Browse past news stories for Rogers Park Middle School in Danbury, CT.

• Morganti endows WestConn scholarship (The News-Times)
  posted on November 14, 2009 at 02:58:09 am
  DANBURY -- Nada Takla received her teaching certification from Western Connecticut State University and now teaches at Rogers Park Middle School in the city.Her father, Nabil Takla, president of Morganti USA, knows the value of the education of the local university provides, and his company has built two new buildings on its campus.
• Danbury grad has front-row seat to history (The News-Times)
  posted on November 9, 2009 at 03:58:11 am
  DANBURY -- Sure, Storrs is nice, but David Solis never thought his junior year of college would be anything like this. Meeting and talking to high-ranking government officials. Hearing some of the nation's foremost authorities talk about whatever topic interested him on a particular day, whether education, defense or health care.
• Middle schoolers plant bulbs to build community (The News-Times)
  posted on October 29, 2009 at 11:43:08 pm
  DANBURY--Alexandra Prendergast can't wait for springtime, when the crocus she planted at Rogers Park Middle School will bloom.The 11-year-old sixth-grader joined her 1,100 school mates and teachers last week, each planting a crocus in a grassy circle behind the school.
• Violent crime expert discusses school safety with teachers, police (Connecticut Post)
  posted on October 18, 2009 at 01:07:42 am
  RIDGEFIELD -- There were 343 deaths from school shootings in the United States from 1992 to 2009, according to the National School Safety Center. Those startling statistics require that teachers are
• Danbury native becomes successful Cape Cod architect (The News-Times)
  posted on October 9, 2009 at 08:43:09 pm
  Many New Englanders have a difficult time letting go of their shortest and most sought after season. For architect John DaSilva, a Danbury native, there's no need. His profession and his surroundings make for an endless Cape Cod summer.As design principal of Polhemus, Savery DaSilva Architects Builders in Chatham, Mass.
• Danbury Fire Department honors heroes in and out of uniform (The News-Times)
  posted on October 4, 2009 at 10:28:09 pm
  DANBURY -- Sometimes, it's not necessary to be brave or heroic when faced with an emergency. Sometimes, it's just enough to keep a cool head. The Danbury Fire Department on Sunday honored firefighters and civilians who went above and beyond the call of duty over the past year, saving the lives of people who fell through the ice, were injured in traffic accidents, nearly drowned in swimming pools ...
• List topped by ex-Danbury High grid stars George Radachowsky and Daryl Dewan (The News-Times)
  posted on September 25, 2009 at 03:28:18 am
  DANBURY -- Former Danbury High School football stars George Radachowsky and Daryl Dewan topped a list of 10 honorees recognized by the Old Timers Athletic Association of Greater Danbury on Thursday night.The Old Timers held their 46th annual awards banquet before a packed house at the Amber Room Colonnade.
• LIVE BLOG: Thousands without power (Pioneer Press)
  posted on September 21, 2009 at 07:55:46 pm
  Updated constantly A representative from Connecticut Light & Power tells NewsTimes.com that power won't be back on until at least 6 p.m. Thursday.
• Arconti does what it takes to get the job done (The News-Times)
  posted on September 14, 2009 at 02:43:19 am
  DANBURY -- After a 36-year career in the Danbury school system, the last 16 as a guidance counselor, Joe Arconti wasn't ready to stop working, even though he accepted an early retirement package earlier this year.That's something Jim Walsh, executive director of Danbury Youth Services, is happy about.
• Child Dies After Lake Rescue (The Brookfield Journal)
  posted on August 7, 2009 at 01:40:19 pm
  Angel Ortiz, 12, of Danbury,, who was airlifted to a Hartford hospital after a swimming ac cident July 24 at Lynn Deming Park on Candlewood Lake in New Milford, died last Friday at the Connecticut Children's Medical Center.
• Danbury Railway Day is Aug. 8 at the museum (The News-Times)
  posted on August 6, 2009 at 02:35:59 am
  BULLETIN BOARDRide a caboose on Railway DayFree caboose train rides will be offered all day Saturday during the third annual Danbury Railway Day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Danbury Railway Museum. Tours of a newly restored pump house and hit-and-miss engine forge demonstrations will be among many activities, including free ones for children.
• The logistics of consolidating departments and getting a new fire headquarters (The News-Times)
  posted on July 10, 2009 at 12:47:00 am
  DANBURY -- Several ways to consolidate many of the city's volunteer fire companies have been discussed.The goal is to have all six companies housed in one city-owned building. Officials, however, said they may start with three companies -- Citizen's Hose No.
• Danbury educators learn urban leader skills (The News-Times)
  posted on July 10, 2009 at 12:46:50 am
  Danbury educators are learning what it takes to lead and improve a school in an urban setting.Five Danbury administrators are among 29 who completed the year-long Fairfield County Community Foundation's Urban School Leaders Fellowship program in June.
• A second look (The News-Times)
  posted on June 26, 2009 at 11:23:01 pm
  The recent accident that sent a car plowing into the Danbury War Memorial parking lot -- and a Bethel man to the hospital -- could have been a lot worse.Fortunately, heavy rain the night before had led to the cancellation of a full schedule of Danbury Sunday League softball games that day.
• Forest frontiers abound in Danbury area (The News-Times)
  posted on June 20, 2009 at 10:53:01 pm
  DANBURY -- Sometimes staycations can stray from civilization. In other words, let's just say they need not involve a museum or art gallery. Are you a runner or walker but would prefer not to share roads with motorists? Do you own a dog addicted to the outdoors but don't want to limit it to a sidewalk every day?
