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2 weeks ago | 
middletownpress.com | Humberto J. Rocha |John Nickerson
STAMFORD — When former Stamford High School Principal Tony Pavia’s son texted him Wednesday morning to tell him that Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter — who died last Monday at the age of 78 — had graduated from that very same high school, Pavia was in shock. That’s because Pavia, an avid researcher behind the effort to create the Stamford High School Wall of Fame that was unveiled in 1998, never came across Robert C.
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3 weeks ago | 
middletownpress.com | Ignacio Laguarda |Barry Lytton |John Nickerson
UPDATE: 11:12 AMFrom Stamford police:Article continues below this adDue to ongoing demolition of St John's Tower, Washington Blvd is closed north and south between Main Street and Tresser Blvd. There's a detour on Washington Blvd at Broad for southbound traffic until further notice. UPDATE: 8:31 AM WEDNESDAYArticle continues below this adPolice Capt. Diedrich Hohn said the seventh floor of the St. John’s Towers collapsed early Wednesday morning.
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2 months ago | 
middletownpress.com | John Nickerson |Erin Kayata
STAMFORD — A school bus sliding on an ice patch in North Stamford Thursday morning took down a pole, trapping several students inside due to live power lines. Concerned about the chance for electrocution, the three students and the bus driver had to stay inside the bus for about a half hour before power could be cut off to the electrical lines draped over the bus. Article continues below this adSgt.
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Mar 9, 2025 | 
middletownpress.com | Evan Simko-Bednarski |John Nickerson
STAMFORD — Stamford High School was just one of a string of schools across the state to be disrupted by threatening phone calls Tuesday. Stamford police responded with a show of force after the call, made to the school’s main office shortly after noon, hinted at a potential explosive device and threatened violence to the school’s 1,700 students. Schools in West Haven, Hartford and Bristol received similar calls around the same time.
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Mar 4, 2025 | 
middletownpress.com | John Nickerson |Nelson Oliveira
STAMFORD — Former supermodel Stephanie Seymour had charges related to two drunken driving accidents in Greenwich erased after completing a probation program for first-time offenders. Seymour, 48, a former model for Victoria’s Secret and Sports Illustrated and wife to billionaire Peter Brandt, did not appear Tuesday in state Superior Court in Stamford. Her attorney, Philip Russell, accepted the dismissal of drunken driving and leaving the scene of an accident charges on his client’s behalf.
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Feb 21, 2025 | 
middletownpress.com | Nelson Oliveira |John Nickerson
STAMFORD — The details of a Westhill High grad’s gruesome murder police say occurred inside a posh New York high-rise apartment may never get presented to a jury. An apparent fight over cigarettes after a night of drinking and snorting cocaine led to Joseph Comunale being pummeled and kicked unconscious before he was stabbed in the head and torso, and a serrated knife was used in an attempt to dismember his lifeless body in a bathtub, according to court documents released this week.
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Feb 21, 2025 | 
middletownpress.com | Robert Marchant |John Nickerson
STAMFORD — A former Stamford man charged with raping and kidnapping two women in Stamford and Greenwich while pretending to be an on-call driver was held Wednesday on $1 million bond. Henrry Revolorio-DePaz, 27, was extradited from Kansas to face two counts each of second-degree sexual assault and kidnapping in the two cases. He was arraigned in Stamford Superior Court early Wednesday afternoon by Judge Bruce Hudock.
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Jan 31, 2025 | 
middletownpress.com | Nelson Oliveira |John Nickerson
The father of a third man charged in connection with the killing of a Westhill High grad was the former mayor of the New Jersey shore town where the body was buried. Max Gemma, 29, of Oceanport, N.J., posted a $200,000 bail Tuesday after pleading not guilty to hindering prosecution and tampering with evidence in the killing of Joseph Comunale. Article continues below this adGemma’s father, Gordon, was the Democratic mayor of Oceanport from 1997 to 2003.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
middletownpress.com | John Nickerson
STAMFORD — A city man, who allegedly passed a note threatening a bank teller but then walked out of First County Bank before he was handed any money early Tuesday afternoon, had his court-appearance bond doubled by a Stamford judge. Wearing a white hospital mask over his nose and mouth, Perry Fabricatore, of Pamlynn Road, was arraigned on the second-degree robbery charge at the Stamford courthouse before Judge Bruce Hudock Wednesday morning.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
middletownpress.com | John Nickerson
STAMFORD — A Stamford judge has ruled that a former Norwalk art teacher, who pleaded guilty in 2010 to having sex with one of his female students, will not be sent back to prison for alleged probation violations. Judge Richard Comerford made the decision following a second hearing Thursday morning when he heard from criminal defense attorney Andrew Gould and the family of the disgraced Brien McMahon High School arts department director, John Tate.
