Here are some of the stories and features in this week’s Wilton Bulletin, in mailboxes and on newsstands today:
• Norwalk Hospital debuts Bauer Emergency Care Center.
• Low oil prices won’t affect budgets.
• Mrs. Green’s will shut its doors.
• Public hearing on the recommended education budget will take place Jan. 22.
• Planning & Zoning commissioner tells Blue Star Bazaar owner, ‘You knew what you got into.’
• New law labels dyslexia as a ‘primary disability.’
• Gail Lavielle begins her third term.
• New strain of heroin worries officials.
• Turf field project goes before Inland Wetlands.
• What’s open and closed on Martin Luther King Jr. Day?
• Visiting Nurse & Hospice offers support for the loss of a parent.
• Sensible Wilton delivers its petition to town hall.
• Wilton Library exhibits the work of six women artists.
• The library also hosts two concerts for jazz fans this month.
• Daryl Hawk addresses the Kiwanis Club.
• Cannon Grange offers free cheese-making class.
• Thomas O’Connell and Elizabeth Sweeney to wed.
• Matt Criscuolo releases sixth album.
• Flower designer to speak at AARP meeting.
• Warrior Words: The slump.
• Proposed education budget would add and drop teaching jobs.
• Connecticut Fire Prevention Poster Contest winners announced at Cider Mill.
• Wilton High School unveils its new record board.
• Graduation looms: Cap and gown order forms due Jan. 30.
• Obituaries: Romano Capocci, Janet M. Davis, Richard F. Hamm, Kenneth E. Ziem, Jean P. Jacobson.
• Experts offer advice to caregivers.
• Wilton Library makes a donation to Wilton Social Services.
• Editorial: Wash your hands.
• Letters: Sensible Wilton petition should be addressed, Legislators: What, specifically, is the rail plan?, Show us the Miller-Driscoll details, School costs could increase, Questions must be answered, Reasons to call a revote are many, Wreath festival best ever.
• WVAC 911: Struggling to death.
• A View from Glen Hill: The Gilded Age: A time that was less than golden.
• State Rep. Tom O’Dea: Exclude senior income from income tax.
• Support group for caregivers.
• Webster Bank economist: Connecticut’s economy is better than Russia’s, at least.
• Marion Filley’s Closing Comments: December.
• Realtors contribute $980 to Stay at Home in Wilton.
• Wiltonian is named president of Gen RE.
• AARP Smart Driver Course offered.
• Wilton Police Department is four officers short of a full staff.
• Bruce Likly’s Notes from the Board Table.
• Police Log: Pot possession, Missing trailer.
• Wilton High School boys basketball team regains winning form.
• Wilton High School girls basketball team trounces Eagles in overtime.
• Wilton High School boys hockey team loses to Ridgefield, 9-2.
• Wilton High School boys swim team falls in final event and loses to McMahon/Norwalk.
• Wilton High School wrestling team members Quinn Reedy, Jared Gladstein and Nick Rende place at Middletown tournament.
• Wilton High School gymnastics team opens season with two wins and a loss.
• Wilton High school girls hockey team blanks West Haven behind Craven’s two goals.
• Wilton High School ski team makes a strong effort in season-opening meet.
• Arts & Leisure: Paintings from Wilton artist Nash Hyon’s Genome (ATCG) Project hang in the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine in Farmington, the Reel Dad serves up The Schumies, a Schumann family tradition that gets a jump on the Oscar nominations.
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