The Community Arts Festival is a fun, low-key activity for young people (pre-k to early elementary) to enjoy. Saturday, March 3rd, 2012 12:15pm – Town Hall Auditorium – Danny Magic ($4 per person) 1:00pm to 3:00pm – FREE – Town Hall Gymnasium – hands-on arts & crafts project to attendants. – professional face painters; caricaturists; [...]
Join CT-Moms This Saturday, February 25th, 10am-11am for some fire truck fun! The kids will get a kick out of a variety of fun, safety-related activities (‘duck walking,’ anyone?), demonstrations, and – of course – a tour of the fire station and PLENTY of sitting in the truck! At the same time, parents can benefit [...]
OFFICIAL UPDATES & INFO For up-to-the-minute updates on storms and other emergency info: Darien Times, Darien Patch, NewsChannel 12 CODE RED/ REVERSE 9-1-1 — are you signed up? The Town of Darien has implemented a system called CodeRed that will automatically dial any phone numbers that you have registered with them and broadcast official [...]
Fireworks are BACK in Darien this year, July 3rd, 2011 — at the Darien High School! For the scoop on parking, rules & regulations, check out the Darien Chamber website here. For a second serving of fireworks fun, don’t miss New Canaan’s Waveny Park on July 4th, 9pm: rain date is July 5th. A July [...]
REVISED FOR 2011 Start stocking up on red, white and blue streamers and decorations so you’re ready to wrap your bikes and Radio Flyer wagons and join more than 2,000 of your closest friends this Monday, July 4th in the YWCA of Darien-Norwalk 6th Annual Push-n-Pull Parade! It’s a party from the beginning of the [...]
Darien residents who are aged 60 or older should write down, circle, underline and post this phone number on their refrigerator door: 203-585-4094. You can call this number any time to access a variety of free services to help you navigate living independently in town, thanks to the newly combined not-for-profit entities now called “Aging [...]
So if you’ve never been to the Darien Boy Scouts Annual Tag Sale, I can tell you it is truly a bonanza tag sale event. We’re talking indoor furniture, outdoor furniture, toys, fabrics, sports equipment (last year there were jet skis!), lawnmowers, electronics, jewelry, bikes, strollers, and more. It’s a really fun experience that everybody [...]
The Darien Youth Commission is responsible for a countless number of fun, family events in Darien throughout the year, my two favorite being the sunset picnics / beach concerts in June and this one: the model sailboat regatta, coming up this Saturday, April 30, at Tilley Pond. So here’s the scoop: you and your kids [...]
…. and we actually WERE — kids and parents — at a birthday party in a candy shop! Chunky Pam’s is a sweet little candy store in the shopping plaza across from the Darien Playhouse, and was a perfect location for a birthday party for 12 preschoolers. I might have even enjoyed it MORE than [...]
Last-minute Bunny meetings this year include: – the annual DCA Easter Egg Hunt, outdoors on the lawn of the DCA this Friday the 15th at 10am … SHARPer than sharp. This hunt is no joke: it only lasts a few minutes, so come prepared with baskets to fill and kids who are ready to run! [...]
On this blustery autumn Friday night, does anything sound better than an all-you-can-eat pancakes and sausage feast tomorrow morning on the shores of Holly Pond at the Darien YMCA, hosted by the Y-Guides and Princesses? $6 gets you in from 7:30am to 11am: this is a super casual and very fun family event — a [...]
This Thursday, October 7th from 6pm to 8pm at Helen Ainson Darien: meet Project Runway winner Irina Shabayeva and see her fall/winter collection on the runway while enjoying complimentary wine and hors d’oeuvres from newly opened Scena Wine bar & Restaurant and raising money for Breast Cancer Awareness: the proceeds from the event will be [...]
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