Fairfield News: How No State Budget Will Impact Fairfield

Today, Fairfield First Selectman Michael Tetreau explained how the lack of a state budget will impact the town.   Fairfield's budget has already been passed, and the town's tax bills have already been sent out.   The town is slated to lose between four to five million dollars in state money without a budget.  If the state budget is passed, the town is still expected to lose between two to four million dollars in tax cuts.  Since the town has already started its fiscal year it is now obligated by state statute.   Sixty to sixty-five percent of the town's budget is education and the town cannot cut the Board of Education's funding without the board's permission.  The Board of…

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Bridgeport News: Man Shot

11:58pm--#Bridgeport CT-- A woman in the 300 block of Wilmont Street called the police to report that her husband was shot in the face.  When police arrived they found him shot in the cheek, the wound does not appear to be life threatening.  Police are trying to determine if the shooting happened there or somewhere else in the city.  

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