State Rep. Lucy Dathan (D-142), Feb. 1 in Norwalk City Hall.
NORWALK, Conn. — Some Norwalk political notes for you:
Continue reading Norwalk political notes: Dathan, Schantz and a moment of silence
Announcements of interest.
NORWALK, Conn. — Some Norwalk announcements for you:
Continue reading City program targets SoNo for investment funding
Screenshot from the City’s website.
NORWALK, Conn. — The City’s website has transitioned from “.org” to “.gov.”
“The City of Norwalk made the decision to switch to .gov because .gov domains are reserved exclusively for U.S. government entities and provide a clear and trusted indication to the public that the website they are visiting is an official government website and not a fake or malicious site,” Mayor Harry Rilling said in a news release. “Additionally, .gov domains are subject to stricter requirements and security standards, which will help prevent cyber-attacks and protect sensitive government information.” Continue reading City upgrades website to .gov, dropping .org
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NORWALK, Conn. — A Norwalk youth suffered life threatening injuries when he was stabbed in an unprovoked attack Friday evening on the Norwalk High School football field, Norwalk Police said. Two men were arrested, one of them accused of an unprovoked assault on another youth.
In a statement, Norwalk Public Schools said, “We want to remind families that this incident occurred after school hours and the individuals involved were not at Norwalk High School for any school-related events.” Continue reading NPD arrests two in after-hours stabbing at Norwalk High School
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Announcements of interest.
NORWALK, Conn. — Some Norwalk announcements for you:
Friday on Broad Street, beneath the Route 7 Connector overpass. (Harold F. Cobin)
(Optimum)
NORWALK, Conn. — One or more people cut 10 multi-conductor fiber optic cables on Broad Street on Friday morning, knocking out service for thousands of Optimum internet customers.
The company is calling the incident vandalism and may have been an attempt to steal copper wire.
According to Janet Meahan, Optimum’s senior vice president for communications, a total of 16,000 customers lost service.
“I’m happy to report that several thousand have come back online. Restoration efforts continue,” Meahan said Friday afternoon. Continue reading Fiber optic cable vandalism in Norwalk causes massive Optimum outage
Randy Jahier, right, explains characteristics of the saltwater aquarium donated by John DiDomizio, center, Thursday in the Norwalk Public Library. (Harold F. Cobin)
NORWALK, Conn. — Norwalk resident John DiDomizio has donated a state-of-the-art, 185-gallon saltwater aquarium to the Norwalk Public Library and paid for five years of maintenance.
“This is a very special kind of donation. There are many wonderful benefactors who will donate something wonderful to the city, and then leave. That’s not what John has done,” said Alex Knopp, Norwalk Public Library Board of Trustees member, said Thursday at an event celebrating the donation.
“I’ve lived in Norwalk for 45 years now, and which is 60% of my life, and I figured it was time to do something for the city,” DiDomizio said.
Continue reading Norwalk Public Library celebrates donated saltwater aquarium
Marilyn Williams. (John Levin)
NORWALK, Conn. — Marilyn Williams is the school crossing guard for Cranbury Elementary, at the corner of Grumman Avenue and Knowalot Lane, lives in Norwalk and is awesome, according to photographer John Levin. Continue reading A Norwalk photo #173
A girl picks up a cupcake as she breaks fast at King Fahad Mosque in Los Angeles, California., during Ramadan. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)
Editor’s note: Mohammad Hassan Khalil, professor of religious studies and director of the Muslim Studies Program at Michigan State University, answers six questions about the significance of Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting. Continue reading Why Ramadan is called Ramadan: 6 questions answered
“Laptop Keyboard” by nist6ss is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/?ref=openverse.
Editor’s note: This story was originally posted Sept. 13. It is being reposted today as a reminder.
NancyOnNorwalk’s comment section was reopened in September but with some important revisions.
As you may recall, we experimented in August: first we suspended the comments section, then we sent Nancy Chapman on vacation for two weeks, with no reporting or publishing while she was gone. We conducted a survey to gain feedback from readers on a variety of questions, including comments. Continue reading New rules for a reopened comments section
The Norwalk Planning and Zoning Commission meets Wednesday in the City Hall Community Room. Attorney Adam Blank, representing the applicants seeking to build a mixed use development on Cemetery Street, is shown on the iPad in the foreground.
NORWALK – The Norwalk Planning and Zoning Commission voted 6-2 Wednesday to approve plans for 1 Cemetery St., which call for building 77 apartment units, of which seven would be workforce units; 102 parking spaces and additional on and off-site improvements. The approval came despite dozens and dozens of residents speaking out against the project, even more writing letters to the commission, and more than 700 residents signing a petition asking the developer to scale the project back.
The approval came at the third meeting for this project—the first was a more than three-hour presentation by the applicant with a small bit of public comment; the second featured exclusively public comment for about five hours; and the third was a rebuttal presentation by the applicant, which included question and comments from Planning and Zoning Commissioners. Continue reading P&Z Commission approves plans for 1 Cemetery St., despite objections from East Norwalk residents
A Kevin Rennie Tweet.
NORWALK, Conn. — Some Norwalk political notes for you:
Continue reading Norwalk political notes: Questions and a little info
Gov. Ned Lamont in Newtown in October 2020 celebrating a hot housing market brought on by New York City residents moving here during the pandemic. (CTMirror.org)
A progressive policy group with strong ties to labor took aim recently at one of Gov. Ned Lamont’s strongest assertions: that financing tax relief for the poor and middle class by raising rates on the wealthy would prompt elites to flee the state.
A Better Connecticut Institute [ABCI] released an analysis concluding Connecticut’s richest taxpayers decide whether to live based on chiefly on quality of life, and proximity to family and business — not on the state income tax’s top marginal rates. Continue reading Report: Taxing the rich won’t make them leave CT