The Oath of Office Ceremonies took place last Monday at Roger Ludlowe Middle School where Master of Cerremonies Ken Flatto addressed the group and Town Clerk Elizabeth Browne administered the 'Oath of Office' to the newly elected local board and commission officials.

First Selectman Ken Flatto said he would ask for a zero percent increase in the budgets for both the Town and the Board of Education for fiscal year 2010-2011, which begins next July 1.
Speaking at a press conference in Town Hall on Monday afternoon, the First Selectman said he is reacting to what he heard the voters say on election day and he wanted to get his budget message out early.

"To place yourself as an occupational force in a Muslim country is a fool's errand.
We owe much more to our troops than to deploy them to conflict, dressed up by career politicians who never wore so much as a Cub Scout uniform in defense of their country," said Merrick Alpert, candidate for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate.

Fairfield University senior and student newspaper columnist, Chris Surette just wants the notoriety he's drawn from the controversial column he wrote about six weeks ago to just go away.

Robert Connelly has been going to News Stop on Stratfield Road for at least three years now, to buy various scratch-off lottery-type games. Friday a week ago, it paid off.
Connelly paid $10 each for four or five scratch-off tickets. One was number 20 in a game called $70 Million Blockbuster. He took ticket number 20 home along with the others, scratched it off, and bingo!, er, Blockbuster!, he won a million dollars.

Christmas came early for Easton resident Maria C. Corti, whose 76-foot tall Norway Spruce was chosen to headline the holiday decorations surrounding the storybook Rockefeller Center.

While waiting for town dignitaries to attend the ceremonial dedication of Fairfield's newest addition to its town park system, this reporter and his grandson, Conor Ford, an 11 year old skateboarding enthusiast, came across two teens and practiced boarders eager to witness history.
Will Lederer and Mike Rich shared their enthusiasm for the new, nearly finished skate park [seen in the background] which, they along with other teen members of the Skate Park Committee, helped design.

You do not have to be a museum maven to enjoy one of America's finest small museums in New Britain's Museum of American Art.
Now showing is an extraordinary double bill in "Wendell Minor, Reaching for the Moon" running through Dec. 13 and "Paul Lantuch, Modern Master."
For the perfect outing any day of the week, set out for New Britain and the marvelous Museum of American Art. Take your small children because they will enjoy the illustrator, Wendell Minor exhibit.

Veterans were proud to be honored yesterday at a ceremony on the Fairfield Town Green where officials and Veterans gathered to pay homage to those who serve.

"If it had gone up in flames - if the container had been breached, we'd still be there now," said Fairfield Assistant Fire Chief Chris Tracy one day after firefighters managed to contain the fire on a tanker truck carrying a volatile chemical on I-95.
The possibility of a disaster caused residents near Exit 19 to be evacuated and the Thruway to be shut down in both directions on Monday morning.

Black Rock Congregational Church received approval from the Inland Wetlands Commission last Thursday night for a new 85,000 square foot church, two and a half times as large as the present 34,000 square foot church.
"We are pleased with the approval and look forward to the next phase of the process, getting this through the TPZ," said Kenneth Brix, Executive Director of the church.
Brix added, "The conditions as modified were completely acceptable."

As of Nov. 10, Blackrock Realty had not paid the latest quarterly property tax installments on land that is designated for the future MetroCenter train station.

On Tuesday night, the Board of Education said goodbye to three of its members and adopted some important resolutions after much discussion.
It voted to appoint a hearing officer for expulsion or residency matters, it raised graduation requirements in history to 4 from 3½ credits, and it adopted the recommendations of the Long Range Facilities Plan for discussion purposes.

On Nov. 4 last Wednesday evening, David Plouffe, manager of the "Obama for America" campaign, spoke to a group of approximately 200 at Fairfield University's Open Visions Forum in the Oak Room of the Campus Center.

The world is divided between those who understand the intricacies of money and those who don't. As Coco Chanel reportedly remarked, "There are people who have money and people who are rich."
Or as one can find in Ecclesiastes, "...money answereth all things."