Chris Dodd hard at work
Sure was good to see former Connecticut U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd hard at work again. He was just beaming in the background at or at least near the table of the cast of ”The Bridesmaids” at last night’s...
View ArticleRick Porto died Wednesday morning
Rick Porto, long-time owner of Porto Painting in the Black Rock section of Bridgeport, a former mayoral candidate and former Barnum Festival Ringmaster, died Wednesday morning after a months-long fight...
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James Blake, the number 4 ranked tennis player in the world in 2006 and 2007, is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at a fund-raising event for The Child & Family Guidance Center of Greater...
View ArticleBlake to speak
Tennis player James Blake will be the guest speaker Thursday at the rescheduled fund-raising benefit for the Child and Family Guidance Center. Blake’s playing commitments forced a postponement of the...
View ArticleMcGivney Center: 20 years of helping
Bridgeport’s McGivney Center has been fighting the good fight on the city’s East Side for 20 years. It’s given opportunity and alternatives to families and kids in its Stillman Street neighborhood in...
View ArticleBlake, now a father, back at Wimbledon
U.S. Tennis player and long-time Fairfield resident James Riley Blake became a father on June 10 with the birth of daughter Riley Elizabeth. Blake’s fiancee, Emily Snider, and baby are doing well and...
View ArticleBlake out at Wimbledon
German Benjamin Becker dispatches James Blake at Wimbledon Monday in first round: 6-7, 7-5, 6-0, 6-4.
View ArticleCarson delivers stinger to Finch
David E.A. Carson, former head of People’s Savings Bank, now Peoples United, was one of four long-time supporters of public education honored Tuesday morning by The Bridgeport Public Education Fund, an...
View ArticleRatz and Geno line up for Bridgeport’s Shehan Center
Bridgeport’s Cardinal Shehan Center has lined up a couple of stars to help with the observation of the center’s 50th year in operation. Bridgeport-born actor John Ratzenberger will speak at the...
View ArticleShehan Center director to assume Bridgeport’s McGivney Center leadership
Terry O’Connor, director of Bridgeport’s Cardinal Shehan Center the last 20 years, has also been named executive director of the McGivney Community Center on Bridgeport’s East Side. Both youth centers...
View ArticleUnited Congregational Interfaith Celebration Sunday
Bridgeport’s United Congregational Church will conduct its annual interfaith Thanksgiving Celebration on Sunday at 4 p.m. at the church, 877 Park Ave. The only price of admission is a donation for the...
View ArticleA healthy James Blake training for Australian Open tennis
American tennis player James Blake, once the fourth ranked player in the world, looked crisp and chipper during a workout Wednesday at the Tennis Club of Trumbull and said he’ll be training in Los...
View ArticleFairfield’s Stratfield Village will stage vigil
A candlelight vigil will take place Sunday, Dec. 16, at the intersection of Fairfield Woods Road and Stratfield Road from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in memory of, and in support of, the victims of the Newtown...
View ArticleBiographer of Michael Daly, Medal of Honor winner, in Fairfield March 23
Steven J. Ochs, author of “A Cause Greater Than Self: The Journey of Captain Michael J. Daly, World War II Medal of Honor winner,” will be at the Fairfield University Bookstore, 1499 Post Road in...
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The compelling tale of a boy’s flight from Nazi Germany, his arrival in Bridgeport and his ultimate return to – and reconciliation with – his childhood home will be at the heart of a Holocaust...
View ArticleNo stars, real kids in cautionary film at Klein
“The 5K Motion,” a 30-minute film about the personal price of gun violence, will be shown June 20 at 6:30 at the Klein, 910 Fairfield Avenue, Bridgeport. The film is a collaboration of 4Peace, a Boston...
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