🌱 Patch AM: Ex-Naugatuck Teacher Arrested, Police Say

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• Former Naugatuck teacher charged after texts with 15-year-old

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📰 News we're reading

• Ex-Naugatuck Teacher Arrested, Police Say (patch.com) — Naugatuck parents are being urged to review their children's online communications after a former local teacher was arrested on a charge of harmful communication with a minor. Police say the Naugatuck Board of Education alerted them in June about concerns involving a 15-year-old, leading to an investigation, the teacher's arrest, and his removal from district employment.
   

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Thursday August 27
• SPIRITUAL NIGHT - A Night of Readings →
  Twisted Vine Restaurant, 285 Main St, Derby
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Sunday August 23
• Rough Medicine: The Medicine and Surgery of the American Revolution - Free to Attend →
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Monday August 24
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Tuesday August 25
• Afternoon Computer Classes
  Silas Bronson Library Computer Classroom
  1:30 pm
Wednesday August 26
• Medicaid and Medicare
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  3:00 pm
• Evening Computer Classes
  Silas Bronson Library 267 Grand Street, Waterbury, CT 06702
  6:30 pm
Thursday August 27
• BRASS Book Club
  Silas Bronson Library Zoom
  12:30 pm
• Virtual Author Talk - Lucy Foley
  Middlebury Public Library 30 Crest Road, Middlebury, CT 06762
  2:00 pm
• Coloring & Conversations
  Silas Bronson Library Auditorium
  2:30 pm
• Mobile Wellness Van – Waterbury →
  MOON MART, 229 Whitewood Rd, Waterbury
  4:30 pm
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🗞 Nearby News

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Waterbury

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• Naugatuck teacher arrested after sharing text messages with a minor (nbcconnecticut.com)

Wallingford

• 'Meticulously Maintained' Home Hits The Market In Wallingford (patch.com)

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