Winsted

WINSTED — Author and political activist Dimitra Doukas led the first in a series of community workshops entitled “Community in Tumultuous Times” at the office of the community lawyer, located at 97 Main St., on Wednesday, April 3.
According to Doukas, the purpose of the workshop series is to allow residents to share ideas on how to solve pressing problems within the community.
Doukas is the critically acclaimed author of “Worked Over: The Corporate Sabotage of an American Community,” which was published in 2003.

WINSTED — A member of the group Winsted Area Peace Action is hoping to promote and raise money for the organization by selling T-shirts with a homemade peace theme she designed.
Fran DeVevo of Torrington, a former Winsted resident, said she came up with the idea last year, during the Chinese Year of the Dragon. She incorporated a dragon into the design for a peace sign and printed off a few shirts.

WINSTED — School Business Manager Nadine Savage told the Winchester Board of Education’s Finance Committee April 9 that she is projecting the school system to be underspent by more than $77,000 by the end of the fiscal year on June 30, but that she expects that the surplus will end up being spent for incidental bills.
Savage noted that a number of accounts for the year had been overspent, while others had been underspent. An anticipated excess cost reimbursement of $290,600 will end up putting the school system in the black.

WINSTED — Residents were split in their opinions about the proposed fiscal year 2013-2014 budget at a public hearing held by selectmen at Pearson Middle School on Thursday, April 4. More than 30 residents and town officials attended the hearing to review the proposal.
Superintendent of Schools Thomas Danehy noted that his originally proposed a budget for the coming year was $22,199,590, but Town Manager Dale Martin cut Danehy’s proposed budget to the state mandated Minimum Budget Requirement (MBR) of $19,958,149.