As part of the region’s Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS), the Western Connecticut Economic Development Alliance (WCEDA) is participating in public outreach meetings. These include issue-based meetings, focus groups, and a survey to a cross-section of businesses within the region. All of these are… Read more »
This past Saturday, June 8, Danbury, Connecticut was home to its first ever Mini Maker Faire, a “science fair meets country fair meets music festival” right on the downtown CityCenter Green. Local hackerspaces (creative work space for makers of all kinds) set up… Read more »
Work is progressing on schedule for the Western Connecticut State University School of Visual and Performing Arts Center on the university’s Westside campus in Danbury. And as the impressive structure takes shape, construction design organizations have taken note. The Cold-Formed Steel Engineers Institute… Read more »
Danbury, Connecticut’s first “Mini Maker Faire” is making its way to the CityCenter Green this weekend. This rain or shine event is being held under a pop-up tent, and for $10, the Faire boasts many up and coming attractions in technology, myriad creations from… Read more »
A story reported by the News Times and the HatCityBlog is making waves: audio obtained from a March 8 traffic stop shows a Danbury police officer berating an undocumented immigrant. According to the News Times, Officer Rob Madore initially stopped the car for running a… Read more »
In Connecticut, jobs in the media industry including arts, entertainment, and sports are expected to grow by 11.7% through 2020. (For comparison, the national average is 4.3%). Middlesex Community College in Middletown is responding to this boom in jobs by providing updated associate degrees… Read more »
Sunday night, May 12, will mark the end of an era as the last 35 millimeter film is shown at The Ridgefield Playhouse. At 6pm, G.I. Joe: Retaliation will run as the last reel-to-reel film before the Playhouse takes the leap into the digital film age…. Read more »
“Whereas intellectual movements of the past have been worked out in fields of metaphysics or science, postmodernism as a coherent intellectual discipline has developed out of literary criticism (of all things). The same analysis that purports to show that works of literature can have… Read more »
Danbury, Connecticut resident Trista Vaughan, a 31-year-old mother of three, must be feeling the love. Vaughan, a student at Paul Mitchell the School in Danbury, was recently diagnosed with stage four breast cancer and has been fighting hard ever since. Vaughan’s boyfriend, Lou… Read more »
John F. Kennedy often dyed the gray out of his hair and changed his shirt up to three times a day. In his newest book, Dr. Burton Peretti, author of The Leading Man: Hollywood and the Presidential Image, provides insight into the influence that image and… Read more »
It wasn’t long after State Senator Harp announced Monday she would file papers to run for mayor of New Haven that a powerful ally emerged: Senate Majority Marty Looney, who represents the parts of New Haven that Harp does not, is putting his considerable… Read more »
The New England Carousel Museum, located at 95 Riverside Avenue in the heart of Bristol, Connecticut, is on a mission: this museum has one of the largest collections of carousel art in the country and wants to welcome a new horse to their magnificent… Read more »
The Danbury Museum & Historical Society Authority is pleased to announce the upcoming release of Danbury’s Third Century: From Urban Status to Tricentennial, produced by Western Connecticut State University (WCSU) and written by Dr. Herbert Janick, Emeritus Professor at WCSU and William Devlin, a… Read more »
Virtual Density, the Connecticut-based cloud computing and managed IT services specialist, announced the five year anniversary of the company’s founding and one year anniversary since the relocation of their offices to CityCenter Danbury at 4 Liberty Street last month. “March is a big… Read more »
Last December, majority Democrats and minority Republicans in the General Assembly came together to pass a deficit mitigation plan that eased the state’s budget shortfall. Last week, the legislation that addressed post-Sandy Hook issues was hailed as a bipartisan effort (although there were many… Read more »
Housatonic Habitat for Humanity benefited from its second annual charity runway show, “Compassion through Fashion,” last week at the Danbury Fair Mall. The fundraising event, which began as a service project led by Danbury High School students last year, featured area students in all… Read more »
Following a brief grassroots fundraising campaign to create a nature preserve, the 136 acre estate atop Castle Hill Road in Newtown, Connecticut has been purchased by a town resident, Joseph Draper. Draper owns a house on Taunton Lake, which borders part of the estate… Read more »
State legislators are considering the establishment of a Connecticut Antiques Trail, an effort to highlight the state’s numerous antique shops, and boost tourism and economic development along the way. The proposal, by Sen. Rob Kane of Watertown, follows a 2009 initiative in which… Read more »
Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton has announced that the City of Danbury has again been ranked as the safest city in Connecticut according to the annual City Crime Rankings 2012-2013: Crime in Metropolitan America released by CQ Press. Danbury is ranked the 106th safest city in… Read more »
Six Connecticut airports are scheduled to close their air traffic control towers as a result of the sequester, a group of cuts to federal spending, which took effect on March 1. The legislated budget cuts seek to reduce government spending by $85 billion total,… Read more »
Lawmakers in the House and Senate voted unanimously Wednesday to pass an emergency certified bill to establish a privately-funded foundation to assist school staff and first responders suffering from psychological trauma as a result of the Newtown shooting. The foundation will be funded… Read more »
Police from Fairfield asked the Public Health Committee Wednesday to allow them to regulate hookah lounges, which they said can currently act as de facto nightclubs in their town. Fairfield Police Chief Gary MacNamara testified in support of a bill introduced by Rep…. Read more »
additional reporting by Carrie Johnson On a Saturday afternoon, Carrie, Jim Clegg of Pink Missile fame, and myself decided to take a little day trip up to Cheshire, Connecticut to visit the Barker Character, Comic and Cartoon Museum. We didn’t really know what… Read more »
Much was made of the bipartisan spirit with which Connecticut legislative leaders announced the formation of the special task force charged with coming up with legislation to deal with post-Newtown issues. It seems that spirit has given way to politics as usual, as several lawmakers tell… Read more »
Depending upon which lawmaker you speak to, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s two-year budget is either visionary or disingenuous. The two-year $43.8 billion budget increases spending 9.7 percent and makes radical changes to municipal funding. The budget stays within the state’s spending cap, but… Read more »