DoingItLocal

” Lurking into City Lights on October 27th is “The Dark Carnival”: featuring a vast array of breathtaking imagery crafted by a talented menagerie of 13 award winning artists.”  On display until November 30th.

City Lights Gallery 37 Markle Court in Bridgeport 203-334-7748 http://www.citylightsgallery.org
Gallery Hours:
Wednesday – Friday, 11:30AM – 5:00PM
Saturday, 11:30PM – 5:00PM or by appt.

Aerosmith front man Steven Tyler said that the Paraguay shower fall that knocked his teeth out and cut his face was caused by food poisoning not a drug relapse, in a TV interview Thursday.     Read full story…

2:05pm–#Fairfield–A flurry of activity kept Fairfield Fire Department very busy. At 67 Kings Highway East there was a report of a structure fire, but there was a language barrier from a third person caller that the house was on fire with a baby with the baby’s grandmother inside. A recall was quickly put in with no structure fire. Fire crews were at the training grounds and were dispatched to this call very quickly.
In the mean time, firefighters were also on the scene Hulls Farm Road for a medical emergency, a vehicle lockout a Ralley’s Hot Dogs on Post Road and a car accident with airbag deployment at TD Bank North at Post Road near Ruane Street.

#Fairfield–1:30pm–The wires on the middle school bus on Pine Tree Avenue fortunately turned out to be telephone phone wires which posed no shock hazard or danger to the bus and it’s occupants. Regardless buses entangled in wires cannot assume anything and have to wait for the fire department to give the all clear. They had the bus back on the road within 15 minutes. There were only about a half dozen students on the bus at the time.

John Timperanza discovers how Alan Dressler of Central Computer Forensics Lab is helping police and local law enforcement in investigating computer crimes.  This is in cooperation with the University of Bridgeport.

You can contact Alan Dressler at Central Computer Forensics Lab and Facechecks.com at 203-650-3722 or e-mail Alan at alan@facechecks.com

9:25am–#Fairfield–Firefighters were called to the Circle Diner on the Post Road with the report of smoke in the dining room.  When they arrived they found no smoke in the evacuated building but did smell the odor of wood burning in the dining area, the source unknown.  After a thorough investigation firefighters found that a discarded cigarette in the mulch area outside began smoldering the mulch. The smoke  entered the attic area of the restaurant and then into the dining area.    At 11:01am the fire department recalled the alarm of fire.   I called the diner and they told me that after a quick clean up they should be open for the lunch crowd.

Apparently this landscaper forgot how big his pickup truck gets when he installs his leaf collector.  It appears he didn’t realize his truck was  taller than eight feet nine inches when he drove through the drive-thru.  The accident occurred around 11:15am at the TD Bank at 1643 Post Road.   It appears the truck suffered more damage than the bank….nothing a new sheet of plywood couldn’t fix!

BRIDGEPORT — Nine people were hospitalized with injuries suffered after a car and city bus collided on Water Street early Tuesday.   The crash happened in front of the Bridgeport Bus Terminal, at 710 Water St. just before 8 a.m., witnesses said.  Read full article……

Last year, 175,000 households in Connecticut relied on food stamps, and the number is likely higher this year.  Great interview by WSHU listen here…..

HARTFORD—Everyone knows Halloween in celebrated on Oct. 31 but a state lawmaker wants to tamper with tradition to ensure the holiday is always marked on a weekend.

State Rep. Tim Larson is proposing that the legislature designate the last Saturday in October as Halloween. He says it would make the holiday less harried for working parents, safer for trick-or-treaters and boost the economy as well.

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