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Report: Shelton fire captain, Trumbull police sergeant accused of sexual assault
Donald Eng and Brian Gioiele
March 13, 2021
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Echo Hose Hook and Ladder Company in Shelton. Photo courtesy of Echo Hose.Contributed / Contributed
SHELTON The captain of the Echo Hose Fire Company and another volunteer member who is also a Trumbull police sergeant have been suspended in connection with an alleged sexual assault that occurred in September.
Echo Hose Capt. John Scollin and volunteer firefighter Matthew Perkowski were suspended this week pending an internal investigation, according to Shelton Board of Fire Commissioners Chairman Michael Maglione.
Maglione said action was taken “as soon as we became aware of this.”
Keegan-Michael Key Will Do Anything for a Laugh
His new 10-part podcast, “The History of Sketch Comedy,” is a surprising and earnest defense of a relatively unsung art form.
Keegan-Michael Key in 2018. His new podcast, “The History of Sketch Comedy,” involved a lot of research. “I loved school,” he said, so delving into a subject “kind of lights my fire.”Credit.Benjamin Norman for The New York Times
Feb. 1, 2021
There are people who enjoy comedy, people who are nerdy about comedy and then there is Keegan-Michael Key, an actor and producer whose deep and affectionate connoisseurship of jokes puts him closer to the realm of a jurist or sommelier.
Positions up for election this year for local councils, boards
Last updated 3/31/2021 at 8:07am
Voters will decide on about 30 positions up for election in the 2021 elections for local town councils, school boards, and more. Candidate filings of intent to run for these offices are open from May 17-21.
Grand Coulee
Three seats on the Grand Coulee City Council are up for reelection this year, all to four-year terms.
At their Jan. 19 council meeting, it was announced that three council members’ terms expire on Dec. 31 and are up for reelection in November: Council Position #1, currently held by Tammara Byers; Council Position #2, currently held by Tom Poplawski; and Council Position #4, currently held by Mike Horne.
by Binoy Kampmark / January 26th, 2021
One crackling theme streaking through the US elections of 2020 was the issue of mask wearing. Critics initially felt that face masks were of the too important category in combating the novel coronavirus: purchasing and using them was tantamount to prizing valuable protective equipment from doctors and front-line workers. But COVID-19 continued to rage, and various public health bodies including the World Health Organization revised their initially cautious approach. Masks, manufactured in abundance, could be an affordable non-pharmacological method of halting the spread of the pandemic.
The face mask became the symbol of the now departed Donald Trump’s view of the world: to don such a covering was an admission of weakness, an effete alternative to the rugged, at times idiotic notion of pioneer individualism. Had he stuck to a debate on scientific literature (causation not being correlation and vice-a-versa), he might have been on fir