Letters • Published Apr 24, 2024 08 am
On April 16, Guilford registered voters went to the polls to approve or disapprove the proposed 2024-'25 Town Budget. Just after 8 p.m., the results started coming in fro...
Letters • Published Apr 24, 2024 08 am
The Tomaselli family would like to thank the Guilford Fire Department for putting out the fire at our house on State Street. Their quick response saved the majority of ou...
Letters • Published Apr 24, 2024 08 am
The April 2 town meeting was exciting. The first order of business, appointing the moderator, proved contentious. By voice vote, a majority approved Bill Bloss. A “formal...
Letters • Published Apr 24, 2024 08 am
Recently, I had been pondering whether Guilford’s leaders had ever proposed a zero-increase budget. If so, not in recent years, but now the current proposed budget increa...
Letters • Published Apr 17, 2024 08 am
Guilford Art Center would like to thank First Selectman Matt Hoey and The Guilford Foundation for their support through the distribution of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA...
Letters • Published Apr 10, 2024 08 am
I did not attend either of the meetings concerning the methadone clinic. However, I must respond to the letter written by Jill Paglino ("Much Too Good," March 28) referen...
Letters • Published Apr 10, 2024 08 am
The political antics of this little one-party town were on full display at the town meeting on April 2. First Selectman Matt Hoey and his cabal of accomplices managed, o...
Letters • Published Apr 10, 2024 08 am
We, the citizens, families, neighbors, and local property owners, oppose the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation’s (EHTF) plans to develop 6 Opening Hill Road.
The EHTF’s prop...
Letters • Published Apr 10, 2024 08 am
On April 2 at the Guilford Annual Town Budget Meeting, the bullying tactics of First Selectman Matt Hoey, Selectman Lou Federici, Town Council Peter Barrett, Bill Bloss, ...
Letters • Published Apr 10, 2024 08 am
Recently, I had the pleasure of attending the Guilford High School musical Legally Blonde. Once again, Guilford put on a stellar performance and it seemed as if each part...
Letters • Published Apr 10, 2024 08 am
I attended the budget meeting at Guilford High School on April 2 to hear the discussion regarding how our money is being spent. I knew there would be attendees prepared t...
Letters • Published Apr 03, 2024 08 am
Perhaps you’ve noticed that many of our local churches provide regular meeting space for both Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous programs. I would bet these mee...
Letters • Published Apr 03, 2024 08 am
I want to voice my support for the Town of Guilford and Board of Education Budget and encourage community members to do the same. I believe our town and school leaders ha...
Letters • Published Mar 27, 2024 08 am
Recently, a controversy has grown in Guilford over a methadone clinic set to open on the Boston Post Road. Many residents have written letters to the newspaper expressing...
Letters • Published Mar 27, 2024 08 am
In the fall of 2022, many Guilford homeowners saw our house values assessed at a 48% increase, which led to hefty property tax increases. Then, in 2023, our property taxe...
Letters • Published Mar 27, 2024 08 am
It seems like only yesterday that I reached that time when it looked like, with prudency, I would enjoy, if not a lavish retirement, at least a financially secure one. Ho...
Letters • Published Mar 27, 2024 08 am
I've now attended two meetings about the proposed methadone clinic on Route 1. I wasn't that interested in the topic, but a friend asked me to come along, so I've learned...
Letters • Published Mar 20, 2024 08 am
I write to express my sadness at the negative reaction to the proposed methadone clinic. I have been a resident for 11 years, and in all that time, I have cherished the c...
Letters • Published Mar 20, 2024 08 am
In 1965, Lyndon B. Johnson gave a speech to Congress in which he declared that “government is best which is closest to the people.” In the same speech, he warned against ...
Letters • Published Mar 20, 2024 08 am
The proposed new clinic, which would offer methadone treatment, would make life easier for a lot of people. Addicts find it hard enough to get off drugs—bringing the trea...
Letters • Published Mar 20, 2024 08 am
This letter is out of deep concern for the current location of the proposed APT Foundation treatment clinic and healthcare facility at 439 Boston Post Road. We are not al...
Letters • Published Mar 20, 2024 08 am
As we as a community think about improvements we want for Route 146, I have a suggestion to help control the increase of flooding: stop cutting back the phragmites (commo...
Letters • Published Mar 20, 2024 08 am
Maintaining public trust and upholding high standards of ethical conduct are among the highest responsibilities of a public official, elected or appointed. I believe Guil...
Letters • Published Mar 14, 2024 03 pm
Thank you to all 450 concerned Guilford residents who came to the Guilford Community Center on Feb. 27 and signed the “adjourned referendum petitions” concerning the meth...
Letters • Published Mar 13, 2024 08 am
I attended the Q&A meeting for the APT Foundation. A few people asked questions with legitimate concerns and did so in a very respectful manner. Unfortunately, many didn’...
Letters • Published Mar 13, 2024 08 am
Sunday, March 3, was a beautiful day, a day in which Guilford Racket & Swim Club hosted the 5th annual Paddle for a Purpose Tournament, a benefit for the Guilford Meals o...
