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Here’s Realtor Deirdre McGovern’s report on Darien and Rowayton real estate from Aug. 11 to 18, 2022:
The MTA, parent of Metro-North, did something rare last week: They told us the unvarnished truth.
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:
The DCA Thrift Shop is having a grand reopening, with a new makeover, on Tuesday, August 25. The new shop hours will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday.
Howard W. Moore, 96, passed away peacefully on July 16, 2020 at the Knollwood Nursing Center in Paxton, Massachusetts.
After Albert Einstein convinced President Franklin Roosevelt that an atomic bomb could and should be built during World War II, the government turned to Gen. Leslie Groves, a brash, brusque and brilliant army officer to get it done.
He succeeded in organizing and administering the project that built the two deadliest weapons ever used by mankind, resulting in the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But the same personality and tactics that helped him burst through bureaucratic obstacles to get the job done during the war proved fatal to his own post-war career in the Army. After Dwight Eisenhower gave him the results of a devastating job evaluation, Groves was out the door in February 1948.
That’s when he took a job heading up research for one of the earliest computer companies, Remington Rand, and bought a newly built house that still stands today at 9 Dellwood Road in Darien, a short commute to the site of his research division in Rowayton. (Several years later, after Gen. Douglas MacArthur was cashiered by President Harry Truman, that general also worked at the Rowayton office.)
Rodney “Rod” Fisk Beckwith passed away on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. He was 84.
A 34-year-old Bridgeport man has been arrested on an accusation he shot a gun from a motor vehicle being driven down West Avenue on Aug. 1.
Genevieve Ann Alcott Causse Causse, a Darien resident, passed away Aug. 9 at the age of 82.
Here’s Realtor Deirdre McGovern’s report on Darien and Rowayton real estate from Aug. 13 to 20, 2020:
Darien police are trying to find those responsible for vandalizing the monument to the department’s fallen police officers after someone apparently shot two paintballs at it.
After their boat sank, two males were pulled out of the water by Darien police in the Marine Division on Saturday near Norwalk.
Richard Van Arnam Huie, age 85, of Branford died on Wednesday, Aug.ust 12, 2020 at The Hearth in Branford.
Lydia García Ras-Allard, a long-time resident of Darien, passed into the glory of God at her home on Saturday, Aug. 15, 2020. She lived 96 years.
A 61-year-old man whose anger apparently stemmed from a sawn-off tree branch was arrested after he was accused of purposefully bumping into a neighbor, according to police.
A man used a PayPal MasterCard to buy a $531.74 golf club from the TriFit Custom Golf store in Darien, but after he left the store, the credit processing company called to say the purchase had been unauthorized.
The man returned to the store a month later, however, and was identified. More than four years later, the man was arrested by Darien police.
On Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020, Charles Thomas Nedder of Darien, loving husband and father of three children, passed away at the age of 77 after a long battle with Lymphoma.
Alice Marie (Garrity) Pinney passed away peacefully on June 25 at Langdon Place of Dover, New Hampshire, after spending her lifetime loving others.
Every commuter on Metro-North owes a tremendous debt of gratitude to one man: Oz Griebel. He is the reason we can ride the new M8 rail cars.
James Lewis Kelsey of Exeter, New Hampshire, beloved father, grandfather and devoted husband, passed away peacefully on July 22, 2020 at Norwalk Hospital, following cardiac arrest. He was 79.
Here’s Realtor Deirdre McGovern’s report on Darien and Rowayton real estate from Aug. 6 to 13, 2020:
The Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) has been awarded a $6.7 million federal grant to modernize the CTtransit bus facility in Stamford.
Darien recently experienced town-wide power outages during Tropical Storm Isaias and a busy hurricane season is predicted for 2020. Darien Human Services is urging all residents to be prepared and is reaching out to seniors and individuals with disabilities or serious medical conditions.
To the editor:
Darien residents should be aware that state Sen. Bob Duff, who represents Norwalk and part of Darien and Sen. Carlo Leone, who represents Stamford and part of Darien, both voted in favor of the new police bill.
Darien police have charged Andrew Creamer, 49, of Old Farm Road with possession of child pornography after looking at his computer in a drug-selling investigation in which he was charged back in November 2019.
Darien schools will open Sept. 3 and 4, with students going to school two days a week and being taught online for other days, schools Superintendent Alan Addley told the Board of Education on Monday night.
Then, Addley said, on Sept. 29, about three weeks later, the schools will be open “full-time,” with students going five days a week. Fridays will be half days throughout the school year, with students learning remotely, on-line.
The Board of Trustees of the Friends of Darien Library today announced it has appointed Kiera Parrott, MLIS, as the next director of Darien Library effective Sept. 8.