Browse past news stories for New Fairfield High School in New Fairfield, CT.

• Slumping business is good news for Heidi (Connecticut Post)
  posted on November 14, 2009 at 02:57:06 am
  Heidi Weise, a New Fairfield resident for the past 30 years, always has run a home-based business."My husband, Steve, traveled a lot for his job, and I wanted something I could do in my home when
• She traded muscle cars for a fighter plane (The News-Times)
  posted on November 10, 2009 at 10:58:09 pm
  Lynn Brown's Geo Tracker has two stickers on the rear window, "I ™¥ Jet Noise" and "I ™¥ Warbirds," which seem totally at odds with the 16 snow white doves she keeps in her household aviary.The 59-year-old Danbury resident and retired New Fairfield High School science teacher actually decorated her car with a 51-year-old aluminum bird in mind -- the MiG-17 jet fighter resting in the hanger next ...
• Wave Runners Sweep Meet (The New Milford Times)
  posted on October 9, 2009 at 04:46:52 pm
  The New Milford cross country program just keeps up its frenetic pace.
• State's stricter teen driving laws mark first anniversary (The News-Times)
  posted on September 26, 2009 at 10:58:09 pm
  It's been just over a year since Connecticut passed the new, stricter teen driving laws and, as of October 1, 2009, an additional testing requirement will be put into place before teens can become licensed.By and large, Danbury-area parents and teen drivers seem to be embracing the new laws.
• Lake Report On Runoff (The Brookfield Journal)
  posted on September 11, 2009 at 02:14:48 pm
  A recent report indicates that rain runoff poses dangers to Candlewood Lake, an issue that at least one official hopes might prompt three of the municipalities bordering the 81-year-old lake to follow New Milford and Brookfield's efforts to revise their zoning regulations.
• Danbury hoops coach takes Division I softball job (The News-Times)
  posted on September 9, 2009 at 11:58:13 pm
  DANBURY -- Tom Pardalis is letting go of one dream to fulfill another. After 13 seasons in charge of the Danbury High School boys basketball team, Pardalis, 59, resigned last week to become the head softball coach at Manhattan College in New York, a Division I program.
• Newquist's Cityscapes In Exhibit at the Gunn (Litchfield County Times)
  posted on September 3, 2009 at 03:58:28 pm
  WASHINGTON-For centuries, artists have fled the jostling flurry of the city to country retreats in Connecticut, where inspiration abounds in the artistic mind's eye.
• Fairfield County Sports Hall of Fame announces 2009 class (Connecticut Post)
  posted on July 2, 2009 at 05:06:11 am
  STAMFORD -- Sports history is something to be revered and cherished. And nothing captures the memorable moments and figures of Fairfield County sports for present and future generations like the
• Fairfield County Hall of Fame bios (Stamford Advocate)
  posted on July 2, 2009 at 02:48:28 am
  Fairfield County Sports Hall of Fame inductees The following six sports figures have been elected to the 2009 class of the Fairfield County Sports Hall of Fame at Stamford UConn.
• Graduation dates for area high schools (The News-Times)
  posted on June 16, 2009 at 10:23:09 pm
  Here is a list of graduation dates for area high schools. Those marked with an asterisk will hold their ceremonies at the O'Neill Center on the westside campus of Western Connecticut State University in Danbury. The rest are on the school grounds or as noted.
• New Fairfield High School graduate shaped by 9/11, war in Iraq (The News-Times)
  posted on June 13, 2009 at 03:53:21 am
  NEW FAIRFIELD -- Ashley Smyth has helped renovate homes of the poor, played lacrosse and soccer at New Fairfield High School and the piano at home.The 18-year-old, who now heads off to study international business at Penn State University, knows the events that have shaped her life, like 9/11.
• Health advisory posted at Ridgefield artificial turf fields; other towns differ in approach (Connecticut Post)
  posted on June 9, 2009 at 03:32:15 am
  RIDGEFIELD -- The two artificial turf fields in town now come with warning labels.The town's Health Department has posted signs at fields at Ridgefield High School and the Scotts Ridge Middle
• New Milford Backs New SMP (The Brookfield Journal)
  posted on May 29, 2009 at 02:08:42 pm
  The New Milford Town Council has approved a letter of support for the proposed shoreline management plan (SMP) for Candlewood Lake, the largest lake in Connecticut, which would, among other things, not impose the administrative fees that caused an uproar two years ago and might potentially address concerns about the large volume of boats that use it in the summer.
