Having someone dedicated to promoting Norwalk as a film location makes good sense. Having film crews come in does benefit the economy, and certainly adds a little excitement to the everyday war on potholes. Maybe even the great minds of government can suddenly realize that having old buildings that film makers want to take pictures of might be a good thing, Stephen King meet 93 East ave.

When it comes to filming a major motion picture, a lot of decidedly unglamorous steps come before “Lights, camera, action!”

One of those steps is applying for a film permit - a process that can take weeks in Norwalk.

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by Fred Wilms

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Nice to see the low level dealers being targeted but where’s the linkage to the guys who import?

The U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Kevin J. O’Connor, announced Wednesday that 22 people — 16 from Norwalk and Stamford — have been indicted on federal charges for allegedly distributing cocaine and crack in southwestern Connecticut.
In a news release, O’Connor said the 30-count indictment was returned on Feb. 14 by a federal grand jury sitting in Bridgeport, and accuses the people named with various federal drug trafficking, firearm and witness tampering offenses.

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The spinmeister-meister spinners are off this week so slipping through the fortress of ineptitude is the latest report card on Norwalk public schools.

An independent study released Wednesday ranked Norwalk schools scraping the bottom in working to close their achievement gaps with black and Hispanic students.
Norwalk high schools are ranked 99 out of 119 state school districts. Elementary and middle schools are ranked 68 out of 153 and 117 out of 144 respectively.
Scraping the bottom! Ranked 99 out of 199 school districts! Uh yeah, some perception problem here.

The study looked at how a public school is meeting students’ academic needs through test scores. It also analyzed the “traditionally underserved” black, low-income and Hispanic subgroups to understand where the achievement gap lies.

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