SHERMAN — Rumor has it that in 1802, the same year the town was incorporated, an 18-year-old built a colonial house in the middle of town.
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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58 STUDENTS FROM DUTCHESS, PUTNAM, WESTCHESTER AND FAIRFIELD COUNTY COMPRISE THE CAST OF PETER PAN JR.
Seven Star School of Performing Arts is proud to announce the cast of Peter Pan Jr.! 58 students began rehearsing for the performance that will be held May 12 & 13 at Brewster High School Performing Arts Center.
Based on the Disney film and J.M. Barrie’s enchanting play, Disney’s Peter Pan JR. is a modern version of the timeless tale about a boy who wouldn’t grow up!
Based on the Disney film and J.M. Barrie’s enchanting play, Disney’s Peter Pan JR. is a modern version of the timeless tale about a boy who wouldn’t grow up!
The cast included student from Brewster, Patterson, Carmel, Wingdale, Putnam Valley, Mahopac, Dover Plains, Holmes, Fishkill and South Salem, NY and Danbury, New Fairfield and Ridgefield, CT.
Members of the cast are Lauryn Ariola, Isabella Basile, Sophia Bran, Kiley Brooks, Emily Bruno, Jacob Caraballo, Massimo Cartategui, Maggie Cassidy, Sarah Cassidy, Mason Cipriani, Sadie Cipriani, Jordan Coates, Sean Condon, Angelina Curtin, Gabriella Dimas, Hayden DiTomaso, Adalina Donohue, Emma Donovan, Emiko Dunn, TJ Fink, Shayla Franklin, Erika Gard, John Gard, Katelyn Grgecic, Joshua Grill, Rebecca Grill, Lauren Guarna, Carter Hamboussi, Davis Hamboussi, Breanna Harding, Jemma Hollander, Macey Hollander, Sarah Kelley, Lori Kreh, Grace Lara, Ariana Lopez, Paige Marchand, Hannah E. Martin, Kaitlyn McCarthy, Aracely Mendez, Sofia V. Mole’, Stevenson Nadig, Chelsea Nicole Newton, Sophia Salvatore, Alexandra Schajer, Kaelyn Schuchat, Calianna Schwark, Olivia Schwark, Sarah Shectman, Andrew Smith, Kayla Smith, Ava Stano, Isabella Tamaro, Liliana Tamaro, Lucia Trudo, Madison Vendel, Hailley Vieira, Anastasia Villani.
The production will be co-directed and choreographed by Nicole Aravena & Williams Coates with Lisa Lombardo as musical director with a special guest director, Michelle Aravena currently in “A Bronx Tale” on Broadway.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition – The Art of Alexander Shundi
Saturday, March 5
5:00 – 6:00 p.m. / Doors open 4:30 p.m.
The Moviehouse Studio Gallery, 48 Main Street, Millerton, NY
MILLERTON, NY—On Saturday, March 5, from 5:00 – 6:00 p.m., The Moviehouse Studio Gallery offers visitors a rare opportunity to hear the poems of Alexander Shundi, read by the artist himself, while viewing their accompanying works of art in the exhibition – The Art of Alexander Shundi.
The exhibition features a number of collages accompanied by poems, written by Shundi in English or Italian with the accompanied translations. The collages/poems are conceived to explore a synergy between expression in spoken-written language, and reactions to visual images. It is all an illusion, primarily. But what follows is of interest: one may serve as a key to decipher the other, and vice versa.
The pieces are conceived primarily as illustration in its purity of meaning: to shed light on a thought concept. Both the discipline of vision and of the written poem, have much in common in the formal means of expression, as in their requirement for balance, mystery, rhythm, atmosphere, and harmony.
As a master of his craft, Shundi’s works display a complex and imaginative mind that is rarely at rest. His work is intricate, and rich in symbolism. Brimming with references to religion, sacred geometry, spirituality and mythology, the work incorporates organic forms, often set within an architectural framework, and often plays with perspective in a unique way – think Bosch, meets Dali with overtones of José Clemente Orozco and De Chirico, while paying homage to African, Amerindian, and early Italian Renaissance art, all within a particularly subjective interpretation of space and time very much within context of modernism.
The readings will take place at 48 Main Street, Millerton, NY. The event is free and open to the public. Doors will open at 4:30 p.m.
