08/17/09 The Darien Briefing

Comprehensive News Feed for Darien, CT.

• Border wars: Connecticut-New York lax teams set for battle at New Fairfield
  posted on August 17, 2009 01:19:18 am
  ... from Longwood, played in the annual Battle Across the Sound lacrosse tournament, which posses Connecticut powers Darien and New Canaan against some of New York's best. "It was an amazing atmosphere," Talbot said. "It was incredibly electric." Now, ...
• Darien Mom: He's Sent to Prison, She's Facing Foreclosure
  posted on August 16, 2009 06:07:00 pm
  LCRwestport LCRwestport Saturday, August 15, 2009 A Darien mother of two whose ex-husband has been sent to prison for bilking investors in his Westport jewelry business out of more than $500,000 has gone public with her feelings of being "financially terrorized" as she faces foreclosure on her home.
• NCC Foundation to host 'Le Bal d'Ecole' Oct 3
  posted on August 14, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... "A benefit event of this nature will have an important impact on NCC," states NCC President David L. Levinson, Ph.D. Darien residents Joan Barksdale and Anna Steiner are event co-chairs. Barksdale is president of the NCC Foundation Inc. Board of ...
• Peak of West Nile season nears
  posted on August 15, 2009 07:24:55 pm
  ... mosquitoes trapped in Connecticut so far this year - on July 15 in Stratford, July 27 in Greenwich, and August 11 in Darien. "This is the 11th year that West Nile virus has been found in Connecticut. The recent announcement of WNV-positive ...
• Connecticut Reports WNV Positive Mosquitoes
  posted on August 15, 2009 07:05:15 am
  The State Mosquito Management Program today announced that mosquitoes trapped in Darien on July 30, 2009 have tested positive for West Nile virus .
• Huskies Fans Create Solid Market Base
  posted on August 14, 2009 05:17:03 pm
  E.J. Narcise has had a long career in sports marketing. He has witnessed a variety of love affairs between fans and their teams.
• Fishing Spots On The Farmington River
  posted on August 14, 2009 05:16:40 pm
  He said he has been coming to this spot, next to Callahan Memorial Park, since he was 4 or 5 years old.
• Darien police investigate string of robberies
  posted on August 13, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  Darien Police are investigating a string of thefts from at least 10 unlocked cars in the Noroton Heights neighborhood near the Stamford border overnight Wednesday into Thursday, police said.
• Darien hires new boys hockey coach
  posted on August 13, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  After an exhaustive interview process, Darien athletic director John Keleher and the Darien High administrators have made a decision for the new boys hockey coach.
• Going un-green for the holiday
  posted on December 22, 2007 04:00:00 pm
  If the author of the holiday carol "O Tannenbaum" were to see Ted Frankel's Christmas tree, he'd surely be baffled.
• Himes' staff to visit Town Hall
  posted on August 14, 2009 04:08:25 am
  ... hours are 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Thursday, August 20, at Town Hall, 77 Main Street. The other community office hours are: Darien: Friday, August 21, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., Town Hall, 2 Renshaw Road Oxford: Wednesday, August 19, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., Town ...
• Sound Surfing by Mike Horyczun
  posted on August 14, 2009 04:03:32 am
  Sound Surfing by Mike Horyczun Laura Coyle heats up Darien Arts Center's summer concert series It'll be a homecoming of sorts at the Darien Arts Center's "Hot, Hot, Hot Summer Nights of Music" Cabaret series this weekend.
• Continue
  posted on August 13, 2009 11:29:37 pm
  ... I am also thankful that we had businessmen of the caliber of David and Jerry volunteering their time on the Darien High School Building Committee, amongst other worthy projects. This is a results-driven team that Darien is lucky to have. I hope ...
• The Good Old Days in Darien / Ed Chrostowski
  posted on August 13, 2009 11:28:17 pm
  Preston B. Porter, Darien's budget-minded first selectman in 1951, was never what you might call an ardent supporter of the Board of Education, but he did go out on a limb for a plan to expand the junior high school building.
• Sullivan looks to build upon strong relationship with community
  posted on August 13, 2009 11:28:01 pm
  ... is the Democratic-endorsed candidate. Next week: Independent candidate Chris Noe. Callie Sullivan thinks the town of Darien is run pretty well. And if she becomes First Selectman, she doesn't want to change that. "The Evonne Klein administration has ...
• Number of lifeguards dwindle at Darien beaches
  posted on August 13, 2009 11:27:37 pm
  ... Coghlan said. There will be signs with the schedule of the dates and times when guards will be on duty to inform Darien patrons of the beaches. The Parks and Recreation Department also already released this warning in an announcement to caution ...
• Darien will not tap into statewide emergency notification system
  posted on August 13, 2009 11:27:22 pm
  ... and businesses by telephone to landlines and mobile devices, text message, e-mail and fax during emergencies. Darien will not use the system for at least a year because it just renewed its contract with emergency notification system CodeRed, a ...
• Polar Bear teaches YMCA campers how to fight global warming
  posted on August 13, 2009 11:27:05 pm
  Children at the Darien YMCA Camp celebrated Polar Bear Empathy Day with Fallon Murphy, Fairfield County's new teen Arctic Ambassador.
• Darien's Zulu stays sharp at twice-a-month training sessions
  posted on August 13, 2009 11:26:48 pm
  ... a recent early evening as the long-shuttered Shakespeare theater served as a backdrop, rookie police dog Zulu, of the Darien Canine Unit, and veteran police dogs Zak and Roscoe, of Stratford, and Justice and Liberty, of Monroe, put on quite a ...
• Police Reports
  posted on August 13, 2009 11:26:03 pm
  ... wallet had some credit cards and $57 in cash in it, police said. The credit cards were used at a gas stations in Darien, Mt. Vernon, N.Y., and the Bronx, N.Y., according to reports. An $85 purchase was also made at a Foot Locker store. The case is ...