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You’re invited to join fellow Darien residents on the steps of Darien Town Hall, 2 Renshaw Road, before the Board of Selectmen meeting at 7 p.m. to stand in solidarity with the goal of flying the Pride Flag at Town Hall.
Here’s Realtor Deirdre McGovern’s report on Darien, Rowayton and Wilson Point real estate from May 18 to 25, 2023:
Darien High School’s 2021 graduation ceremony combined congratulations on getting through high school during the COVID-19 pandemic with the regular high school graduation themes — life advice, thankful appreciation and assurance that the graduates have what it takes to succeed in the future.
Here’s Realtor Deirdre McGovern’s report on Darien and Rowayton real estate from June 10 to 17, 2021:
Update 11:38 a.m., Friday:
No one was injured when a Chevrolet Tahoe driven by a 20-year-old Darien man hit a utility pole in front of 562 Hoyt St. midday Wednesday, snapping the pole and ripping up a fence, police said.
Joseph R. Sexton of Stamford passed away on Feb. 15 at the age of 90. He was a member of Darien Senior Men’s Association, the Darien Cotillion and Woodway Country Club.
In the most recently released Darien Health Department food service inspections, two restaurants received “Good” ratings and one was scored as “Fair.” No “Poor” ratings were given out.
A 47-year-old resident of Duffy’s Lane threatened and assaulted another family member on two different domestic violence incidents, according to Darien police. He was also charged with risk of injury to a minor, a felony.
These properties recently were sold in Darien, according to records in the Town Clerk’s Office:
Here’s Deirdre McGovern’s report on Darien and Rowayton real estate for Feb. 11 to 18:
The cast of the DAC Stage production of “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” by Clark Gesnerwill has been chosen:
The Darien Community Association will take guests back to the 1970s, the time of lava lamps, disco balls and The Hustle at their “Studio 54 – Revisited” annual fundraiser on Saturday, March 5 from 7 p.m. till late.
Two men knocked on the back door of an elderly Darien woman’s home on Brown Street and told her she seemed to need a roof repair, so she let one of the men go upstairs in her home to check for leaks, police said.
Barbara Chase Fenton Minahan died peacefully in Hospice of Palm Beach County in Florida on Sunday, Feb. 14.
Along a once-thriving stretch of Route 66 in Afton, Oklahoma, is a vintage service station where visitors from around the world would find, and later seek out, a welcome and a smile from Laurel Kane. The modest ’30s-era building was purchased by Laurel and her then-husband, David Kane, in 1998.
After pulling over a car on Interstate 95 near Exit 9 on Tuesday, state police found three pounds of marijuana and arreted the driver, a 44-year-old New Haven man.
The Bar Method Darien, part of a national franchise of exercise studios for women, is renovating the former site of Patriot National Bank downtown after receiving approval from town land use officials.
Sometime on Monday, the driver’s side rear door of a car parked at the Noroton Heights Railroad Station was removed from its hinges and taken away.
For the third time in six weeks, a water main break has occurred on Mansfield Avenue — this time near 248 Mansfield Ave. with about 25 customers affected, according to Aquarion Water Co.
Three apartments at Avalon Darien were evacuated when a pipe on one end of the building burst in the cold weather at about 8 p.m. on Sunday. It was only one incident among several reports of burst pipes that day and the next.
Leo Van Munching Jr. of Darien, who recently passed away, pushed his family’s already successful beer-importing company into national prominence from the 1970s to the 1990s, with marketing and ads that responded to new challenges and opportunities, according to Tuesday’s New York Times.
Eleanor C. Snow of Brewster, Mass., and a Darien High School graduate, died peacefully on Feb. 2. She was 81 years old.
Darien High School students crossed language and culture barriers recently to work on human rights issues at the United Nations headquarters in New York City.
Leo Van Munching, Jr. of Darien, who guided Heineken’s decades-long dominance in the U.S. imported beer market, died February 14 after a long illness. He was 89.
This “New Year-New Look-New You for LinkedIn!” event on March 22, sponsored by the Darien Chamber of Commerce gives you an all-in-one package to spruce you up, get your picture taken for LinkedIn and get some professional advice about your profile there.
Work has started on converting the former Patriot Bank space at 800 Post Road to house The Bar Method.
“We have signed the lease on our unbeatable space,” the business announced recently on Facebook. In another post: “We’ve been searching all over to find the perfect spot for our studio. When we walked into 800 Post Road in Darien, we knew we had found our home.
Darien Police Officer Gregory Benedetto was recently thanked by a Darien woman for saving the life of her husband, who experienced a heart attack during a family dispute in 2013.
What’s open and what’s closed for Lincoln’s Birthday on Feb. 12 and Washington’s Birthday on Feb. 15 is a bit complicated, but we’ll lay it out for you.