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 [...]
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 [...]
