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Aquarion Water Company today announced a water main cleaning project along certain streets in the company’s Darien system.
The project is scheduled to take place from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. each night from Sunday, April 28, through Friday, May 3, the utility announced on Wednesday.
Here’s Realtor Deirdre McGovern’s report on Darien, Rowayton and Wilson Point real estate from May 18 to 25, 2023:
Darien High School’s 2021 graduation ceremony combined congratulations on getting through high school during the COVID-19 pandemic with the regular high school graduation themes — life advice, thankful appreciation and assurance that the graduates have what it takes to succeed in the future.
Here’s Realtor Deirdre McGovern’s report on Darien and Rowayton real estate from June 10 to 17, 2021:
You’ll have to crawl through congested rush-hour traffic on Interstate 95 to get to downtown Westport, but here’s a list of 12 Levitt Pavilion outdoor concerts you can attend there for free.
The Levitt charges for some other concerts, and 10 are listed below.
When police officers questioned one of the drivers involved in a traffic accident at 10:42 p.m. on Saturday, he wouldn’t identify himself, then he asked officers if they knew anything about “hydraulics” and pointed to the stick shift, and officers concluded he was having trouble using it, police said.
The police account, which includes accusations not proven in court, indicates that the traffic accident may have been the least of what was going on that night.
Focus on French Cinema 2024, the annual festival of U.S. premieres of French and Francophone film in Greenwich, Stamford and online, runs this Thursday, April 25 through May 5.
The FCC film festival, presented by the Alliance Française of Greenwich, will have new releases both in person and online following the highly successful 2023 “hybrid” edition that welcomed more than 8,000 viewers.
Police confronted a man who was trying to open car doors in the Whole Foods parking lot late Monday afternoon and discovered that he and two others had stolen items from multiple vehicles in Darien, police said.
Michael Brian Grogan, a 38-year resident of Darien, died at home on April 21 after a long illness. He was 86.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is asking customers to fill out a survey to help improve service. The MTA includes Metro-North and New York subways and buses.
Robert A. (Bob) Damon died suddenly at home on March 14 in Vero Beach, Florida.
Darien Library will host Sophie Cabot Black, the library’s Poet’s Voice 2024 guest, for a poetry reading and reception from 2 to 4 p.m., Sunday, April 28, in celebration of National Poetry Month in April.
Twenty-one Connecticut bookstores are inviting you to the latest “passport challenge,” where book lovers get their special “passport” stamped at a slew of participating bookstores in the state — all in one weekend (with an exception — see below).
They then become eligible for various prizes in one of several lotteries. This year’s Connecticut Book Trail Passport Challenge starts this Saturday, April 27.
Conventional obituaries are simply too impersonal for Glenn Hoffman’s memory. He didn’t live in B&W column-inches, but in 3-D TECHNICOLOR. So that is how he will be celebrated.
Issues confronting kids in the Digital Age, including cyberbullying, suicidal ideation and online predators, are the subject of a documentary, “Childhood 2.0,” followed by a question-and-answer session this Tuesday, April 22 at Darien Library.
The event is jointly sponsored by the library, OK To Delay Darien, Darien Depot and Thriving Youth Darien this Tuesday evening, April 22.
Stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic the other day on I-95 I grumbled to myself “Where is all this traffic coming from?” And then I remembered: If you’re stuck in traffic, you are the traffic! Guilty.
But what’s being done to reduce all that traffic?
Police received two reports on Thursday morning, April 11, both involving tampered locks at residential properties in town.
The Monuments and Ceremonies Commission again will be hosting Darien’s traditional Memorial Day Parade on Monday, May 27.
Someone smashed the rear right window of a car parked at Highlands Farm Park at 560 Middlesex Road on April 9 and a bag was stolen from inside, Darien police said.
Darien Library, along with Barrett Bookstore, welcome back Anna Gass to discuss her new cookbook, Italian Snacking: Sweet and Savory Recipes for Every Hour of the Day. Anna will be in conversation with cookbook author Kat Ashmore.
Do you have a lot of “stuff”? Maybe too much “stuff”?
Darien Library welcomes interior designer, stylist and professional organizer, Melora Johnson, of Sustainably Styled by Melora who will discuss how much of a negative impact having too much stuff can have on our lives in ways we may not have imagined.
Here’s Realtor Deirdre McGovern’s report on Darien real estate from April 11 to 18, 2024 (Rowayton real estate information was not available for this week’s report):
Award-winning garden designer Rachel “Bunny” Melon, the weekly plant clinic, the value of trees, creating native plant gardens. Gardeners and gardeners to be may get some inspiration and advice at these upcoming gardening-related events at Darien Library.
Michael J.P. Malone III, beloved husband, brother, father and grandfather, passed away suddenly on April 11, following a day at The Masters, watching an event he cherished. He was 73.
Kalel Attonito, a Hindley School fifth grade student, won First Place in the local essay contest sponsored by Darien’s Good Wife’s River Chapter, Inc. Daughters of the American Revolution.But that was only the beginning.
State Rep. Tracy Marra announced Thursday that she is running for re-election to the state House of Representatives.
A 47-year-old Brooklyn, New York man was trying to open a bank account claiming to be another person and provided bank employees with identification documents with that person’s name on them — a person who already had an account at the bank, Darien police said.
Herbert Vernal Jr., a resident of Darien, passed away at Stamford Hospital on Sunday, April 14, 2024. He was 98 years old.