COLEBROOK — Rep. John Rigby talked to more than two dozen people tonight at the Northwestern Connecticut Sportsmen’s Association headquarters here about a variety of legislative issues, such as Sunday hunting on private property, leg-hold traps and microstamping of guns. Members lamented the decline in popularity for sports such as hunting, and Rigby later commented [...]
HARTFORD—The governor’s Stimulus Task Force has allocated $1,135,348 in federal money to the Litchfield Hills Council of Elected Officials for “shovel ready” projects, state Rep. John Rigby said Tuesday. In this first round of funding it will be up to this regional planning organization for 11 Northwest Corner communities to prioritize a list of nearly [...]
HARTFORD—The Winchester Housing Authority is set to receive $133,991 in stimulus money from the federal government, state Rep. John Rigby said Tuesday. The money for the housing authority, which serves Winchester and 15 nearby communities, comes from the Public Housing Capital Fund of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Thirty-four Public Housing Authorities [...]
Over the last few weeks Rep. John Rigby has spent time meeting with dairy farmers in his seven-town district about legislative issues important to them, and he recently attended a Capitol breakfast with farmers to again hear about challenges their businesses face. A few students from the FFA program at Housatonic Valley Regional High School [...]
Northwestern Connecticut Community College in Winsted could seek federal stimulus money to help launch its nursing program according to a bill shepherded through the Higher Education & Technology Committee on Tuesday by state Reps. John Rigby and Roberta Willis. Rigby (R-63) received unanimous committee support for an amendment that would allow the college to apply [...]
WINSTED — Rep. John Rigby met tonight with students from a child development class at Northwestern Connecticut Community College, where he fielded questions about how state’s fiscal crisis and the governor’s budget proposal would affect educational institutions throughout Connecticut. Many of the students were parents, and their questions centered on how local budget issues that [...]
Last week state Rep. John Rigby didn’t like what he saw in a deficit mitigation proposal that would have slashed education funds for schools throughout her district so he pushed for changes. Legislators gathered at the Capitol to close a current-year deficit of roughly $1.35 billion. The original proposal from majority Democrats would have reduced [...]
WINSTED — Rep. John Rigby met this morning with Fred Newman, executive director of the Winchester Housing Authority. Rigby, of Colebrook, got a tour of the Chestnut Grove apartment building and received a brief about the authority’s past projects as well as its plans for the future. Newman oversees an organization that offers adult living [...]
Governor M. Jodi Rell today announced that the state has saved more than $1 million in payroll costs because of her directive in mid-January that asked non-union managers to take one unpaid day of leave. The Governor was among the 2,400 executive and non-union managers who voluntarily took an unpaid furlough day as part of [...]
