Another convenience store was hit. Time to dust off a better community based police patrol squad. From The Hour:
The most recent robbery took place at 9:45 p.m. at the Mobil Station located on the corner of North Avenue and France Street. According to police, two black males wearing nylon stockings over their faces entered the store, knocked over several displays, verbally threatened the clerk, assaulted him and walked out with an undisclosed amount of money designated for lottery tickets.
“The suspects struck him in the body and face, and he sustained slight injuries, but declined medical assistance,” said Lt. Thomas Cummings of the Detective Bureau.
Cummings said that there were no patrons in the store at the time of the robbery, but there were witnesses outside of the store.
“Apparently the suspected waited for the people in the store to exit before they went in,” he said.
These days I see more cop cars directing traffic than anywhere else. It seems that much of the streets of Norwalk seem to be undergoing some sort of construction. My car is not happy, and so neither am I. Not because the streets are blocked off, but because the aftermath of path paving is the most inept and atrocious patching I have ever seen. I’d almost say that Sal Corda is personally approving these pavement patches because they are so bad. Today’s outrage, Osborne street North of Fort Point. There is nothing acceptable about it. Maybe its supposed to be temporary, but yegads… you could loose a car in there. Osborne street is comfortably within East Norwalk, home of some pretty atrocious potholes. But no part of Norwalk is immune.
Mayor Moccia is not happy with the Fodor Farm District Committee’s attempt to hold another public hearing. From The Hour:
Mayor Richard A. Moccia put his foot down hard Monday on efforts to create a state-registered local historic district out of the former Fodor Farm off Flax Hill Road by blasting a legal notice announcing a public hearing on the plan.
“(The legal notice) did not go through the mayor’s office,” said Moccia, referring to the notice that was posted in Monday’s edition of The Hour by the Fodor Farm Historic District Study Committee. The study committee was “advised by (Corporation Counsel) Peter Nolin that their time had passed. We cannot have a parallel government running beside the elected government making decisions upon their interpretation.”
According to the legal notice, the study committee will hold a public hearing “on the establishment of a proposed Local Historic District at the property known as Fodor Farm” at 7:30 p.m. June 25 in the Common Council chambers of City Hall.
Moccia, however, said the notice request was not received by City Clerk Mary Roman, and that the study committee’s work is over after having missed a filing deadline for its draft report.“(The study committee) had a mission. It’s over, it’s done. They missed the filing deadline,” Moccia said. The public hearing “is not going to happen.”
The study committee, formed by the Common Council during the administration of Mayor Alex Knopp, late last year completed a draft report recommending the creation of a state-registered local historic district out of the 9.2-acre city-owned parcel off Flax Hill Road.
Tod Byrant, study committee chairman and Norwalk Preservation Trust president, could not be reached for comment early Monday evening. In the past, however, Bryant has maintained that his committee is entitled to proceed with its work, even though it missed the January filing deadline for its draft report.
Why do I get the impression that the parties involved may prefer revolvers at dawn on Mill Hill? Being of the dollars and sense variety of blogger, I question the comedic timing of Corda wanting to codify do-overs for students, with Tod Bryant wanting a do-over on submitting the report. The hearing essentially, as I understand it, allows to study group to reset to a new deadline, or in Corda-sepak, would recreate an understanding of the date at which such studies can be submitted. Er, I got carried away on that. If there’s some economic benefit to securing funds for restoring the houses, which is what both plans call for, then why isn’t there an dollars and cents presentation made to that effect?
Meanwhile Mayor Moccia is looking for businesses to participate in the summer youth jobs program. They have funding but need employers.
The program, now funded largely through donations from area businesses, matches 14- to 18-year-olds with employers for six weeks of part-time summer work. City businesses and municipal departments have been among the jobs program’s participating employers.
And while Mayor Richard A. Moccia said Monday that the city has raised approximately $125,000, it needs 50 more job slots to reach its program goal.
In past years, the program has employed as many as 220 youths, but some businesses have chosen not to continue participating and Moccia has urged city departments only to hire summer employees for whom there is work.
source: The Hour, Police probe 3rd convenience store robbery in two weeks, by JILL BODACH, June 12, 2007
source: The Hour, Mayor: Fodor Farm committee’s time passed, by ROBERT KOCH, June 12, 2007
source: The Hour, Mayor seeks employers for city youth, by PATRICK LINSEY, June 12, 2007
