Stephen Krauchick

DoingItLocal is run by Steve Krauchick. Steve has always had interest with breaking news even as an early teen, opting to listen to the Watergate hearings instead of top 40 on the radio. His interest in news spread to become the communities breaking news leader in Connecticut’s Fairfield County. He strongly believes that the public has right to know what is happening in their backyard and that government needs to be transparent. Steve also likes promoting local businesses.

Ansonia News: Man Arrested On Numerous Charges

#Ansonia CT-- On September 14, 2019 at about 9:15 A.M., the Ansonia Police Department responded to the Stop & Shop Plaza on Division Street on a report of a dispute involving weapons. Officers located and identified Kamrin Crawford, age 43, of Ansonia and Woodrow Ogman, age 33, also of Ansonia as the people involved in a dispute over a parking spot. During the argument, both Crawford and Ogman damaged each other’s cars, and there was a 14-year-old juvenile in Ogman’s car while Crawford damaged it. Ogman reported Crawford was armed with a hammer and metal pole, which he used to damage Ogman’s car and assault Ogman. Ogman suffered a possible broken hand, a laceration to his arm and an injury…

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Governor Wants Food Tax Review

HARTFORD, CT) – Governor Ned Lamont announced that he received a revised policy statement from the Department of Revenue Services (DRS) updating its guidance of the recently adopted law on prepared foods sold in grocery stores in order to better reflect the intention of the legislature when it was adopted as part of the state budget earlier this year.   As a matter of routine practice, DRS creates policy statements like these whenever new laws the agency is responsible for enforcing are adopted so that residents and businesses can have a better understanding of how it recommends the statute be applied. Earlier this week, the governor directed DRS to review its guidance on the prepared foods law, expressing his concern that…

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