University of Bridgeport News

Rebecca Hill, 18, quietly persevered through the death of one parent and the illness of the other.

Seventh grader Carolyn Smith stars as Baloo the bear in Disney's Jungle Book KIDS stage production at Roosevelt School in Bridgeport, Conn., on Wednesday, June 12, 2012.

Student loans by the numbers Some Connecticut college numbers of students with federal subsidized Stafford loans in the 2011-12 school year: Fairfield University, 2,128 recipients, $10.9 million Housatonic Community College, 156 recipients, $419,607.

The K-12 Parsippany - Troy Hills school district is under new leadership. After reviewing eight resumes and interviewing four candidates the Board of Education, in a split decision, hired Dr. John Fitzsimons to take over after the retirement of Dr. LeRoy Seitz.

According to the American Chiropractic Association , in 2014, 32 million more people will have access to affordable healthcare, which means 40,000 more providers will be needed to account for the rapid increase in patients.

For the student cramming for finals at the local Starbucks; or for the writer working at home on deadline trying to tune out her rowdy teenagers, or for the out-of-town lawyer who's here litigating for a five-day stretch: This place is for you.

It will indeed be "A Grand Night for Singing" May 30 through June 2 at the Harris Arts Center in Calhoun when the Calhoun Little Theater presents this exhilarating tribute to the musical genius of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein.

Every day when she walks into band practice, Sara Schulwolf, a senior at Hall High School, gives Band Director John Mastroianni a hug.

Michael Fernandes, principal at Turn of River Middle School, will be taking a new position inside the Stamford School District as assistant superintendent for secondary education for next school year.

The blocks tucked behind the railroad tracks and the I-95 overpass in Bridgeport, Connecticut,look much as you'd expect from a poor neighborhood in a foundering city.

A veteran Bethel intermediate school principal newly hired as the new leader of the traumatized Sandy Hook Elementary School is a "true leader'' able to "make tough situations better,'' educational colleagues said Wednesday.

Danbury's Sharon Pereira is about a year away from attaining a college degree through the University of Bridgeport's IDEAL program.