NHS Gets $20k Grant For Marquee

by turfgrrl on July 2, 2008 11:46 am · 160 comments

State Reps Larry Cafero and TOni Boucher secured $20k for Norwalk High School. The press release below:

HARTFORD – House Republican Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr. and Rep. Toni Boucher, today announced they have secured $20,000 to help build a marquee for Norwalk High School to permit important and emergency information between high school students and the residents of the City of Norwalk.

“This was a team effort among state and local officials and Norwalk High School. Credit is due all around. Gov. Rell’s administration was extremely helpful in securing the necessary funds for this project,’’ Cafero said.

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Crime-sense And Sensibility

by turfgrrl on July 2, 2008 10:57 am · 66 comments

Let’s start out with the fact, statistically, that Norwalk is a very safe city. And let’s also concede that perception is reality for most. And then let’s take a trip to the Marvel Universe and the history of spidey-sense.

Fans of Spiderman know that much of the plot, once stripped bare of the evil doers, was about whether Spiderman was vigilantism gone awry with J. Jonah Jameson, publisher of the Daily Bugle, representing that p.o.v. or Spiderman being the people’s hero, with Peter Parker representing that view. In reading today’s Hour I kind of get that comic book style positioning:

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Norwalk Gets Stormwater Federal Grant

July 2, 2008

A $240,000 federal Clean Water fund grant is  coming to Norwalk thanks to State Rep Chris Perone. He sent out an press release yesterday highlighting the details:

State Representative Chris Perone (D-Norwalk) applauded A $240,000 federal grant heading to Norwalk to help deal with the cities outdated and insufficient stormwater sewer system. Norwalk was eligible for the funding, from the federal Clean Water Fund, due to its participation in Connecticut’s Stormwater Authority Pilot Program – a program created in 2007 through legislation drafted by Rep. Perone.

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Spam And Comments

July 2, 2008

Lately I’ve been noticing more innocent comments being tagged as spam in the spam filter queue. This site, like most blogs, recieves a heady amount of spam attacks because the comments are open. As a result, comments that should automatically appear are being lost due to the fact that I don’t read the spam queue. Today it wasn’t too bad so I did glance through the spam queue, caught a couple of comments and moved them over. But then I sort of was amazed at what some of the spam was targeting.

For instance, these were a series of links:

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