Derby probes makeshift tents in woods

By Jean Falbo-Sosnovich
Register Correspondent
DERBY >> The city is looking into a situation where homeless people are supposedly living in makeshift tents in the woods near the Derby Greenway.
Alderman Art Gerckens, who also chairs the aldermen’s community relations subcommittee, said several residents informed the committee this week about the issue.
“There have been people living there … and it has been reported to several aldermen that there is a vagrant problem,” Gerckens said. “We also were informed there has been a burglary or two to the businesses in that area.”

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