The following headlines and articles appeared in the Stamford Advocate decades ago on Jan. 29.
10 years ago
Plan to unify fire services gets approval
The Board of Finance recommended in a special meeting last night that the Board of Representatives approve a plan unifying all paid firefighters at three volunteer fire departments under one labor contract.
Five finance board members voted in favor of issuing a positive advisory opinion. Republican Joseph Tarzia, who raised concerns about the plan's effect on response by firefighters, abstained from voting.
The Board of Representatives is not required to follow the finance board’s opinion when it votes on the matter in a special meeting tomorrow night.
20 years ago
High school student’s infection prompts alert
School officials in Norwalk are offering free tuberculosis screenings after a Brien McMahon High School junior died of the respiratory disease.
Junior Wesline Gracia died last Thursday at Norwalk Hospital of tuberculosis, according to her death certificate.
About two weeks ago, school and health department officials notified parents and students that a student at Brien McMahon High School had contracted tuberculosis.
30 years ago
DOT calls for wider highways by 2010
The Connecticut Department of Transportation has projected that 10 new highway lanes — six on Interstate 95 and four on the Merritt Parkway — will be needed by the year 2010 unless other solutions are found to ease traffic congestion.
The construction project was estimated to cost $2.4 billion.
As an alternative, DOT is evaluating a combined strategy of increasing ride-sharing and rail commuting and constructing only one lane in each direction on both highways, according to a transportation study of the 40-mile corridor between New Haven and Greenwich.