Sacred Heart University News

Gold sequins and black velvet shimmered on Victoria Bergeron's new solo dress designed for her upcoming championship Irish dance competition.

Angela Capozzi, a Stratford middle school teacher, has taught about the Holocaust for years by assigning her eighth graders to read "Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl," about a Jewish girl who hid with her family from the Nazi's for two year before being captured.

A lot of carbs were consumed this weekend on behalf of Alex Convertito. Saturday, the Echo Hose Fire Station in Shelton held a pasta dinner to raise funds for the 22-year-old who was severely injured in a car accident on Sept.

While Ned Lamont's entry into Connecticut's governor's race has created a stir, some question whether the businessman can generate the same enthusiasm he did in 2006 when he challenged Sen.

Linda and Stephen Chalfin, of Columbia, announce the engagement of their daughter, Jennifer Chalfin, to Ryan Chmielewski, son of Renea and Richard Chmielewski, of Oxford, Conn.

While the top-of-the-ticket races for mayor and first selectman are the ones drawing attention Tuesday, democracy might be better measured by the lesser contests, for local school boards, town councils and planning and zoning commissions throughout the region.

Sacred Heart Universitya s Isabelle Farrington School of Education will present a screening of "The Bakhtiari Alphabet," a documentary on nomadic pastoral life and education in Iran, on Friday, November 6, at 7:00 p.m. A question and answer session will follow the film.

It was no treat for dozens of Sacred Heart University students celebrating Halloween at two off-campus parties Friday.

Sacred Heart University officials need to take a more forceful role in curbing the unacceptable behavior of some of its students in Bridgeport residential neighborhoods.

The state Democrat and Republican chairmen, Nancy DiNardo and Chris Healy, respectively, visited an American Government class at Sacred Heart University Monday morning.

Jillian Nery of New Bedford graduated from the John F. Welch College of Business at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Conn.

College kids will be college kids -- and residents of one Bridgeport neighborhood don't like it a bit.

The Commerce Department's United States Patent and Trademark Office has designated Sacred Heart University's Ryan-Matura Library as an official Patent and Trademark Depository Library .

They say their streets are regularly flooded with garbage, their lawns urinated upon, and their heads left aching from pounding music and roaring cars.

Susan Sherman Fernandes of Fleetwood Avenue, Bethel, announces the engagement of her daughter, Jennifer R. Fernandes, to Ken Gardiner Jr., son of Ken and Dale Gardiner of Terryville.

The steady rain delivered by Sunday's nor'easter proved to be a fitting backdrop for listening to Ira Joe Fisher's poetry about New England's dynamic and exquisite weather.

James Wygonik, pictured above, has been named as the new principal of Lyme-Old Lyme High School.

Eleven sorority sisters from Sacred Heart University in Connecticut have been suspended for allegedly hazing.

More than 500 people came to church Thursday in Stratford looking for a job. While most left a job fair at Christ Episcopal Church, 2000 Main St., without their prayers being answered, many were confident they had made a contact that could lead them to a new job.

A Sacred Heart University political science professor says Gov. M. Jodi Rell could be hurt politically by the controversy over hiring a University of Connecticut professor to find government efficiencies.