Stephen Krauchick

DoingItLocal is run by Steve Krauchick. Steve has always had interest with breaking news even as an early teen, opting to listen to the Watergate hearings instead of top 40 on the radio. His interest in news spread to become the communities breaking news leader in Connecticut’s Fairfield County. He strongly believes that the public has right to know what is happening in their backyard and that government needs to be transparent. Steve also likes promoting local businesses.

Bridgeport News: Angry Pizza Delivery

#Bridgeport Connecticut--The best tip Domino's Pizza driver Jonathan Council could have received is if he listened to K-9 Officer Mark Martocchio advice to move his car  on the narrow Olive Street ( or hold the olives).  Instead he moved his car  further up the block and now was blocking traffic.  After refusing to show the officer his registration and then throwing it at the officer, instead of receiving an  infraction for improper parking  he then added Interfering with an Officer like adding toppings to a pizza.  After a cheesy mugshot and posting a $5,000 bond he was released from custody.  The officer delivered the pizzas to the woman who ordered it for her family's dinner and instructed here to contact Domino's for…

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#Fairfield Connecticut--On March 16, 2016 at 1:13 PM, the Fairfield 911 Communications Center received a report that a neighbor at 275/277 Jennings Road heard a smoke detector sounding in an upstairs apartment. The Fairfield Fire Department was dispatched to an automatic fire alarm and the first unit arrived on scene within 3 minutes to find smoke coming from the second floor windows. The first floor tenants had evacuated the building and met firefighters outside with their pets. Firefighters entered the 2nd floor of the structure to find heavy smoke conditions throughout. While performing a search for victims and the source of the fire, firefighters found an unconscious victim in a smoke filled bedroom. The victim was confused, difficult to awaken…

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The NEW DoingItLocalMobile!

Larry Judge from Interstate Batteries at 125 Holland Avenue was one of the first sponsors on DoingItLocal back when we had about 5,000 followers on Facebook.  Today we have over 35,000 followers and this week our combined audience was over 350,000 !  Larry has been so happy with the results of his advertising  he has secured a three year lease with a street legal Kyle Bush NASCAR Interstate car for me to go to news calls in!   So if you see me parked, please feel free to stop me for a selfie, or if you don't want see my mug in the picture feel free to pose with the car!   Everyone including the first responders will know it…

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