- Joy and worry at an Afghan refugee family’s first Thanksgiving
![Shamsula Akberzai serves Thanksgiving dinner in Mansfield to his cousin, Wranga Abdulzai, whose family just arrived in Connecticut after escaping from Afghanistan and spending ten weeks at a U.S. military base before resettlement. Akberzai immigrated to the United States in 1992 as a refugee from Afghanistan]()
- CT reenactor aims to preserve history, ‘good’ legacy of Hollywood
![Canaan resident Kevin Titus performs a variety of historic characters. One of his favorites is Benedict Arnold.]()
- Escape winter with ‘Nature’s Sunlight’ exhibit at Geary Gallery
![“River’s Bend” by New Jersey artist Eric Alexander Santoli. Santoli’s works will be on display from Dec. 1 to Dec. 24.]()
- Giving Fund: Making a donation can ‘provide hope and a smile’
![Lauren Franciamore is chief programs officer at Darien-based Person to Person. P2P partners with the Greenwich Time, The Stamford Advocate and The Hour as well as Family Centers to help people in need during the holidays.]()
- Many in CT just starting to worship in person: ‘We survived’
![In this file photo Rabbi Daniel Cohen prepared for the High Holy Days at Temple Agudath Sholom in Stamford, Conn. Sunday, Sept. 5, 2021.]()
- CT advocates call for fewer short-term prison sentences
![The man, 62, was transferred from the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield, Conn., to an outside hospital on Oct. 29, 2021. He died Tuesday, Nov. 24.]()
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![A crash on Route 7 in Brookfield Saturday afternoon resulted in at least one injury and a temporary closure of the highway.]()
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![William Ramos Sr., 63, of New Britain, was arrested Saturday morning after a woman walked into the Manchester Police Department late Friday night with a gunshot wound.]()
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![The office building at 3 Parklands Drive in Darien, Conn., photographed on Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021. A plan has been proposed to raze the existing office building and redevelop the property as a multifamily residential.]()
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![Edible medical marijuana, in the form of cookies, at Advanced Grow Labs in West Haven, Conn. on Wednesday, June 10, 2015.]()
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![State police have made eight driving under the influence arrests in the first 24 hours of the agency’s Thanksgiving holiday enforcement.]()
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![Average daily COVID rate in Connecticut.]()
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![Alan Addley is Darien's superintendent of schools.]()
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![As Connecticut’s COVID infection rate and hospitalizations are rising, health experts weigh in on whether it’s safe to gather for Thanksgiving.]()
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![Darien has always been proud of its all volunteer EMS, Emergency Medical Services, run by Darien High School students, and recently on Wednesday, Oct. 6, Darien EMS Post 53, was recognized through the U.S., at the EMS World Expo in Atlanta as the 2021 Volunteer EMS Service of the Year. The event was sponsored by the EMS World magazine. Pictured in the photo are: Darien EMS, Emergency Medical Services, Post 53, Elected Officers: Liv Peters, Jamie Santella, Ethan Gupta, Luke Riordan, and Emma Kinnie. Missing from the photo is: Kiran Ebrahimi.]()
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![After two recent incidents in Fairfield and Waterbury, Conn., police are urging drivers to lock their vehicles — even when someone is inside it.]()
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![A demonstration done in partnership with several agencies to show the potential dangers of frying food, ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021.]()
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![Members of the Valley Forge Running Club meet for their weekly 6 mile run at Winfield Street Coffee in downtown Stamford on Saturday November 20, 2021.]()
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![FILE - A healthcare worker fills a syringe with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at Jackson Memorial Hospital on Oct. 5, 2021, in Miami. U.S. regulators have opened up COVID-19 booster shots to all and more adults, Friday, Nov. 19, letting them choose another dose of either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)]()
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![The state Department of Transportation has teamed up with Uber to offer a discount code to deter possible impaired driving this holiday season.]()
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![Kristen Dannahey and her daughter Caedence Hague had COVID and were later diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.]()
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![Matthew Gentile, left, and his parents, Terry and Patrick Gentile, enjoy the ceremony.]()
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![There was a fatal tractor trailer crash in Milford, Conn., on Jan. 11, 2019. There were 216 traffic deaths in Connecticut in 2019. There has been an increase in fatal crashes in the state this year, expected to reach a record number.]()
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![Starting at midnight Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2021, and continuing through 11:59 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 28, 2021, troopers will supplement their normal routine patrol personnel with additional troopers throughout the long weekend.]()
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![Among the tips provided by police following mail thefts in Darien, Conn., included to drop mails with checks in blue mailboxes provided by the U.S. Postal Service. Police also urged residents to drop the mail at the post office directly rather than leave it in their mailbox as going mail.]()
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![Local residents get tested for COVID at various testing sites around the city Saturday, January 30, 2021, in Norwalk, Conn.]()
