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Thursday, April 30, 2009

April 2009 - Month In Review

Business execs: Companies need tax credit
Apr 27, 2009 Connecticut Post
... RD, which is crucial to profits, growth and good-paying jobs. The 89-year-old company, with offices in Shelton and Danbury, warned that as technology becomes more sophisticated, state, national and intercontinental borders are less restrictive. "In ...

Inside Ci: Collaborating for Success
Jun 1, 2004 Ceramic Industry
... C. Maru, Ph.D., executive vice president and chief technology officer of Fuel Cell Energy, Inc., headquartered in Danbury, Conn. "Continued support from the U.S. government, along with increased participation from the national laboratories, the ...

Temp records broken in region Sunday
Apr 27, 2009 News Times
... At Sikorsky Memorial Airport, the mercury hit 82 degrees, breaking the old record of 80 for April 26 set in 1985. In Danbury, Sunday's high was 88, smashing the old record of 80, set in 1957. And at Weschester County Airport, the high was 85, ...

WestConn baseball splits with UMass Dartmouth
Apr 26, 2009 News Times
... host Johnson Wales on Wednesday. The Colonials will visit Manhattanville on Tuesday. Softball RIC sweeps Colonials DANBURY -- The Rhode Island College softball team closed out the regular season with a sweep of host Western Connecticut State ...

Danbury boxer to get his title shot
Apr 26, 2009 News Times
... of boxing gloves, he's been chasing his chance at a world championship belt. He will finally get his chance. The Danbury welterweight and his camp have been ordered by the IBF to begin negotiations to arrange a fight with Isaac Hlatshwayo for the ...

Contractor on Route 7 project in Danbury cited for filling in a wetland
Apr 26, 2009 News Times
State officials have issued a notice of violation against the contractor working on the Route 7 widening project.

Volunteers sought to keep Danbury clean
Apr 26, 2009 News Times
City officials are looking for more people to help clean Danbury. Mayor Mark Boughton said more volunteers are needed for the sixth annual Clean City Danbury Day on May 2. The city is also looking for volunteers who would like to choose a spot they would keep clean throughout the summer months.

Health officials monitor deadly swine flu
Apr 26, 2009 News Times
Faced with a possible worldwide pandemic, health officials are on the lookout for any cases of the deadly swine flu. Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton plans to meet Monday morning with city health and Danbury Hospital officials to be certain they are ...

Lifesaving cop honored as Police Officer of the Year
Apr 26, 2009 NewsTimesLive.com
... of three can't remember a time when he didn't want to be a police officer. So after nearly 13 years on the job in Danbury, this is just part of what LaBonia has done: He's saved two people, one who was choking on food at a restaurant and the second ...

Controversy reigns over testing for prostate cancer
Apr 26, 2009 NewsTimesLive.com
... "It's the one test we have that picks up prostate cancer early,'' said Dr. J. James Bruno of Urology Associates of Danbury, "If we can find it earlier, that means better treatment and better survival.'' Bruno faulted the American study because it ...

Hispanic association offers programs
Apr 26, 2009 Connecticut Post
A merchant's association that provides services to Hispanic business owners recently began offering its programs to entrepreneurs in the Danbury area.

Cyber bullying increases along with access to Internet
Apr 25, 2009 News Times
People hate you. You're fat. You are stupid. It's pretty easy for a child to type mean statements and send them off on the Internet "They write hateful statements and vulgar put-downs, and it causes others not to want to be at school or to be afraid to go to school," Danbury schools' social worker Lori Sollose said.

Danbury, New Milford girls cruise at O'Grady Relays
Apr 25, 2009 NewsTimesLive.com
... Saturday at the 29th Annual O'Grady Relays. But none top the New Milford girls' break-out effort in the field or the Danbury girls' domination on their home track. The Hatters took the top prize at the meet with 76 points, followed by Darien (70) ...

Engaged: Danielle Stanton, David Thomas
Apr 25, 2009 NewsTimesLive.com
Roy and Joanne Stanton of Danbury announce the engagement of their daughter, Danielle Stanton, to David Thomas, son of Stuart and Patricia Thomas of Cleckheaton, England.

Girls learn to stop bullying and be kind
Apr 25, 2009 News Times
... for them," Lellis said. "It's not a pretty picture." The female fourth- and fifth-graders at Morris Street School in Danbury, as well as to third-, fourth- and fifth- graders at South Street School in Danbury, give up recess and 10 minutes of their ...

