Here are some of the stories and features in this week’s Wilton Bulletin, in mailboxes and on newsstands today:
News
• Sensible Wilton meeting on Feb. 2.
• Wilton High School presents a story of crime and fairy tales.
• Affordable housing deal moves on, town land comes with $1-million price tag.
• New home construction in Wilton doubles.
• Former selectman encourages discussion of a revote.
• Sunday’s ice storm caused numerous accidents in town.
• Gas prices could stay low all year, but they may not fall much lower.
• Capitol Hearing Day: Future of intellectually disabled citizens is at stake.
• First Niagara Bank will leave town, consolidates three branches.
• Budget meetings take up several months.
• Wilton League of Women Voters to discuss visiting Cuba.
• Cactus Rose temporarily closes due to water damage.
• Police Log: Thefts at Wilton High School, Lost keys, Mailbox damage, Domestic, Suspended license.
• Wilton Library Young Makers Club encourages teens to create and collaborate.
• Visiting Nurse & Hospice of Fairfield County offers support groups.
• NAMI-CAN holds meeting on Jan. 26.
• EMT courses start Monday.
• After-school program wins grant.
Schools
• Board of Education eyes $400,000 surplus to fund enrichment programs.
• Warrior Words: A dog’s life.
• Cider Mill students embrace newspaper writing.
• Miller-Driscoll and Cider Mill students take part in this year’s Reading Rocks! program.
• Cider Mill fifth grader makes third donation to Locks of Love.
• Many students made their college dean’s list.
Opinion
• Toni Boucher: Will tolls be coming to state roads?
• Letter: Is the Gilded Age being repeated in Wilton?
• Letter: Cost to defend greater than revote.
• Letter: Rotary offers international scholarship.
• From the Firehouse: Be smart around natural gas.
• Editorial: Say it now.
• News Notes: Miller-Driscoll meeting tonight, World-record toasting, Sharp shoes.
Business
• O’Brien Premier Properties: Wilton’s newest real estate company.
• BodySmart of Monroe to donate proceeds from fitness classes to Animals in Distress.
• Wilton Family Y offers two six-week courses addressing challenges faced by stay-at-home mothers.
• Wilton Go Green member Daphne Dixon is honored by Morris Media as a 2015 Green Award winner.
Social
• Wilton Woman’s Club sponsors a blood drive at Trackside.
• Lifelong Girl Scout raises awareness for pets in need.
• Wilton Woman’s Club plans its eighth Annual Fashion for FUNdraising.
• Karen Abbott’s Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy to be discussed at the Wilton Historical Society.
• Wilton artists participate in Rowayton Arts Center exhibition.
• Candlelight Concerts presents Empire Brass Quintet.
• Wilton Encore Club donates $4,000 to Wilton Social Services.
• Grayson Hugh to headline Forza Five ‘house concert.’
• Gourmet gala benefits STAR, Inc.
Obituaries
Sports
• Wilton High School girls basketball team crushes Stamford in FCIAC showdown.
• Wilton High School boys basketball team lose to Black Knights, 77-61.
• Seniors have continued the Wilton High School boys basketball team’s rise to the top.
• Wilton High School boys hockey team scores consecutive wins.
• Wilton High School wrestling team’s Nicholas Rende takes first place at Saturday’s New Milford Tournament.
• Wilton High School gymnastics team hits season high.
• Wilton Y gymnasts win Level 6 title at Flippers Invitational.
• Mary Hayes-Haas among latest class of Atlantic 10 Legends.
Arts & Leisure
• Director Theo Avgerinos, who grew up in New Canaan, has a new independent feature film out. ‘Americans’ explores the world of sub-prime mortgage brokers and real estate investors in Los Angeles, just as the bottom was about to drop out of the market.
• The Reel Dad says Clint Eastwood has done a masterful job of conveying the realities of war in ‘American Sniper’ and Bradley Cooper’s work is once again outstanding.
• Steven Macoy lists some of his favorites from among the cars he test drove in 2014.
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