Last week, city kids got to experience sea life at this year’s boat camp hosted by the Darien Sail & Power Squadron, many sponsored by Person to Person grants. Above, Josh Peterson and Spencer McDonald show off the sunglasses they got at Sheffield Island. (Darien Times/Kristen Riolo photo)
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
• Enrollment surge: Schools to hire five more teachers
• Housing commissioner undermining Allen-O’Neill expansion, says developers
• Darien’s Olympian has four more races: Rob Crane talks about his experience thus far at the London Games
• Darien sophomores scored lower on state tests; other grades mixed
• Darienite celebrates kicking cancer
• U.S. Rep. Jim Himes: Act now on Simpson-Bowles
• Online media mogul hosted McMahon fundraiser
• Schools hire new assistant principals for Ox Ridge, Hindley
• Darien teen wins state dept. scholarship
• Last lobstermen battle bureaucrats, each other
• Primary cost Darien $31 per vote
• $300 in shampoo swiped from CVS
• Fabricating Hearst reporter’s award revoked
• Wood attends shoreline hearing
Opinion
• Editorial: McMahon tells you while Shays shows you
• Letters: Girl Scout coverage, lights, Fisher, beach days, more
• Cameron: The bicycle revolution
• Ryan: Who else is moving south to escape these Connecticut taxes?
Sports
• Crane gains: Olympian is 16th in race five
• Middlesex best at 45th annual Darien Club Championships
• American 10-11s runner-up at Section 1 tourney
• In sync: O’Neill, Roney help Aquianas 16-17s win gold at nationals
• Courting greatness: Chelsea Piers CT hosts USTA tournaments
Happenings
• Arthur Lipner brings his Brazilian Vibes to library
• Rowayton Gardeners offer tips at market
• Library hosts digital photography self-portrait workshop
• Can you work the polls?
• Library part of virtual New England teen art show
• Cyclists to tackle Pan-Mass Challenge
• Win an iPad at summer reading program party
• Library to host adult gaming night
Arts & Leisure
• Cover feature: Liana Moonie of Greenwich recently received the National
Association of Women Artists Medal of Lifetime Achievement. At 90, she’s
still working on her series of abstract paintings, Feelings of Nature
• Béla Fleck, renowned banjo player, will be at Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in Katonah, N.Y., on Sunday, playing with the Marcus Roberts Trio
• New shows open at Silvermine Arts Center on Sunday. 1B, 2B
• Ridgefield’s Keeler Tavern Museum¹s Antiques & Treasures Sale opens Friday and runs through the weekend
• The Reel Dad pays tribute to screenwriter Frank Pierson, whose films
included “Cool Hand Luke,” “Dog Day Afternoon” and “Cat Ballou;” when he died last week at 87, he’d recently written for “Mad Men” and “The Good Wife”
• Tartuffe runs through this weekend at Westport Country Playhouse
• Dottie Bateman’s great retirement adventure: Cross country solo in her
Miata
• Classifieds start on 7B