Rogers Park Middle School primes the future with career day
Apr 25, 2009 NewsTimesLive.com
If nothing else came out of my visit to Rogers Park Middle School in Danbury Friday, I learned you can't have a successful eighth grade career day without them

Danbury benefits from 20-year-old Sheff lawsuit
Apr 25, 2009 NewsTimesLive.com
Danbury's magnet school, which draws elementary students from half a dozen communities, exists only because 9-year-old Milo Sheff had a passionate family support system that wanted his education to be better than what Hartford provided.

44 workers accept Danbury's early retirement offer
Apr 20, 2009 News Times
Nearly four dozen employees have decided to take the city up on its early retirement offer.

Residents like tight Danbury budget proposal but ask relief for seniors
Apr 20, 2009 News Times
... "Seniors on fixed incomes can't afford to have their taxes raised," she said. "I would hate to see seniors leave Danbury because they can't afford to live here due to the taxes." The budget as proposed by Mayor Mark Boughton earlier this month calls ...

Danbury man recounts the Holocaust
Apr 20, 2009 News Times
Here is one reason why William Kaiser is alive today. In the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, Kaiser was sent to the camp hospital, ill with typhoid fever in 1944.

Danbury counterfeiter draws prison term
Apr 20, 2009 News Times
... ability to change Abraham Lincoln into Ben Franklin would probably have made him rich and famous. But because Danbury resident Camargo was a counterfeiter, caught by Secret Service agents last year in the process of transforming stacks of $5 bills ...

Thumbs up, thumbs down
Apr 20, 2009 NewsTimesLive.com
... down to the long, drawn-out Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings that have left the former Bennigan's restaurant in Danbury closed and have kept the city from collecting tax revenue on the property. The city might eventually be able to get back taxes ...

Grant will fund Danbury conference for artists with illness or injury
Apr 20, 2009 NewsTimesLive.com
What's it like for an artist who has a new illness or injury that affects his ability to execute the ideas he envisions? That's a question Danbury schools arts coordinator Joel Levitt first faced when he was treated for the benign spinal tumors he developed last year.

National Volunteer Week recognized by Danbury community
Apr 20, 2009 NewsTimesLive.com
Take 68,172 volunteer hours, multiply them by $27.02 an hour and you get $1.842 million, which represents the financial impact of volunteers in the Danbury area, according to Patty Cohen-Hecht, executive director of The Volunteer Center Serving Western Connecticut.

New BritainGoodwill Award Winners
Apr 20, 2009 Hartford Courant
... Graduate Award this year will be Jennifer DeCaprio of Stratford, Charlie Rivera of Bridgeport and Eric Smith of Danbury. The Goodwill Achiever Award honors individuals with disabilities or other special needs who, while not yet having attained a ...

McCumber named editor of 2 papers in CT
Apr 20, 2009 WTNH
... editorial director of Hearst's Connecticut Newspaper Group, which also includes the Connecticut Post, News-Times of Danbury, and Brooks Community Newspapers. Hearst President Steven Swartz says McCumber will begin his new job on April 27. McCumber ...

Danbury's Theater on Ice team tells storybook fish tale
Apr 20, 2009 News Times
Put fish on ice and you may have tomorrow night's dinner. Put fish on ice skates and you have the Danbury Ice Cabaret Ensemble performing "The Rainbow Fish" at the Laurel Ridge Skating Club of Ridgefield's annual show in the Danbury Arena earlier this month

True Value Modifieds to Green Flag Season at Monadnock Saturday
Apr 20, 2009 North East Racing
... in victory lane? Mike Douglas Jr , Auburn, NH; 2008 Rookie Of The Year Kenny White, Weare,NH; Ed Dachenhausen, Danbury, CT; former Monadnock winner, Sean Bodreau, Claremont, NH; veteran Jimmy Kuhn, W.Bridgewater, MA; Rowan Pennink, Huntington ...

True Value Modifieds to Green Flag Season at Monadnock Saturday
Apr 20, 2009 North East Racing
... in victory lane? Mike Douglas Jr , Auburn, NH; 2008 Rookie Of The Year Kenny White, Weare,NH; Ed Dachenhausen, Danbury, CT; former Monadnock winner, Sean Bodreau, Claremont, NH; veteran Jimmy Kuhn, W.Bridgewater, MA; Rowan Pennink, Huntington ...

Danbury woman plans to trek the Himalayas
Apr 19, 2009 NewsTimesLive.com
... to the Base Camp 1, the jumping-off point for most of the climbers trying to conquer Mount Everest. The 55-year-old Danbury resident and social worker at Roberts Avenue School isn't going to climb to the highest point on Earth. But she and several ...

New Fairfield to vote on weevil program support
Apr 19, 2009 News Times
... kill the plants. "You need an integrated approach," he said. "One method won't do it all." To support the research, Danbury and New Fairfield had planned to apply for a grant from the state Department of Environmental Protection. The state's current ...

