North End Little League (NELL) concluded a busy week of community engagement with its inaugural North End Christmas Tree Lighting, held at Blackham School. The
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Category: Best of Bridgeport
Contribute To My Town, My Story: Bridgeport
From Bridgeport Public Library: My Town My Story is a community storytelling project connected to the Connecticut Digital Archive (CTDA) at UConn through the Bridgeport
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Steam In A Christmas Theme – Ace Holleran Tunes Up Legendary Songs From The Park City
Bridgeport’s resident Poet Laureate Timothy “Ace” Holleran experienced some pretty cool company during his days as a professional musician, mostly behind a drum kit. Jennifer
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Christmas Village, An Inspiration
Christmas Village is open and what an inspiring history. On December 7, 1982 an arsonist slipped into Beardsley Park and set fire to the Police Activities
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Legendary Car Thief Tommy Marra Dies In Prison At Age 72, Jailed For Murder
Tommy Marra loved stealing cars. Likeable, lamentable, liable, he was all of those things as well as a car thief who had earned a reputation as
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Homes For The Brave Celebrates Major Expansion With Ribbon Cutting
From media partner Doing It Local: A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held this week at Home for the Brave in Bridgeport, celebrating the completion of a
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A Thanksgiving Tradition: Joe Haines Eats Everything Except Pepe Le Pew
What’s on your menu this weekend? How about rabbit, beaver, snapping turtle, muskrat, possum, woodchuck, raccoon, black crow, pheasant, wild turkey? Ya just never know
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Mickey Hare, Legendary Coach, Proud East Ender, Passes Away At 91
If you were a kid raised in small town Monroe, like me, the community oxygen had an umbilical cord attached to Bridgeport. Shopping, groceries, dining,
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