Liz Skalka

United States

journalist & writer, covered political features/2024 for @huffpost, missing the midwest 🇺🇸 🧀

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Articles

Teen pleads guilty to fatal stabbing outside Stamford McDonald’s

1 month ago | middletownpress.com | Liz Skalka |Nelson Oliveira

STAMFORD — A 17-year-old pleaded guilty Tuesday to fatally stabbing a man in 2015 outside the Bedford Street McDonald’s. Marquest Hall, who was tried as an adult, pleaded guilty in state Superior Court in Stamford to first-degree manslaughter and will be sentenced to 20 years in prison, his attorney Ryan O’Neill said. Article continues below this adHall was originally charged with murder and faced up to 60 years in jail if he was convicted at trial.
Keno gambling game debuts at Stamford bar

2 months ago | middletownpress.com | Liz Skalka |Bill Cummings

STAMFORD — A Shippan Avenue bar recently added a new game for customers to play as they eat, drink and watch a game on TV. Fiddler’s Green was one of the first retailers in the state to offer Keno, the gambling game rolled out last week by the Connecticut Lottery. Article continues below this adA bar may seem like an unusual spot to beta-test a scratch-off lottery game, but that’s part of the draw of Fiddler’s Green, which offers several lotto and arcade games.
Attorney for defendant in Stamford man’s killing calls story ‘delusional’

2 months ago | middletownpress.com | Liz Skalka

STAMFORD — Evidence will prove James Rackover lied when he said he played no role in fatally beating and stabbing Stamford’s Joseph Comunale at his Manhattan apartment, according to an attorney representing one of the other defendants.
Unlicensed pit bull attacks woman in Stamford

2 months ago | middletownpress.com | Liz Skalka

STAMFORD — Loren Morrissey often leaves her West Broad Street office in the middle of the day to walk the residential neighborhoods around Stamford Hospital. Morrissey was on Hinckley Avenue last week when she says a brown pit bull terrier who was loose in the yard of a multifamily home charged at her and sunk its teeth into her leg, leaving several deep gash marks.
Stamford-area Muslims see education as key to fitting in

2 months ago | middletownpress.com | Liz Skalka

STAMFORD — A group of Muslim men, women and children meets weekly at St. Francis Episcopal Church. For the past several years, the 50 or so members of the American Institute for Islamic and Arabic Studies have come together in North Stamford for potluck meals and soul-searching conversations about religion.
Stamford’s sole surviving video store is a 1990 rewind

2 months ago | middletownpress.com | Liz Skalka

STAMFORD — When a small video store opened at the Springdale Shopping Center in 1990, it joined a movie rental industry in its prime. Now it’s the last of its kind. Article continues below this adFor the past 26 years, the city has been home to Critic’s Choice Video, one of two independent DVD rental businesses believed to be left in Connecticut. The other is Best Video Film and Cultural Center in Hamden.
Today in Stamford history: Jan. 8

2 months ago | middletownpress.com | Liz Skalka

The following headlines and articles appeared in the Stamford Advocate decades ago on Jan. 8:10 years agoArticle continues below this adReps may give green light to building rulesStamford buildings may be going green. City representatives are being asked to pass an ordinance requiring municipal buildings to be designed to be environmentally friendly.
New transportation chief aims to make Stamford more pedestrian-friendly

2 months ago | middletownpress.com | Liz Skalka

STAMFORD — In his daily commute, the city’s new transportation chief gains valuable insight on traveling to and from Stamford. Since assuming the role less than a month ago, New Haven resident James Travers has gotten here via Metro-North Railroad, stepping off the train each morning at the city’s downtown transportation hub.
Hundreds mourn slain Stamford man at funeral mass

2 months ago | middletownpress.com | Liz Skalka

STAMFORD — Hundreds of mourners gathered Wednesday at a funeral for Joseph “Joey” Comunale, the 26-year-old killed after a night of partying in Manhattan, and whom loved ones remembered as fun, generous and especially devoted to his friends. “Who in this room got a laugh out of Joey? Raise your hand,” said Todd Greene, Comunale’s Hofstra University roommate, addressing mourners at St. Leo Church.
UConn-Stamford student debater irks college president

Mar 7, 2025 | middletownpress.com | Liz Skalka

STAMFORD — The current political climate has rubbed off on at least one University of Connecticut student, who irritated the university’s president at a debate team panel Wednesday night. The sophomore was interrupting other speakers and offering his opinions so aggressively that that UConn President Susan Herbst, who was moderating, left the stage for the last 10 minutes of the hour-long discussion at the college’s Stamford campus, according to several witnesses.