Shelton, Connecticut Shelton, Connecticut Official seal of Shelton, Connecticut Location in Fairfield County and the state of Connecticut.
Location in Fairfield County and the state of Connecticut.
Shelton is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States.
1.3 Rise of Shelton's office space Shelton was settled by the English as part of the town of Stratford, Connecticut, in 1639.
Joseph Judson, Captain Joseph Hawley and John Minor had secured all the written deeds of transfer from the Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation for this vast territory that comprises the present-day suburbs of Trumbull, Shelton and Monroe.
Shelton was split off from Stratford in 1789, as Huntington (named for Samuel Huntington). The current name originated in a manufacturing village started in the 1860s titled for the Shelton Company established by Edward N.
Shelton also founder of Ousatonic Water Power Company. The quickly growing borough of Shelton incorporated as a town/city in 1915 and was merged with the town of Huntington in 1919 establishing the present town/city of Shelton. Shelton was the site of one of the biggest arson fires in the United States history.
The explosion that finished the Sponge Rubber Plant on Canal Street in 1975 marked the start of the diminish of Shelton's industries.
Rise of Shelton's office space Several downtown streets have been reconstructed as part of a streetscape enhancement project: sidewalks were reconstructed with brick and cobblestone, trees were planted, and some power lines were rerouted underground to advancement the appearance of Shelton's central company district. In March 2008, Connecticut Governor M.
Jodi Rell announced that after negotiations with State Senator Dan Debicella and State Representative Jason Perillo, state bond funds in the amount of $2 million would be directed toward additional transit framework improvements dominant to over $100 million in private investment in the city's downtown. In November 2007, a tree burgeoning on Soundview Avenue in Shelton was chose and felled to be the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. in downtown Shelton.
In November 2013, a tree positioned on Kazo Drive was picked to be the second Rockefeller Center Christmas tree from Shelton.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 31.9 square miles (83 km2), of which 30.6 square miles (79 km2) is territory and 1.4 square miles (3.6 km2), or 4.26%, is water.
Political representation at the state level has been Republican since the 1960s. Republican State Senator Kevin Kelly is the newest legislator representing Shelton in Hartford, having been propel in 2010.
Republican State Representative Larry Miller of the 122nd District has represented the town/city since 1991.
At the federal level, Shelton is represented by Democratic Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy.
Representation of Shelton in the House of Representatives is split between the 3rd and 4th Congressional districts, which are represented by Democratic Representatives Rosa De - Lauro and Jim Himes, in the order given.
The boundary between the two congressional districts lies roughly along Route 8; the portion of the town/city to the north and west of Route 8 are represented by Congressman Himes, while Representative De - Lauro represents sections of Shelton to the south and east.
Shelton has favored Republicans in recent state and presidential elections.
Shelton voters favored Mitt Romney (54%) over Barack Obama (44%) amid the 2012 presidential elections.
Remaining Shelton voters in the 2012 president election voted for candidates from the Justice, Libertarian and Green parties, in the order given. Shelton voters favored John Mc - Cain (51%) over Barack Obama (47%) amid the 2008 presidential elections. City voters also favored George W.
Bush (48%) over Al Gore (46%) in 2000. Shelton voters also favored Republican Thomas Foley (61%) over Democrat and current Governor Dannel Malloy (38%) amid the 2011 gubernatorial election. Shelton is presently one of the several municipalities in Connecticut with its own Sheriff's Department, the Shelton Sheriff's Department, whose chief task is the due process inside the town/city lines and to execute judicial warrants inside the city, much like the Fairfield County Sheriff's Department did before its abolishment in December 2000.
The City of Shelton's goal is to preserve at least 15% of the territory as permanently protected, locally controlled open space in the following three forms: City of Shelton Public Open Space properties, Privately owned farmland protected by the purchase of evolution rights, and properties held by the non-profit Shelton Land Conservation Trust.
The City of Shelton owns close to 2,000 acres (8.1 km2) of Public Open Space, Protected Farmland is 411 acres (1.66 km2), and the Shelton Land Trust organization has preserved 364 acres (1.47 km2).
The City of Shelton's conservation accomplishments are served by a town/city agency in form of the Conservation Commission.
Further knowledge is maintained at the Commission's official City of Shelton webpages: Shelton Public Schools include Shelton High School for grades 9 through 12, Shelton Intermediate School for grades 7 and 8.
The City of Shelton is protected by the 267-member all-volunteer Shelton Fire Department (SFD).
Highland Golf Club of Shelton is positioned in the downtown Shelton region where it was established in 1900, only six years after the USGA was organized.
Brownson Country Club is an 18-hole venue positioned in the Huntington section of Shelton.
Baldwin Technology is headquartered in Shelton operations from Shelton Cartier SA has an office in Shelton is a manufacturer of battery test and formation equipment in Shelton is headquartered in Shelton, 40 Waterview Drive Panolam is headquartered in Shelton Precision Resource in headquartered in Shelton, 25 Forest Parkway Shelton is home to Wiffle Ball, Inc., manufacturers of the initial Wiffle Ball Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation has an Overhaul and Repair (O&R) facility in Shelton Tetley USA is headquartered in Shelton Dan Debicella (1974 ), the only State Senator (2006 2010) from Shelton since World War II Shelton also has a weekly newspaper, the Shelton Herald.
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Scinto pleads guilty in Shelton corruption probe (video, documents)- The New Haven Register - Serving New Haven, Connecticut.
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"Crews cut Shelton spruce for Rockefeller Center Christmas tree".
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Shelton spruce to grace Rockefeller Center Connecticut Post.
Shelton Board of Aldermen Archived February 3, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
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"State to aid Shelton firm's move," by Maya Rao, The Hartford Courant, June 15, 2006; Rao cites James Ryan, head of the Shelton Economic Development Commission.
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