Danbury man charged with DUI, other traffic violations
Apr 19, 2009 News Times
A 37-year-old Danbury man was charged with drunken driving after a traffic stop on Clapboard Ridge Road early Saturday, police say.

Danbury searches for new high school principal
Apr 14, 2009 NewsTimesLive.com
City educational leaders continue to search for a new principal -- who will be its fifth in six years -- for Danbury High School, the state's second largest high school.

Marcus Dairy shopping center in holding pattern in Danbury
Apr 14, 2009 News Times
... majority of retailers who have shown an interest, Marcus said, are companies that are looking to be located in the Danbury area. "We are still actively pursuing a couple of tenants," he said. The center would include about 90,000 square feet of ...

New Fairfield fifth-grader feature on "American Idol" contestant's...
Apr 13, 2009 News Times
... for some of her school teachers' sites. Shana's other family members are her mother Pamela, who is a nurse at Danbury Hospital, and her older sister Alexandra, 21 who is a senior at Western Connecticut State University. When she grows up Shana wants ...

Immaculate High set to honor Hall of Fame inductees
Apr 13, 2009 NewsTimesLive.com
Immaculate High School will celebrate its 14th Sports Hall of Fame Induction on April 25 at 7 p.m. at Anthony's Lake Club in Danbury.

Danbury pilot part of team that helped passenger land plane during Florida crisis
Apr 13, 2009 NewsTimesLive.com
Pilot Kari Sorensen answered his phone Sunday afternoon with a cheery, "Hey buddy," the way he usually does when he knows that Dan Favio, a good friend and former air traffic controller at Danbury Municipal Airport, is on the line.

Praxair inks multi-year hydrogen deal with Shell Oil
Apr 13, 2009 News Times
A local liquid-gas producer is moving ahead with a recent contract with Shell Oil Co. Praxair Inc., a Danbury-based firm that produces atmospheric, process and specialty gases, has been awarded a hydrogen contract by Shell to supply high-purity ...

Danbury searches for new high school principal
Apr 13, 2009 News Times
City educational leaders continue to search for a new principal -- who will be its fifth in six years -- for Danbury High School, the state's second largest high school

Montessori School in Danbury to buy Knights of Columbus building
Apr 13, 2009 News Times
Officials with the Hudson Country Montessori School are hoping to open an expanded facility this fall.

GURWOOD-FINK
Apr 13, 2009 Daily Journal
Shelley and Alan Gurwood announce the engagement of their daughter, Stacey Gurwood of New York City, to Matthew Fink of Danbury, Conn., son of Hannah and Ira Fink.

State agencies lining up for stimulus funds
Apr 13, 2009 NewsTimesLive.com
... The council sent a list of two dozen primarily paving projects -- totaling $6.3 million -- in Bethel, Brookfield, Danbury, New Fairfield, New Milford, Newtown, Redding and Ridgefield. The Greater Bridgeport Regional Planning Agency is looking for ...

New Fairfield fifth-grader feature on "American Idol" contestant's Web site
Apr 13, 2009 NewsTimesLive.com
... for some of her school teachers' sites. Shana's other family members are her mother Pamela, who is a nurse at Danbury Hospital, and her older sister Alexandra, 21 who is a senior at Western Connecticut State University. When she grows up Shana wants ...

Cordero-Crespo Gurwood-Fink
Apr 13, 2009 Daily Journal
... and Alan Gurwood announce the engagement of their daughter, Stacey Gurwood of New York City, to Matthew Fink of Danbury, Conn., son of Hannah and Ira Fink. The bride-to-be is a 1998 graduate of Vineland High School and a 2002 graduate of Syracuse ...

Clouds hover over auto industry, but ray of light may be found in used car sales
Apr 13, 2009 NewsTimesLive.com
... next year, and more than two-thirds are considering buying a used car rather than a new one the next time they buy. Danbury resident Lionel Batista exemplifies the trend. Looking to replace a battered Honda with more than 250,000 miles, he thought ...

Danbury officials propose cuts to nonprofit grants, offer residents a chance to fill the gap
Apr 12, 2009 News Times
... to $500,000, although Boughton noted that an additional $400,000 will be distributed to organizations like the Danbury Women's Center and the Danbury Animal Welfare Society as separate line items in the budget. "These organizations provide services ...

Rotary to honor cop, firefighter of the year in Danbury
Apr 12, 2009 News Times
... place on Thursday, at the head table in the Amber Room Colonnade where they will be honored by the Rotary Club as Danbury's Firefighter and Police Officer of the Year. Gallagher, 37, worked for nine years as a project manager for an architectural ...

