08/25/09 The Fairfield Briefing (Updated)

Comprehensive News Feed for Fairfield, CT.

• Connecticut man consults Apple Genius and gets arrested
  posted on August 26, 2009 01:30:00 am
  on Aug 25th 2009 at 1:30PM A Fairfield, Connecticut man took his Apple G5 desktop to the Genius Bar at the Stamford Town Center store complaining about some issues with his image file thumbnails. It seemed some thumbnails were overwriting thumbnails ...
• GE signs $45M service deal with Dubai Aluminium
  posted on August 25, 2009 04:40:35 pm
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates a " General Electric says it has signed a $45 million deal with Dubai Aluminium Company to service gas turbines used to power the smelter's production site.The Fairfield, Connecticut-based company's GE Energy unit says the seven-year deal aims to lower production costs and cut harmful nitrogen oxide emissions by 15 ...
• Playing By Ear
  posted on August 06, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  Mark Pires Fairfield Theatre Company, StageOne, 70 Sanford St., Fairfield. Thu., Aug.
• Scotch Plains students receive college honors
  posted on August 25, 2009 01:26:00 am
  Robert Coloney of Scotch Plains has been named to the dean's list at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Conn., for the spring semester.
• Top Down
  posted on March 31, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... elevator, squash court, and indoor pool, according to a Wall Street Journal article at the time. His neighbors in Fairfield, Connecticut dubbed it "the castle," and he'd paid a king's ransom for it--$5 million in cash. Some of these differences ...
• At what price glory?
  posted on August 21, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  In Wednesday's issue of the Fairfield Citizen, we ran an editorial on the positive impact athletics can have on a student's life.
• A different perspective on disease
  posted on August 21, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... on color. Currently, eight of Eras' paintings are on display in the office of the executive director at the Fairfield Arts Council (FAC), 70 Sanford St., and can be viewed during FAC's regular hours. His one-man show coincides with the inaugural FAC ...
• Recognition sought for Sweeney brothers, other veterans
  posted on August 21, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  At the Fairfield Honor Roll outside of town hall, the names of hundreds of veterans from WWI to the Persian Gulf War are displayed in recognition of the time they spent in the armed forces.
• Royal Cleaners gives laundry the green treatment
  posted on August 21, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... cleaning over $20 The couple relocated their dry-cleaning business from New York, where they had been 25 years, to Fairfield seven years ago. Royal Cleaners hours are Mon.- Fri., from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Sat., from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more ...
• Montague will bring sound to the City
  posted on August 21, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... as outreach program's whose mission is to promote this unique American musical art form. Montague, a resident of Fairfield, is delighted to be asked back after performing at the Jazzmobile Summer Festival for the first time last summer. "It's a very ...
• Town braces for Hurricane Bill
  posted on August 21, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... to residents to be aware this weekend, as Hurricane Bill is headed up the east coast. Police Chief David Peck said Fairfield has a transient population and because of that, many residents may have never lived through a hurricane. Connecticut is not ...
• The walls of Belfast
  posted on August 20, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... with concrete, metal sheeting, iron bars and rusted fencing partitioning King's Highway, or literally dividing Fairfield's two high school populations. This would only be an approximation of the strange and intense experience of visiting a beautiful ...
• EPA warns against bad air during recent heat wave
  posted on August 19, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  As bad air and a heat wave gripped Westport and Fairfield, starting Monday and running through the week, health authorities joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in issuing alerts.
• Body found in Mill River
  posted on August 19, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... A short time later, it is believed that she walked to the river. The deceased's son, who works for for the Town of Fairfield, began calling the house as early as 7:15 a.m. He reportedly grew concerned when there was no answer, and followed up his ...
• Cop On Top tops expectations
  posted on August 19, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  The Fairfield Police Department's first annual "Cop On Top" event, held on August 8, was a smashing success.
• Dupree still singing with a passion
  posted on August 19, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  Robbie Dupree has touched peoples' lives worldwide with his music. Those who have musical interests that span the spectrum can be touched live and in-person by him tomorrow night at Fairfield Theatre Company , when his band performs a two-set show.
• Woman ejected from deer committee meeting
  posted on August 19, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  ... like the fact that she was able to interactively participate and object to the misinformation," said Nancy Rice, a Fairfield resident who has been the most vocal opponent of allowing deer hunting on public land in town, which the deer committee is ...
• Times: Area teams begin high school football practice
  posted on August 22, 2009 02:29:22 am
  ... practices. "We've been waiting a long time for this day to finally get here." Ridgefield, Immaculate, New Fairfield and Abbott Tech also got their preseason conditioning underway on Wednesday. The five schools were just a few of 52 high schools ...
• Easton farms cultivate broader appeal
  posted on August 22, 2009 02:28:04 am
  ... been here 300 years," said Tom Sherwood, a 17th-generation farmer whose forebear, Matthew, was granted land in Fairfield and Easton from an English king back in the Colonial era. Even so, getting out the word about his farm, which includes ...
• Worth the trip: California Hu cruises to AJGA girls title
  posted on August 21, 2009 06:09:23 pm
  ... came into the Northeast Open as a threat after winning the Connecticut Women's Amateur at H. Smith Richardson in Fairfield the week before. "I felt good coming in," Lendl said. "I didn't feel any real fatigue even in this heat. I thought I might ...