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The Darien Community Association’s Board of Directors has a new member and some changes in offices within the board for the next 12 months, the organization announced on Thursday.
The DCA announced also outlined the organization’s goals and plans for the coming year.
Here’s Realtor Deirdre McGovern’s report on Darien and Rowayton-area real estate from Oct. 2 to 9, 2025:
Here’s Realtor Deirdre McGovern’s report on Darien and Rowayton-area real estate from June 19 to 26, 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.
Students 5 to 11 years old can get their second vaccination shot — or their first — from 12 noon to 3 p.m., Saturday, Schools Superintendent Alan Addley said in his Friday newsletter to parents and staff.
A Ridge Acres Road resident told police that his 2020 Mercedes AMG car was stolen from his driveway sometime overnight from Monday to Tuesday, Jan. 24 to 25. The car had been unlocked and with a spare set of keys left inside.
Here’s Realtor Deirdre McGovern’s report on Darien and Rowayton real estate from Jan. 27 to Feb. 3, 2022:
Stephen Phillip Smith, 78, of Darien passed away peacefully on Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022.
In the latest cases of mailbox thefts, checks were stolen before mail carriers picked them up, then the checks were washed and higher amounts added that were given to people with different names, police said.
Darien police reported nine vehicles parked outside eight homes in town were recently entered overnight, most of them from Tuesday to Wednesday, Jan. 19 to 20. Various items were taken from several of them.
As usual, all of them were unlocked.
Frederick Myers Perkins Jr. passed away peacefully on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022 at his home in Houston. He was 93 years of age.
John P. Gerbasi, 88, a resident of Trumbull and previously a longtime resident of Norwalk and Darien, passed away on Wednesday, Jan. 12 at home.
Person to Person is co-hosting a free vaccination clinic on Friday, Feb. 4 at its Darien site, 1864 Post Road, in partnership with the Connecticut Department of Public Health.
Florence Julia Brown Swain died Jan. 15, 2022, at the EagleCrest senior home in Roseville, Minnesota, where she had lived for 10 years. She was 100.
New Canaan police say a cat abandoned amid freezing temperatures at an Interstate 95 rest stop is in need of surgery and rehabilitation.
Four Darien High School seniors have been selected as candidates for the United States Presidential Scholars Program.
Anastasia Carey, Tam-Hao Nguyen, Katherine Wolters and Preston Yao have been recognized based on broad academic achievement and having scored exceptionally well on the SAT or ACT.
Connie Marie Hirt, the beloved wife to the late Fred J. Hirt, a resident of Darien and a former resident of Manhattan, passed away on Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, at Calvary Hospital, Bronx, New York. She was 92.
Ox Ridge student Elizabeth Abelson has won the Fifth Grade American History Essay Contest sponsored by Darien’s Good Wife’s River Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
She was one of six Darien students who won recognition in the essay contest.
YWCA Parent Awareness and Middlesex Middle School Parent Association are sponsoring an online presentation, Embracing Gender Identities at Home and in School, at 8 p.m., Feb. 15.
Person to Person (P2P), has launched a special St. Valentine’s Day fundraising campaign, “Honey 4 Your Honey,” offering Darien residents delivery of a one-pound jar of raw honey from a Darien apiary.
You think you have a bad commute? Try doing Maclean Sarr’s hour and a half trip each way — in a wheelchair.
Police who went to a home after they were called about a domestic incident involving a verbal dispute told that a man had pushed a person onto a couch. He was charged with disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor.
You can celebrate Valentine’s Day with a gift bag, complete with a hand-made tag, from The Darien Community Association.
Barbara Vale Andrews, 62, of St. Petersburg, Florida, passed away peacefully on Jan. 24, 2022, surrounded by her family.
6:59 p.m.: Connecticut Transit just announced: “All bus service, including CTtransit local and express and CTfastrak services, will be suspended state-wide from 2:00am Saturday, Jan. 29, to 3 a.m. Sunday January 30th due to the approaching winter storm.
4:40 p.m.: If, for any reason, you’ve got a car parked on a Stamford street, you’ll need to move it elsewhere by 8 p.m., or the city may tow it away; and if you’ve got a COVID-19 test scheduled for this weekend somewhere in Stamford, you’d better check to see if testing at that site hasn’t been cancelled.
Here’s Realtor Deirdre McGovern’s report on Darien and Rowayton real estate from Jan. 20 to 27, 2022:
Jean Tyler, a life-long resident of Darien, passed away on Friday, Jan. 21 at Danbury Hospital with her family by her side. She was 89.