A Father's Plea, Illegal Sewer Line Crackdown And A Rabid Racoon Top The Week In Review

A professional planner told New Milford zoning officials Tuesday night that affordable housing on the 13-acre United Water parcel is an  Under the definition of "inherently beneficial use" a developer can receive variance approval.

At Monday's work session, Councilman Austin Ashley pushed to have an additional $143,000 in surplus allocated to pay for the entire cost of the borough's tax reassessment despite Mayor Ann Subrizi's concern that it would diminish the surplus and potentially affect the borough's credit rating.

A proposed new multi-use athletic field would cost an estimated $1.9 million, although grants and possible corporate sponsorship could reduce the amount the average New Milford taxpayer would pay, according to discussion at the mayor and council work session Monday night.

A drunken New Milford man took his girlfriend's car early Monday, demanded free food from 7-Eleven, threatened to kill police officers and then drank from a cell toilet.

Joseph Bottigliero, 63, of Kingston, N.Y., was arrested by New Milford Police Wednesday for allegedly threatening a borough employee. 

The mayor and council authorized allocating an additional $45,564 to the police department's capital budget for the purchase of half of the requested narrowband compliant portable and car radios, as well as a repeater for headquarters, during Monday's work session.

Tony Montelaro, the father of 1976 murder victim Kim Montelaro, testified Wednesday to the state Parole Board in an effort to keep his daughter's killer behind bars.

The mayor and council have amended the borough's sewer ordinance to get tough on residents who illegally hook-up sump pumps to sanitary sewer lines.

The New Milford Health Department has issued a statement that a raccoon found in New Milford last week has tested positive for rabies.