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Upcoming City of Norwalk Meetings…At your Fingertips
Here are the upcoming City of Norwalk meetings for the week of May 27, 2024:. – Location: City Hall, Common Council Chambers (Hybrid meeting, also via Zoom) – Location: Community Room at City Hall, 125 East Avenue, First Floor, Norwalk, CT 06851. Presentations and Q&A available on Zoom, but the open house portion is not hybrid.
61st annual CCNS Art Show coming to The SoNo Collection
More than 60 professional artists’ works, highlighted by Cameron Schmitz’ renowned paintings, will be displayed at the 61st annual CCNS Art Show benefitting the show’s exhibitors and Rowayton-based Community Cooperative Nursery School. The show is planned for Friday May 31 from 6 until 10 p.m., and Saturday June 1 from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. in The SoNo Collection’s M&T Bank Magnificent Room. The SoNo Collection is located at 100 North Water Street in South Norwalk.
Neighborhood opposition to Norden site plan pushes vote to a 4th hearing
The Planning and Zoning Commission on Wednesday night ended its third public meeting related to the proposal from the MTA to turn part of the 10 Norden Place site into a “transportation maintenance terminal” with no vote yet. The commission heard more than three hours of testimony from residents, who oppose the project, which pushed the hearing into a fourth session.
Memorial Day parade plan
Norwalk’s 2024 Memorial Day Parade will march at 10 a.m.on Monday, May 27 from Veterans Park, 42 Seaview Avenue, to the Town Green on East Avenue. U.S. Army Veteran Richard Olson, Commander of Norwalk’s American Legion Post 12, is the parade’s Grand Marshal. According to a press...
Norwalk hazardous waste collection set for Aug. 31
Norwalk’s Hazardous Waste Collection Event is set for Saturday Aug. 31 from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. at Ponus Ridge Middle School, located at 20 Hunters Lane. If you can’t make it that day, go to one of the others listed below. The events are free to Norwalk residents presenting a driver’s license, vehicle registration, or Norwalk disposal pass, and are for residential discards only. Business or commercial loads won’t be accepted.
CT’s roots are in the defense industry. Could its colleges truly divest?
On a sunny Thursday afternoon earlier this month, about 100 students gathered outside the Dodd Center for Human Rights on the University of Connecticut’s campus in Storrs for a press conference. While most of the school’s nearly 20,000 undergraduates were clearing out dorm rooms and posing for graduation photos...
Norwalk has a new tax assessor, or almost
The city of Norwalk could soon have an official, full-time Tax Assessor. The appointment would fill a post that has been vacant for the last 14 months, since the last Tax Assessor departed following several years of tumult in the assessor’s office. Paul Gorman, who has been serving as...
On 3rd try, Norwalk wins $400,000 ‘Safe Streets’ grant
Norwalk was one of just 99 communities across the country to receive a federal ‘Safe Streets and Roads for All’ grant this week, city officials learned last night. The city won the $400,000 planning and development grant to create a comprehensive safety action plan for Norwalk’s streets. Jim Travers, director of Transportation, Mobility, and Parking, informed the Ordinance Committee of the Common Council of the grant at its meeting Tuesday evening.
Upcoming City Meetings…At your Fingertips
Here are the upcoming events for the City of Norwalk for this week:. – Location: City Hall (Via Zoom Webinar) – Location: Jefferson Elementary School (75 Van Buren Avenue) – Location: Hybrid via Zoom and in the Common Council Chambers, 125 East Avenue, Third Floor, Norwalk, CT 06851. 11. Historical...
Behind Kosta Diamantis’ arrest: money woes, unfettered power
The federal criminal case leveled against Konstantinos Diamantis, a former Connecticut lawmaker and state deputy budget director, paints a portrait of a man who was desperate for cash, had unfettered control over billions of dollars in government money and wasn’t afraid to use that power to ease his own financial troubles.
Fight, robots, fight!
Sixteen teams of builder-controlled robots will fight each other, using unortodox weaponry and crafty defenses, when Norwalk-based National Havoc Robot League holds its Teams Championship on Saturday June 1 from 9 a.m. until 10:30 p.m. at House of Havoc, located at 165 Water Street in Norwalk. According to a news...
Norwalk Library’s main floor to close for new carpeting
The first floor of the Norwalk Public Library’s Main Branch, 1 Belden Avenue, will be closed for new carpet installation this Wednesday and Thursday, May 22-23. New books, computers, and printing services will be moved to the lower level, which will be fully accessible as will the second-floor children’s department.
CT’s ‘food insecure’ residents increased by 90,000 in 2022, many of them children
In Connecticut, one of the 10 wealthiest states in the U.S., nearly half a million people don’t know where their next meal is coming from. One in eight residents of the state experienced “food insecurity” in 2022, rising from one in 10 in 2021, according to the latest annual “Map the Meal Gap” report from hunger-relief organization Feeding America.
LaToya Fernandez: ‘I was not supported’ as Norwalk’s first DEI officer. ‘They are not ready’
LaToya Fernandez, Norwalk’s first officer of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), was hired in October 2022 with great hope and fanfare on the staff of Mayor Harry Rilling. Just 16 months later, in February 2024, a city spokesperson confirmed Fernandez had left the position. At the time, Fernandez herself didn’t announce the move or reveal publicly why she had quit. On Saturday, in the following post on the professional social-networking site LinkedIn, Fernandez recounts the role as a “dehumanizing” experience:
“Dining in the Gilded Age,” with food historian at Lockwood-Mathews Mansion, June 4
Food historian Becky L. Diamond’s illustrated talk and tasting “Dining in the Gilded Age,” based on her book The Gilded Age Cookbook: Recipes and Stories from America’s Golden Era will explore lavish nineteenth century cuisine served at ladies’ luncheons, dinner parties, debutante balls, and such.
Nearly 200,000 CT households risk losing internet subsidies
A federal program that reduces monthly internet bills is winding down at the end of May, absent last-minute congressional action. That has prompted concerns among advocates and low-income households enrolled in the program, including the nearly 200,000 in Connecticut. The Affordable Connectivity Program — implemented as part of bipartisan infrastructure...
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