News highlights, beginning the week of Feb. 12

Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 February 2012 14:06 Written by James Passeri
Tuesday, 21 February 2012 13:48

First Selectman Mike Tetreau announced that Robert Mayer will serve as his new chief of staff beginning Feb. 21.

Joseph K. Johnson, 25, was arrested in court on Feb. 10 for a series of local burglaries, dating back to May 2011.

The Fairfield Warde girls basketball team posted its eighth victory in nine starts on Friday night, holding off visiting Ridgefield High, 56-50, in an FCIAC matchup.

The Fairfield Ludlowe wrestling team continued its fine season with a fifth-place finish in the FCIAC at the 2012 Joe Sikorski Tournament in New Canaan on Saturday.

Michael D. Larobina has been named general counsel at Sacred Heart University, effective Feb. 1.

Matthew D. Kaye recently was named director of volunteer programs and service learning at Sacred Heart University.

The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 77 will be conducting a one day course about boating safely at the South Benson Marina on March 4.

Following a coyote sighting, a resident of Mountain Laurel Road reported on Feb. 3 that her beagle-pug mixed dog was found across the street of her residence in a wooded area, badly mauled and eaten, police said.

The State Department of Transportation announced that they will be removing trees, which have been identified as potentially hazardous along the Merritt Parkway in Fairfield, through March 30.

Fairfield Warde showed why it is one of the elite programs in the state at the 2012 Joe Sikorski Tournament in New Canaan on Saturday.

The 2011-2012 Student Affairs Lecture Series presents "A View from Left to Right: The 2012 Presidential Election," a political debate between Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson and Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson.

Driving under the influence and reckless driving were the charges Feb. 10 against a Norwalk man. Fairfield police stopped Timothy Carroll, 37, of Newfield Street, after receiving a report at 11:26 p.m. of a Black Honda sedan traveling on North Benson Road without its front left tire.