Waterbury has been referred to as “The Brass City” and “The Brass Capitol of The World”. This article is the first in a four part series written by Raechel Guest exploring the history and legacy of ...

The permitting process to allow F&G to operate a garbage plant in the South End of Waterbury has not met the legal outreach requirements that protect a distressed Hispanic population living within a ...

It was 1921 when 17-year –old Frances Splettstocher landed a job at the Waterbury Clock Company on Cherry Street. It was a glamorous job, for she and her young colleagues worked with radium – the ...

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(Subscribe to The Brass File to get it e-mailed free to your in-box by clicking on the link at the bottom of this page. Thank you.) Story By John Murray John Regan is so dangerous that even after ...

(Editor’s note – this is 7th article in a series The Waterbury Observer is publishing about unsolved murders of Waterbury women in the past 34 years, six of whose bodies were hidden in the forest ...

Camile Atallah was honored on Januray 26th as the Lebanese Mayor For A Day during a ceremony inside Waterbury City Hall. Waterbury Mayor Neil O’Leary is on the left. Atallah was born in Beruit in 1961 ...

The dance group “Besa” performed “Valle e Devollit” at the 6th Annual Albanian Festival at the Albanian- American Muslim Community Center, on Raymond Street, in the South End of Waterbury. Valle means ...

A containment boom and absorbent pads at a drainage pipe in Waterbury where an estimated 6000 gallons of hydraulic oil escaped from the Somers Thin Strip manufacturing plant in the South End of ...

(Subscribe to The Brass File to get it e-mailed free to your in-box by clicking on the link at the bottom of this page. Thank you.) Story By John Murray The news that an iconic and abandoned diner on ...

Neil O’Leary, right, and Michael Gugliotti embraced on Election Day 2011 moments after O’Leary knew he’d ended Michael Jarjura’s 10-year reign as mayor of Waterbury. Gugliotti was the police chief at ...

The neglected north gate of American Brass as it looks now. In the twentieth century, Waterbury’s brass industry was dominated by the “Big Three” — Scovill, Chase and Anaconda-American Brass. During ...