On the ground: Elderly concerned about budget cuts
Even before Mayor John DeStefano Jr. finished explaining the New Haven budget to his audience at a town hall meeting Wednesday night, 85-year-old Harry Conroy stood up in anger to take his turn.
“I haven’t heard anything about the elderly,” he said forcefully. The mayor, he said, is not addressing the plight of the seniors. Amid scattered cries of, “Sit down, Harold,” from the audience, Conroy declaimed, “Come on, this is free speech … . What’s the matter with you people? Haven’t you got any guts out there?”
Held at St. Bernadette’s Church on Townsend Avenue in the East...
