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In this week’s Darien Times:
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
• Federal judge dismisses discrimination lawsuit against P&Z Commission
• Atria celebrates 15 years in Darien
• Darien Players to be dissovled? Darien Arts Center restructuring
• Knight bail-out evidence of industry’s respect of CEO
• Unfolding mystery of stolen BMWS- part II in a series
• Police find heroin, morphine on Norwalk woman
• Group protests Paul Ryan’s Darien appearance
• Darien dancers cast in Alice in Wonderland
• Darien teen bikes cross country
Opinion
• Editorial: Breast cancer awareness — everyone knows someone
• Letters: Grateful for Senior Men’s Association theater outing, Deer management, plastic bag education should continue, Darien Arts Center grateful for gift, support of Hagerty-Ross, Schneider-Zuro, Katie Stein for Board of Ed, support for Terrie Wood for state rep., Darien Road Race a success, CMED has not improved response times
• Ryan: Is Connecticut government making you ill?
• Wilder-Tamme: Happening of the Year helps community
Obituaries
• Charles F. Carroll, former Darienite, U.S. Army veteran
• Nancy Nevins D’Anjou, long time Rowayton resident
Sports
• Highton rises: Senior chosen for Olympic development program
• Nobody’s perfect: Wave slips to 2-1
• Volleyball wins eight straight
Happenings
• Noroton Heights Fire Dept holding open house Sunday, Oct. 7
• Holly Pond family fund day is Sunday, Oct. 21
• JR Forever memorial walk is Sunday, Oct. 14
• Weight Watchers CEO latest in library’s meet the author series
• Library’s annual meeting features local author Rosencranz Baldwin
• DCA hosts Russian literature workshops this mothn
• Sign up for Feed My Starving Children at darientimes.com
• DCA having talk on Nobel Peace Prize
• Library hosts first meeting of Read, Ride and Imbibe
• Long-term care talk at the library
• Atria to host breast cancer fundraiser
• Venture Yoga to host ‘Poses for Paws’
• Senior center to host medicare talk, long-term care, nursing and and Oktoberfest
• Evan Thomas to talk Eisenhower at Barrett Bookstore
Schools
• Middlesex celebrates colonia day
• Teen book nook: Darien freshman reviews ‘Dust lands: Blood Red Road’
• World class blind rower visits Tokeneke School
• Middlesex Middle School eighth grader wins grand supreme at the Heavenly in Angels pageant
Arts & Leisure
• Crime novelist Peter de Jonge, a former Acorn Press Newspapers reporter in Ridgefield and Wilton, has turned to a life of crime — in fiction. He¹ll talk about his new novel, Buried on Avenue B, next Thursday, Oct. 11, at the Ridgefield Library
• The Bruce Museum¹s Arts Festival is this weekend on the museum¹s grounds in
Greenwich.
Greenwich.
• Mary Wilson, formerly of The Supremes, will perform in Fairfield on Friday night.
• There will be a Zombiefest at Ives Concert Park in Danbury on Saturday night.
• Events for dogs this weekend include Paws in the Park in Norwalk and the 18th annual Bernese Mountain Dog Parade on Ridgefield¹s Main Street.
• The Reel Dad really liked The Master, starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix and Amy Adams
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