• Video and slideshow: Forest frontiers abound in Danbury area (The News-Times)
  posted on June 20, 2009 at 10:53:01 pm
  DANBURY -- Sometimes staycations can stray from civilization. In other words, let's just say they need not involve a museum or art gallery. Are you a runner or walker but would prefer not to share roads with motorists? Do you own a dog addicted to the outdoors but don't want to limit it to a sidewalk every day?
• Danbury Youth Services helps thousands of kids (The News-Times)
  posted on June 16, 2009 at 12:08:01 am
  DANBURY -- It would have been easy for Nryon Crawford to make bad choices while growing up in the High Ridge housing project on the city's west side."It was really easy to get into trouble," said Crawford. "There were a lot of things that kids could get into.
• Danbury High grad completes college with perfect grades (The News-Times)
  posted on May 24, 2009 at 09:23:14 pm
  DANBURY -- She got back to her room late many nights after studying, but Jessica Canhao graduated from Quinnipiac University in Hamden with a 4.0 grade point average and received two major awards at the 78th annual undergraduate commencement exercises last week.
• Lessons from the swine flu of 1976 (The News-Times)
  posted on May 3, 2009 at 02:39:01 am
  DANBURY -- In 1976, Dr. Thomas Draper was a man on a mission -- to protect his community against swine flu."I was deeply involved," said Draper, 82, who still serves as the city's associate health director.That year there was a swine flu outbreak in Fort Dix, N.
• Swine flu outbreak (The News-Times)
  posted on April 29, 2009 at 02:23:21 am
  With Tuesday's report by Gov. M. Jodi Rell that two probable cases of swine flu have appeared in Southbury and Stratford, the governor merely acknowledged the inevitable.In a world in which international flights are routine, and vacations to Mexico -- where this particular strain of swine flu reportedly began -- are commonplace, the fact that swine flu has apparently breached Connecticut's ...
• Volunteers sought to keep Danbury clean (The News-Times)
  posted on April 27, 2009 at 02:08:00 am
  DANBURY -- City officials are looking for more people to help clean Danbury.Mayor Mark Boughton said more volunteers are needed for the sixth annual Clean City Danbury Day on May 2.The city is also looking for volunteers who would like to choose a spot they would keep clean throughout the summer months.
• Volunteers sought to help keep Danbury clean (The News-Times)
  posted on April 22, 2009 at 02:23:03 am
  DANBURY -- City officials are looking for more volunteers who would like to help keep Danbury clean.Mayor Mark Boughton said more volunteers are needed for the sixth annual Clean City Danbury Day on May 2.The city is also looking for volunteers who would like to "adopt a spot" that they could keep clean throughout the summer months.
• Danbury's Theater on Ice team tells storybook fish tale (The News-Times)
  posted on April 20, 2009 at 04:23:01 am
  Put fish on ice and you may have tomorrow night's dinner. Put fish on ice skates and you have the Danbury Ice Cabaret Ensemble performing "The Rainbow Fish" at the Laurel Ridge Skating Club of Ridgefield's annual show in the Danbury Arena earlier this month.
• Danbury High principal offers words of wisdom (The News-Times)
  posted on March 30, 2009 at 12:57:53 am
  "It's not our job as educators to be the hero in another person's life," Danbury High School principal Karen Rezendes said Thursday. "It's our job to support them to become heroes in their own lives."Two people crossed my path this week as I thought about Rezendes' statement.
• Author tells Danbury students to be kind (The News-Times)
  posted on March 27, 2009 at 12:42:43 am
  The eighth-graders at Rogers Park Middle School shouted with joy and recognition when Jennings Michael Burch unpacked his well-worn brown and tan stuffed animal and sat him on the chair in front of the podium.The middle schoolers appreciated the 67-year-old author's affection for "Doggie," who became his primary source of comfort during four heart-wrenching years of childhood.
• Bread-making for busy people (The News-Times)
  posted on March 24, 2009 at 09:58:23 pm
  It was not your usual homework assignment.Maureen Wilson asked her students to line up and help themselves to a few cups of the King Arthur unbleached white bread flour she'd set out, plus a small amount of quick yeast."I want you to take home the flour and yeast and make a loaf of bread," she said, adding, "Oh, and don't forget to bring your bread to class next week.
• Danbury's Hispanic Center updates mission, gets new board president (The News-Times)
  posted on March 20, 2009 at 09:27:43 pm
  DANBURY -- The mission of the Hispanic Center of Greater Danbury to serve the Latino community hasn't changed since the nonprofit group was founded 42 years ago.But other things have, including the necessity once again to find a new executive director.
• Danbury Youth Services celebrates 40 years of helping area children (The News-Times)
  posted on March 19, 2009 at 04:13:09 am
  DANBURY -- When Vanessa Ivancso's mother-in-law died of cancer earlier this year, her 12-year-old daughter, Becca, took it hard.Becca was close to her grandmother and, like the rest of her family, was devastated by the loss."Becca went through a tough time, and the Gals Club (of) Danbury Youth Services was wonderful at helping her through it," Ivancso said.
• Danbury area students win at state science fair (The News-Times)
  posted on March 19, 2009 at 02:57:44 am
  Some Catholic and public middle school students took top prizes for their science projects at the 61st annual Connecticut Science Fair for middle and senior high school students at Quinnipiac University in Hamden.Eighth-grader Christina Cotte of New Fairfield, who attends St.
• Danbury Youth Services celebrates 40 years (The News-Times)
  posted on March 4, 2009 at 09:18:21 pm
  DANBURY -- When Vanessa Ivancso's mother-in-law died of cancer earlier this year, her 12-year-old daughter, Becca, took the death hard.Becca had been close to her grandmother and, like the rest of her family, was devastated by the loss."Becca went through a tough time, and the Gals Club (of) Danbury Youth Services was wonderful at helping her through it," Ivancso said.