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• Historical Perspectives / Ed Chrostowski

  The past also echoed again last week when the Board of Education pondered a policy aimed at helping students reach personal health decisions. In a 6-2 vote that drew loud jeers from the crowd, the school board repeated its decision to delete the... more »

  3 months ago

  children | parent and child | family

• Historical Perspectives / Ed Chrostowski

  On the one hand, a desperate search for commuter parking led one study committee to recommend paving over the properties of the Corry family (now the town-owned Vine Cottage) and the Red Cross Chapter, both neighboring the Town Hall on Main... more »

  3 months ago

  children | gastronomy | award and prize | human science | students | civil war

• Historical Perspectives / Ed Chrostowski

  The area's "major problems" in public transportation, traffic bottlenecks and parking were recognized at that meeting of first selectmen and mayors of area towns with editors of the newspapers in their communities. During the session at the Clam... more »

  4 months ago

  high schools | traffic | students | civil and public service | plant | budgets and budgeting

• Historical Perspectives / Ed Chrostowski

  In an ideological clash that continues to echo now among liberal, moderate and conservative splinter groups in politics, a full slate of challengers sought to wrest control of the Republican Town Committee and of the delegations to party... more »

  6 months ago

  parties and movements | election | high schools | civil and public service

• Historical Perspectives on New Canaan / Ed Chrostowski

  In a full-scale political campaign launched during this week in February 1962, posters and advertisements all over town foreshadowed the current clash of philosophies. Challengers criticized the administration of First Selectman Charlie Kelley... more »

  6 months ago

  election | parties and movements | high schools | civil and public service

• Historical Perspectives in New Canaan / Ed Chrostowski

  During this week in February 48 years ago, First Selectman Charlie Kelley suggested that the New Canaan Fire Company would be needing a new truck soon and anticipated appointment of a committee to study potential expansion of the building at the... more »

  6 months ago

  recreational and sporting goods | children | budgets and budgeting | fire | civil and public service | alliances

• Historical Perspectives / Ed Chrostowski

  New Canaan's first selectman, Charlie Kelley, was among chief executives of cities and towns in the Northeast who urged the governors of their states a generation ago to seek federal funds to "rescue a railroad that's on its death... more »

  7 months ago

  employment | award and prize | ceremony | real estate | accident (general) | planning inquiries

• Historical Perspectives / Ed Chrostowski

  Last-minute shoppers hurried from store to store and traffic, swollen by visitors and students home for the holidays, moved through Main and Elm at a snail's pace, bogged down further by the season's heaviest snowfall. In an era before people... more »

  8 months ago

  music | religious festival or holiday | high schools | lawyer | traffic | Christmas