ARTIST BIO
Born Alexander Bocchialini Shundi in Correggio, Italy, Shundi lived in Parma until his family moved to the U.S. in 1957. He obtained a BFA and MFA from Yale University, and went on to study at many prestigious institutions including Brera Academy in Milan and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. His talent and unique approach have led to distinguished teaching positions at Silvermine College of Art in New Canaan, CT, and State University of New York (SUNY Purchase). Shundi also founded and ran the Santa Fe International Academy of Art in New Mexico where he taught painting, figure, landscape, drawing and art history, and has served as Dean of the Silvermine-La Coste school of Art in La Coste, Provence, France, and the Artsworks Forum School, in Millerton, NY. He is currently professor of Art History and Drawing at the New York Institute of Technology in Manhattan, and conducts intensive advanced painting classes in his studio-residence, a converted 1852 church in Amenia, New York. Alex also teaches advanced painting for the Arts on the Lake, Lake Carmel, NY, in addition to a full lecturing schedule, and has exhibited both nationally and internationally throughout his career.
Links:
http://www.alexandershundi.
Artist Statement
Select Resume
Written Word & Painted Image – More information on the poetry/collage collection.
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Presented in conjunction with the exhibition – The Art of Alexander Shundi
Saturday, March 5
5:00 – 6:00 p.m. / Doors open 4:30 p.m.
The Moviehouse Studio Gallery, 48 Main Street, Millerton, NY
Saturday, March 5
5:00 – 6:00 p.m. / Doors open 4:30 p.m.
The Moviehouse Studio Gallery, 48 Main Street, Millerton, NY
MILLERTON, NY—On Saturday, March 5, from 5:00 – 6:00 p.m., The Moviehouse Studio Gallery offers visitors a rare opportunity to hear the poems of Alexander Shundi, read by the artist himself, while viewing their accompanying works of art in the exhibition – The Art of Alexander Shundi.
The exhibition features a number of collages accompanied by poems, written by Shundi in English or Italian with the accompanied translations. The collages/poems are conceived to explore a synergy between expression in spoken-written language, and reactions to visual images. It is all an illusion, primarily. But what follows is of interest: one may serve as a key to decipher the other, and vice versa.
The pieces are conceived primarily as illustration in its purity of meaning: to shed light on a thought concept. Both the discipline of vision and of the written poem, have much in common in the formal means of expression, as in their requirement for balance, mystery, rhythm, atmosphere, and harmony.
As a master of his craft, Shundi’s works display a complex and imaginative mind that is rarely at rest. His work is intricate, and rich in symbolism. Brimming with references to religion, sacred geometry, spirituality and mythology, the work incorporates organic forms, often set within an architectural framework, and often plays with perspective in a unique way – think Bosch, meets Dali with overtones of José Clemente Orozco and De Chirico, while paying homage to African, Amerindian, and early Italian Renaissance art, all within a particularly subjective interpretation of space and time very much within context of modernism.
The readings will take place at 48 Main Street, Millerton, NY. The event is free and open to the public. Doors will open at 4:30 p.m.
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The campus of the future Olivet University is beginning to take shape at the site of the former Harlem Valley Psychiatric Hospital in Wingdale. Cleanup crews have been pressure washing buildings, mowing lawns, pruning trees long neglected, painting doors. The newly washed brickwork gives the buildings hope for a second career. The marble sills and details suggest these buildings were built to last, that they deserve a second chance.
The main roadway heading East has been repaved, the street lights have been refurbished, the trees trimmed making the place look more like a college campus than an abandoned state institution which it was but a few weeks ago.
The American flag is flying next to the Olivet Center sign in front of the main building visible from Rte. 22. The uplift to the property is noticeable to anyone who drives by.
Olivet Management, which manages four other sites around the country, in Houston, Nashville, Des Moines and Atlanta, are self-described as a “real estate development and management company specializing in school and commercial properties across the United States.”
The plan is to architecturally restore the historic character of the buildings, remediate three of the buildings first, and grow an educational facility in tandem with businesses in order to spur local economic development.
Construction crews are examining roofs, checking plumbing and electric and performing basic survey work before the serious work begins.
The property includes 83 buildings that have not been maintained since state ended its operations there in 1994 and Dover Knolls purchased the property in October 2003. Olivet Management purchased 503 acres on the east side of the property, with the option to purchase 434 acres on the west side. The property is across the street from the Harlem Valley Wingdale train station.
