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The state transportation committee is ready to vote today on a bill that would require students to wear seat belts aboard all school buses. The bill calls for the installation of lap-and-shoulder, or three-point, seat belts on school buses by January 1st of next year. The bill comes after a 16-year-old Rocky Hill High School student was killed when the school bus on which he was riding crashed on Interstate 84 in January. Vikas Parikh's family members believe their son might be alive today if he had been belted in before the weekend school trip.
The developer of Norwalk's Waypointe project has tax issues. The "Hour" is reporting Stanley Seligson owes the city about a half-million dollars in back taxes and faces foreclosure on one city building. And Mayor Richard Moccia says no work on Waypointe will begin until Seligson owns up to his tax obligations. Last Friday, the Norwalk tax collector's office did receive 167-thousand-dollars for taxes on properties. The Waypointe project will consist of a mix of retail, medical and office space in the area of West Avenue.
Foreclosures in Connecticut were up three-point-four percent from January to February. The foreclosure tracking firm RealtyTrac says there were nearly 23-hundred foreclosure filings in the state last month, compared with about 22-hundred in January. Total foreclosures nationwide decreased two-percent from January to February.
In towns throughout lower Fairfield County, downed trees litter the sides of streets. Large trees came crashing down as hurricane-force winds buffetted the area this weekend. A fire truck in Westport is in need of repairs after a tree came down, knocking off it's bucket. In Stamford, Mayor Michael Pavia declared a state of emergency in his city. The city also opened a warming shelter for those who need it at Stamford High School. In Greenwich, First Selectman Peter Tesei calls the damage "catastrophic".
A Stamford man is charged with impersonating a police officer before abducting a Norwalk Community College Coed. Police say 27-year-old Alexander Wendorf is charged. The incident occurred tuesday around seven p.m. Police say Wendorf pulled up to the woman in his car, asking for directions and claiming to be a Norwalk cop. He drove off with the woman, who was able to escape. She sustained minor injuries jumping from the moving SUV. Wendorf was tracked down and arrested without incident. He's being held on a half-million-dollars bond.
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