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Letter to the Editor: New walking signals at Washington and Water raise safety concerns
As a recreational runner, I frequently have to cross the Stroffolino Bridge to get over to Veterans’ Park, with its 1-mile perimeter perfectly convenient for running well-measured laps. The signal at Washington & Water Street has never been particularly helpful in this endeavor, but recent months the programming appears to have changed for the worse.…
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Letter to the Editor: Manresa Wilds is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for Norwalk
Manresa Wilds is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for Norwalk. Maybe even once in a century. We have the chance to create a landmark for all of New England—one of the most ambitious philanthropically funded civic projects in the region’s history. A world-class waterfront destination could strengthen Norwalk’s identity for generations and create something truly extraordinary for…
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Photos from the Editor: A Hike to One of New York’s Tallest Waterfalls
For our anniversary, Natalie and I made the roughly two-hour drive from Norwalk to Kaaterskill Falls in New York’s Catskill Mountains. We spent the day hiking 8.7 miles, surrounded by waterfalls, forests, and incredible views. The park is free to visit, close enough for an easy day trip, and absolutely worth the drive. If you’ve…
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Letter From the Editor: Chasing Waterfalls
Howdy, Eight years ago, I proposed to my wife on top of a boulder at Elephant Rocks State Park, crying too hard to get the words out. Three years after that, we married beside the falls at Johnson’s Shut-Ins. We’ve always loved wild places. So this week, I’m taking her to Kaaterskill Falls in the…
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Letter to the Editor: Do This, Not That
It certainly has been a stimulating debate in the last week or so over what to do about the Manresa Wilds project… and also whatever THIS was. I’ve made no secret of my anti-NIMBY stance, so I’m pretty sure most of my fellow Norwalkers can guess what my general position might be here. But as…
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Letter to the Editor: Manresa Island and the Redevelopment Project – Positive Progress Can Be Achieved to Benefit Norwalk but MUST include Norwalk Taxpayers Interests
Manresa Island’s redevelopment offers a path back to sanity for Norwalk, CT and a path to solvency and a tax base that returns this city to solvency and more importantly SANITY. I am cautiously both optimistic and also apprehensive here due to the clearly incompetent leaders that have brought us to where we currently are.…
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Letter to the Editor: What Norwalk needs!
Love it or hate it, apartments are coming to the shorefront of Water Street after the Walk Bridge is completed, so why should Developers just benefit? By the city mandating a public boardwalk and transient docks, Norwalk can become a seaside destination without the car traffic. These public amenities will significantly help local businesses as…
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Letter from the Editor: I publish city salaries every year. Here’s mine.
Every year, NancyOnNorwalk publishes what city employees make. We request payroll records, ask officials to explain overtime, and report on how taxpayer money is spent. I think that standard should apply to me, too. NancyOnNorwalk’s 2025 Form 990 was recently filed. Federal law already requires nonprofit organizations to disclose compensation for key employees, but I…
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Letter to the Editor: How Lamont’s Investments have Kept a First-Gen Graduate in Connecticut
When I started high school in 2018, pessimism hung in the air. Headlines in the news were all saying the same thing: “More people are leaving Connecticut than ever before”, “The State has not recovered since the great recession”, “We don’t have enough money for our budget”. My parents, like many others across Connecticut, were…
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Letter to the Editor: Let’s Play a Game
Much has been made by my indirect interlocutor about my “rhetoric” (a word people use when they do not have a direct rebuttal), my supposed personal animus (supposedly evidenced by the mere act of referencing their NAME multiple times in reference to their OWN proposal… what else am I supposed to call them, “my interlocutor”?),…
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Letter to the Editor: Ban AI for students, restore screen-free recess
Dear Members of the Board of Education and the Norwalk community, Although I was tempted to have AI help me write this letter, out of principle and given the topic at-hand, I have successfully resisted the urge. This is all me and this letter is years in the making. My name is Christina Jimenez Rothstein.…
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Letter to the Editor: The Call for a Council for Accountability Continued: I’m not Done Seeking to Speak Truth to Power in Norwalk
My first editorial letter and request for this idea was met with some positive as well as some negative in an angry outcry from friends of the powers that be and their interests’ et al, as well as a rhetorical article. It is paramount to report that the rhetoric of negativity erred in its intent…
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Photos From the Editor: Pride in The Park
This weekend is one of the few that I try not to work. My wife, Natalie, and I don’t personally celebrate many holidays, but Pride is one we do. With so many events scheduled this weekend, I wasn’t able to have everything covered and still take the day off. I started the afternoon with the…
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Letter to the Editor: A Radical Proposal: “Don’t Speak Up”
A fellow Norwalker recently encouraged me to keep up my writing, so it felt like a sign from the universe to go ahead and finish this letter draft. No shade to Ashley, but a thought occurred to me recently when seeing her weekly headline rounding up city meetings for public comment: Why do we need to “Speak…
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Letter to the Editor: Response to “Why We Need to Establish a Norwalk Citizens’ Council of Accountability”
This is in direct response to Liz Conti’s incensed letter demanding the creation of a brand new investigatory body that will absolutely never turn Orwellian nor further clog up the arteries of our already-hideously-sclerotic local government. Even setting aside the rank conspiracism — really, is EVERY council member who disagrees with you NECESSARILY on the take, or…
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Letter to the Editor: Here is Why We Need to Establish a Norwalk Citizens’ Council of Accountability
Ok folks, tired and disgusted like me on talking to a WALL of leadership that has turned a blind eye and ear to the concerns of the public taxpaying funders of their pedestal of power? I have decided enough is enough. I am now focusing my attention on petitioning for a Charter Revision to create…
You missed what may have been the most interesting, for me at least, hearing of the week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEUDhcWdo7I Here you…