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Here’s Realtor Deirdre McGovern’s report on Darien and Rowayton-area real estate from April 17 to 24, 2025:
Federal Realty today announced that three new retail leases have been signed with local and regional businesses and entrepreneurs at Darien Commons — The Usual Lash, GlowUp Nails & Spa and Spear Physical Therapy.
Here’s Realtor Deirdre McGovern’s report on Darien and Rowayton-area real estate from January 2 to 9, 2025:
Here’s Realtor Deirdre McGovern’s report on Darien and Rowayton-area real estate from May 16 to 23, 2024:
Darien Library will open the Community Room from 9:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. to show a livestream of coverage of Pope Francis’ funeral from the Vatican News channel on YouTube, the library announced.
Barbara Keller Fairclough died peacefully in the late hours of Wednesday, April 23, 2025, following a hard fought battle with breast cancer. She was 76.
While I’m on vacation this week I thought I’d revisit a commentary I wrote in 2014. Judge for yourself how little has changed in 11 years.
Everybody loves to complain about our traffic. And for some, the solutions are simple, if impractical. If there were easy answers to our woes, they’d have been implemented by now.
Here’s Realtor Deirdre McGovern’s report on Darien and Rowayton-area real estate from April 10 to 17, 2025:
Technology in the form of a universal smart key fob aided the theft of a car in New York state, and technology in the form of a license plate reader alerted a police officer who arrested a man and recovered the car in Darien, police said.
Barbara Herbert Saverine, a longtime resident of Stamford and Darien, passed away on Tuesday April 15, 2025. She was 83.
Carolyn Orchard Ruscoe Burt, aka “Rusty,” passed away on March 13, 2025. She was 91.
Connecticut’s favorite local airline, Avelo, is in trouble for making a strategic business decision: taking a long term contract with ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) to fly deportation flights for the Department of Homeland Security.
Darien police are now offering a $50,000 reward to anyone who can provide “information leading to the identification and recovery of the firearm used in the murder of Officer [Kenneth] Bateman,” the department announced Friday afternoon.
Here’s Realtor Deirdre McGovern’s report on Darien and Rowayton-area real estate from April 3 to 10, 2025:
Sarah McCune Rex Geary departed unexpectedly on April 7. She was 63.
A 22-year-old woman who stole two Rolex watches from a home on Shady Acres Road was arrested on Feb. 23, Darien police said.
A 47-year-old Norwalk man set up a hidden video camera in the bathroom of a Darien business, capturing images of people, but not their faces, Darien police said.
Joseph Bruce Magliari “Joe”, 82, passed away at home in Darien on Feb. 26, 2025.
See recitation of poetry, play music, or dazzle with any other talent at Darien Library’s Open Mic Night, on Thursday, April 10..
The Darien Board of Education plans to hire a firm to conduct a nationwide search for a superintendent of schools to replace Dr. Alan Addley, who recently announced he’s stepping down from the job after six years.
Jane O’Hara Larkin, returned to her Heavenly Father on April 4, at age 92.
Flashback 200 years. You have to travel from Hartford to New York City. How do you get there?
Not by train (it didn’t exist yet) and certainly not by road (two to three days by stage coach on dirt roads). No, the best option was by boat.
Rolf H. Swensen passed away peacefully on Saturday, March 22, in Darien.
Patricia Ann Wardley Hamilton, 94, of Indianapolis, Indiana, and Grandview-on-Hudson, New York, passed away on March 11, 2025. She was predeceased by her husband of 67 years, Lloyd A. Hamilton Jr.
Here’s Realtor Deirdre McGovern’s report on Darien and Rowayton-area real estate from March 27 to April 3, 2025:
The multicolored patches you can see sported on Darien police officers’ shoulders and on their vehicles are there to again honor World Autism Day and Month.
Mark Suttile, son of Patricia Frye and the late Joseph Suttile, passed away on March 12, 2025.
A homeowner on Five Mile River Road found that a BMW M1000R motorcycle had been stolen from his garage sometime overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday, March 25 to 26, Darien police said.