Danbury to purchase 17 acres of open space for Ives Trail
Apr 12, 2009 News Times
... by the end of the year. To complete the first phase, a trail has to be created south toward the corner where Bethel, Danbury and Redding meet near Old Lantern Road. Officials had hoped to enter into an agreement with Bethel to trails in the Terre ...

Ridgebury store ledgers chronicle years 1811-1881
Apr 12, 2009 News Times
... I would doubt the store opened much before the 1811 date in the earliest ledger." Thomas Boughton, who is related to Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton, was the original shopkeeper. It is not known if the flowing, quill-written script in the earliest ...

Dog gets court reprieve from euthanasia
Apr 7, 2009 The Journal News
... shelter with bite histories, she said earlier. Goudie lives with an elderly dog in a one-bedroom condominium in Danbury, Conn., but has said she would move if she were to get Hunkie. In the meantime, a Patterson kennel would take him in, she said. ...

Danbury mayor to propose a reduction in spending
Apr 6, 2009 NewsTimesLive.com
Mayor Mark Boughton said his proposed budget -- to be presented Tuesday before the Common Council -- will include a reduction in spending over the current year.

Danbury area Jews give thanks for the sun Wednesday
Apr 6, 2009 News Times
... blessing to the environmental movement of this time and place. Rabbi Clifford Librach of the United Jewish Center in Danbury said that even if they don't accept the literal interpretation of biblical astronomy, Jews mark the day as a way to give ...

Redding accident victim in good condition
Apr 6, 2009 News Times
Russell Coonrod, 28, of Redding, was reported in good condition Monday at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, N.Y., after recovering from injuries sustained in a two-car accident last Thursday night on Southern Boulevard in Danbury.

Rizzotti set for youth basketball tourney in Danbury
Apr 6, 2009 NewsTimesLive.com
Former UConn and New Fairfield High basketball star Jennifer Rizzotti will be appearing at the Danbury Youth Services' 15th annual benefit basketball tournament on April 24 at the Danbury High School gym.

Health insurer puts profits first
Apr 6, 2009 News Times
... on the phone, was able to get them to reverse their decision. (I want to thank the Radiology Oncology Department at Danbury Hospital for their perseverance in getting my PET scan re-instated). We thought we had good health insurance (boy, were we ...

Thankful for care at Danbury Hospital
Apr 6, 2009 News Times
To all of the Danbury Hospital doctors, nurses, aides on the Tower and to the X-ray department and travel department: Thank you for your consideration, kindness and helpfulness to me, March 15 to 17.

HatCityBLOG 2007 budget flashback: Spending run amok w/Photo
Apr 6, 2009 Hat City Blog
In honor of Mayor Mark Boughton budget proposal tomorrow, lets take a look back at previous criticisms of the mayor's previous proposals

Blessing the Sun
Apr 6, 2009 News Times
... will celebrate the day with a special service at 6:15 a.m. But Rabbi Clifford Librach of the United Jewish Center in Danbury, said that even if they don't accept the literal interpretation of biblical astronomy, Jews throughout the centuries have ...

Whistling Man Schooner Co. w/Photo
Apr 4, 2009 VermontGuides.com
... company's name. Born in Fayetteville, N.C., in 1948 while his father was on military duty, Findholt was raised in Danbury, Conn., and Spring Valley, N.Y.A His senior year at high school was significant, he says, because that's when a girl from the ...

Ridgebury Road open after tree, wires cleared
Apr 5, 2009 NewsTimesLive.com
... t wind gust was measured at 33 miles per hour at 10:10 p.m. Saturday, according to the Connecticut Weather Center in Danbury

Ng'etich, McHale take Danbury half marathon titles
Apr 5, 2009 NewsTimesLive.com
Abraham Ng'etich didn't expect to be at his best for Sunday's Fourth Annual Stratton Faxon Greater Danbury Half Marathon at Rogers Park.

Fitting golfers for clubs fits Bethel man
Apr 5, 2009 News Times
... the same size shoe, so it only makes sense that not everybody will fit into the same size club," the 50-year-old Danbury native and 14-year Bethel resident said. It's a skill he developed after his wife, Rachel's, family asked him to take over the ...

Tree knocks down wires in Ridgefield
Apr 4, 2009 News Times
... a few utility poles with it. At least on pole carried a transformer, which burned after falling. Firefighters from Danbury and Ridgefield responded to the scene. The road was expected to be closed for several hours as CL&P made repairs. About 212 ...

Video: Kiss a pig, read a book
Apr 4, 2009 NewsTimesLive.com
... of about 100 people in the gymnasium at the Park Avenue School for "Pig Out on Reading Day," an event sponsored by Danbury Children First, a non-profit agency that advocates for children's issues in the city. The idea was to promote reading among ...

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