08/02/09 The Fairfield Briefing By Robo Blogger (Updated)

Comprehensive News Feed for Fairfield, CT.

• Recreation baseball: Teams are popping up all across the region
  posted on August 02, 2009 02:23:37 pm
  ... and teams: Tri-County Bulldogs Type of baseball: Year-round league that serves Putnam, Westchester, Dutchess and Fairfield, Conn., counties. There are 90 players representing 35 towns. It is part of the United States Specialty Sports Association and ...
• GE shares up, U.S. lawmaker sees no breakup
  posted on July 30, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... regulatory system, investors and analysts have been concerned that a passage in the proposal could compel the Fairfield, Connecticut-based company to spin off GE Capital. "To break up GE at this point, I think, would be a mistake," U.S. Rep. Barney ...
• Perdicaro signs pro deal
  posted on August 02, 2009 06:21:55 am
  ... their games in U.S. colleges continues to grow. Defenceman Shayne Taker of Surrey has committed to Sacred Heart in Fairfield, Connecticut for the 2010-2011 season. Taker was a rookie with the Caps last season and blossomed into a dependable ...
• Suspect sought in Fairfield propane incident
  posted on August 01, 2009 11:44:16 pm
  ... 4180 Black Rock Turnpike, is just north of the Merritt Parkway at exit 44. The hotel also houses the Barcelona Fairfield restaurant. He said that it was an old tank "with not a square inch of paint" on it. "I'm sure somebody was stuck with it and ...
• Danbury Pembroke Road barber shop is family affair
  posted on August 01, 2009 02:00:45 pm
  ... another customer, has been bringing her son Jonathan, now 11, to Rocco's shop since he was 6 months old. The New Fairfield resident was in the shop last Friday with Jonathan and her youngest son, 18-month-old Joey, to initiate Joey to get his hair ...
• Business Calendar
  posted on August 01, 2009 01:55:18 pm
  ... 1 p.m. in the Meeting Room of the library at 101 W. Putnam Ave., Greenwich. Call 203-622-7924 for information. The Fairfield Chamber of Commerce will hold a Leads Group Meeting from 8 to 9 a.m. in the conference room of the Old Town Hall, 611 Old ...
• Car Clunker program goes clunk
  posted on August 01, 2009 01:53:48 pm
  ... sending in applications. Steven's Ford of Milford and Meriden said it had 19 deals pending and Maritime Motors of Fairfield had more than a dozen interested in the program. Curran said he has 10 people expecting to pick up their new cars and trade ...
• Swim across Sound tests body and souls
  posted on August 01, 2009 01:53:42 pm
  Andy Davis and his fourteen-year-old son Gannon pose for a photograph at Penfield Beach in Fairfield.
• Performers wanted for Summer Sings
  posted on August 01, 2009 06:10:54 am
  Singers wanted: no experience necessary. That's the call from the Fairfield County Chorale, which will kick off its perennially popular "Summer Sings" series on Monday at Trinity Episcopal Church in Fairfield's Southport section.
• GE closing West Chester service center
  posted on July 31, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... it plans to close its service center at 156 Circle Freeway by next April eliminating 94 jobs. The unit of Fairfield, Conn.-based General Electric Co. said with global demand for power generation equipment and repair service down it planned to ...
• GBS' 64th season to open with Joy
  posted on March 06, 2009 04:00:00 pm
  ... with Beethoven's masterpiece: Symphony No. 9 (Choral). Season highlights include the GBS debut of the 15-year-old Fairfield piano prodigy Alexander Beyer; a holiday pops concert that pairs guest conductor Mark Shapiro, the new music director of the ...
• Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima........
  posted on August 01, 2009 04:11:16 am
  ... and charm, but he's really cast completely against type as the movie-quoting DiNozzo. The real actor grew up in Fairfield, Conn. and he's perfect for things like Whit Stillman's 1998 film "The Last Days of Disco" where upper-crust WASPS disport ...
• Bridgeport man reenacts fetish movie in sexual assault of two...
  posted on August 01, 2009 01:29:39 am
  A convicted felon has been charged with kidnapping two Fairfield women at gunpoint and, in a re-enactment of a scene from a fetish movie, forcing them to wear prom dresses and stockings before sexually assaulting them.
• GE Energy to close West Chester center
  posted on July 27, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... educes the number to four from six. GE Aviation, in Evendale, also is a unit of General Electric, headquartered in Fairfield, Conn.
• Sunday Baroque sues Sirius XM for trademark infringement
  posted on July 31, 2009 09:17:23 pm
  ... of recognition, good will and possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars. That's why Suzanne Bona-Hatem, a former Fairfield resident now living in Cincinnati, is suing Sirius XM Radio for allegedly using her Sunday Baroque trademark for their own ...
• Open propane tank found at Fairfield motel
  posted on July 31, 2009 09:16:57 pm
  Police and Fire Department officials are looking for the person who left a large, leaking propane tank at the HiHo Motor Inn Thursday night.
• Sensible Sitters' superb service
  posted on July 31, 2009 08:20:01 pm
  ... were moving to New York; my brothers' friends here were college students, and there were a lot of nice, normal Fairfield County kids with tons of experience moving here. But they didn't know any families. I knew the families that needed sitters." ...