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New Canaan Police Officer Launches Gofundme Campaign For K-9 Program
NEW CANAAN, CONN. – The New Canaan Police Department is using a Gofundme campaign to raise $100,000 for its K-9 program, which is, it says, run solely on donations from the community.
Officer David Rivera, the department’s K-9 handler, said that about $47,000 has been raised so far in the campaign.
The money raised will go toward a new K-9, a Labrador retriever or a German shepherd, which will be trained in narcotics detection.
Donations, Rivera said, are also used for training and equipment for the K-9 program. They are urgently needed, he added, because there is a training course becomin…
Redding Musician Nominated For Grammy For New Age Album 'Grace'
REDDING, Conn. -- Redding musician Paul Avgerinos is on a roll – Grammy-wise, according to a report in The Redding Pilot.
The New Age composer has been nominated for the second time in two years, said The Redding Pilot.
The Grammy Awards will be broadcast live by CBS Monday, Feb. 15, from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, said The Redding Pilot.
According to Avgerinos’s website, the album that snagged the nomination is “Grace,” his 24th. It features Laura Sullivan and Kevin Braheny Fortune.
In 2015, his album “Bhakti” also was nominated for a Grammy.
According to Wikipedia, the 48-year-…
Judge To Captivate Westport Group With Tale Of Bank-Robbing Brothers
WESTPORT, Conn. -- Retired Judge Alan Nevas will weave a captivating tale of bombings, bank robberies, and murder when he speaks next month at the Y’s Men of Westport/Weston club.
Nevas represented the mother (in a divorce case) of the infamous Pardue brothers, John and James, a pair of Westporters who conducted a two-year crime spree that included the bombing of a police station, bank, and their own getaway car, in Danbury in 1970; several murders, and numerous hold-ups, according to reports in the Danbury News Times and Westport Now.
Nevas will speak on at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 4, dur…
Klaff's Donates Golf Outing Proceeds To Norwalk's Lockwood-Mathews Mansion
NORWALK, CONN. -- In one of the largest corporate gifts this year, a South Norwalk home design firm has donated close to $9,000 to the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum.
Klaff’s, which raises money for local organizations with its annual Jerry Levine Charity Golf Outing, presented museum officials with a check for $8,811.90 at a ceremony there on Friday, Dec. 11.
“Supporting the mansion, a national historic landmark and icon of Victorian-era architecture and design, has been an important part of our charitable endeavors for many years,” said Klaff’s chairman and CEO Joe Passero, a longtime mu…
Stratford GOP Plans Reception For Legislature Candidate Susan Barksdale
STRATFORD, CONN. -- A reception will be held on Thursday, Jan. 7, for Stratford’s Susan Barksdale, a Republican candidate running to fill the remainder of state Rep. Terry Backer’s term in the 121st District.
Barksdale, the former co-chair of the Stratford Board of Education, is facing Democrat Joseph Gresko in the special Feb. 2 election.
Backer, a longtime Democratic state representative, died in December of brain cancer. He was 61.
The reception for Barksdale will be held from 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. at Knapp’s Landing, 520 Sniffens Lane.
In accepting the GOP nomination in December, Barksdale …
