Learn about emergency animal response at EARS event in Danbury Saturday
The CT Emergency Animal Response Service (EARS) will host a Meet & Greet open to the public at Panera Bread on Sugar Hollow Road in Danbury, Saturday, Feb. 22, at 4 p.m. The Meet & Greet is...
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Carolina wrens
For three days _ Feb. 15, 16 and 17th – I stood at my kitchen window in the morning, cup of tea in hand, and watched the birds in my feeders. I was taking part in the Great Backyard Bird Count, a...
View ArticleDanbury Lego team goes on to World Festival
The Technic Terminators, a Danbury Lego team, was invited to compete in the World Festival that takes place in Missouri in April. They are the only team from Connecticut at the event that features the...
View ArticleCycling studio’s grand opening in Bethel coming up
Local resident Jeanne Query will have the grand opening of Exceleride Cycling Studio Monday, Feb. 24, and is excited to share her enthusiasm for the new indoor cycling studio in Dolan Plaza, Bethel,...
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Who goes there?
Really, I was wondering what went there when A straight line of these prints coming through the woods to my driveway appeared overnight. I found a straight line of these prints leading from the deep...
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Venus in the morning
Venus – the morning star – is the brightest object in the sky. Right now, it’s shining brilliantly in the morning sky, in the southeast. So if you’re up before dawn and see a dazzler, you know who’s...
View ArticleRegion 12 enrollment projections: huge decline
Voters in Bridgewater, Roxbury and Washington will be asked to go to the polls likely in April to decide on changing the regionalization plan for their Region 12 school district and whether a...
View ArticleSalt relief package helps area municipalities
The state Department of Transportation has distributed nearly 5,000 tons of salt to 42 cities and towns in Connecticut this week to replenish diminishing supplies caused by the unusual winter season....
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Elephants are kind
There’s a new study that elephants now show empathy for other elephants in their herd. If one is distressed, others come to reassure it that things are all right. So along with vocalizing and grieving,...
View Article84-year-old nun ordered to prison for protest
Megan Rice, an octogenarian nun and seasoned peace activist, was sentenced to 35 months in prison after breaking into the grounds of a nuclear weapons complex once considered the “Fort Knox” of...
View ArticleTrain derailment in New Milford
UPDATE 12:55 p.m. A New Milford police officer remains at the scene of a Housatonic Railroad engine derailment to monitor traffic in the narrow road adjacent to the tracks. The first of two engines...
View ArticleRidgefield zoners change apartment regulations
The Ridgefield Planning and Zoning Commission Tuesday approved a charge in zoning regulations that will increase the number of apartment allowed over office buildings. With the change, property owners...
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The Northern Lights
I’ve seen the Northern Lights _ the Aurora Borealis – maybe three times in my life. As is often the case, the night’s it’s been predicted, there’s nothing. The nights where I might see it, I’m...
View ArticleLawmaker blasts wage proposal as a job killer
State Sen. Toni Boucher, R-Wilton, issued a statement Wednesday calling out members of the legislature’s Labor Committee for a proposal she said would have a chilling effect on job creation efforts in...
View ArticleNewtown earns highest bond rating
One of the nation’s top financial rating services, Standard & Poor’s, has given Newtown its first AAA bond rating, a coup that town officials say comes due to the efforts of many to assure that the...
View ArticleNewtown lawmaker voices support for open space
Newtown’s Republican State Rep. Mitch Bolinsky, 106th District, supported legislation this week to strengthen the state’s open space laws. At an Environmental Committee public hearing, Bolinsky was...
View ArticleNewtown leaders to look at long-term plan for security
Newtown resident Walter Motyka told the Board of Selectmen Tuesday night that he thinks the town and schools would be best served by hiring a security firm if they intend to put post armed guards in...
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‘Romance of the Spanish Guitar’ to be featured on Saturday night
Lisa Spraragen is probably not your typical flamenco guitarist and dancer, having grown up in a Jewish family in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Rhode Island. But Spraragen — who has performed for more than 25...
View ArticleFree literary gathering at Danbury’s Palace Theater March 12
Naugatuck Valley Community College hosts Confluencia, a multicultural literary gathering, at the Danbury Palace on Wednesday, March 12 beginning at 5:30 p.m. Area residents and all lovers of literature...
View ArticleListen to college debaters at Western campus this weekend
Western Connecticut State University’s Roger Sherman Debate Society hosts the annual Hat City Debate Tournament on Feb. 22 and 23 on the university’s Midtown campus in Danbury. More than 400 student...
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