Darien News

Retired Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino poses with Anthony Bruno, right,, Shawn Kelly and Tara Bruno at Anthony's Coal Fired Pizza in Darien, Conn., February 8, 2012.

Honey sommelier Marina Marchese provides Red Bee Honey tastings. Visit www.redbee.com for more information.

It was dA©jA vu for Darien's education community recently when the Board of Education decided to put the new elementary world language program on the chopping block during the upcoming budget negotiations.

It also will be breezy across southwestern Connecticut, with a west wind between 10 and 16 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph.

Tickets are now on sale through the YWCA Darien/Norwalk website for The Masquerade Ball fundraiser on Saturday, March 24, at The Country Club of Darien .

Students in Sandy Henry's second grade class at Ox Ridge Elementary School stand in front of the 100 boxes of Macaroni & Cheese they collected.

Choice To Reuse appears to have alliances; Ms. Melvin, chairman Darien Environmental Group , in a letter last week, seemed to be sending a message of either you agree with the plastic bag ban or there is something wrong in how you view things.

Senior Chelsea LeVander won all four events, helping the Wilton gymnastics team captured its second straight FCIAC championship Saturday afternoon at Law High School in Milford.

"Expressions 2012" Best in Show winner Pierre Lahaussois is pictured with first place winners Laure Dunn, Ilana Appleby, Kendall Klingbeil, Cynthia Mazzaferro, Bruce Horan and Meg Tweedy during the opening reception at the Rowayton Arts Center on Feb.

Very light snow is dusting southwestern Connecticut early this morning, and the National Weather Service predicts that whatever scant accumulation there is by afternoon will melt as the precipitation changes to rain and temperatures rise.

The problem with education in Connecticut is income inequality, not teacher quality.

DARIEN, Conn. - Darien will probably not set aside $250,000 in its budget to build sidewalks on Hoyt Street as residents requested last month .

Leslie Quick, founding partner of Massey Quick, Greg Rogers, founder and president or Raylign Advisory LLC, Allen Wolpert, investor and retired partner of Accenture and Joel Treisman, chief learning officer and group chair of TIGER 21 participated in a panel discussion last Wednesday at Giovanni's II/The Water's Edge in Darien.

Restaurant week is back for the third year as local eateries craft special menus in an effort to encourage customers to try a new dining experience they might otherwise pass up.

Pictured are some of the Catwalk 2 committee members at The Loading Dock. Top row: Marcia Maslo ; Janne Allam ; Laura Kolderup ; Karen Hauben ; Susan Campion ; Molly Massie ; Susan Lynch ; and Debbie Eck .

Members of a regional task force seized more than four grams of crack and arrested three during the operations, both of which happened in the parking lots of Route 5 businesses.

Snow. It's been almost entirely missing from weather forecasts for southwestern Connecticut since a freak snowy nor'easter socked the region last Halloween weekend.

The Darien Board of Education has not made any final decisions, but several members are convinced of the need for another social worker.

High-quality works by some of the region's finest artists are on view through February 25 during "Expressions 2012," a juried all-media exhibition at the Rowayton Arts Center, 145 Rowayton Ave.

Retired Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino poses with Anthony Bruno, right,, Shawn Kelly and Tara Bruno at Anthony's Coal Fired Pizza in Darien, Conn., February 8, 2012.