From city Facebook page: 🍀Bridgeport!!🍀 In preparation for tomorrow’s St. Patrick’s Day parade, please review the following information regarding road closures and detours in the
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Reimagined Circus Returns To Bridgeport
St. Patrick’s Day Parade
The parade will begin at noon at the Burroughs Community Center (2470 Fairfield Ave) and end at The Castle in Black Rock (3171 Fairfield
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Here Comes The Sun – Join Big Mac At BarFest Celtic Cabaret
Your joints still hurt after shoveling the Blizzard of Oz? The good news is the temp is projected to rise into the 60s on Sunday.
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‘Let The Guy Who Put The Snow There Take It Away’–A Blizzard Shovels A Mayor From The Past, Socialist Jasper McLevy
It’s a good thing for incumbents Bridgeport doesn’t conduct its elections in the spring. Some of them would be plowed into electoral oblivion from constituents
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Ace Holleran: Yeah, I’m From Bridgeport—What Of It? Got Somethin’ To Say?
Nearly 40 years ago, on the cusp of age 30, I came up with the forced-literature idea of starting my own community weekly newspaper. With
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Black History Month Salute: The Merchant Martini And The Man Who Created it–Trailblazer John Merchant
John Merchant was a blast to be around. Thoughtful, engaging, funny, self-deprecating, complemented by unrestrained laughter. He had a generosity for walking you through Bridgeport
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Black History Month Salute, Bernice Roundtree, First Black Female Police Officer
When I was a young scribe the PD was quite a different place ethnically, racially, professionally. That would change over time in the early 1980s
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