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    Connecticut Main Street Center (CMSC) has announced that Main Street Waterbury has been accredited as 2011 National Main Street Programs for meeting organizational performance standards set by the National Trust Main Street Center. Main Street Waterbury has been recognized for outstanding accomplishments toward the goal of revitalizing its historic main street district following the Main Street methodology.

 Volunteer Power

   Each year, the Board of Trustees of Community-Technical Colleges invites presidents to nominate individuals who have advanced the community college mission through their exemplary service. This year, Naugatuck Valley Community College recognized longtime Waterbury activist Mary Rosengrant-Chiappalone with the Board of Trustees’ Merit Award.
Rosengrant-Chiappalone is a board member of the NVCC Foundation and serves on its Executive Committee. She has been a frequent volunteer actor in the Foundation’s annual Mystery Dinner Theater and also chairs the College’s facilities naming advisory committee.
“When I arrived on campus, Mary reached out to me and has been a source of counsel and support,” said Daisy Cocco De Filippis, Ph.D., president of Naugatuck Valley Community College. “She is a very generous colleague and community supporter. She is hardworking, kind and compassionate, characteristics that are vital to the advancement of our institution in the community. We are very lucky to have such a wonderful advocate for our students and our College on the Foundation.”

For The Children

    State Senator Joan V. Hartley (D-Waterbury) today described compelling features of and underscored the pressing need for a bill she co-sponsored this year to require the state’s disaster response plans to consider and include the needs of children in times of crisis. SB983 has already received unanimous approval from two legislative committees; the bill now awaits consideration and further action by the entire Senate.

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