08/14/09 The Danbury Briefing (Updated)

Comprehensive News Feed for Danbury, CT.

• Grandpa nominated for greatness
  posted on August 14, 2009 11:03:08 pm
  ... about being a grandparent that is just so very special,'' said Vogt, who also has a daughter, Jessica, age 27, in Danbury. His family thinks he has a gift. "Our family calls him a kid magnet,'' Lynne Vogt said. "Kids in general seem to flock to him. ...
• Wishing Well Health Food Gifts and Baskets nourishes, flourishes
  posted on August 14, 2009 11:02:22 pm
  Laura Bittman works at Wishing Well in Newtown. Wishing Well Health Food Gifts and Baskets has been eclectically serving the Danbury area for almost two years from 5A Glen Road in Newtown.
• Meserve Fund generous to high schoolers for 25 years
  posted on August 14, 2009 10:58:35 pm
  ... In 1978, a fund was set up to manage and distribute $3 million Meserve and his wife, Helen, left to greater Danbury. In 1985, the scholarship program was added. About $75,000 a year is given: 10 $3,000 scholarships to students entering college and ...
• Danbury team on way to Cal Ripken World Series in Maryland
  posted on August 14, 2009 10:56:52 pm
  As the Danbury 12-year-old team got ready to board a bus to the Cal Ripken World Series, no one was more excited than Rose Pennell, grandmother of third basemen Ryan Preusse.
• Local support goes long way
  posted on August 14, 2009 02:22:02 pm
  ... it off." Northwest opens play in Aberdeen, Md., at 2 p.m. Saturday against the New England Regional champion from Danbury, Conn. The tournament runs through Aug. 22 and all games can be watched on the internet through baberuthleague.com for $14.95. ...
• Engaged: Carrie Kilian, Paul Sirois
  posted on August 14, 2009 09:54:31 am
  Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Kilian Jr. of Long Ridge Road, Danbury, announce the engagement of their daughter, Carrie Ann Kilian, to Paul L. Sirois, son of Bonnie Sirois of Walnut Tree Hill Road, Sandy Hook, and the late Maurice Sirois.
• RSO plays light and lively classics on the Danbury Green
  posted on August 14, 2009 05:57:35 am
  Bringing the Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra outdoors on the Danbury Green last Saturday night had some bonus features, including children playing, picnickers noshing, friends chatting, Mayor Mark Boughton shaking hands and a rodeo whooping it up about a block away at the ice skating rink.
• Popa Chubby brings high energy show to Playhouse
  posted on August 14, 2009 05:57:16 am
  ... East Ridge, parallel to Main Street. The media sponsor is WCCC. Shoofly Blues Shoo Fly Blues performs Friday on the Danbury Green, off Ives Street. Show time is 7:30 p.m. for this free concert. Inspired by artists such as Etta James, this band aims ...
• Study grant could be another step toward revitalized downtown
  posted on August 14, 2009 05:56:00 am
  Mayor Mark Boughton was correct to call a $45,000 grant to study the future of the Palace Theater "good news for Danbury." The Palace, on Main Street in the heart of the city, is a key ingredient in a brighter, more vibrant downtown.
• Sound Surfing by Mike Horyczun
  posted on August 14, 2009 04:03:32 am
  ... Arts Center is located at 2 Renshaw Road in Darien. Call 655-5414 or visit http://arts.darien.org/entertainment Danbury's Ives Concert Park is back in action with Collective Soul performing at 7:30 p.m. Monday. The band's debut disc, "Hints, ...
• Carbon sequestration plan for Holland's James DeYoung Power Plant gains momentum
  posted on August 12, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... momentum, after initially being turned down by the U.S. Department of Energy. The Holland Board of Public Works and Danbury, Conn.-based PraxAir Inc., were rejected last month for the DOE's Clean Coal Power Initiative. But city and company ...
• Weathering the Storm
  posted on August 14, 2009 03:48:00 am
  ... job was garnered via an advertisement he saw posted on a bulletin board calling for an earth sciences teacher in Danbury, Connecticut. "I had no idea where Danbury was," he recalls with a chuckle. From there, Dr. Mel built a career as a ...
• Judge spares jail time for former state trooper snared in Galante probe
  posted on August 13, 2009 09:57:52 pm
  ... the name of the person the car was registered to. The person was affiliated with a small trash hauling company in Danbury that was not participating in the so-called "property rights system" that artificially kept prices for trash collection in the ...
• Stamford Marriott claims woman was negligent in her own rape
  posted on August 13, 2009 09:54:52 pm
  ... as the case heads for trial, scheduled for April. The woman filed the lawsuit in May 2008, six months after Danbury native Gary Fricker, 56, was sentenced to 20 years in prison after a plea deal in the case. On Oct. 10, 2006, Fricker stuck a handgun ...
• Danbury Pembroke Road barber shop is family affair
  posted on August 13, 2009 09:50:27 pm
  Bob Holesko moved to Danbury about five years ago, and the day before an important business meeting he decided to get a haircut to make a good impression.
• John Coburn, 94, Episcopal bishop, leading force in ordinating women
  posted on August 13, 2009 06:04:43 pm
  ... was present even in childhood. Bishop Coburn's father, the Rev. Aaron C. Coburn, founded the Wooster School in Danbury, Conn. His father hoped he might succeed him as head of that school. Bishop Coburn was valedictorian of his class at the Wooster ...
• The Buck Largesse Starts Here
  posted on August 13, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... for Buck, perhaps the cash wasn't so much coughed up as it was gently exhaled. A longtime resident of Danbury, Conn., Buck ponied up $1,000 in 1965 to open the first Subway sandwich shop with friend Fred DeLuca. At the time, Buck was working ...
• Danbury gets Palace Theater grant
  posted on August 13, 2009 08:32:17 am
  ... Boughton. "This will really help us focus on restoration of the theater and the downtown. It's just good news for Danbury.'' Local developer Joseph DaSilva, who owns the theater and has put more than $500,000 of his own money into it over the past ...
• A reunion for Danbury race fans
  posted on August 13, 2009 06:21:00 am
  It has been over 28 years since the last Southern New York Racing Association's Stock Cars and ARDC Midgets raced at the Danbury Fairground Racearena.
• Looking Back At Lime Rock
  posted on August 13, 2009 05:55:36 am
  ... and out laps. We looked at absolutely everything during a very good meeting at Highcroft Racing's head quarters in Danbury, Connecticut, before round five at Lime Rock and we felt ready to repeat the race winning success we enjoyed there the ...