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CEO Of Danbury's Regional Hospice And Home Care Named To Leaders Group CEO Of Danbury's Regional Hospice And Home Care Named To Leaders Group
CEO Of Danbury's Regional Hospice And Home Care Named To Leaders Group DANBURY, Conn. – Regional Hospice and Home Care President and CEO Cynthia Emiry Roy was recently named a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization, an international group of leaders from the business and nonprofit sector under age 45 from 130 countries. Members of YPO are peers who share in common the achievement of success at an early age, a commitment to learning as a lifelong adventure, and a desire to connect authentically in an environment of trust and confidentiality. Roy is only one of only a few women in the YPO’s Fairchester Chapter encompassing Westchester and Fairfield Count…

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Events
Stratford Library Seeks Book Donations For Annual Sale Stratford Library Seeks Book Donations For Annual Sale
Stratford Library Seeks Book Donations For Annual Sale STRATFORD, Conn. – The Stratford Library is making its final push for donations for its annual book sale being Thursday, June 2 through Sunday, June 5. Contributors are urged to recycle their good books to share with others and help the Stratford Library increase their book purchase fund at the same time. The book sale fundraiser will be in conjunction this year with Stratford’s Main Street Festival. Donations of good hardcover books and paperbacks, fiction or nonfiction, as well as sound and video recordings and sheet music can be brought to the library. A special book collection bin is on…

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Aquarium Needs Volunteers To Tag Horseshoe Crabs In Norwalk Aquarium Needs Volunteers To Tag Horseshoe Crabs In Norwalk
Aquarium Needs Volunteers To Tag Horseshoe Crabs In Norwalk NORWALK, Conn. – One of nature’s oldest beach mating rituals is about to resume, and The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk needs help documenting it. The Aquarium is seeking volunteers to help attach census tags to horseshoe crabs as the crabs come up out of the water to spawn at Calf Pasture Beach this spring. To participate, new volunteers must attend one of two training sessions at the Aquarium: Wednesday at 7 p.m. or Sunday, May 15 at 7 p.m. Volunteers will learn about the natural history of horseshoe crabs, what has been learned so far from the census work and how to harmlessly tag horsesho…

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Obituaries
Charlotte Tuttle, Brewster Resident, 89 Charlotte Tuttle, Brewster Resident, 89
Charlotte Tuttle, Brewster Resident, 89 BREWSTER, N.Y. – Charlotte Tuttle, of Brewster, died Tuesday, March 29. She was 89. She was born Jan. 2, 1927, to Charles and May Tuttle, and graduated from Brewster High School in 1944.  She worked for the Metro-North Commuter Railroad for 49 years until her retirement in 1994.  In June 2010, she relocated to Peachtree City, Ga., to be close to her family and was cared for by the staff at Ashley Glen Senior Care Center. She was a choir member at the First Baptist Church of Brewster and Mount Carmel Baptist Church.  She is survived by several nephews and nieces. She was predeceased by he…

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Opening Planned For Danbury Artist Mazza Displaying Work In Ridgefield Opening Planned For Danbury Artist Mazza Displaying Work In Ridgefield
Opening Planned For Danbury Artist Mazza Displaying Work In Ridgefield RIDGEFIELD, Conn. – Rockwell Art and Framing of Ridgefield is exhibiting the artwork of artist James Mazza through Thursday, June 30, with an opening reception on Thursday, May 12, from 5 to 8 p.m. Mazza is a professional artist from Danbury with over 37 years of experience. He works primarily with oil paints, bringing to life landscapes, still lifes and a variety of subjects from his daily life. In 1977, he began an apprenticeship under Edward DeVoe, during which time he traveled to West Point and painted with the cadets. His 12-year apprenticeship focused on the study of light and shading…

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Politics
Hwang, Sandy Hook Parent Celebrate Passage Of Safer Schools Bill Hwang, Sandy Hook Parent Celebrate Passage Of Safer Schools Bill
Hwang, Sandy Hook Parent Celebrate Passage Of Safer Schools Bill NEWTOWN, Conn. – Sen. Tony Hwang (R-28) and a Newtown parent applauded the state Senate’s Tuesday passage of legislation that aims to make schools safer in Connecticut. The legislation increases the penalties for when a threat involves a preschool, K-12 school or an institution of higher education. Right now, calling in a bomb threat, or any kind of threat, to a school is a misdemeanor. Effective Oct. 1, the new legislation would change that, making such threats felonies, which would result in a prison sentence. The bill now heads to the governor for his signature. “The recent threats of …

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Darien's Geary Gallery Exhibits Artist Eileen Serwer Darien's Geary Gallery Exhibits Artist Eileen Serwer
Darien's Geary Gallery Exhibits Artist Eileen Serwer DARIEN, Conn. – The Geary Gallery in Darien will exhibit “Beauty in Full Bloom,” featuring the floral paintings of New York City and Long Island artist Eileen Serwer, from Tuesday, May 10 through Tuesday, May 31. Serwer is a resident of New York City and the East End of Long Island. She received a bachelor’s degree from Hunter College in New York and attended classes at the Art Students League and the Pastel Society of America, where she is a signature member and taught a landscape workshop in April 2012. Serwer is a signature member of the Pastel Society of the West Coast, a juried member …

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Stamford Talent Sought For Darien Art Center Competition Stamford Talent Sought For Darien Art Center Competition
Stamford Talent Sought For Darien Art Center Competition STAMFORD, Conn. – The Darien Arts Center’s popular talent competition, Darien’s Got Talent, which returns Saturday, June 25, is accepting registrations and Stamford residents are encouraged to audition. Stamford’s Donna Wyant, an award-winning composer, director and actress, is helping to produce the event for the center and is encouraging residents of Stamford and other surrounding towns to register to audition. "We know that there is so much talent out there in the community in Stamford and around Fairfield County and we want to encourage anyone 10 years old and up to audition,” Wya…

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Business
Women’s Business Development Council Cuts Ribbon At New Danbury Office Women’s Business Development Council Cuts Ribbon At New Danbury Office
Women’s Business Development Council Cuts Ribbon At New Danbury Office DANBURY, Conn. – The Women’s Business Development Council of Connecticut and Western Connecticut State University's Ancell School of Business officially opened the WBDC Danbury office last month on the WCSU West Side Campus in Danbury. Attending the event were Mark Boughton, mayor of Danbury; John Clark, president of WCSU; David Martin, dean of the Ancell School of Business; and Fran Pastore, president and CEO of WBDC. “We are very excited about this new partnership between our University and WBDC. The inter-relationship between government, business and higher education is coming together …

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Fairfield Rotary Welcomes 2 New Members Fairfield Rotary Welcomes 2 New Members
Fairfield Rotary Welcomes 2 New Members FAIRFIELD, Conn. — The Fairfield Rotary Club inducted two new members at a recent meeting at the Gaelic American Club. New Rotarians are Jennifer Ewald, of Fairfield University, and the Rev. Peggy Hodgkins, the rector of Southport's Trinity Episcopal Church.  On hand for the ceremony were the Rev. Hodgkin sponsors Ed Michaels and John Lee, and Ewald sponsor Debbie Clancy, as well as current Rotary Club President Oscar Recalde.

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