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...Omar ended up eating meal after meal of peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches, shared by a Jewish patrol leader who, suspecting it might be tough to keep kosher, had brought enough for others. And no Muslim chaplain was on site to lead Friday services, so Asad Shahid, 15, of Naugatuck, Conn., nervously guided his fellow scouts to a spot in the shade of a big oak tree, turned to face Mecca and led the prayers for the first time in his life...
Beyond Harvard, Lavietes was the director of the Boys and Girls Club of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, to which he donated his former factory site as a headquarters...
...group is descended from them as a tribe. Historical documents show that as early as 1639 the Paugussetts asked the Governor of Massachusetts to help them recover "squaws" taken into slavery by English settlers. At that time the tribe numbered about 800 members, who fished the Housatonic and Naugatuck rivers and cultivated corn and other vegetables. Sun worshippers, they prayed to the east every morning. Many Paugussetts died fighting in the 1637 Pequot War against the English. After that war, much of their land was sold or taken away. By 1875 the Paugussetts had only a quarter-acre left...
Still other sites show why lawsuits proliferate so quickly around a toxic site. In Naugatuck, Connecticut, when the EPA targeted Uniroyal Chemical and 18 other companies for dumping waste, they turned around and sued 24 municipalities and more than 1,000 individuals and small-business owners...
Robert B. Crim Naugatuck, Conn...