Doctors successfully removed a benign tumor from Mayor Mark Boughton’s brain during a complex procedure Tuesday at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Mayor Mark Boughton delivers remarks from the City of Danbury during Immaculate High Schools Graduation Excercises at Western Connecticut State Universities O'Neill Center on Wednesday May, 31, 2017.
For more than three decades, Lt. Albert Mion has driven to work at the Danbury Fire Department, aware that he could be tasked with saving someone’s life.
Summertime in the Greater Danbury area means lazy lake days for many. From boating to tubing, wakeboarding, swimming and general partying, Candlewood Lake is a playground for area residents in the summer.
Danbury native Oscar Bordoy scored a win in his second career boxing match, defeating Felip Nazario at Uptown Live in Charlotte, North Carolina on Saturday. Bordoy is now 2-0 as a lightweight fighter.
July 19 is National Hot Dog Day! If you're in the mood for a good dog tonight, seems you should head to Fairfield. Three of the top 10 most Yelp-reviewed hot dog spots in southwestern Connecticut are found in Fairfield.
The spirit of “buy local” is as strong as ever. It’s the practice that often falls short.
DANBURY — Hidden gems produced by local companies and grown on local farms lurk among the shelves of even the largest supermarkets in the area.
Millennials aren’t the only ones who want to live in downtowns, where restaurants, shops and other amenities are only a walking distance away. So do Baby Boomers.
New Milford football played its spring game, the Green and White game, Thursday, June 15, 2017.
Site names Newtown's Ferris Acres the best ice cream in Connecticut
DANBURY - The $50 million expansion of the state’s largest high school is in high gear, with only 70 more days of summer for workers to complete key upgrades before classes resume in September.
Homelessness in Danbury has dropped 12 percent since 2016
Kyle Lyra receives his diploma during Danbury High Schools Commencement Exercises that were held on Tuesday June 20, 2017.
DANBURY — Andrea Gartner has a lot of passions, and many of them are embodied in her new restaurant, Pour Me Coffee and Wine Café, which opened this month at 274 Main St.
Bob's Stores is closing at 114 Federal Rd. in Danbury, Conn., one of three locations in southwestern Connecticut getting the ax by bankrupt parent company Eastern Outfitters of Meriden.
"Batman" TV star Adam West has died
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Danbury mayor nominates insider to head city health department
The City Council was expected to confirm an insider to be the next Director of Health.
Lisa-Michelle Morrissey, who has been acting health director since former health department head Scott LeRoyleft for a position in Maryland in January, was expected to be confirmed Tuesday.
“Ms. Morrissey is an accomplished professional who has served the city of Danbury with the highest of standards,” Mayor Mark Boughton wrote to the Council. “[S]he is a highly qualified and dedicated individual with the theoretical and practical experience that will serve her and the city of Danbury well.”
Morrissey began in Danbury as an epidemiologist and public health inspector in 2012. She was formerly the Director of health for the town of Sharon, Boughton’s memo said.
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Carneiero was charged with evading responsibility, operating under the influence and failure to drive on the right side of the road. He was held on a $2,500 bond.
Jacqueline Smith: A mother’s journey from simple faith to truth
People think of Danbury as the Hat City, though the industry is long gone. Or they think of Danbury as a destination for shopping or dining. Long-timers conjure the Danbury Fair when thinking of the city’s identity.
Wednesday morning, Danbury showed itself as a prayer city. And this facet of the 315-year old city is perhaps the strongest of all.
More than 500 people crowded into the spacious Amber Room for the Greater Danbury Prayer Breakfast offered by the Jericho Partnership, a nonprofit that does much good for the city. The breakfast isn’t about one “true” religion; all faiths are welcome. The operative word is faith.
I’ve been to other prayer breakfasts in Danbury, this was the 14th annual, and often find the speakers inspirational. This is the first time inspiration required Kleenex.
Jenny Hubbard of Newtown spoke frankly, and courageously, of her on-again, off-again relationship with a higher power, Jesus. She went from a young Irish Catholic girl with a Jesus-loves-me-this-I-know belief, to a career woman and wife who went to church on Christmas and Easter, to a deeply grieving mom who felt far, far away from any heavenly presence.
Though many could identify with a Jesus-loves-me childhood perspective (from the smiles in the room) and some could relate to a too-busy-for-church time of their lives (from the murmurs), few could know the stone-cold grief that gripped Jenny, her husband Matt and the parents of 20 first graders shot to death on the morning of Dec. 14, 2012 with six educators in their neighborhood school.
It is exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, to put yourself in the shoes of a parent who lost a child in the Sandy Hook Elementary Schooltragedy. More than four years later, I still am shocked, as many are, by the senselessness, the horror.
Catherine Violet Hubbard at 6 years old had bright-penny hair and an impish smile. She loved animals with the passionate heart of a child. How could a parent ever cope with such a loss?
Jenny described to the hushed crowd the mornings she didn’t want to get out of bed, but did so only because she needed to make a school lunch for Catherine’s older brother, Freddie. Grace came, at last, in the car of all places, while she was driving to the grocery store. She was crying, she was angry, she found herself yelling at her God, Jesus. He seemed remote. But in return, a pure, unconditional, powerful love surrounded her and filled her.
It was a revelation that the figure she had once tried to bargain with was not that critical-eye patriarch high on a figurative throne somewhere, but a loving, omnipresent force.
Jenny spoke engagingly, even humorously at times, in her 30-minute talk. She was not looking for sympathy; she remained tightly focused on her relationship with Jesus. The crowd responded with a standing ovation.
She could have used the opportunity of a full room to promote the Catherine Violet Hubbard Foundation, but did not. So I will. Jenny and Matt created the foundation in 2013, with a goal of building a 34-acre animal sanctuary and butterfly garden in Newtown to reflect Catherine’s “kindness and compassion.”
On the foundation website, cvhfoundation.org, you can learn more and read Jenny’s compelling blog through the seasons.
“Ours is a story of how our hearts loved abundantly, took the ultimate blow and then — because of that love, loved more deeply and also lived more fully. Yes — there will always be the before that calls to me to remember. And yes —there will be moments that define our after,” Jenny wrote on Dec. 14, 2016. “Yet woven together they create our then, a beautiful symphony at whose beauty urges me forward.”
