Stephanie Kim
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‘Gaming disorder’? Local addiction experts agree with WHO
NORWALK - Garrett Longenecker visits Game Stop on Connecticut Avenue once or twice a month for new games and devices. A self-proclaimed gamer, Longenecker spends at least four or five hours after work playing sports and role-playing games online or on consoles with friends who are no longer in the area. While he spends a significant part of his day gaming, he said it's never come to the point of… → Read More
School of Rock founder brings new academy to Norwalk
NORWALK - On a recent afternoon at Factory Underground, a small group of preteen and teenage rockers sat on mismatched couches in a recording studio with their attention fixed on Paul Green. He stood before them, dressed in jeans, a black tee and matching Adidas, and taught them about the process of a demo and classic covers that made songs better. Then he led them into an impromptu jam session… → Read More
School finance officials approve $2.38M budget reduction
NORWALK -The Norwalk Pathways Academy and 22 staff positions are among the revised reductions to the schools' 2018-19 operating budget. Such cuts and more will fill a remaining $2.38 million hole in the budget, after the final reconciliation between the Board of Education and the city. This led to an agreement that the board would draw down from its $1.1 million insurance reserve and the city a… → Read More
Coastal living in Compo
WESTPORT - The single family house at 32 Edgewater Hillside is a classic example of coastal New England living. You can launch your own kayak, wake up to beautiful sunrises and enjoy the privacy of living on a cul-de-sac. Inside, the home has Brazilian mahogany floors throughout and three bedroom suites on the second floor with views of Compo Mill Pond, Hummock Island and the Sound. These… → Read More
High honors for retiring NHS counselor
NORWALK - For the past 22 years, John O'Donnell has spent much of his time at the college and career center at Norwalk High School. There, the longtime school counselor met with various college representatives and his students, discussing their next steps for the future. Many conversations were exchanged and life stories shared inside that room. So students, staff and the community found it… → Read More
Brien McMahon celebrates 57th commencement
NORWALK - Four years ago, Amelia Mae Becker came to Brien McMahon High School knowing almost no one. The first day was overwhelming, as she rushed from class to class in a swarm of people. But it didn't take long before she found her classes and a community - the same group of people she addressed as class valedictorian at Brien McMahon's 57th annual commencement Tuesday night. "As we move… → Read More
Crowd rallies for West Rocks principal
NORWALK - A crowd of more than 100 students, parents and community activists rallied in front of City Hall on Tuesday in protest of rumored plans to remove longtime West Rocks Middle School Principal Lynne Moore. The signs they carried and the messages they delivered spoke to the disservice it would be to West Rocks students and the Norwalk community if Moore were removed. Among them was… → Read More
Norwalk High marks 116th commencement
NORWALK - The graduating class of Norwalk High School this year has achieved many milestones. The group of 405 students accomplished the highest graduation rate than any other in recent history, at 94 percent, with the greatest number of students who took advance placement and dual-enrollment classes and participated in the arts. Additionally, the Class of 2018 boasted the first group of… → Read More
Norwalk seventh-grader challenges school dress code
NORWALK - With summer weather and almost no air conditioning at Roton Middle School, seventh-grader Gracie Blackwell recently wore an outfit she and her mom thought was appropriate: a loose spaghetti strap tank top and shorts. However, the administrator that "dress-coded" her didn't - asking her to cover up her shoulders so they wouldn't distract her classmates. While the school dress code… → Read More
Weston estate inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright
WESTON - The five-acre estate at 47 Davis Hill Road blends in with its surrounding landscape - the Saugatuck River, lush fields and countless trees and bushes planted throughout the property. The house's integration with nature, and its abundant horizontal lines, pay homage to the Prairie-style architecture developed by Frank Lloyd Wright. As one of Wright's best-known apprentices, Edgar Tafel… → Read More
Ribbon cutting for new sign at Brien McMahon
NORWALK - The new LED sign in front of Brien McMahon High School greets students, visitors and passersby with updated and timely information on events and other happenings - just as Leah Hogan envisioned it would do. She had worked tirelessly for more than four years to get the sign installed, alongside three other moms who were all part of the school's parent group, the Senators' Success Fund.… → Read More
At D.A.R.E. graduation, Kendall students pledge to be drug free
NORWALK - Two days before his middle school promotion, Christopher Marin made a pledge Wednesday to stay drug and alcohol free. He made this promise with the rest of his fifth-grade class at Kendall Elementary School, in front of their parents and teachers, vowing to make use of the Drug Abuse Resistance Education they received. They not only learned about the dangers of drug and alcohol but… → Read More
Local Koreans react to historic Trump-Kim summit
NORWALK - Longtime adversaries have now become friends, President Donald Trump declared Tuesday, following a historic meeting in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The summit marked the first meeting between the two nations that have been bitter rivals since the Korean War ravaged and divided the Korean Peninsula nearly seven decades ago. Both leaders signed an agreement that… → Read More
New research shows declining interest in STEM
NORWALK - Fewer teenagers are wanting to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, according to a new survey by the world's largest organization dedicated to youth career readiness. From 2017 to 2018, Junior Achievement found a significant drop in teenaged boys who want a STEM career, down from 36 percent to 24 percent. And the low level of interest among teenaged… → Read More
Norwalk adult education graduates 26
NORWALK - Noelle Cyr first attended Norwalk High School in 2003. She eventually dropped out, disengaged and unmotivated to finish her education. That was far from different Thursday night, when she walked across the stage inside the Center for Global Studies to receive her high school diploma, dressed in a maroon cap and gown. The 33-year-old not only left that night a high school graduate, but… → Read More
An enchanting chateau in Norwalk
NORWALK - When stepping inside the chateau-style home at 8 Stony Lane, you begin to feel like you're halfway across the globe in Europe rather than in a neighborhood in West Norwalk. It's the stucco walls, vaulted ceilings and soft arches inside the home that give off this kind of feeling, along with its prominent central tower. Upon a closer look, you'll find more details of European influence,… → Read More
Norwalk students unveil art sculptures at Fodor Farm
NORWALK - Nine colorful sculptures have found their home at Fodor Farm, bearing images of fruits and vegetables cultivated in the community gardens. Their arms are outstretched and display informational briefs and free-verse poems about how animals, plants and people depend on each other - a theme that's integrated into the first-grade curriculum at Columbus Magnet School. When first-grader… → Read More
NHS minority students ‘unlocke’ potential through internship
NORWALK - On the first day of her high school internship at a global marketing company, A.J. Langlois had her eyes set on one of the many blue locks hanging on the "unlocke" wall. This wall at TraceyLocke is where employees take a lock from the wall and replace it with a new one whenever they reach a certain milestone - a symbol of "unlockeing" their potential. On Wednesday, at the end of her… → Read More
First day of Norwalk’s 2018-19 school year set for Aug. 29
NORWALK - The first day of school for the 2018-19 school year will be on Wednesday, Aug. 29, much to the delight of many parents and staff who objected to the district's last-minute proposed revisions to shift the first day of school to the beginning of that week. The Board of Education voted to scrap the revisions and to keep the previously approved 2018-19 school calendar on Tuesday, with a… → Read More
School board votes to have co-valedictorians for NHS Class of 2018
NORWALK - Several weeks after nearly 500 people signed a petition calling for an "equitable" system that ranks traditional-track students and Norwalk Early College Academy students at Norwalk High School, the Board of Education has voted to have co-valedictorians at the school's graduation in June. The board moved this resolution forward at its special meeting Tuesday night, making it so that at… → Read More