The Dutchess County Planning Department, the Mid-Hudson Economic Development Council and the Town of Dover have been supportive of the project.
Kathy Schibanoff, CEO of Olivet Management, and former Local Project Coordinator for Dover Knolls said she was pleased the progress. She is working with local contractors and the Olivet team.
“It is exciting to see the progress made on the grounds and the community support has been wonderful. Most importantly, the work has meant we could offer jobs to the residents. There are about 50 people working here now and we look forward to the future development.”
The campus of the future Olivet University is beginning to take shape at the site of the former Harlem Valley Psychiatric Hospital in Wingdale. Cleanup crews have been pressure washing buildings, mowing lawns, pruning trees long neglected, painting doors. The newly washed brickwork gives the buildings hope for a second career. The marble sills and details suggest these buildings were built to last, that they deserve a second chance.
The main roadway heading East has been repaved, the street lights have been refurbished, the trees trimmed making the place look more like a college campus than an abandoned state institution which it was but a few weeks ago.
The American flag is flying next to the Olivet Center sign in front of the main building visible from Rte. 22. The uplift to the property is noticeable to anyone who drives by.
Olivet Management, which manages four other sites around the country, in Houston, Nashville, Des Moines and Atlanta, are self-described as a “real estate development and management company specializing in school and commercial properties across the United States.”
The plan is to architecturally restore the historic character of the buildings, remediate three of the buildings first, and grow an educational facility in tandem with businesses in order to spur local economic development.
Construction crews are examining roofs, checking plumbing and electric and performing basic survey work before the serious work begins.
The property includes 83 buildings that have not been maintained since state ended its operations there in 1994 and Dover Knolls purchased the property in October 2003. Olivet Management purchased 503 acres on the east side of the property, with the option to purchase 434 acres on the west side. The property is across the street from the Harlem Valley Wingdale train station.
The Dutchess County Planning Department, the Mid-Hudson Economic Development Council and the Town of Dover have been supportive of the project.
Kathy Schibanoff, CEO of Olivet Management, and former Local Project Coordinator for Dover Knolls said she was pleased the progress. She is working with local contractors and the Olivet team.
“It is exciting to see the progress made on the grounds and the community support has been wonderful. Most importantly, the work has meant we could offer jobs to the residents. There are about 50 people working here now and we look forward to the future development.”
DEC SEEKING ASSISTANCE IN LOCATING BLACK BEAR DENS
This winter, State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) wildlife biologists are seeking the public’s help to learn about new black bear dens throughout New York. As part of DEC’s ongoing monitoring of black bears in New York, wildlife biologists routinely check on black bears during the winter den season. The bears may be fitted with a radio collar to help biologists track the bears’ activities throughout the rest of the year and to relocate dens in subsequent years for monitoring cub production, condition, and survival.
“There is great value in having resident participation for this type of wildlife research,” said DEC Acting Commissioner Basil Seggos. “DEC’s wildlife biologists use public feedback from these studies as a guidance measure for future wildlife management and planning efforts. I encourage anyone that encounters a bear den to follow our safety instructions and reach out to their local DEC office for reporting.”
Bears may den in a rock crevice, tree cavity, or under heavy brush or fallen tree. Since female bears generally give birth sometime in January or early February, a high-pitched squeal from the cubs may be audible if you are near a den. If anyone finds a bear den, DEC strongly urges the public to not approach or disturb the den, but simply to note the location and move away from the den site.
DEC requests that anyone locating a bear den to contact their local DEC Wildlife office with specifics about the den location, including GPS coordinates if possible.
More information about black bears in New York is available at DEC’s Black Bearwebpage.
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FLASHBACK Sat. 'When The Hills Rumbled in the Harlem Valley" Dover Drag Strip, Wingdale,N.Y ......operated from 1961-1976 becoming the most legendary track in the Northeast...now celebrated every year with the annual Dover Drag Strip Nostalgia Drags ...this will be the 7th year... Aug. 15-16 at Lebanon Valley Dragway...
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Tracey L. Ferreri of Amenia Graduates from Nursing School
On December 16th, 2014 Tracey L. Ferreri of Amenia graduated from CTI at Dutchess County Boces Nursing School from their 2 year Practical Nursing Program.
Tracey was inducted into the National Technical Honor Society, and received an award for Excellence in Holistic Nursing (Mind, Body, and Spirit). She plans to take the state board exam so as to become a Licensed Practical Nurse in January 2015.
