a fire in Seymour Wednesday morning, and general "keep safe" guidelines to follow after a serious storm left 97 percent of Eversource customers in Seymour without power.
Seymour First Selectman Kurt Miller with a Code Red message that was sent Wednesday before 12 p.m.
Derby Schools Are Closed May 16 2018
Seymour Police Chief Michael Metzler is retiring in June after 30 years as the town's top cop.
He also spent just over a decade on the job in Ansonia.
In this free-wheeling episode of "Navel Gazing: The Valley Indy Podcast," Metzler talks about what it was like to patrol Ansonia in the late 1970s, how he tried to keep external politics out of the Seymour Police Department, and what's changed in law enforcement since 1976.
Click the play button to listen.
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"Navel Gazing" is available on iTunes, Google Play, Sound Cloud and Libsyn.
It also airs Monday at 10 p.m. on 103.5 WNHH-LP FM, New Haven's community radio station.
Ron Saracino, of Road Ready Used Cars in Ansonia, released this audio statement to The Valley Indy May 9.
Stephan Behuniak, an elected member of the Seymour Board of Selectmen, chats with The Valley Indy reporters about the town's upcoming budget vote, new businesses coming to town, and whether the town has put enough pressure on the owner of Tri-Town Plaza, a shopping center off Route 8.
This episode was recorded May 2 during The Great Give, a 36-hour online fundraiser that raised about $1.7 million for about 400 nonprofit groups in the region.
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Former 'Howard Stern Show' head writer Jackie 'The Joke Man' Martling called The Valley Indy during an online fundraiser May 1 to talk about his new book, "The Joke Man: Bow To Stern."
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