Here’s a look at what’s in this week’s Darien Times — the only newspaper and news Web site based in Darien — on newsstands now and in your mailbox by this afternoon.News
• Rise and shine: P&Z OKs higher field lights
• Team USA: Darien’s Rob Crane sails into Olympics
• DCA Thrift Shop window celebrates Darien’s Olympian • Shultz named new Times editor; Fisher, after nearly 7 years here, moves to flagship
• Compromise reached on Allen-O’Neill construction times; developer explains name change to The Heights
• Police bust two more connected to June burglary spree
• Sound Wisdom Series: Public, lawmakers gather to combat climate change
• Intervale residents plagued by flooding plead for town’s help
• Four Brooklyn residents caught with fake cash
• Still time to register for primaries
• Can you work the primary polls?
• Tilley Pond Park’s popularity grows — and it’s looking better
• Shuffle project ready to go to bid early next month
• Darien Police, NFD assist in fatal boat accident off Stamford coast
• Norwalk man arrested for trying to steal brother’s identity
• Weed Beach security guard arrested for stealing gate fees
• Is your dog licensed?
• Larrabee photos wins Rowayton show
• Recent grad earns Gold Award
Opinion
• Editorial: As the RTM stalls
• Ryan: Commit campaign finance fraud but you want to run again? Don’t worry. The state will still fund your next election
• Wilder-Tamme: Locally owned businesses contribute to community well being
• Letters: Busy GOP, beautiful town, Big Assist, is the Times on Team Murphy?, EMS, more
Obituaries
• Stewart ‘Stu’ DeWitt Hawkins
• Cornelius T. Finnegan III
• Mary Angela Ferrara
• Joseph John Journalist
Business
• Baywater partners with investors to buy $10.8M Rye building
• Darienite appointed to board of directors at Booz Allen
• First County Bank helping Community Fund help others
• Florist offers flowers for old vases
• Car wash brings water to thirsty nations
Sports
• Darien’s Rob Crane sets Laser on Olympic Games
• Darien English teacher, spinal injury victim Wenzel to swim The Sound
• Youth baseball round-up
Happenings
• Farmers Market downtown each Wednesday
• Still time to register for primaries
• Can you work the primary polls?
• Check out Darien history before it’s gone
• Is your dog licensed?
• Rowayton Gardeners offer tips at farmer’s market
• Teens invited to digital photography self portrait workshop
• Alumni Swing Band performs at senior center
• Library part of virtual New England teen art show
• Learn Canasta at DCA this fall
• Win an iPad at summer reading program party
• VFW hosts free concert
• Seniors, disabled rent rebates offered
• Nature Center offers parents’ night out
Arts & Leisure
• Maritime Aquarium’s FINtastic RefurbFISHment has been proceeding this summer with new galleries and exhibits and the results are pleasing visitors. Next year, in Phase Three, the aquarium plans to replace its research vessel with a new 65-foot catamaran that will accommodate double the number of school children
• The Norman Conquests, Part II, Living Together, opens Friday at the Town Players of New Canaan
• Joanne G. Rochman reviews the Summer Theatre of New Canaan production of Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (she liked it)
• Irish band Lunasa is coming to Ridgefield¹s Ballard Park on Tuesday, July 31
• ReelDad Mark Schumann offers a salute to the illustrious career of Peter O’Toole. 5B
• The new Verano, it’s a Buick, but that means comfort and near-luxury, not necessarily a bad thing, says test driver Steven Macoy
• Classifieds begin on page 7B
