The Rowayton Arts Center is promoting an art contest and show this weekend. Details from their web site:

The Show is Saturday June 13th, 6 – 8:30 p.m.

• All artists are welcome, including amateurs!
• All art is created only on Friday June 12th and Saturday June 13 & only in Rowayton [but artists of course don’t have to live in Rowayton]
• Bring art to Pinkney Park from 4:00 – 5:00 on Saturday, 13th. If raining, bring to the Seely-Dibble Pinkney House at Pinkney Park [the Rowayton Historical Society house].
• All art should be presented on an easel [the Rowayton Arts Center has a structure for showing your art for those that don’t have easels].
• Your art needs to be picked up after the show is finished; from 8:30 – 9:30 p.m. on Saturday 13th
• The show is judged. Cash prizes being donated by Quester Gallery & the Rowayton Arts Center. Ice Cream tokens being donated by 101.

What’s with the sidden exodus from the Norwalk Democratic party? From a press release:

June 10, 2009:  Parent activist, community volunteer and out-going Co-President of the Naramake PTO Steven A. Colarossi today removed himself from the rolls of the local Democratic Party in response to what he has described as “the misguided priorities which has marked the Democratic majority on the Board of Education for the past several years.”   Colarossi, who is the dad to a fifth-grade daughter at Naramake and a sixth-grade daughter at Nathan Hale Middle School, feels that parents need to protest the lack of accountability he feels mark the Democratic majority on the Board of Education.  “We need this majority to know that our votes can not be taken for granted, “ he has stated.

Common Council MTG 6/9/09

 Attending: Serasis, Brown, Duleep, Lindstrom, Hilliard, Geake, Moccia, Maslan, Bolden, Bondi, Straniti, Conroy, Bonenfant,  Kydes, Hempstead, McQuaid

I missd the start of this meeting so I pick up mid:

Public Commentary:

Ghanga Duleep: In oppostion to zone change of Day Street properties.

Chris Potts: Reads a statement from Diane Lauricella in opposition to zone change of redevelopment Day Street properties.

Resignations & Appointments:

Moccia withdraws Historical Commision appointment.

Gerald Foley reappointed to purchasing department.

I was pleased to read this article on how health insurance companies invest in tobacco companies. 

 
Health and life insurance companies in the US and abroad have nearly $4.5 billion invested in tobacco stocks, according to Harvard doctors.

“It’s the combined taxidermist and veterinarian approach: either way you get your dog back,” saysDavid Himmelstein, an internist at the Harvard Medical School and co-author of a letter published in this week’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

The Common Council will be voting on authorizing money to be spent on road improvements to Crescent St and West Ave. This is largely a good thing. Currently, with the 95/7 site fenced off awaiting construction, Crescent St has become home to illegal dumping. The problem, as it is with moth crimes of opportunity, is because of a lack of activity. Having construction crews working in the area will improve that. And, adding sidewalks to Crescent St will perhaps indicate to the tractor trailers that park there overnight, that the area is not a rest stop.

New Jersey’s Governors over the years got that part of their economic success is tied to NYC. In Connecticut, Rell has put stimulus funds into upgrading highway signs. From the Hour:

Construction began Monday on the nation’s largest transportation project, an $8.7 billion tunnel that’s expected to double the number of rail commuters it can shuttle between New Jersey and Manhattan during peak rush periods.

Some commuters will shave 15 minutes or more off their commute times each way because they no longer will be required to switch trains to reach Manhattan, according to NJ Transit.

Nothing like being swamped with deadlines, putting together an arts festival and feeling like being run over by a truck. Hey that last bit really happened. It seems that Volvo really does take that safety stuff seriously, as I was hit by a truck that decided to speed up West Ave. and then hit the brakes hoping to stop instead of ramming into the last car stopped at a red light. It didn’t and I got to experience the paperwork of auto accident amongst other things.

UPDATED:
Yes, it is fixed.

Some of you have already figured it out without this news flash.

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OK, it appears that the blog is malfunctioning. When you try to read the comments you get a “404″ which means the page you are trying to access is “not found”.

We know.

Please bear with us until we are delivered from this ordeal.

Thank you.

Normally I leave Norwalk to Turfgrrl, for obvious reasons. However I heard the title rumored tonight at the JJB Dinner (which was a good time) and it has already been posted over on Connecticut Local Politics. I didn’t see it, but I’m told The Hour has reported this as well.

I learned of the rumor when I was approached by a couple people asking if I knew who it was. What I later heard was that Bondi has been on the outs with his fellow Democrats for some time and things have been getting worse. Specifically, Bondi is not expected to be renominated by the Dems for this fall’s slate.

Not necessarily news to those who follow things political in Norwalk, but there you have it.

There is an announcement reportedly scheduled for 11:30 AM tomorrow morning. Norwalk RTC press release here.

First off, to the person who keeps posting the same comment without bothering to make it coherent, yes I am totally biased, not bios. Secondly, posting here by me has been light because I have little time. Thus rather than force everyone here to read your comment on every article you posted on, they have been placed in moderation until I place one in the appropriate article.

The Management.