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01/07/2025

A little PSA here so you don’t freak out!! 😮 🔥 🚊

01/07/2025

📢 Fairfield University Partners with MADD to Combat Drunk Driving 🚫🚗

Fairfield University hosted the inaugural Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) 5K, uniting the community in the fight to end drunk and impaired driving. Despite the chilly weather, nearly 200 runners showed up, ready to run for the cause and spread awareness. 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️❄️

🚨 Did you know? Connecticut consistently ranks among the top five states with the highest percentage of fatal crashes involving alcohol.

A huge thank you to all who participated, supported and worked tirelessly to make the event a success. Let’s continue to make strides toward safer roads and communities!

01/07/2025

Singer Peter Yarrow, of Peter, Paul & Mary, has passed at age 86 after a four-year battle with bladder cancer.

Peter Yarrow died Tuesday after a four-year battle with bladder cancer. The musician was part of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk trio started in the 1960s.

01/07/2025

Some deep pockets here in CT. A few of the deepest here.

01/07/2025

The widening of the mouth of Southport Harbor has begun. Until now, wooden stakes had marked the intended new edge. Credit: Doug Urquhart

01/07/2025

Beach views this blustery, bone chilling Tuesday afternoon.

01/07/2025

The 20 most expensive towns in Connecticut, according to HomeStratosphere.com. Fairfield is #11.

Connecticut's priciest towns and cities have seen their real estate values skyrocket over the past decade. An analysis of the top 20 most expensive

01/07/2025

Sad to learn of the passing of Elizabeth Gayner, founder of Connecticut Dance School

View Elizabeth M. Gayner's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

01/07/2025

✈️ 😔

01/07/2025

Shelters and emergency measures all in place

01/07/2025

Start the new year with a good read! 🏃‍♂️ 📕 Consider these books from Fairfield, CT Author Mike Lauterborn. All available through publisher AuthorHouse, Barnes & Noble and Amazon. Start here: https://www.authorhouse.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/787404-chasing-charley

"Chasing Charley" follows the path John Steinbeck traveled counterclockwise around America 🇺🇸 in 1960 to write "Travels with Charley". Mike visited 35 states over 66 days along 17,000 miles of road to see the sites and stops Steinbeck made decades earlier. 🚘

"Pandemonium" focuses on the Covid-19 pandemic 😷 from Dec. 31, 2019 when China announced the first cases to the world, through America's Reopening June 5, 2020. Mike relates how cases swept the globe 🌎 and changed life at all levels, speaking on the new normal and impacts across the board.

" " is a sidecar to "Pandemonium", but focused on all the remarkable weather events (30 named storms, massive floods, raging wildfires), 💨 💦 🔥 strange animal happenings (rampant sea lice, blue lobsters, pink dolphins, squirrels taking over parks, deer occupying empty cities) 🐿️ 🦌 🦞 🐬 and celestial events (meteors the size of the Empire State Building zooming past Earth, rare planet alignments) ☄️ that took place in 2020.

01/07/2025

Nooooo 🫏

01/07/2025

Tibet & Nepal rocked by a 6.8 magnitude quake, killing dozens of people and injuring many more.

Quake damaged buildings in Shigatse and could be felt hundreds of kilometres away in Nepal and the Indian state of Bihar

01/07/2025

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01/07/2025

Aww, heck no, and going even further down overnight, to 17F with a real-feel of 3F at daybreak Tuesday. 😩 🥶

01/06/2025

Lookee here, actual winter 🥶 💨 🧊

01/06/2025

Attention Stargazers! A must-see!

01/06/2025

Gen X’ers are turning 60 and they are not interested in retiring, though they welcome a lighter work load.

Technology plus demographic realities could change not only how people age, but how they’re perceived as consumers and talent in what used to be the retirement years.