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3 weeks ago | 
nancyonnorwalk.com | Ashley Smith |Justin Matley |Drew Todd |Bryan Meek
NORWALK, Conn. — The Norwalk Ordinance Committee on April 15 advanced a proposed ordinance that would allow the city to install automated traffic enforcement safety devices (ATESD)—commonly known as speed and red-light cameras—in select areas. “We are, through this ordinance, implementing the use of traffic and speed cameras,” said Norwalk Chief of Staff Tom Livingston.
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3 weeks ago | 
nancyonnorwalk.com | Daniel Simons |Justin Matley |Drew Todd |Bryan Meek
Easter may not be a holiday that everyone observes in a religious way—but its deeper invitation is something we all know in our bones. It’s the intuition that Life, in all its changing forms, is larger than loss. That it encompasses birth and death, breakdowns and breakthroughs, and somehow includes it all and grows ever richer. That’s a truth worth celebrating, especially in hard times.
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3 weeks ago | 
nancyonnorwalk.com | Ashley Smith |Justin Matley |Drew Todd |Bryan Meek
STAMFORD, Conn. — The jury trial for Ellen Wink, a former Norwalk Republican deputy registrar of voters charged with the 2022 fatal shooting of her tenant, is scheduled to begin on April 30, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. in Stamford Superior Court.Wink is accused of shooting Kurt Lametta inside a Nelson Avenue home on January 20, 2022.
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3 weeks ago | 
nancyonnorwalk.com | Justin Matley |Drew Todd |Bryan Meek |David Muccigrosso
I would like to share with your readers that my father, Dr. Ralph Edward Sloan, Jr., age 83, of Sanibel, Florida, passed away peacefully on April 8, 2025, following complications from heart failure. Many in Norwalk may remember Ralph for his years of dedicated service as Superintendent of Schools from 1983 to 1998. In his honor, the City of Norwalk will be hosting a memorial service on April 22, 2025, from 5 to 7 p.m. at City Hall, in the student art gallery that bears his name.
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1 month ago | 
nancyonnorwalk.com | Priscilla Feral |Justin Matley |Drew Todd |Bryan Meek
Rat Poison Is Wildlife PoisonHawks, owls, eagles and others in CT are under siege from these powerful, long-lasting poisons making their way up the food chain. However, the legislature is poised to ban second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides (with some exemptions). HB 6915, which Friends of Animals helped draft, passed out of the Environment Committee and has 36 sponsors, but we would like to have at least 50 before it gets called on the House Floor.
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1 month ago | 
nancyonnorwalk.com | Ashley Smith |Patrick Cooper |Justin Matley |John S. O’Neill |John O’neill
NORWALK, CONN. — The final chapter of Norwalk’s controversial White Barn Theater redevelopment is drawing closer as the city considers releasing funds tied to environmental protections on the site. During its April 8 meeting, the Norwalk Conservation Commission reviewed a request from Alexis Cherichetti, the city’s senior environmental officer, to partially release performance bonds associated with the conservation development on Cranbury Road.
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1 month ago | 
nancyonnorwalk.com | Ashley Smith |Patrick Cooper |Justin Matley |John S. O’Neill |John O’neill
NORWALK, Conn. — Dreamy Hollow is finally seeing relief after years of chronic flooding, thanks to a $10.2 million flood mitigation project celebrated this week with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and praise from city leaders, engineers, and residents. “This project is expected to reduce flooding in the area by 29 percent, which is significant,” said Mayor Harry Rilling during remarks at the event.
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1 month ago | 
nancyonnorwalk.com | Ashley Smith |Patrick Cooper |Justin Matley |John S. O’Neill |John O’neill
NORWALK, Conn. — Emmy-winning science correspondent and author David Pogue will take the stage at Norwalk’s Earth Day Festival on Saturday, April 26 at 11 a.m. to present “10 Reasons for Climate Hope (…And 10 Actions You Can Take Now!).” The event will be held at Mill Hill Historic Park, 2 East Wall St., as part of the annual celebration of environmental awareness and community action.
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1 month ago | 
nancyonnorwalk.com | Ashley Smith |Patrick Cooper |Justin Matley |John S. O’Neill |John O’neill
NORWALK, Conn. — The Norwalk High School Parents Club is calling on the community for support as the temporary closure of the school’s concession stand poses a major fundraising challenge. The closure, due to the ongoing construction of the new Norwalk High School building, has disrupted a key source of funding that typically helps support scholarships, extracurricular clubs, teacher requests, graduation activities, and other student-centered initiatives.
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1 month ago | 
nancyonnorwalk.com | Ashley Smith |Edward Fontaine |Justin Matley |John S. O’Neill |John O’neill
NORWALK, Conn. — At this year’s Board of Estimate and Taxation (BET) operating budget hearings, one phrase repeated like a mantra: “Two and two and a half percent.” That was the mayor’s mandate to every department—no matter the level of need, no matter the scale of service. No department, except for education, could ask for more.
