Category: Bridgeport

#Bridgeport: Want to be heard?

Want to be heard?  Open public forums to discuss challenges, ideas and solutions facing Bridgeport City Transition Task Force

 

Monday November 23rd:     Geraldine Johnson School, 1375 North Avenue, Bridgeport, CT    7:00 p.m. 

 Tuesday November 24th:    Jettie S. Tisdale School, 345 Logan Street, Bridgeport, CT        7:00 p.m.

 

This report is made possible by:

Bridgeport News: Manhunt

10:19pm–#Bridgeport CT–#Fairfield CT–One suspect at large in the Brooklawn/North Avenue/Suburban Avenue wanted on narcotics charges.  Light skinned black male with dreadlocks.   In backyards last seen on Lynbrook Road off Villa Avenue in Fairfield .  One officer has been injured and taken to the hospital, unknown at this time how he was injured.

 

 

 

DoingItLocal Locates Stolen Landscape Truck

#Fairfield CT–#Bridgeport CT– Earlier this afternoon I reported on a stolen Greenscape landscaping truck take on Park Avenue with the keys.  While on my way to see Larry at Interstate Batteries I turned down Dewey Street and located the truck.  I called 911 who transferred me to Bridgeport Police.  I gave them the plate number and told them the truck was unoccupied and that I would stay with it until police arrived.  About 5 minutes later I see a man watching me from across the street so I took a ride down the block.  It turned out to be the owner of the truck.  Fairfield Police arrived and confirmed it was in fact the stolen truck.  I asked the owner why he left the keys in the truck and he said it was on the seat of the truck.  It was discovered the passenger’s side front tire was flat and that is why they abandoned the truck.  Police and the owner were checking to see if anything was missing when I left the scene.

 

Syrians Coming To Bridgeport

#Bridgeport CT–Today, Governor Malloy said that Connecticut will continue to accept more than 1,600 refugees from Syria.  Arizona, Texas, Michigan and Alabama and President Obama’s home state of Illinois is suspending the refugee resettlement. The reason is that it is reported that some of the attackers in France came through Greece as a refugee.

The International Institute Of Connecticut (IICONN) located at 670 Clinton Avenue in Bridgeport has been listed as a group accepting the refugess according to the US Refugee Public Affiliate Directory (see http://www.scribd.com/doc/280725813/US-Refugee-Public-Affiliate-Directory). Catholic Charities of Hartford and the International Refugee and Immigrant Services in New Haven will be slated to process the refugees according to the list for Connecticut.

According to IICONN’s September newsletter: “The U.S. remains the single-largest donor of humanitarian aid for those affected by the Syria crisis, having put over $4 billion toward humanitarian assistance since the start of the conflict in March 2011. The U.S. has not, however, admitted many refugees since the war began. Mark Toner (deputy spokesman for the State Department) said in an interview on PRI’s The World, that 1,500 to 1,800 Syrian refugees will have been admitted to the U.S. by the end of October. Last week, U.S. aid groups and at least 14 senators called on the U.S. government to take in at least 75,000 Syrian refugees in 2016.”

WABC-TV has listed the status of what other state governors are doing:
http://abc7ny.com/news/list-which-governors-are-trying-to-halt-question-plan-to-accept-syrian-refugees/1086961/

 

Below is a letter Texas Governor Greg Abbott wrote to President Obama today:

Exit mobile version