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The famed sailing ship Golden Rule has been docked in Norwalk since Memorial Day and on Tuesday, Mayor Harry Rilling presented a proclamation to welcome the crew, all U.S. veterans, at the Veterans Memorial Park Marina. That evening, there was a meet and greet at Eco Evolution in nearby SoNo.
The Golden Rule sails again!
On January 7th 1945, the last V2 rocket to fall on London in World War II fell in our street. I was only eight years old but there are things one does not forget, the noise, the smoke, the dust, the smell, the cries and the blood. On September 11th,...
City to issue grants to small nonprofits
Norwalk nonprofits with operating budgets below $1 million that provide critically needed services to residents may qualify for “mini-grants” via the City’s new Community Impact Program to Support Smaller Nonprofits. $100,000 worth of mini-grants ranging from $5,000 to $10,000 will be awarded from the City’s operating budget to currently established 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(19) organizations that address residents’ health, education, and safety net needs. Applications are limited to two per organization, and each organization is limited to one mini-grant per 12-month period.
Norwalk needs proportional representation for all parties
It’s interesting that the Charter Revision Commission hasn’t opened the database of public suggestions and comments. Likely because if they did, they’d show just how many of them they ignore. To be sure, most of these suggestions are going to be inane, wrongheaded, self-centered, and misguided. To...
Remembering Norwalk residents who died during wartime service
Every year when the calendar flips to May, I think about how the month will end. The unofficial start to the summer season and the month with a revered holiday, Memorial Day, will be celebrated again in the country. How does the country “celebrate”? Should the country “celebrate”? Maybe, observing or commemorating Memorial Day, is a better verb for a sacred day.
Memorial Day memories
On the day before Memorial Day 75 years ago, the dedication ceremony for Richard Kemper Memorial Park took place at Mamaroneck High School in Mamaroneck, N.Y. Richard Kemper, a former MHS student and my uncle, was killed on Aug. 6, 1944, exactly two months after D-Day in the Battle of the Hedgerows, the effort to drive the Germans out of France during World War II. Subsequently my grandparents, Adolph and Helen Kemper, purchased land outside the high school and turned it into a memorial where they and others might come to honor those who fought to defend our country, and the enlightenment values embodied in our founding documents.
Milligan reveals library lot negotiation hurdles; Knopp gets Milligan’s price down
NORWALK, Conn. — With a June 30 deadline looming for the City to buy land next to the Norwalk Public Library at a price negotiated six years ago, former Mayor Alex Knopp is trying to ease an impasse between the Rilling Administration and real estate broker Jason Milligan. City...
Police detail Memorial Day parade routes
NORWALK, Conn. — Norwalk Police are warning folks away from streets that will be blocked by the Rowayton Memorial Day parade Sunday and the City Memorial Day parade Monday. Rowayton’s streets will be closed from noon to 1:30 p.m. Sunday:. Highland Avenue from Wilson Avenue to McKinley Street.
People for a Peaceful Tomorrow invites us to envision and work for peace
For the last 15 years, members of the Wilton Quaker Meeting, Veterans for Peace, World Beyond War and other like-minded folks have marched as the last group in the Memorial Day parade. We honor the war dead by recommitting ourselves to working for peace. We advocate for a greater emphasis on diplomatic and non-violent solutions to conflict through the UN and other international organizations. We encourage the US government to work through diplomacy and international development aid to promote peace and sustainable development. We invite anyone who agrees to join us in this pro-peace group in the parade.
Second try: NPS seeks State grant for HVAC work
NORWALK, Conn. — New hopes are developing that Norwalk Public Schools can upgrade air quality in some of its buildings via a State grant program, which would help pay for cooling equipment and new boilers. NPS failed to win funds in the first round of the Lamont Administration’s HVAC...
Mayoral campaign contributions raise questions
Harry Rilling’s Mayoral campaign (Friends of Rilling) raised $102,900 through March in preparation for this November’s municipal elections. State law requires campaigns to file periodic SEEC Form 20 reports. These reports itemize all contributions and expenditures plus have specific disclosure questions. The SEEC Form 20’s are public documents and filed with the Norwalk Town Clerk.
Memorial Day Parade set for Monday
NORWALK, Conn. — Norwalk’s 2023 Memorial Day Parade will march at 10 a.m. on Monday, May 29, from Veterans Park, 42 Seaview Ave., to the Town Green on East Avenue. Norwalk native Leo Motyka, a U.S. Army Senior Vice Commander, is the parade’s Grand Marshal. As happened last year, a C-130 military transport plane will fly over the parade route around 10:30, thanks to CT National Guard’s 103rd Airlift Wing/118 Airlift Squadron.
Norwalk political notes: Dollar signs, balloon bill
NORWALK, Conn. — Some Norwalk political info for you:. The Board of Estimate and Taxation approved a $62,947 budget transfer from the contingency account to the legislative account to pay Attorney Steven Mednick for his work rewriting Norwalk’s 100-year-old charter through June 30, the end of the fiscal year. That’s in addition to about $75,000 paid last year, Norwalk Director of Management and Budgets Tom Ellis said at the May 1 meeting.
Citzens weigh in at Charter Revision Commission’s last public hearing
NORWALK, Conn. — The Norwalk Charter Revision is poised to deliver recommended changes to the Common Council and dissolve when the Council is satisfied. To that end, the public was invited to one last hearing to weigh in. While few people attended, diversity of opinion nevertheless developed on the one substantial proposed change, a measure that failed on the ballot in 2016.
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