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Long-Shuttered Community Theater In Downtown Fairfield To Reopen
The long-shuttered Community Theatre in downtown Fairfield will reopen as the new Sacred Heart University Community Theater.
The university signed a 10-year lease with Kleban Properties to create a premier arts and education site at the corner of Post and Unquowa Roads.
Open to the entire Fairfield community, including all university students, the refurbished venue will provide a range of offerings, including high-profile lectures, author talks, unique films, concerts, and performances.
It will showcase the work of the University’s dance, orchestra, band, choir, theater arts, f…
Gerard Moran, Former Lirr VP Of Labor Relations, Dies
A retired former labor union leader who represented railroad employees has died. He was 74.
Gerard M. "Jerry" Moran of Glen Head died Thursday, May 23. He was retired as Vice President of Labor Relations for the Long Island Railroad.
Moran was born in 1945. He is survived by his wife Susan and children, Chris (Nicole), Brian (Jana) and Carrie McGovern (Jude); grandchildren, Matthew, Sean, Braeden, Kennedy, Avery, and Kieran.
He is also survived by brothers, sisters, nieces, and nephews.
Moran's funeral was held Tuesday, May 30 in Sea Cliff.
Dancing Program Founder, Former Ridgefield Resident Joan MacDonald, Ex-Rockette, Dies
The founder of a popular long-running dance program for kids and adults in Ridgefield has died.
Joan Elizabeth (Seyfried) MacDonald, 87, formerly of Ridgefield, died Friday, May 24 at Filosa Nursing and Rehabilitation in Danbury, after an eight-year struggle with dementia.
She was born in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 14, 1931 to Oscar and Evelyn (Robert) Seyfried. MacDonald graduated from Immaculata Junior College with a degree in home economics.
A life-long performer and teacher, MacDonald started taking tap and ballet lessons at the age of three. She also studied Hawaiian dancing with…
Trio Indicted For World Trade Center 'Pay-To-Play' Bribery Scheme, State Attorney General Says
New York Attorney General Letitia James charged three men involved in rebuilding the World Trade Center alleging they engaged in a “pay-to-play" bribery scheme.
“These individuals were trusted with rebuilding the site of the worst terror attack in American history, but instead, allegedly squandered public funds to line their own pockets,” said James in the May 29 announcement.
The individuals charged are James Luckie, 58, of Setauket in Suffolk County; and Michael Garrison, 59, of Stony Point in Rockland County; and Paul Angerame, 59, of Manhattan.
They were charged in a scheme that i…
