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Western hosts discussion on colleges’ role with athletes
National Collegiate Athletic Association President Dr. Mark Emmert will deliver the President’s Lecture at 7:30 pm on Feb. 5 at Western Connecticut State University. The lecture will be held in Ives...
View ArticleGED test now on line, other tests in other states
The new year brings new tests for students who seek an alternative to earning a traditional high school diploma. And the six New England states are split on how to proceed. The old GED (general...
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Extraordinary Hubble pictures
The Hubble Space Telescope has allowed the greatest advances in astronomy since Galileo. We’ve learned a huge amount about our solar system, the Milky Way and even deep space because of Hubble But it’s...
View ArticleBeck resignation ends ethics issue
Some two-and-a-half hours after he submitted his official resignation of his school board seat in Brookfield, Greg Beck’s hearing on two ethics complaints ended as the resignation made further action...
View ArticleVolunteers needed at Danbury shelter
The Association of Religious Communities is asking for volunteers to help run the town’s emergency shelter for the homeless at the First Congregational Church on Deer Hill Avenue. The volunteers’ shift...
View ArticleBrookfield audit raises concern
Brookfield town auditors released findings at Board of Finance meeting Wed. Night. The determination that school district overspent budget for two years by some $1.15 million-$479,000 to be credited...
View ArticleCoyle resigns from zoning post
Jim Coyle. a newly elected member of the Ridgefield Planning and Zoning Commission, has resigned from the commission for health reasons. The commission will interview successors to Coyle at its...
View ArticleMAR offers audition and choreography master classes in Danbury
Musicals at Richter (MAR) will host two special Master Classes with Broadway star and Connecticut native Marissa Perry at Vitti’s Dance Studio, 10 Precision Road in Danbury, on Monday, Jan. 20. The...
View ArticleNew state troopers join area barracks
The Connecticut State Police graduated 83 new State Troopers, all members of the 123rd Training Troop, on Jan. 9, 2014. Several of the new troopers will be serving out of barracks in western...
View ArticleDelayed openings due to snow in Danbury
DANBURY — There isn’t much snow on the roads in the Danbury area this morning but in areas where plows and sanding trucks have yet to make a second pass there is just enough to slow traffic down....
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Large predator declaine endangers environment
The big predators of the world – lions, wolves, leopards. pumas – rule their world. They need lots of territory and they have an environmental impact on that territory. As they decline, the...
View ArticleBrookfield Democrats elect new chairman
About 35 local Democrats, including some political newcomers, attended the Democratic Town Committee caucus on Thursday night and elected a new chairman to join the acting chairman who is now the...
View ArticleNewtown school board does site visit in Southington
Members of the Newtown school board were expected to conduct a site visit in Southing today to determine whether or not they will soon vote to hire their current top candidate, Southington Schools...
View ArticleDickinson Drive in Newtown will be access to new Sandy Hook school
Town leaders were unable to negotiate a deal with owners of private property on Riverside Road to buy their two-lot property, and so the Legislative Council was informed that the architects Svigal...
View ArticleFormer CT ed commissioner writes about reforms
Former CT Commissioner of Education Gerald Tirozzi has a book out called “Stop the School Bus: “How to put school reform initiatives back on track.” In it, he discusses school reform initiatives that...
View ArticleJesse lee Church seek expansion
RIDGEFIELD — The Planning and Zoning Commission will hear an initial request from the Jesse Lee Memorial Methodist Church on Main Street to add office space to the church buildings. The commission...
View ArticleLions Club sponsors blood drive in Newtown
The Newtown Lions Club will sponsor the Red Cross blood drive at Newtown Congregational Church, 14 West St. in Newtown, Monday, Jan. 13, from 8:30 a.m. to 6:15 p.m. You can register to donate blood by...
View ArticleArea students ready for World Affairs competition
Students from area high schools will compete on February 1st at Academic WorldQuest at UCONN/Stamford. This regional competition of high school teams, each made up of four students representing grades...
View ArticleLearn about island ponies in Bethel
Photographer Jayne Silberman will do a book signing and discussion of her book, “In the Herd: A Photographic Journey with the Chincoteague Ponies and the Assateague Horses” on Sat., Jan. 18, from 1-3...
View ArticleThe 4th Congressional District
There are now three Republicans vying for their party”s nomination for the 4th Congressional District _ State Re. John Shaban, R-Redding, former State Sen. Dan Debicella and Carl Higbie of Greenwich, a...
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