By Andreas Yilma, Staff Writer
Fireworks explode over downtown Naugatuck on July 2, 2020, during the borough’s annual fireworks show. The show was cut short after a ground-level explosion at the site of the display. –FILE PHOTO
NAUGATUCK Officials are giving a Maine company another shot at putting on the borough’s Fourth of July fireworks show.
The Board of Mayor and Burgesses on April 6 unanimously approved a deal with Central Main Pyrotechnics of Farmingdale, Maine, for a Fourth of July fireworks show for $15,000. The agreement includes $5,000 for another show between September and December.
The company put on the fireworks show last July. Last year’s show ended abruptly about 10 minutes in after a ground-level detonation where the fireworks display was set up on Breen Field off Hotchkiss Street. The explosion left burn marks on the field and damaged a nearby fence and sponsor signs that hung on the fence. No one was injured.