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Upgrade Your Spring Cleaning With These Three Talks at Darien Library, All Related to Downsizing

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Darien Library is offering three talks related to downsizing on the first three Tuesday evenings in April, the library says, “from tips and tricks for decluttering, to getting the right prize for your property, to deciding where to go next.” — an announcement from Darien Library

Each talk is free, each requires registration and takes place from 7 to 8 p.m. There’s no guarantee you’ll save money, time or your sanity from the advice being offered, but your chances may improve. While on the same general subject, the talks are independent of each other, so you won’t miss anything in the talk or talks you’re attending if you just go to one or two,
Downsizing: What’s My Stuff Worth? Have you ever wondered what your antiques, collectibles, or household items are really worth? In this engaging presentation, a professional auctioneer will demystify the valuation process, explain what determines an item’s value, and share tips on identifying hidden treasures.

First Selectman: Traditional Buildings, Not Concrete Monoliths, When Corbin District Is Completed

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The massive concrete blocks constructed just off the Post Road near Exit 11 are only the cores of future buildings and not what people will see when the project is done, First Selectman Jon Zagrodzky said Friday in his fortnightly column. Zagrodzky said he’d been called by people concerned about whether the new buildings will look like the concrete monoliths. In the Town of Darien Newsletter, emailed on Friday, March 23, Zagrodzky passed on some of the information he recently received from the site’s developer, David Genovese, principal of Baywater Properties. (Darienite.com also has an article on the other part of the column, about the recent Superintendent’s Conversation meeting on the topic of bigotry and how to counter it.)

Here’s the full (brief) text of the part of Zagrodzky’s column on the construction site, along with all the pictures accompanying it:

I have received a number of calls about the concrete monoliths going up at the Corbin II project downtown. Rest assured, what you’re seeing is not the final form of this transformative development!