Sharon NewsLocal news for Sharon, CT continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.Valerie Delacorte donates 66 Old Master artworks to Norton Museum of Art- March 23, 2008 "I'm am so happy to have done this while I am still alive" Valerie Delacorte of Palm Beach Gardens and Sharon, Conn., gave numerous pieces to the Norton Museum of Art after downsizing her residences after the death of her husband, George. via PalmBeachDailyNewshttp://www.topix.net/city/sharon-ct/2008/03/valerie-delacorte-donates-66-old-master-artwor... Transactions- March 21, 2008 DARIEN Song Li and Kelly Chen Chen-Tung sold to Reed and Renee Schwandt, property at 10 Coachlamp Lane for $1,375,000. Elizabeth Horgan sold to Richard and Shana Miller, property at 6 Joseph St. via Norwalk Advocatehttp://www.topix.net/city/sharon-ct/2008/03/transactions?fromrss=1 President Bush's Big Bank Bailout of Bear Stearns- March 18, 2008 "You have said time and again that you oppose government bailouts, that you oppose the use of taxpayer money to bail out. I want to ask you if that opposition applies to these large banks." The questions come to mind as I reflect on a visit I had made as a high school student to the Sharon, Connecticut, estate of William F. Buckley, Jr. via National Ledgerhttp://www.topix.net/city/sharon-ct/2008/03/president-bushs-big-bank-bailout-of-bear-stear... Buckley helped define conservatism- March 6, 2008 "Conservatism is the paradigm of essences toward which the phenomenology of the world is in continuing approximation." For hundreds of thousands of Americans during the difficult years of the cold war and neo-liberalism, Bill Buckley showed everyone what conservatism is. via The Greenville Newshttp://www.topix.net/city/sharon-ct/2008/03/buckley-helped-define-conservatism?fromrss=1 Mixed-use district denied- March 3, 2008 "If I do this, then I can do that." New Milford's Zoning Commission has denied Harold Fischel's Trust Realty's request to allow a mixed-use overlay district on about 70 acres in the center of town. via The Greater New Milford Spectrumhttp://www.topix.net/city/sharon-ct/2008/03/mixed-use-district-denied?fromrss=1 Bill Buckley is dead. Has conservatism died with him- March 1, 2008 "When somebody hurts, government has got to move." William F. Buckley Jr., the father of the modern conservative movement, has died at 82. via SFGatehttp://www.topix.net/city/sharon-ct/2008/03/bill-buckley-is-dead-has-conservatism-died-wit... |