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Ridgefield Family Inspires Teaching, Learning At Danbury's Wooster School Ridgefield Family Inspires Teaching, Learning At Danbury's Wooster School
Ridgefield Family Inspires Teaching, Learning At Danbury's Wooster School DANBURY, Conn. — Wooster School’s Lower School students celebrated a day of creative play on Dec. 18 with their new Imagination Playground, which was facilitated by Ridgefield residents and Wooster parents John (Class of '81) and Bonnie Edelman. Donated by renowned New York architect David Rockwell, the Imagination Playground is a breakthrough playspace concept designed to encourage child-directed, unstructured free play - the kind of play that experts say is critical to a child’s intellectual, social, physical and emotional development. Comprised of an assortment of loose parts, includ…
Tetreau Applauds $5 Million In Grants To Shore Up Fairfield After Storm Tetreau Applauds $5 Million In Grants To Shore Up Fairfield After Storm
Tetreau Applauds $5 Million In Grants To Shore Up Fairfield After Storm FAIRFIELD, Conn. -- First Selectman Mike Tetreau announced that the Town of Fairfield has received over $5 million in state grants to restore and strengthen infrastructure that was damaged by Superstorm Sandy.  The state has allocated $30 million to a few communities that were severely impacted by the devastating storm. According to a press release issued by Gov. Dannel Malloy and Housing Commissioner Evonne Klein, Fairfield is one of 11 municipalities in Connecticut that has received funding to restore a suitable living environment in disaster impacted communities by rehabilitating or rec…
Diner In Norwalk Hosts Screening Of Booth Gardner Documentary Diner In Norwalk Hosts Screening Of Booth Gardner Documentary
Diner In Norwalk Hosts Screening Of Booth Gardner Documentary NORWALK, Conn. -- Silver Star Diner will screen the Oscar-nominated movie “The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner,” followed by a conversation with Tim Appleton, manager of Compassion & Choices – Connecticut will take place on Monday, Jan. 12.  Nominated in 2009 for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short, the movie chronicles the popular former state of Washington governor who, after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and in declining health, returned to the political spotlight in 2008 as the driving force behind a ballot initiative that would legalize a person's choice…
Sacred Heart’s Heartfelt Designs In Fairfield Helps Fund Mission Trips Sacred Heart’s Heartfelt Designs In Fairfield Helps Fund Mission Trips
Sacred Heart’s Heartfelt Designs In Fairfield Helps Fund Mission Trips FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Conn. – Heartfelt Designs, a T-shirt design business run by Sacred Heart University students to support charitable efforts at the school, announced that it has written its first check to the University’s Office of Volunteer Programs and Service Learning. The check is in the amount of $1,000 and helps fund student mission trips to El Salvador. The business was established in spring 2012 at the suggestion of university President John J. Petillo, and the group has added sweatpants to its line. Other new products are in development. The first series of Heartfelt-produce…
New Canaan Student Earns High Honors At Pomfret School New Canaan Student Earns High Honors At Pomfret School
New Canaan Student Earns High Honors At Pomfret School NEW CANAAN, Conn. -- Ian Buckley of New Canaan was recently named to the high honor roll for the fall term just ended at Pomfret School.  A student earns high honors with a grade-point average of at least 3.5 and no grade lower than a B-. Ian is a member of the Pomfret class of 2015. Founded in 1894 and coeducational since 1968, Pomfret School, in Pomfret, Conn., is an independent college preparatory boarding and day school for students in grades 9 through 12 and postgraduates.
Alison M. Fairhurst, 23, Lifelong White Plains Resident Alison M. Fairhurst, 23, Lifelong White Plains Resident
Alison M. Fairhurst, 23, Lifelong White Plains Resident WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- Alison M. Fairhurst, a lifelong resident of White Plains, died Sunday, Jan. 4. She was 23. She was born June 21, 1991, to Jeanette (Hazelton) and Allen Fairhurst. Alison graduated from White Plains High School and later from Purchase College with a bachelor's degree in 2013. She worked for the Guiding Eyes for the Blind as a Web specialist. Alison loved music, but her true love was for all animals -- especially fostering a guide dog named Maggie. Alison is survived by her parents; a brother, Jamie; and her grandparents, Donald and Carolyn Hazelton of Vermont. Vi…
Bedford Audubon Hosts Wildlife Law Lecture Bedford Audubon Hosts Wildlife Law Lecture
Bedford Audubon Hosts Wildlife Law Lecture KATONAH, N.Y. -- Bedford Audubon will welcome Alan Clark, a professor of biology at Fordham University on  Wednesday, Jan. 14 at 7:30 p.m., in the Garden Room at the Katonah Village Library, for a free public lecture on the history of wildlife law. Clark will present an informative and light-hearted journey exploring how wildlife law developed over time. This lecture will combine a biological and legal perspective to present a historical and entertaining approach to understanding what “wildlife” is and what is "law." Clark will begin with the early Greeks and Romans and conclude with a dis…
Joyce Roberto, Formerly Of Norwalk Joyce Roberto, Formerly Of Norwalk
Joyce Roberto, Formerly Of Norwalk GREENVILLE, S.C. -- Joyce H. Roberto, formerly of Norwalk, passed peacefully after a short illness Sunday, Dec. 28, in Greenville, S.C.  The wife of John N. Roberto, she lived in Connecticut for over 70 years, working as an RN and raising three daughters. She was very active in St. Paul’s on the Green, Frank C. Godfrey Unit 12 Auxiliary, the Norwalk Hospital Thrift Shop and many other personal volunteer activities.  She is survived by two daughters, Florence Grace Roberto of Greenville, S.C.; Karen Cowley of Simsbury, Conn.; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. She was prede…
Everett Fisher, Longtime Greenwich Resident Everett Fisher, Longtime Greenwich Resident
Everett Fisher, Longtime Greenwich Resident GREENWICH, Conn. -- Longtime Greenwich resident Everett Fisher died Monday, Jan. 5. He was in his early 90s. Legal counsel with Fogarty Cohen Selby & Nemiroff, he served on the Greenwich Board of Estimate and Taxation. Fisher also served on the town of Greenwich Retirement Board. He held numerous positions with Greenwich institutions, such as the Greenwich Boys and Girls Club, the Union Trust Co. and the Round Hill Club, where he served as a trustee for 55 years and served as president during the latter 1960s. Fisher was instrumental in the building of the Round Hill Community Church, …
Sylvia B. Carter, 78, Of Norwalk Sylvia B. Carter, 78, Of Norwalk
Sylvia B. Carter, 78, Of Norwalk NORWALK, Conn. -- Sylvia B. Carter died at her home surrounded by her family on Tuesday, Dec. 30. She was 78 years old.  She was born on Sept. 30, 1936, and was married to the late Deacon Albert Carter Jr. of Norwalk. Survivors include one son, Albert Carter III of Absecon, N.J.; daughters Sylvia (Harold) Bridgeforth of Stratford, Barbara (Robert) Francis of Stone Mountain, Ga., Cassandra Carter of Norwalk and Linda Joyner of New Haven; one brother, William (Tiffany) Henry of Bridgeport; stepmother Elizabeth Henry of Stamford; 10 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; and a host of nieces,…
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