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Part of the rock outcropping that's proposed to be blasted and excavated as part of a plan to raze a 200-year-old home and replace it with two large homes and two swimming pools next to Five Mile River Road. The house sits in the background.

Two-house proposal in Darien receives neighbor backlash

Residents of the lower part of Five Mile River Road are concerned about a project…

The Nash Island gazebo returned to the Noroton Bay shoreline after Jim and Marion Friend had it rebuilt to same 1800s design after the original was destroyed by Tropical Storm Irene last year. (Darien Times/David DesRoches photo)

Nash Island gazebo returns to Darien shoreline

The Noroton Bay shoreline is once again home to the octagonal gazebo that graced the…

Darien Rowayton Farrell quilt Historical Society

Three Connecticut quilts, Johnny Mulberryseed and America’s most famous embroider

At the Darien Historical Society: Crazy quilts were a wildly popular craze from 1880 into the early 1900s and were inspired, along with all of Western art, by the Japanese Exhibit at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia.

Editorial: It’s getting hot in the Heights

History, once again, is being chipped away at in Noroton Heights and it appears that the Housing Authority doesn’t even care.

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