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Schools and educational activities
Due to the weather and the school district decision to cancel after-school and evening activities, the Thursday evening Theatre 308 performance of Our Town has been rescheduled for this Saturday, Nov.17 at 2 p.m.
Tickets purchased for Thursday will be honored for the 2 p.m. Saturday show. Separately, the play is being performed Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. (more…) Continue Reading →
All Darien public schools are delayed by about two hours today, Friday, Nov. 16, the school district announced. The delay follows the cancellation of after-school and evening activities in the district due to the weather. The Early Learning Program has been cancelled for Friday. (Typically, according to the school district website, early ELP classes, normally starting at 8:30 a.m., are delayed and only late ones, that normally start at 9:30 a.m., are cancelled.) (more…) Continue Reading →
All after-school and evening activities at Darien Public Schools have been cancelled for Thursday due to weather concerns, according to an email from a school district official. (more…) Continue Reading →
If you own a home or other property in town, you should be getting an individual tax assessment for it in the mail within a few days, Darien Tax Assessor Anthony Homicki said on Tuesday. The revaluation estimate of the taxable worth of your property will be used in calculating your future town property bills, which apply the town tax rates to assessed value. You can dispute or simply discuss the valuation both with the company the town hired to make the assessment (which isn’t required to enter your land, home or other building to do it), and later you can appeal the assessment with town officials. (If none of that results in an assessment you can abide by, you can sue the town.) (more…) Continue Reading →
The Southport School is holding a workshop for parents on dyslexia on Thursday, Nov. 29. The workshop is free and open to the public, but registration is required. (more…) Continue Reading →
“STRESS!” is often the first thought that comes to mind when someone hears about a high school student who is preparing college applications. And “stress” is the word that Marie Dolan, a College admissions consultant for Greenwich Education Group, focused on during her presentation at the company’s fourth annual college application seminar for high school students and their parents. (more…) Continue Reading →
Housatonic Community College (HCC) invites the community to STEAM Fest 2018 — a celebration of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics on Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 7 and 8 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the HCC campus. (more…) Continue Reading →
JM Wright Technical High School, part of the state’s CTECS technical high school system, is hosting an open house for prospective students and their families from 6 to 8 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 8. (more…) Continue Reading →
The parents of a former Darien High School student, including his mother, who was a Board of Education member, have filed a federal lawsuit alleging that two dozen town officials, school district employees, residents and news organizations in town mistreated the student and the student’s family in various illegal ways. The lawsuit, filed Oct. 11 in U.S. District Court in Connecticut, alleges that the student and his family, whose names are withheld in the complaint, were subjected to “a campaign of bullying, harassment, physical assault, retaliation, intimidation, and intentional and deliberate emotional harm” that lasted from at least October 2016 through the boy’s graduation in 2018. (more…) Continue Reading →
To give our young visitors a better understanding of basic chemistry and how it impacts the world around them, Stepping Stones Museum for Children is proud to partner with our neighbors from King Industries Inc. on Thursday, Nov. 1, to present STEAM Night. (more…) Continue Reading →
An unpleasant odor was smelled in the G wing of Darien High School on Tuesday morning, but it was dealt with by stopping work on a sidewalk, school Principal Ellen Dunn told parents in an email. (more…) Continue Reading →
Recently, the Federal Trade Commission staff heard about scams targeting parents of high school students preparing for college. The scammers claim to be from The College Board — the organization responsible for the PSAT and SAT tests. (more…) Continue Reading →
On Saturday Oct. 13, the Darien Model Congress Club had a wonderful experience at the Wilton High School Model Congress, where student delegates meet in senatorial committees or with the President’s National Security Council. (more…) Continue Reading →
Andrew Byrne, assistant principal at Middlesex Middle School since 2010, has accepted a job as interim administrator at Folsom House, a part of Greenwich High School, where he’ll also oversee the mathematics program. (more…) Continue Reading →
Darien High School Principal Ellen Dunn announced today that these 21 students at the school have been named “Commended Students” in the 2019 National Merit Scholarship Program: (more…) Continue Reading →