• Albert P. Marino (Newtown Bee)
  posted on May 28, 2009 at 07:18:34 pm
  Albert P. Marino, 72, a Brewster, N.Y. resident, died May 20. Mr Marino was born January 16, 1937, in Danbury, son of Michael and Rose (Donato) Marino.
• Shoreline plan moving to finish line (The News-Times)
  posted on May 27, 2009 at 12:38:10 am
  NEW FAIRFIELD -- The Candlewood Lake Authority fired a volley at the proposed management plan to govern the lake's shoreline, refusing to endorse the plan because it includes nothing about controlling the lake's often-dense boat traffic.Speaking at a hearing on the plan last week at New Fairfield High School -- held by FirstLight Power Resources, the utility that owns the lake -- authority vice ...
• Danbury parade stays true, to honor soldiers (The News-Times)
  posted on May 26, 2009 at 02:53:00 am
  DANBURY -- The Danbury Drum Corps crisply played America the Beautiful at the start of the Memorial Day Parade on Monday. At the other of Main Street, a soldier on the reviewing stand was a day away from deployment.The annual parade, with ethnic groups dancing, high schoolers playing instruments, and veterans walking, stayed true to its mission -- to recognize the military for its sacrifices for ...
• Softball Pitching Star Rachele Fico Prepares for Next Step (New York Times)
  posted on May 16, 2009 at 09:21:39 pm
  Rachele Fico, a dominant softball pitcher with a 97-2 record and an earned run average of 0.06. is heading to the nationally ranked softball program at Louisiana State.
• A final hearing, maybe, for shoreline plan (The News-Times)
  posted on May 16, 2009 at 12:53:03 am
  In October 2007, hundreds of area residents -- all to some degree irate -- filled the auditorium of New Fairfield High School to near-capacity to get their chance to pound on the proposed shoreline management plan to govern activities around Candlewood Lake.
• Find that book and read, read, read (The News-Times)
  posted on May 15, 2009 at 12:08:11 am
  The message to read reached New Fairfield and Ridgefield students louder than ever last summer. They proved to be among the biggest readers in the state. Gov. M. Jodi Rell honored Scotland Elementary School, East Ridge Middle School and St. Mary School, all in Ridgefield, and New Fairfield High School at the State Library in Hartford on Thursday for being among the 19 top performing schools in ...
• Ridgefield could get $94,124 for energy efficiency projects (The News-Times)
  posted on April 25, 2009 at 12:38:10 am
  Ridgefield High School, built during the oil crises of the 1970s, is largely heated with electricity.That's no longer cheap power. The school's electric bill is about $1 million a year, said First Selectman Rudy Marconi.Marconi said the town wants to explore building an independent source of energy -- a generator, a fuel cell -- to power the high school and nearby Scotts Ridge Middle School but ...
• Free Login/Register (New Canaan Advertiser)
  posted on April 11, 2009 at 06:06:12 am
  Some kids go to Florida for spring break, others are required to stay home for sports. Yet a small group of students from New Canaan High School attended a Model United Nations conference at Cornell University instead.
• New Fairfield man dies on honeymoon (The News-Times)
  posted on March 25, 2009 at 01:12:53 am
  DANBURY-- Matthew Gillotti's family celebrated last Friday when he married his longtime girlfriend in a small, private ceremony.This Friday, the Gillotti family will also be together -- for Matthew's funeral.The New Fairfield man, who had been in poor health since a motorcycle accident last summer, died in his sleep early Sunday morning as he and his new wife spent their honeymoon weekend at a ...
• Relay for Life to hold ice cream social (The News-Times)
  posted on March 6, 2009 at 10:48:27 pm
  NEW FAIRFIELD -- Are you a cancer survivor? Do you know someone who is?The students of New Fairfield High School invite survivors and their caregivers to their first Relay for Life survivor ice cream social Friday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Company A Firehouse, 302 Ball Pond Road.
• Mardi Gras ball draws 100 in Danbury (The News-Times)
  posted on March 4, 2009 at 11:03:31 pm
  DANBURY -- About 100 people in plain and fancy masks -- some with colorful feathers -- attended a Mardi Gras-themed charity event Saturday night at the Danbury Plaza Hotel.Of the money raised, "80 percent will go to the food and fuel banks in New Fairfield, and the other 20 percent goes back to the club," Melinda Penna said about the Mardi Gras Masquerade Ball and Silent Auction sponsored by the ...