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Shaw’s Leaving Connecticut, Darien Gets Stop ‘N Shop

by turfgrrl on February 14, 2010 6:33 pm · 9 comments

According to a report in the Courant, the Shaws chain of grocery stores in Connecticut is no more. The stores have been sold with the one in Darien becoming a Stop N Shop. Apparently Darien isn’t tony enough to warrant a Fairway. Then again, Darien is getting a Whole Foods. Stamford already has one. Siiggghhh. Will Norwalk ever get its act together to land a Whole Foods or Trader Joes?

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Your Mother May Have Been Right …

by turfgrrl on February 11, 2010 5:23 pm · 5 comments

Remember when your mother said, don’t run with scissors? Or it’s always fun until someone pokes their eye out. Or if your friends jumped off a cliff would you? All those sayings at one time must have been based in fact. Sort of like incidents like this one. Reported from the Advocate:

A 23-year-old Stamford man allegedly stabbed another man in the leg with pruning shears early Thursday during a drunken altercation outside a West Side restaurant, police said.

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A Bonding They Will Go-Go

February 8, 2010

What separates Norwalk from Stamford and New Haven when it comes to getting things built? Well we look no farther than bonds, municipal bonds. Harbor Point, the place where we keep reading about corporate relocations heading into, just received $145 million in a bond sale. The Advocate reports the details:

“This financing is the largest of its kind since the credit crisis began, made possible by the project’s location, private and public support, and experienced development team,” said Ramiro Albarran, a managing director at Stone & Youngberg.

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State Liquor Commission Conducts Sting in Norwalk & Stamford

February 3, 2010

From a press release:

27 of 99 Stores Checked for Liquor Compliance in Norwalk and Stamford are Cited for Underage Sales

“Nutcrackers” not found in Lower Fairfield County

HARTFORD, February 10 – Consumer Protection Commissioner Jerry Farrell, Jr. released today the results of a large-scale undercover compliance operation held last weekend, involving compliance with Connecticut’s state liquor laws, specifically the sale of alcohol to those under the legal age.

On Saturday, January 30th, Stamford Police officers, Norwalk Police officers, and Liquor Control Agents conducted alcohol compliance tests of package stores and grocery stores that are licensed to sell beer in Norwalk and grocery stores that are licensed to sell beer in Stamford.

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Democrats Rally At Fat Cat Pie Co.

February 1, 2010

The fourth annual Democratic pizza and politics event hosted by Ted Hoffstatter, Martha Aasen and members of various DTCs from Westport, Weston, Wilton, Greenwich, and Fairfield. Despite the room being packed with a few hundred people it was still difficult to not run into someone running for governor, or had run for governor or would like to one day grow up and be governor.

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Pot Holes The Long and Short Of It

December 30, 2009

The Advocate has an article on pot holes. yes, the week between Christmas and New Year’s would appear to be a slow news week. And yet the state is facing a huge budget crisis, and nary an interesting report on it. Why is that?

But onto pot holes. According to the Stamford supervisor of traffic and road maintenance and the article:

“We’ve been getting rain,” said Doug Hoyt, supervisor of traffic and road maintenance. “That wreaks as much havoc as snow.”

Water seeps into cracks in the pavement and base material, which helps loosen it when cars, trucks and buses drive over it. The weak spot worsens with every vibration, creating a pothole.

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Poof Goes The Norwalk Advocate

December 29, 2009

The Stamford Advocate has a spiffy new web site. Finally someone with a sense of design has taken control over there. But what happened to the Norwalk edition? Sadly a 404 when www.norwalkadvocate.com is typed in. The Stamford Advocate has also brought comments back.

Meanwhile, not to leave our hometown news journal out of it, The Hour has joined the blog world, with their newshound blog.

The media business is still a precarious one. There’s a real need for quality journalism, and yet the old way of developing ad dollars to support print publications is a hard one, when most people get their news online, and not necessarily by visiting web pages. Advertisers know this, and are seeking new ways of reaching new customers all the time.

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Investing In Your City, A Tale of Norwalk versus Stamford

December 16, 2009

There’s a type of populism that goes like this, we don’t want our tax dollars to subsidize developers. But like the federal tarp bailouts, the beneficiaries of investment in development is not just the developers, its the residents and tax payers of Norwalk.

How can this be so?

You have to start with an understanding of finance. The taxes you pay are determined by very few things. One is how much taxable assets are out there, otherwise known as the grand list. The finance department spends months counting all the expenditures the City is the hook for and then takes that number and divides it by the grand list to arrive at the average mill rate.

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Duff Encourages Donations To Food Bank

November 25, 2009

State Senator Bob Duff is encouraging people to help out the local food bank. He forwarded this message:

Please join me in helping The Food Bank of Lower Fairfield County, Inc. There is so much need this year and I know that none of you want to see a family go without this Thanksgiving. After speaking with the executive director, I asked her to send me an email, which is below.

Thank you,
Bob

From: Kate Lombardo [mailto:klombardo@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Wed 11/18/2009 11:40 AM
To: Sen. Duff, Bob
Subject: Your community needs your help…please

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Crime Wave Hits Stamford . . . (not really)

October 26, 2009

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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