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Crime Wave Hits Stamford . . . (not really)

by turfgrrl on October 26, 2009 7:50 pm · 4 comments

Sure it’s easy to string a couple of headlines;
Pair steals man’s pants at gunpoint on Stamford’s South End
Man beaten, robbed and thrown over a fence in downtown Stamford
and extrapolate that crime as one commenter here likes to say “is out of control.” But the reality is that crime incidents do not constitute an assessment on the trend without looking at the long range and the recent history. For that the uniform FBI statistics say what they’ve said all along, Norwalk and Stamford are low crime areas to live. But all is not equal. Connecticut magazine once again did a rate the towns survey and behold the town of Fairfield beat out Greenwich as the most desirable place to live. And how did Fairfield ran? From the Stamford Advocate:

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Biden, Dodd, Himes Champion Repair of Merritt Parkway With Federal Recovery Funds

by Harold F. Cobin on October 6, 2009 12:50 am · 6 comments

FAIRFIELD — With an excavator and bulldozer behind him as backdrop, Vice President Joe Biden on Monday said federal recovery funds are doing more than helping cover the cost of reconstructing portions of the Merritt Parkway. Joined by Sen. Christopher Dodd and Fourth District Rep. Jim Himes in a park-and-ride lot at exit 46 of the parkway, Biden said the funds are also rebuilding the country’s economy and its future.

About 300 people attended the mid-afternoon event, which also drew about a dozen anti-Dodd protesters.

Beside repairing infrastructure, Biden said, “We’re reinvesting in getting people off their knees, back to work, but also toward something — a more resilient, a transformative economy.”

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Overnight I-95 Paving Project From Exits 24 to 17

September 15, 2009

The southbound lanes of Interstate 95 between exits 24 and 17 (Fairfield to Westport) are being milled and resurfaced overnight until Thursday, Oct. 22. Work is occuring Monday through Thursday from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.

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Rell Cuts Bonding, Norwalk Loses

August 11, 2009

Norwalk’s various institutions will be hit by bonding that Rell is proposing to stop. So does Stamford. Bond issuances are solely at the discretion of the Governor.

Norwalk:

  • Grant-in-aid to the Norwalk River Rowing Association, Incorporated, for construction of a boathouse
    • $250k
  • Grant-in-aid to the city of Norwalk for improvements in the flood control system
    • $3,005,000
  • Grant-in-aid to the city of Norwalk for harbor dredging
    • $1,000,000
  • Grant-in-aid to the Norwalk Seaport Association for infrastructure renewal projects
    • $250k
  • Grant-in-aid to the city of Norwalk for the Maritime Aquarium to defray financial obligations incurred for construction of the Environmental Education Center
    • $400k
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Starting tonight, expect delays on I-95 in Fairfield and Westport

August 5, 2009

CDOT has announced a milling and resurfacing project starting tonight will cause delays on I-95 in Fairfield and Westport. Work is being performed northbound from exits 17 to 19, and southbound from exits 24 to 17. The work schedule is 10 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. Sunday evenings, and 8 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. Monday through Thursday evenings. The project is scheduled to continue until Wednesday, Sept. 23.

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Whole Foods Plus Norwalk Developer Equals Fairfield?

December 8, 2007

I admit, I’m obsessed with Whole Foods. Normally I avoid grocery stores because they figure in a lifestyle that engages in cooking, which is not something I do. Some people can take random ingredients and create something edible. I generally end up with something that catches fire. Thus my obsession with Whole Foods would seem a bit odd. Unless you’ve been to a Whole Foods, and that you might start to understand why I travel to the one in White Plains.

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Norwalk: White Barn Walking Tour

October 6, 2007

In the end there wasn’t the mad crowd of political flunkies who staged what would have been a spectacular tribute to Lucille Lortell in a remash of the West Side Story. The theatrics, for once appropriate, weren’t there, and instead a small troupe of political flunkies arrived at the White Barn property to add another milestone to a long series of events that started in 1999.
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Despite the save cranbury web site, the saga of the Lortell foundation’s decision to interpret Lortell’s last will as a flexible document to keep the white barn theater going, but not at the physical white barn theater property is a murky one, though not unusual. Foundations it seems, have become a vehicle for leveraging many things, and not necessarily what the benefactor wanted. The NY Times recently reported;

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Fairfield Tavern Restored

August 5, 2007

For about $200,000 Fairfield DPW workers and an outside construction firm managed to assemble the political will and funds to restore a Revolutionary war era tavern. From the Connecticut Post:

The town is nearly finished restoring a historic structure where George Washington slept in October 1789 during his tour of colonies invaded and torched by the British.The original Sun Tavern on Town Green didn’t survive the British invasion of Fairfield in 1779, but Samuel Penfield, a prominent Revolutionary War-era resident, rebuilt the tavern in 1784.

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