Holidays

At Spring Grove Veterans Cemetery: Wreaths Across America Ceremony on Saturday, Dec 17

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Spring Grove Veterans Cemetery Wreaths Across America Ceremony Set for noon on Dec. 17

The public is encouraged to attend the Wreaths Across America dedication ceremony to be held at noon on Saturday, Dec. 17, at Darien’s Spring Grove Veterans’ Cemetery. According to local tallies, there are 2,160 veterans buried in the Darien cemetery, one of three designated official veterans’ cemeteries in Connecticut. (The other two are in Middletown and Rocky Hill.)

Local fund-raisers have collected 1,273 wreath sponsorships for Darien’s Spring Grove Cemetery this year.

Community Organizations
Pat Parlette Wreaths Across America 9-28-16

You Can Buy a Wreath for a Veteran’s Grave at Spring Grove Cemetery

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Each year, the citizens of the town of Darien band together to purchase and place wreaths on the graves of the veterans interred in the Spring Grove Veterans Cemetery. Here’s where you can easily contribute to the project:

On two consecutive Saturdays, Oct. 8 and 15 2016, from 9 to 12 noon, in front of Palmer’s Market, Wreaths Across America sponsorships will be solicited at $15 per wreath. Sponsorships will also be sold at Darien Doughnut from 8 to 11 a.m. and Goodwives Stop and Shop from 9 a.m. to 12 noon on Saturday, Oct. 22.

Government & Politics
41 Hecker

RTM Postpones Vote on Hecker Ave Property to Get More Information

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Update 10:27 p.m.:

A vote on the proposed purchase of the strip of land along the back of Spring Grove Cemetery was postponed by the Representative Town Meeting on Monday night in order to get more information. RTM members wanted to know more about what flood-mitigation measures would be allowed or forbidden under an easement with the Darien Land Trust, which was providing half the financing for the purchase in return for keeping the land as natural open space. The proposal was removed from the agenda without discussion at Monday night’s meeting. Original article: 6:06 p.m.:

A proposal to buy about 1.24 acres of land between Hecker Avenue and Town Hall is on the agenda for Monday night’s meeting of the Representative Town Meeting. The land may be used as a public park, barely developed, for the public to use in walking between Town Hall and Hecker Avenue at a spot just to the north of Darien Police Headquarters and Darien Library.