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Friend, local businesswoman remembered with Campership donation
WATERBURY – A generous supporter of the Greater Waterbury Campership Fund over the years had a bittersweet special incentive to assist the program this year. Joe Gurga III, president and owner of...
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Annual Campership donation recalls Mataucha counselor
WATERBURY – As with many donations to the Greater Waterbury Campership Fund made in memory of a lost loved one, the end of September particularly is always a bittersweet time for Vasco and Michelle...
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Waterbury developer to city: I’ll pay you to take blighted building back
WATERBURY – Developer Norman S. Drubner plans to convey to the city the former Bristol Babcock property at 40 Bristol St., which has remained vacant since 2002 and in disarray after a fire in 2015...
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Waterbury schools to test weapon detection systems
WATERBURY – Superintendent Verna Ruffin is exploring a test run of an AI weapons detection system after recommendations from the district’s School Safety and Security Task Force. The task force – made...
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Waterbury BOE member’s court case continued
WATERBURY — Thursday, the case against Board of Education member Melissa Adorno was continued to Nov. 16. Adorno was arrested in November 2019 on money laundering charges involving her husband, Victor...
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Fact checking the Waterbury mayoral candidates
The Sunday Republican has fact-checked comments made by the candidates over the length of the campaign so far, in advance of the Nov. 7 election. Here’s what we found: Maiorano: The Republican...
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Campership Fund donations inch closer to covering summer’s tuition
WATERBURY – The holiday season is picking up steam, with thoughts turning to festivities, family gatherings and gift giving. A donation to the Greater Waterbury Campership Fund can be a forward-looking...
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State keeping close eye on ballots: Absentee voting down statewide
Waterbury Town Clerk Antoinette “Chick” Spinelli reported a sharp drop in the number of absentee ballots cast between the 2021 and 2023 city elections. The town clerk’s office issued 850 absentee...
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Garlic lovers love summer camp, too
WATERBURY – The Greater Waterbury Campership Fund always has plenty to be thankful for when this time of year rolls around, and program supporters continue to be generous to the cause. Stepping up to...
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Man shot, customers scatter after shooting at Waterbury’s Brass Mill Center mall
WATERBURY — Customers scattered and hid after the pops of gunfire erupted in the Brass Mill Center mall shortly after 5 Friday night. Police confirmed one person, a man, was shot near the food court....
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Home run for Hispanic heritage: City to rename school after Roberto Clemente
WATERBURY – The city’s Board of Education Thursday voted, 9-1, to rename the International Dual Language School at 116 Beecher Ave. to the Roberto Clemente School. Clemente, from Puerto Rico, is a...
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Donors propel Campership Fund into unprecedented fundraising year
WATERBURY – Donations to the Greater Waterbury Campership Fund are rolling in as the program gears up for a new camping season that will begin in just over six months. This year starts with an...
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With a vote, Ion Bank customers can help send kids to camp this summer
WATERBURY – Customers of Ion Bank once again can give the Greater Waterbury Campership Fund a financial boost through the bank foundation’s 15th annual Community Awards Program now underway. For the...
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At 10th anniversary of her son’s death, a mom remembers him by helping send...
WATERBURY – Carolyn Baeder is one of those loyal supporters of the Greater Waterbury Campership Fund who never fails to make good on her annual donation to the cause. The Oakville resident, familiar to...
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Waterbury crews on scene at Wolcott Street water main break
WATERBURY — This morning the Water Department is working to repair a water leak in the area of 560 Wolcott St. There so far is no loss of water service to any residents, or businesses. Crews are...
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Friendships lead to opportunity for kids at camp, thanks to this loyal donor
WATERBURY – Joseph J. Gurga III makes a lot of close associations over the years through his business, Sterling Security Systems of Waterbury, which has been in operation since late 1999. The president...
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Hints of spring prompt Campership, supporters to look toward summer
WATERBURY – With the weather beginning to turn more springlike, it won’t be long before serious thoughts are given by prospective campers toward the Greater Waterbury Campership Fund’s pending 2024...
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Waterbury school board votes to negotiate new, 3-year contract with...
WATERBURY – The Board of Education voted 9-1 Thursday to support negotiating a new three-year contract for Superintendent Verna Ruffin despite opposition from the Waterbury Teacher’s Association and...
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Individual donors add up to help Campership Fund change kids’ lives
WATERBURY – The Greater Waterbury Campership Fund owes much of its success to the thousands of faithful individual donors who have been contributing to the program since its launching in 1969. Whether...
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This spring’s Campership Fund goal: More campers to camp this summer
WATERBURY – Although donations to the Greater Waterbury Campership Fund’s 2024 fundraising cycle consistently flow in year-round, today marks the formal beginning of the campaign that will ramp up over...
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Jaffee, O’Shaughnessy, O’Brien take top New England honors
WATERBURY – Sportswriter Mark Jaffee and the features team of Tracey O’Shaughnessy and Bill O’Brien took top honors in the annual New England Newspaper & Press Association’s “Better Newspaper”...
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Waterbury woman killed in one-vehicle crash, police say
City woman, 30, killed in crash of vehicle driven by 19-year-old A 30-year-old city woman was killed and a teenager suffered minor injuries in a one-vehicle crash in the area of 757 Frost Road early...
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Early voting: Registrars brace for busier November
All elections are important. But some are more important than others, for different reasons. Area registrars say that was the case with Connecticut’s presidential primary held in late March to early...
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Campership supporters gear up for a fun new day at Quassy April 28
WATERBURY – Supporters of the Greater Waterbury Campership Fund are preparing to have some late-April enjoyment at Quassy Amusement Park and Waterpark in Middlebury while giving the program an...
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