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Envision Shelton candidates enter aldermen election fray
Brian Gioiele
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Envision Shelton, now a slate committee in the city, has announced its candidates for Board of Aldermen on the November ballot. The candidates are, left to right, Amanda Kilmartin (Ward 4), incumbent David Gidwani (Ward 1), Michelle Laubin (Ward 4), Matt McGee (Ward 3), Michele Bialek (Ward 2) and Chris Jones (Ward 3).Envision Shelton / Contributed photo
SHELTON Competition is already heating up for Board of Aldermen seats on the November ballot.
Envision Shelton, which began as a bipartisan political action committee last September, filed paperwork Tuesday to become a slate committee.
The group then immediately put forth candidates for each ward, challenging the fully Republican eight-person Board of Aldermen.
GOP state senator: Democrats want everyone to be driving electric vehicles
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Patrick Sasser, of Stamford, founder of No Tolls CT, protests new gas and food taxes at a Stop the Gas Tax/Food Tax rally in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday, April 29, 2021.Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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State Senate Republican Leader Kevin Kelly speaks at a Stop the Gas Tax/Food Tax rally in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday, April 29, 2021.Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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Stop the Gas Tax/Food Tax protestors rally on Lordship Boulevard in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday, April 29, 2021.Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
Shelton aldermen resolution opposes elimination of zoning home rule
Brian Gioiele
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Exterior of Shelton City Hall, in Shelton, Conn. Jan. 11, 2021.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media
SHELTON The Board of Aldermen have joined fellow city officials in opposing what board President John Anglace, Jr., calls “nightmare legislation” that would eliminate a municipality’s “home rule” over its own zoning.
The aldermen, at a special meeting March 25, unanimously adopted a resolution in support of “home rule” in municipal zoning decision-making, which the board states empower each community to tailor zoning policies that “reflect its unique geography, economy and housing market.”
Nearly a dozen bills in the state House and Senate call for changes to local zoning, some of which would overrule local zoning authorities and mandate the construction of multi-family and affordable housing, regardless of existing local regulations, city officials sa
Letter: Counters Simonetti Op-Ed, says city bus service not fulfilling obligations
March 12, 2021
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To the Editor:
Alderman Anthony Simonetti wrote a very interesting letter saying that the school bus problem is not city hall’s fault and parents are wrong for the outlandish demand of their children being provided transportation to school.
The crux of this problem is that the city laid off really good personnel in the middle of a bus driver shortage. Now Mr. Simonetti seems shocked that those good staff members, who in his own words are in obvious demand, went out and found good jobs elsewhere leaving our kids without the service they are mandated to receive.