Author: Harold F. Cobin

A truck fire closed I-95 in Norwalk on Thursday, May 2. (Courtesy of Norwalk Police Department) A multi-vehicle accident on Interstate 95 Thursday morning caused a tanker truck carrying 8,500 gallons of gasoline to burst into flames beneath the Fairfield Avenue overpass.The intense fire, which…

Mayor Harry Rilling leads a news conference Wednesday at Devon's Place. (Harold F. Cobin) Devon’s Place, an ADA-oriented children’s playground in Matthews Park, has reopened after six weeks of reconstruction. Chief among the improvements to the 2004-built park is resilient surface around the playground equipment,…

(Norwalk Fire Department) The cause of an electric vehicle charging station fire in the SoNo Collection mall parking garage last October was an overloaded power strip placed inside the unit’s cabinet, according to a fire inspector’s report. The power strip, termed a Relocatable Power Tap…

Todd Singewald and Rocco Bellantoni of Complete Dismantling Services work to extract items from a time capsule Friday on West Avenue, the site of the former YMCA. (Harold F. Cobin) Workers demolishing the former YMCA on Tuesday found a time capsule embedded in the building’s…

Rendering of new Norwalk High School designed by Kaestle Boos Associates. (Credit: Kaestle Boos.) Construction of the new Norwalk High School got a ceremonial start Monday, with local officials, joined by Gov. Ned Lamont, tossing shovelfuls of dirt in the air for its official groundbreaking.…

NORWALK – As contract negotiations proceed with its new union bargaining units, the First Taxing District is being criticized by Norwalk’s five Democratic state legislators for its labor practices. In a letter dated March 21 to the district’s commissioners, the group says district employees “continue…

NORWALK – Criminal prosecution of Norwalk Police Officer Hector Delgado was suspended Monday by a state prosecutor, according to Police Chief James Walsh. Delgado was arrested by warrant in February by Bridgeport Police on charges of third-degree stalking and second-degree harassment. Walsh said the State’s Attorney’s office…

NORWALK – Proponents of a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza strip held a rally Sunday afternoon on The Green. Before a banner reading “END THE GENOCIDE,” speakers addressing the roughly 40 participants gathered before the park’s bandshell urged the international community to…

First District’s John E. Riordan Treatment Plant, 270 Valley Rd., New Canaan. | Credit: Harold Cobin

Norwalk Police Officer Hector Delgado was arrested by warrant Friday “related to a family violence incident,” according to a Norwalk Police news release.Delgado was charged by Bridgeport Police with third-degree stalking and second-degree harassment, the release said. He was placed on administrative leave with his…

Norwalk Police Sgt. Shannon Sherry, at an NPD ceremony. (Harold F. Cobin) A Norwalk Police sergeant has been arrested by warrant on criminal and motor vehicle charges following a ten-month investigation by State Police of a two-vehicle collision that resulted in a fatality.Shannon James Sherry,…

The man found dead inside a car submerged in Norwalk River Thursday afternoon apparently drove off the road and into the river intentionally, Norwalk police said after a preliminary investigation. They identified him as Aren Craft, 24, of Norwalk.Craft was the vehicle’s lone occupant, police…