Mayor Joe Ganim has officially filed the paperwork to seek another four-year term as chief executive of Connecticut’s largest city in advance of the 2023
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Tag: Jasper McLevy
On Presidents Day Recalling Lincoln’s Visit To Bridgeport–How Would Lincoln And Frederick Douglass Converse Contemporary Race?
Have you pondered historical figures you’d crave to meet and transport them decades and even centuries for an assessment of their contributions and legacies? How
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Wanted: Gladiator Personnel Director
The executive search firm CPS HR Consulting the city has retained to assist with the hiring of the Personnel Director position has created quite the application
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Deadline Looms To Apply For City Personnel Director–Pick Will Lead National Search For Police Chief
Here’s your chance to become Personnel Director of Connecticut’s largest city. The deadline to apply is Wednesday, according to the job posting on the city’s
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Come Together: Celebrate Juneteenth Day, Lincoln’s Call To Action, And What It Means
2021 is a year of celebration for Bridgeport, Connecticut’s most populous city, a gritty community born 200 years ago when a parent (Stratford) no longer
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‘Let The Guy Who Put The Snow There Take It Away’–A Bicentennial Blizzard Shovels A Mayor From The Past, Socialist Jasper McLevy
This image that appeared in the Bridgeport Herald in 1938 mocks Pete “Sunshine” Brewster, Mayor Jasper McLevy’s Public Works director, snoozing through a snow storm.
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Gene O’Neill, Retired Police Sergeant, Bon Vivant, Dead From Covid At 87
Gene O’Neill was an original. He could negotiate people to places they didn’t even know they were going. Charming, accessible, diplomatic; he enjoyed the dexterity
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City Sheriff Dennis Scinto, North End District Leader, Dies
Long-time City Sheriff Dennis Scinto, who presided over North End politics as Democratic leader of the 134th District, passed away on Tuesday, according to several
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