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Hoopla In Bedford: Harlem Wizards B-Ball Event To Raise Money For School
BEDFORD, N.Y.. -- The Harlem Wizards are coming to Bedford.
The show basketball team, famed for its tricks, antics and alley-oop dunks, has raised millions of dollars for schools, charities and foundations across the world.
The Wizards will be entertaining the crowd with dribbling, passing, shooting and dunking as its players go toe-to-toe against the school district’s all-star team of teachers and staffers Sunday, Dec. 4. The game starts at 2 p.m. in the Fox Lane High School gymnasium, 632 S. Bedford Road (Route 172), Bedford.
Proceeds from the event will benefit the Bedford Village Eleme…
Ridgefield Man Charged In Bat Attack Had Murder Note In Pocket, Police Say
RIDGEFIELD, Conn. – A Ridgefield man accused of beating a woman with a baseball bat last week had just been bought home from a mental hospital in Middletown, according to the News-Times and The Ridgefield Press.
Griffin Lovallo, 21, was charged with attempted murder in the Thanksgiving Eve attack on the woman, who was not named by police but who a Danbury Superior Court judge identified as his mother, the News-Times reported.
Police, responding to a 911 call on Wednesday, Nov. 23, at a Barry Avenue home where the suspect lived with his parents, said they found Lovallo with a handwritten not…
Rye Concert Raises $30,000 To Combat Parkinson's Disease
RYE, N.Y. -- An annual concert designed to help battle a devastating neurological disease drew dozens of music lovers to Congregation Emanu-El in Rye earlier this month.
According to organizers, the afternoon of chamber music raised more than $30,000 to help support the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation (PDF).
Dr. David Eger, a clinical psychologist from White Plains, has been an advocate for the Parkinson’s community since his own diagnosis in 2000.
Under his leadership, the annual concert, now in its 14th year, has raised more than $530,000 for Parkinson’s research.
“At the Parkinson’s Dis…
AFC Urgent Care Growing Danbury Franchise With Third Location
DANBURY, Conn. -- Like many crucial services nowadays, the nature of health care in Danbury is rapidly changing, and the old models of delivery – the doctor’s office, the emergency room – just don’t seem to fit everyone’s needs.
This is especially true with baby boomers, who need more and more care, and millennials starting their own families, say the folks at AFC Urgent Care.
The national network’s full-service, walk-in clinics have been popping up everywhere. In Danbury alone, there are two, and by early next year there will be three.
AFC, which has clinics at 2 Main St. and 100 Mill Pla…
