08/20/09 The Darien Briefing

Comprehensive News Feed for Darien, CT.

• Hyperlocal Roundup: WaPo Pulls Out, AOL's Patch Adds 2 Towns
  posted on August 20, 2009 08:37:57 pm
  ... is expanding in the New York Tri-State Area, adding two new communities to its four existing sites - " Summit, NJ and Darien, CT. Two more sites are planned. The company has also hired a "regional publisher" - Sol Colontonio, who had previously been ...
• AOL-Owned Patch Launches Two New Local Sites, Names Publisher
  posted on August 20, 2009 04:40:32 am
  ... startup has its own bit of news to announce. AOL-owned Patch is launching new sites in Summit, New Jersey and Darien, Connecticut, bringing the total number of hyperlocal sites in its network to eight. Three more are listed as "coming" on its ...
• Attorneys Representing the Stamford Marriott Hotel Spa Withdraw Claim of Rape Victim's Negligence
  posted on August 18, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... 40, was attacked as she and her children were leaving the hotel the afternoon of Oct. 10, 2006, when a 56-year-old Darien native, Gary Fricker, pointed a gun into her back and forced her and her children into their minivan. There, he sexually ...
• Staying safe from West Nile Virus
  posted on August 20, 2009 05:22:58 am
  ... a campaign to stop West Nile Virus kicks off. More than 148,000 mosquitoes have been tested this summer. Cromwell, Darien, Greenwich and Stratford have all had documented cases of the virus in mosquitoes. Traps where West Nile Virus carrying ...
• Doctor further perfects device to catch skin cancer early
  posted on August 19, 2009 02:55:53 am
  ... annual deaths worldwide happen in the United States, according to the American Academy of Dermatology. Drugge, a Darien native who has a medical office at 50 Glenbrook Road, Stamford, has a medical degree from New York Medical College in Valhalla, ...
• 5th Annual Butterfly Release in Breezy Point
  posted on August 19, 2009 12:27:58 am
  Dorothy Johnson, Diane Williams, Grant Bowers, Bonnie Hiniker and Gary Bakken following Bowers presentation at Breezy Point City Hall - photo by Joanne Boblett Max and Addie Hewitt of Darien, Connecticut look for their butterfly with grandmother Linda Hewitt of Breezy Point during the 5th annual butterfly release in Breezy Point - photo by Paul ...