Skip to main content Don t need to look any further : Danbury has its permanent health head - once she finishes school
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Kara Prunty, Acting Director of Health & Human Services for the city of Danbury, speaks after a tour with Governor Ned Lamont of a COVID-19 vaccination clinic, for staff of local child care providers, at Rodgers Park School in Danbury, Conn, on Friday afternoon. March 12, 2021.H John Voorhees III / Hearst Connecticut Media
DANBURY The city health department has been without a full-time director since last year but has made a deal with the state that would allow the acting position-holder to assume the role after she checks off one more requirement for the job.
Beloved CT restaurateur Dimitrios Paschalidis dies at 80
April 6, 2021
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Successful restaurateur Dimitrios Paschalidis, of Norwalk, died on April 1 at the age of 80. He opened a number of beloved eateries in Fairfield County in his 50-year-long career.Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less
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Dimitrios Paschalidis opened not one but two eateries in Ridgefield Dimitri’s Diner, on Prospect Street, and Gyro on Pita, on Danbury Road.Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less
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RIDGEFIELD Harry Paschalidis said his father, Dimitrios, was so hardworking that he achieved the American dream twice. Over the course of 50 years the Norwalk resident built an empire of eateries across Fairfield County, working upwards of 100 hours a week even into his 70s.
Former Danbury official has a plan to convert New York s pandemic migrants into long-term residents
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Construction of the former News-Times building, at 333 Main Street, in Danbury, Conn, will bring more apartments downtown. A recent report suggests the city will get younger and more educated. The report is part of Danbury’s effort to update its Plan of Conservation and Development, which will consider the city’s challenges and assets to create a vision for its future. Friday, March 26, 2021, Danbury, Conn.H John Voorhees III / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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File photo. Stephen Nocera, former director of Danbury’s office of project excellence, and a senior manager for the public sector at Accenture, will present a plan about how to retain newcomers to the Greater Danbury Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday.Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less
According to the mayor, the city has three mass vaccine sites; Connecticut Institute for Communities, Danbury s Public Health Department, and the Danbury Fair Mall. The city is also working with community groups and organizations to help people book appointments and setting up vaccine clinics. There s just a multitude of smaller operations that are happening around the city, said Cavo. As agencies contact us and want to come here and service the needs of the public we ve been open and helpful.
Despite the number of people getting vaccinated, city leaders are concerned about the positive rate which sits at 6.4%. Leaders are also asking the public to keep their guard up.
Yale music teacher s chest pains became a year of battling COVID
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Richard Gard, who has experienced the lingering health effects of COVID-19 after his hospitalization at Yale New Haven Hospital for COVID-19 in March 2020, is held by his wife, Evelyn, at their home in Beacon Falls on April 2, 2021.Arnold Gold / Hearst Connecticut Media
NEW HAVEN Richard Gard’s heart was racing; his chest hurt. He thought for sure he was having a heart attack.
“My heart was just out of control,” Gard said. “Overnight I had a night where my heart was pounding out of my chest.” He broke out in sweat.