CANAAN—State Rep. John Rigby got a tour of Geer early Friday, when he spent a couple of hours going room-to-room to meet residents and staffers. Geer is an important part of this community, and the entire Northwest Corner. The company, is a family of five inter-related, non-profit, non-sectarian and community-owned corporation. It’s staffed by professionals [...]
HARTFORD — There’s no better way to understand how the state’s fiscal woes will affect municipal budgets than to hear from the people in charge of them, Rep. John Rigby said Tuesday. More than two dozen leaders-mayors and first selectmen-from communities throughout the state were at the Capitol for a roundtable discussion organized by House [...]
NORTH CANAAN — Rep. John Rigby met today with employees at a local manufacturing company, where workers talked about concerns over the state’s budget deficit and offered ideas about closing the massive gap. Rigby, of Colebrook, spent a couple of hours at Bicron USA on Barlow Street. Bicron, in business since the mid-1960s, designs and [...]
TORRINGTON–Selectmen and mayors of Northwest Corner communities are used to tightening their belts in rocky financial times but this year they are more concerned than ever about the threat of diminished state aid. State lawmakers are faced with a massive budget deficit this year and even bigger deficits over the next four to five years. [...]
HARTFORD-State Rep. John Rigby today voted to reduce the state’s escalating deficit by $185 million. The measure Rigby supported represented a reduction of $54 million more than the proposal eventually adopted by House Democrats. Though it wasn’t as much as he liked, Rigby said he was pleased to see at least some progress in erasing [...]
Unemployed residents who have used their 20 weeks of federally extended jobless benefits are eligible for 13 more weeks of compensation. The extension applies to job-seekers who have used their initial 26 weeks of state unemployment insurance and the 20 weeks of federal benefits are now eligible for a “Second-Tier” of 13 weeks, the governor’s [...]
HARTFORD–John Rigby was sworn in Wednesday as state representative for the 63rd House District. Rigby, of Colebrook, is serving his first term in Connecticut’s legislature. He was accompanied to Hartford by his wife, Kelly, and their daughter, Soren. Rigby chatted with colleagues on both sides of the aisle before Gov. M. Jodi Rell delivered a [...]
