Fairfield County News

Earlier this month, Lauren Price 's daughter, six-year-old Elizabeth, awoke with a cough, headache and sore throat.

The holidays are coming, normally the season for giving and feasting. But with the economy slumping toward its third consecutive downturned December, more locals are struggling to feed themselves than at any point in well over a decade, according to a report by the Department of Agriculture and information collected from local organizations.

Groundbreaking took place recently for the first phase of Summerview Square, a residential rental community with 63 units in the area of West Main, Summer and Jefferson streets in Norwalk.

NORWALKBarry C. Hawkins has been elected chairman of the board of directors of the Fairfield County Community Foundation.

With the era of the plug-in electric car dawning, Gov. M. Jodi Rell has created a commission to explore avenues of opportunity in Connecticut.

Fairfield County sees first death from H1N1 virus By CHASE WRIGHT Times Staff Writer STAMFORD -- The Connecticut Department of Public Health confirmed six additional deaths from the novel H1N1 "swine flu" virus, including the first reported fatality in Fairfield County.

The dead deer decomposing beyond Lynn Gorfinkle's back deck after her husband sent away a hunter without his trophy last month has mysteriously disappeared.

On Saturday it will become mandatory to dial the three-digit area code and the seven-digit phone number for any local call in Connecticut whether on a landline, an Internet-connected phone or a cell phone.

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Dr. Ben Ramaley, a Fairfield County OB/GYN, may have done the unthinkable -- impregnating a female infertility patient with his own sperm.

NORWALKBy CHRIS BOSAK & CHASE WRIGHTHour Staff WritersMalloy vs. Cafero? Fedele vs.

When Gov. M. Jodi Rell announced she would not seek re-election, two prominent lower Fairfield County Republicans were automatically elevated to front-runners for the party's nomination.

WILTONBy MATTHEW DORANHour Staff WriterSize.That's the one thing that has set Matt Reyes-Guerra-Dunn apart from most wide receivers in the Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference this season.Reyes-Guerra-Dunn has good speed.

The recession isn't over. It has hurt everyone from Main Street to Wall Street and organizations that provide food to those in need aren't getting donations like they used to.

Once the election results came in on Tuesday, the Democratic Party maintained their control of Westport's government, from top to bottom.

U.S. education chief visits Fairfield County By LAUREN MYLO Times Staff Writer NORWALK -- At a time community discussions on education are becoming more pervasive in Fairfield County, the region received a visit from the nation's highest official in the field.

A half-dozen years ago, at the peak of a building boom reshaping the Naugatuck Valley, a hot-tempered developer of strip malls named James Botti boasted that he had enough evidence of small-town graft to "collapse town hall" just by calling the FBI .

One of the beta testers for Windows 7 has been hosting a series of presentations to introduce local users to Windows 7. The presentation is given at a local library to the Computer Users Group monthly meeting.

Many of them attended a seminar on using the technology. "The PTDL will be of great value to the large business community in Connecticut and, especially, Fairfield County," said Dr.

A health official says the second wave of the swine flu pandemic is hitting Connecticut.