Fairfield County News

The recession isn't over. It has hurt everyone from Main Street to Wall Street and organizations that provide food to those in need aren't getting donations like they used to.

Once the election results came in on Tuesday, the Democratic Party maintained their control of Westport's government, from top to bottom.

U.S. education chief visits Fairfield County By LAUREN MYLO Times Staff Writer NORWALK -- At a time community discussions on education are becoming more pervasive in Fairfield County, the region received a visit from the nation's highest official in the field.

A half-dozen years ago, at the peak of a building boom reshaping the Naugatuck Valley, a hot-tempered developer of strip malls named James Botti boasted that he had enough evidence of small-town graft to "collapse town hall" just by calling the FBI .

One of the beta testers for Windows 7 has been hosting a series of presentations to introduce local users to Windows 7. The presentation is given at a local library to the Computer Users Group monthly meeting.

Many of them attended a seminar on using the technology. "The PTDL will be of great value to the large business community in Connecticut and, especially, Fairfield County," said Dr.

A health official says the second wave of the swine flu pandemic is hitting Connecticut.

Just read about this place in the paper the other day and yesterday we were down in Fairfield County driving around to many estate sales and we ended up in Redding for lunch at the Redding Road House.

A Wilton developer is bucking the trend during one of the most adverse commercial real estate markets in decades and signing tenants to his newly renovated office building on Danbury Road in Wilton.

Westport will receive $265,000 from the Fiscal Year 2010 Homeland Security Appropriations bill to replace an aging generator at fire headquarters, Connecticut's congressional delegation announced.

Governor Jodi Rell visited Stamford and Greenwich Friday. Rell announced the state will receive $5,400,000 in bonds for rail improvements between Fairfield County and New York.

Several Westport-based patrons of the arts were featured by the Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists at the "Faces of Fairfield County" reception at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum in Norwalk tonight.

President George Washington, "first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen," was also a man of discerning culinary tastes.

Several moving companies from Fairfield County made their way to Florida last week to make new contacts in an industry that has been left reeling because of the economic downturn.

Fairfield County Sports Night -- Alli Oakes named Stamford Sports Person of the Year By JOHN NASH Times Sports Editor GREENWICH -- As Alli Oakes, a freshman golfer at Columbia University, walks down the first fairway of the rest of her life, she knows she can look back on all the rounds she has already played and appreciate where it all took her.

NORWALKThe Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum will unveil the "Faces of Fairfield County" at an opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Oct.

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Mendelssohn Choir of CT celebrates 25th year By A.J. O'CONNELL Hour Staff Writer A quarter of a century ago, that Carole Ann Maxwell, DSM, director of choral and liturgical music at Fairfield University, founded the Mendelssohn Choir of Connecticut.

There is a dead deer lying about 40 yards beyond Lynn Gorfinkle's back deck. It has been there, with a fatal arrow wound in its side, since Oct.

The Sun Products Corporation donates sustainable playground to the Town of Trumbull WHERE: Trumbull Nature and Arts Center - 7115 Main Street, Trumbull, CT/203-452-4421 WHEN: Friday, October 23, 2009, 7:30am - 5:00 pm 7:30 am - 10:00 am Playground Build Begins 10:00 am - 4:00 pm ROMPING WALL Finishing and Hand Prints *All volunteers/guests invited ...