DANBURY — The city has a new recreation director in Shaun Ratchford — a longtime city coach, city educator, and freshman City Council member.

DANBURY — The City Council by an 18 to 2 vote backed Mayor Roberto Alves’ $311.65 million 2024-25 city spending plan Tuesday night.

DANBURY — On the eve of the City Council’s scheduled vote to approve Mayor Roberto Alves’ $311.65 million 2024-25 city spending proposal, local legislators and Alves’ administration announced that Danbury is expecting a $12 million boost in state aid for the upcoming fiscal year.

DANBURY — The Danbury Transit Center, a vision long in the works that has sat shelved, may finally get off the ground with the infusion of new federal funds toward the project.

DANBURY – The connection between new sewer readings and more downtown apartments may not be clear to the everyday resident, but city leaders see a direct link between a new sewer capacity study and more Main Street investment by developers.

DANBURY — A series of appointments primarily aimed at bolstering the city’s finance department, which faces scrutiny from the state due to the late filings of financial audits for the last three fiscal years, were announced this week by Mayor Roberto Alves' office.

DANBURY — The city has installed new stop signs on Deer Hill Avenue at its intersection with Garfield Avenue and Wilson Street in an effort to deter speeding and to prevent motor vehicle crashes along the busy residential thoroughfare.

DANBURY — If you’ve got the way to drain the flooding problem on Kenosia Avenue or the way to unjam the traffic backups on Mill Plain Road or the way to bring life back to the downtown, newly elected Mayor Roberto Alves has a seat at the table for you.

As the clock winds closer to November, the pressure will ratchet up on everything. Every drop of sweat and campaign dollar will matter. At the moment, Roberto Alves says he has more in the tank on both accounts. We spoke to Alves on the Tuesday (8/8/23) edition of the I-95 Morning Show and asked him how the campaign was going and he told us this…

The two candidates for Danbury mayor are on opposite sides of many of the issues facing the city’s schools.

Democrat Roberto Alves, who is challenging Republican Mayor Dean Esposito for a second time, was highly critical of Esposito in an interview with CT Examiner, claiming the administration is neither open, transparent nor honest.

Last evening, at the 2023 Municipal Nomination Meeting (of the Danbury Democratic Town Committee), Roberto Alves was enthusiastically and unanimously nominated to be the Democratic Candidate for Mayor.

The record $345,000 total raised by the campaigns of Democratic challenger Roberto Alves and GOP Mayor Dean Esposito points to high voter interest…

City Hall’s fast work to get an updated voting map drawn by an expert after Democrats threatened a federal lawsuit is scheduled to be acted upon after the Fourth of July holiday weekend.

The outdated voting map the City Council adopted in April that didn’t adjust for population shifts on the booming west side will be redrawn ‘very shortly’ after Democrats hired a high-powered law firm and threatened a federal suit.

The recent revelations regarding the $20 million overpayment made by the mayor for the future Career Academy High School have serious implications. While it’s commendable that that our Democratic legislative leaders secured a financial fix to save taxpayers, there are critical issues which must be addressed for the sake of transparency and the timely construction of the Career Academy.

Danbury tax hike called 'absolutely unreasonable,' but GOP approves $295 million municipal budget

Democrat Roberto Alves wants a rematch against GOP Mayor Dean Esposito.

Press release from the Alves Campaign:

Democratic candidate for Mayor Roberto Alves today announced his third-quarter fundraising total. Since announcing his campaign on January 7th Alves has raised $169,000 -- the most any candidate for Mayor of Danbury raised through their third quarter…

DANBURY — With the public schools facing funding and enrollment challenges, local education is among the chief concerns for the city’s mayoral candidates.

Republican Dean Esposito and Democrat Roberto Alves aim to study the need for more classrooms and work with the school district to address their financial needs. But the two mayoral hopefuls differ greatly on a proposed charter school.

As we approach Election Day (Nov. 2), we will have both Danbury Mayoral Candidates join the Ethan and Lou Show each Friday morning.

The last time we spoke to Danbury's Democratic candidate for Mayor, we spent time asking about Downtown (Main Street) issues and wanted to branch out a bit this week. We wanted to know what voters are talking about in the rest of Danbury.