Learn to make a craft with recycled items at Derby Public Library

DERBY - The Derby Public Library has scheduled another Recycle, Repurpose, and Reuse Craft Class at 6:30 p.m. June 7.

Ansonia Animal Control Officer Jeanie Roslonowski returns to the Library to show participants, ages 18 and over, how to make Memory Vines using old cards, photos, magazines, and twine.

The class will also include information on conservation and animal issues.
Registration is required.  

For more information, stop by the Library at 313 Elizabeth 

St., call 203-736-1482, or visit www.derbypubliclibrary.org. 


This is a press release from Cathy Williams, Director, Derby Public Library.      

The 'Cast' of Beatlemania to rock Nolan Field in Ansonia

Mark your calendars! This is a free event for the community.

Seymour Library to host talk about women of character, courage

Louisa May Alcott 

SEYMOUR - The Seymour Library, 46 Church St., will host a talk, Women of Character, Courage, and Commitment at 6 p.m. May 17.

The presentation by Gretchen Trapp will focus on the lives, challenges, and triumphs of Sojourner Truth, Louisa May Alcott, and Clara Schuman.


This information is shared from an online community calendar sponsored by The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and the New Haven Independent.

Hilltop Hose Company #5 in Ansonia to hold tag sale

ANSONIA - The Spring 2016 Jim “Skinny” Evans Memorial Tag Sale, sponsored by Hilltop Hose Co. #5, will be held rain or shine from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. May 14.

The firehouse is located at 80 Pulaski Highway.

All proceeds will be donated to the Jim “Skinny” Evans Mack fund, established in 2011 to support the refurbished Mack firetruck and the garage built to house it.

For more information about the sale, leave a message at 203-410-8403.

This information is shared from an online community calendar sponsored by The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and the New Haven Independent.

Taco-eating champ defends title at Hot Tamale in Seymour

4th annual event raises funds for TEAM's Meals on Wheels program

Seymour Land Trust President Alex Danka, left, reigning taco-eating champ, poses with Ansonia Mayor David S. Cassetti Thursday before the competition at Hot Tamale Mexican Grille and Bar in Seymour. The restaurant hosted the eating contest to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, with proceeds going to support TEAM's Meals on Wheels program.

Seymour First Selectman Kurt Miller, left, poses before chowing down on soft beef tacos with fellow competitor David Morgan, TEAM President and CEO.

And here they are competing, along with Miller's administrative assistant, Rory Burke, at right. The contest lasted for five minutes and five seconds.

Derby Mayor Anita Dugatto competes in the taco-eating event. She was clearly the most polite contestant. Pinkies up!

The contestants posed for a group shot with Hot Tamale owner Robert Volpacchio, front row center. State Rep. Theresa Conroy of Seymour, back row, was there to cheer on the participants. 


And the taco tally was:

Danka - 12 
Burke, representing Shelton Mayor Mark Lauretti - 11
Phil Wilhelmy, representing state Rep. Theresa Conroy - 9
Miller - 8
Morgan - 8
Cassetti - 7
Don Smith, Boys and Girls Club board member - 7
Dugatto - 3

Congratulations to Danka for another great win!  He said he plans to display his taco-topped trophy next to the one he earned last year.

Vendors sought for 3rd annual Ecofest in Derby

Please follow the link for more information. Look under "Items of Interest." 

http://electronicvalley.org/derby/.

It's the cast of Beatlemania! coming to Ansonia to Rock the Valley in August

ANSONIA - Is it Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band? The Fab Four?

Are they on a Magical Mystery Tour? Have they had a Hard Day's Night?

Help! Actually it's all of the above!

Presenting the headliners for the second annual Rock the Valley festival Aug. 20 at Nolan Field in Ansonia: The "Cast" of Beatlemania!

Rock the Valley drew close to four thousand people in attendance last August. The new music and arts festival was well received by the community.

A wide variety of arts and crafts vendors, food to tempt every palate, live music, and a fireworks finale made for a perfect, family-fun day.

Organizers searched the region for top quality musical acts, and through hard work and dedication they proudly introduce this year's lineup, featuring:
The Kathy Thompson Band, All Funked Up, XYZ (Revisited), with the headliner to be none other than the one and only, internationally acclaimed, "Cast" of Beatlemania, making this year's event one
of the most impressive musical lineups ever assembled in this region.

Organizers also have extended the hours of operation,
improved the venue, and removed the paid admission policy.

There will be free admission to all, because, they say,
something of this magnitude needs to be shared with everyone in the community.

Mayor David S. Cassetti said today he's "looking forward to another successful event for the City of Ansonia."

"It's going to be exciting for the residents of the Valley," he said.
Cassetti has heard the band in concert. "They sound just like The Beatles," he said. "It's going to be a good time." 

Let it be.