Month: February 2016

Housing Authorities in Bridgeport, New Canaan, Norwalk, Stamford receive millions in HUD funds

Congressman Jim Himes (CT-04) celebrated the news that the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced $23.4 million dollars in funding to housing authorities across the State of Connecticut. Four areas in the 4th District received a total of $6,268,644 divided as follows:   Housing Authority of the City of Bridgeport - $3,876,098 New Canaan Housing Authority - $25,523 Housing Authority of the City of Norwalk - $1,272,166 Housing Authority of the City of Stamford - $1,094857   The grants announced today are provided through HUD’s Capital Fund Program, which is aimed at supporting renovation and modernization for housing authorities throughout the country. Projects supported by these funds include roof replacement, electrical and plumbing repair or updating electrical…

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#Southbury, CT (February 17, 2016): State Police detectives from Western District Major Crime (WDMC) are investigating a homicide reported in Southbury. On February 16, 2016 at approximately 10:00 p.m. police officers from the Southbury Police Department/Resident Trooper’s Office responded to Jacob Rd. in Southbury for a reported medical emergency. Upon arrival police officers located an unresponsive male victim lying on the floor in the residence.  Officers and EMS rendered first aid, but determined there were no signs of life and the male victim was pronounced deceased. Officers checked the residence for other victims, none were found. Through the course of the investigation, officers located a second male also in the residence. While speaking with officers, the second male suddenly became ill and unconscious. Officers and EMS…

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Fairfield News: Officer Involved In Shooting Identified

Yesterday members of the Fairfield Police Department responded to a 911 call and found a violent situation occurring at a residence in town. As a result of the calls to 911, Officer Sean Fenton responded to the violent situation and fatally shot the offender. Officer Sean Fenton is a Veteran Officer who has served the community of Fairfield with distinction since May of 1990. Officer Fenton’s quick action in responding to this incident prevented further serious injury to family members. Per policy he has been temporarily reassigned from his patrol activities. Our Detective Bureau is working with the Ct State Police and the State’s Attorney’s Office from the Stamford/Norwalk district. Ct General statute requires that any police shooting resulting in death requires the assignment of a State’s…

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Lunch!

Treat yourself like I did and visit Madison Deli for lunch or breakfast! They have a great selection of sandwiches, gyros, salads and Mexican Food. Everything is fresh unlike Jared's foot longs! Well especially now! If you are tired of the same ole same ole for lunch stop by and visit them at 1032 Madison Avenue. Owners Oscar, Rosa and the rest of the staff are so friendly. Thanks for being a part of the DoingItLocal team! Please let our sponsors know you like what they are doing. Best of all, you'll love the food too!  Their phone number is 203-908-3839.

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Is winter over?? The Weatherdogs chime in…

That maybe the questions asked to us Weatherdogs over the next few days but our answer is a big fat NO! You will start to see a lot of hyping and chatting going on with other weather sources about what some may call a huge storm for next week... but this is what we can tell you as of today. A model consensus and almost total agreement as of this morning is showing us that all the ingredients for what could potentially be a good sized East Coast Storm for next week will be in place. Now before we get bombarded with questions it is way too early to do much of any type of forecast. There will be changes…

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