Letters • Published Mar 13, 2024 08 am
On Feb. 27, I attended an informational meeting at the Community Center to learn about the APT facility that will be coming to Guilford. I was greatly saddened by the rud...
Letters • Published Mar 13, 2024 08 am
A methadone clinic at 439 Boston Post Road in an area of residential homes, small businesses, and restaurants will lower home values and hurt business owners. Other towns...
Letters • Published Mar 06, 2024 08 am
I attended the informational meeting on Feb. 27 and heard the fears and anxieties of residents about the APT Foundation clinic, which will open on Route 1 in Guilford som...
Letters • Published Mar 06, 2024 08 am
In the latest Guilford Events magazine that arrived by mail in “The First Selectman’s Corner,” I was encouraged by our first selectman to attend meetings and offer my inp...
Letters • Published Mar 06, 2024 08 am
There are many different ways in which people’s movement through our internal medicine practice at 652 Boston Post Road has been considered; the architect contemplated ac...
Letters • Published Mar 06, 2024 08 am
The Feb. 27 meeting about the APT Foundation’s planned clinic was eye-opening, to say the least. It demonstrated a contrast in styles that was apparent to everyone. On on...
Letters • Published Feb 28, 2024 08 am
Access to effective addiction treatment is essential to building strong families and communities. APT Foundation's plans to open a clinic on Boston Post Road in Guilford ...
Letters • Published Feb 28, 2024 08 am
I’m sure many will agree that living in a safe, crime-free environment is high on most people’s priority list. Despite a crime uptick in recent years, for the most part, ...
Letters • Published Feb 28, 2024 08 am
First Selectman Matt Hoey spent the past 10 months working behind closed doors to fast-track a methadone clinic on Boston Post Road in Guilford that will serve over 500 d...
Letters • Published Feb 28, 2024 08 am
After the APT Foundation purchased a building in New Haven, they collaborated with Mayor Justin Elicker and his staff. There was no engagement with the residents.
Residen...
Letters • Published Feb 28, 2024 08 am
On Feb. 9, the Guilford High School (GHS) music department performed its 31st annual concert benefiting the Guilford Meals on Wheels program, which is a part of Guilford ...
Letters • Published Feb 21, 2024 08 am
The Guilford Preservation Alliance would like to thank the Connecticut Department of Transportation (CDOT) for their help in the installation of the historical photo pane...
Letters • Published Feb 21, 2024 08 am
Do you remember the “dark” days of COVID? Information was, at best, confusing, and knowledge about the virus was evolving. It took a long time, but clarity started to eme...
Letters • Published Feb 14, 2024 08 am
Kudos to the resident suggesting a traffic light at the Flat Meadow Road/Durham Road Route 77 intersection. We are grateful, too, for local and state officials who took t...
Letters • Published Feb 14, 2024 08 am
I would like to publicly acknowledge the tremendous efforts of Sergio and the Garcia-Perez family to bring the Multicultural Festival to Guilford on Feb. 1, 2024. Hosted ...
Letters • Published Feb 07, 2024 08 am
Those who support locating the APT Foundation methadone clinic in a residential area of Guilford propose that a methadone clinic is no different from a diabetic clinic.
I...
Letters • Published Feb 07, 2024 08 am
Guilford Interfaith Volunteers would like to thank First Selectman Matt Hoey and The Guilford Foundation team for the support given to our non-profit as part of the distr...
Letters • Published Jan 31, 2024 08 am
The Guilford Meals on Wheels program would like to thank Guilford Social Services Director Donna Falcone and Program Coordinator Kristin Jones for partnering with our org...
Letters • Published Jan 31, 2024 08 am
Does anyone know that the Guilford Planning and Zoning Commission (PZC) approved the site plan for an APT methadone clinic at 439 Boston Post Road (the former Play Café) ...
Letters • Published Jan 31, 2024 08 am
How many citizens of Guilford are aware that a methadone clinic is scheduled to be built at 439 Post Road in Guilford, within close proximity to hundreds of homes and bus...
Letters • Published Jan 31, 2024 08 am
First Selectman Matt Hoey has announced that the Board of Selectmen (BOS) intends to allow retail marijuana based on a 2022 survey. Mr. Hoey ignores that the primary conc...
Letters • Published Jan 31, 2024 08 am
On behalf of The Guilford Foundation (TGF), we extend our heartfelt appreciation to First Selectman Matt Hoey and the entire Guilford Board of Selectmen for their excepti...
Letters • Published Jan 31, 2024 08 am
Kendal Svengalis is still pitching Armand Fusco’s books (“Self-Serving,” Jan. 18). He says Fusco’s latest book was published “through the auspices of Greater Education Co...
Letters • Published Jan 31, 2024 08 am
On behalf of Scouts BSA Troops 471 and 475, we want to sincerely thank the Guilford community for your generosity during our annual Christmas Tree Collection and Recyclin...
