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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.

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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Woman Entered Fishkill Correctional Facility With Drugs

Victoria R. Nobile is charged with second-degree promoting prison contraband and unlawful possession of marijuana after a police investigation, police said. She's due to appear in the Town of Fishkill Court at 9 a.m. Nov. 3, police said. Investigating with the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Office of Special Investigations, police said she was trying to bring drugs to an inmate at Fishkill.

 

Jackson Bail, 3, left, pretends to fire a .50 caliber machine gun as his grandfather, Jim Bail, helps him into position inside the last B-24J Liberator bomber that is still flying. The B-24J, built in 1944 by the Consolidated Aircraft Company, was on display at the Dutchess County Airport. 

People take photos of a Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress bomber that was on display at the Dutchess County Airport in the Town of Wappinger.

Fun and food at the Hudson Valley Garlic Festival

FASO STATEMENT ON INTERNET PRIVACY BILL

           

The House on Tuesday voted in favor of blocking internet privacy rules passed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last year, sending the bill to President Trump, who is expected to sign it into law.

The bill passed 215 to 205, with 15 Republicans voting against it including John Faso NY19.

The FCC rules would have given consumers greater control over what their internet service provider can do with their data. The regulations would have required those companies to get permission from customers before using their information to create targeted advertisements.

The bill, which passed the Senate last week in a party-line vote, invokes a law called the Congressional Review Act (CRA) that allows Congress to undo recently passed regulations. A CRA bill also prohibits agencies from passing similar regulations in the future.

The White House has said that it supports the bill.

The opposition to the regulations was led by Republicans and the telecom industry, who argue that they are too costly and confusing. They say the rules would have subjected internet service providers to restrictions that do not apply to websites like Facebook and Google, which also collect consumer information for data-driven ads.

“The FCC didn’t embrace a technology-neutral framework for privacy,” Jon Leibowitz, co-chair of the industry group 21st Century Privacy Coalition, said in a call with reporters Tuesday.

“It instead set out an overbroad definition of sensitive data that doesn’t apply to non-ISP’s collecting as much or more personal data online. And as we all know, privacy shouldn’t be about who collects information, it should be about what information is collected and how it is used.”

But Democrats and privacy advocates say that the rules would have been a step toward protecting consumer privacy, and that service providers should not have free reign to sell data to advertisers.

“Your broadband provider knows deeply personal information about you and your family – where you are, what you want to know, every site you visit, and more,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a statement before the vote Tuesday.

“They can even track you when you’re surfing in a private browsing mode. You deserve to be able to insist that those intimate details be kept private and secure.”

The privacy rules were passed under the authority that the FCC gained from its landmark 2015 net neutrality rules. Those rules prohibited internet service providers from blocking or slowing traffic to certain websites.

The net neutrality rules also reclassified service providers as common carriers, which means they were subject to tougher regulations from the FCC — like the privacy rules.

The vote was immediately condemned by activists and applauded by industry groups.

“It is extremely disappointing that Congress is sacrificing the privacy rights of Americans in the interest of protecting the profits of major internet companies including Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon. President Trump now has the opportunity to veto this resolution and show he is not just a president for CEOs but for all Americans,” ACLU legislative counsel Neema Singh Giuliani said in a statement. “Trump should use his power to protect everyone’s right to privacy.”

“Today’s action is another step to remove unnecessary rules and regulations that handicap economic growth and innovation, and moves the country one step closer to ensuring that consumers’ private information is protected uniformly across the entire internet ecosystem,” countered Jonathan Spalter, CEO of USTelecom. “Consumers can rest easy today knowing their privacy is protected under existing FCC authority, which requires companies to keep consumers’ data safe.”

If the rules were to go into effect, they would classify certain consumer data as “sensitive” — like browsing history, app usage and financial and medical information — and require service providers to ask permission before using it for advertising.

Customers would also be able to opt out of letting those companies use and share “non-sensitive” information.

Democrats and activists waged a furious campaign against the bill, trying to peg Republicans as anti-privacy.

An advocacy group called Fight for the Future pledged to put up billboards in Washington and other areas calling out those who voted to repeal the rules.

And Tuesday, Pelosi called on the largest internet service providers to state whether they are in favor of the CRA bill.

“Americans learned last week that agents of Russian intelligence hacked into e-mail accounts to obtain secrets on American companies, government officials and more,” Pelosi wrote in letters to 11 companies.

“This resolution would not only end the requirement you take reasonable measures to protect consumers’ sensitive information, but prevents the FCC from enacting a similar requirement and leaves no other agency capable of protecting consumers.”

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 Make cemetery vandalism a major felony

 Desecrating a cemetery or spraying hate-crime graffiti would come with higher criminal penalties under a package of bills sponsored by state senators.

The legislation from the Independent Democratic Conference comes after a Jewish cemetery in Rochester was vandalized Thursday and a rash of bomb threats at Jewish Community Centers across New York and the nation.

“As the grandson of Holocaust survivors, to see this occur in America in 2017 is deeply disturbing, and we must send a clear message to anyone who believes that they could strike fear into any religious group: hate will not be tolerated in New York," said Sen, Jeff Klein, D-Bronx, who represents parts of lower Westchester County.

Cuomo going to Israel with "message of solidarity"

Amid hate-crime spike, NY adds enforcement

NY launches hotline to report hate crimes

On Friday, a St. Louis man, Juan Thompson, was arrested by federal authorities and charged with making at least eight of the bomb threats, including to the Anti-Defamation League's headquarters in Manhattan.

New York officials have sought to boost efforts to crack down on the hate crimes.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo formed a hate-crime police task force last year and started a hotline to report incidents. He also proposed $25 million in the state budget to bolster security at religious institutions and installed a $5,000 reward for any information leading to a hate-crime conviction.

For the IDC's part, its legislative package would classify hate-crime graffiti as a class E felony; currently it is a misdemeanor.

"There has to be a deterrent to reduce an ugly trend," said Sen. David Carlucci, D-Clarkstown, Rockland County, in a statement.

Another measure would increase the penalty for graffiti on religious property and bolster protections for people wearing religious attire

If a cemetery is vandalized, the crime could be categorized as a higher-grade felony, which would come with jail time.

Cuomo on Friday said New York would have zero tolerance for hate crimes, saying State Police continue to investigate the incidents.

"The recent increase in anti-Semitic threats and acts of intolerance is disturbing, unacceptable, and directly contradicts New York’s core values of tolerance and diversity," Cuomo said in a statement.

"Today’s arrest sends a very strong message that anyone who targets and instills fear in our communities will be brought to justice."