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Volume 17, Number 11
Friday, March 18, 2022
Memorial scholarship honors beloved music teacher By Nicole Zappone The Citizen
Nigro
Richard Nigro dedicated his life to teaching music.
his wife, Ann, were set to move into their new home in Rock Hill, South Carolina when he suffered a heart attack in April 2021.
Sadly, soon after retiring from North Haven Middle School, Nigro, a Berlin resident, died unexpectedly. The 66-year-old and
Now, Nigro’s daughter, Kristina, has set up a memorial scholarship in his name. The award will be distributed to at least one
North Haven High School student each spring, beginning this year. “I know how much he was loved in North Haven. and giving back to the town and kids there would be something he would appreciate,” Kristina Nigro said. “He truly loved his North Haven
Local woman doing her part to support Ukraine
Born in Meriden, Richard Nigro graduated from Maloney High School and Western Connecticut See NIgro, A2
Resident, former federal agent to discuss his book ‘The Thin Blue Lie’ Former federal agent Greg Dillon will discuss his book “The Thin Blue Lie: An Honest Cop vs. The FBI” Tuesday, April 12 at the North Haven Library.
By Nicole Zappone The Citizen
Kalie Peccerillo, an adjunct professor and doctoral student at the University of New Haven, felt compelled to act after learning that two Ukrainian faculty members were putting care packages together for people in their war-torn counNorth Haven resident Kalie Peccerillo is working with St. try. So Peccerillo, a North Haven resident, put a call out on social media asking for donations.
Middle School family. He spoke so highly of his coworkers, which meant most of them were more like family.”
Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church in New Haven to make care packages for the people of Ukraine. Submitted photo
And they came pouring in.
are sent to Lviv, Ukraine where they are distributed by relief organizations.
Peccerillo has collected non-perishable food items, clothes and footwear, blankets, bedding, First Aid kits, and more for the care package effort, spearheaded by St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church in New Haven. The care packages
“I am also a practice manager at Yale for pediatricadolescent gynecologist Dr. Alla Vash-Margita, who is Ukrainian,” Peccerillo pointed out. “So that has made even more of an emotional impact on me and created this strong desire to help.”
Local mother Taylor Aceto was happy to contribute to Peccerillo’s care package collection. “I am proud to now be teaching my children what it means to give to those in need,” she said. Kalie Peccerillo can be reached at kalie.peccerillo@ gmail.com.
A North Haven resident for more than 30 years, Dillon was a police inspector assigned to an FBI fugitive Dillon task force in Connecticut when he discovered FBI agents falsifying affidavits and attributing that information to Dillon and two investigators he supervised. After realizing the mistakes were intentional and ongoing, Dillon reported his concerns to his boss, and subsequently was removed from the FBI fugitive task force, reassigned, demoted, harassed and threatened with termination. After filing a federal civil action against his employer, a jury trial followed involving testimony from renowned forensic scientist Dr. Henry
Lee, and the most famous police whistleblower of all time, former New York City detective Frank Serpico. Dillon earned a major courtroom victory and a landmark decision, but the retaliation continued. “If I come across as bitter at times during this account in ‘The Thin Blue Lie,’ it is because I still am,” Dillon said. “If you are like me, you may believe your honesty will be fairly received, only to learn you are now the problem. It did not go the way I expected. Not by a long shot.” See Book, A3