Stamford's Old Town Hall Redevelopment Agency this week chose Nov. 19 for the opening ceremony for the renovated Old Town Hall building.
Both Mayor Dannel Malloy and the new mayor elected that week are expected to be in attendance. Plans also include local high school band performance. Not long after the ribbon-cutting, the building, which has been closed since 1987, will be open to the public.
An earlier plan to hold a large outdoor party downtown to commemorate the completed restoration was scrapped due to costs and timing. Agency members are considering turning part of the building into a museum.
Educational assistants, city school district employees who work with special education students and in kindergarten classrooms, would be renamed para-educators under a proposal Stamford's Board of Education is considering.
On Tuesday, the board's Labor Committee approved a revised job description, which focuses more on the employees' skill set and the job's caring and nurturing aspects, said Denise Gagne, the school district's executive director of human capital development.
The scheduled closure of Westport's Saugatuck post office has been delayed until Sept. 5, according the United States Postal Service.
The post office had been set to close Saturday due to environmental and safety concerns, a postal service spokeswoman has said. The delay was due to difficulty arranging the move of a temporary trailer location for post office boxes, according to a USPS statement.
Saugatuck post office box customers will be able to pick up mail from a trailer in the parking lot at 20 Saugatuck Ave., near the Fast Stop Convenience Shop, beginning Sept. 8. Mail will be available at the trailer Mondays through Fridays, 6 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Saturdays from 7a.m. to 1 p.m. Other postal transactions, including stamp sales and package shipments can be made in at Fast Stop, a contracted postal service provider.
Westport First Selectman Gordon F. Joseloff and U.S. Congressman Jim Himes had written to the postmaster general Wednesday stating dissatisfaction with the sudden closure of the Westport office.
Stamford police chased several men in the city's Cove neighborhood early Thursday morning after catching them breaking into unlocked cars.
Police recovered a bag -- discarded by the thieves -- containing about $1,000 worth of valuables, including two GPS devices, a Sony Playstation console and several pairs of sunglasses stolen from cars, according to Stamford Police Lt. Sean Cooney.
Officers responded at 1:30 a.m. to Horton Street on a report of four young men stealing valuables from cars in the area.
A Darien Police Department dog searched the area for more than a half hour, tracking a scent to the Willowbrook Court condominium complex without success, Cooney said.