The city’s animal shelter historically reserved for dogs and cats is starting to look more like the children’s zoo at Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo, the state’s only zoo (if you’re not including city politics). Maybe it’s time for Gregg Dancho, the city’s outstanding zoo director to advise the city on this matter because when you have […]
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What A Zoo! Paging Dr. Doolittle, Marlin Perkins, Gregg Dancho And National Geographic
October 16th, 2013 · 8 Comments · Analysis and Comment, News and Events
No Pleasure From UI In Beach Revival, Plus: Pleasure Beach History
July 13th, 2013 · 37 Comments · Development and Zoning, News and Events
From Brian Lockhart, CT Post: The view of the starry Long Island Sound sky is surely beautiful from the long-isolated shores of Pleasure Beach peninsula. And if a dispute over hooking up electricity for the reopened attraction isn’t settled, stars could be visitors’ only illumination.
Tags: Beardsley Zoo·Brian Lockhart·CT Post·Jasper McLevy·Morgan Kaolian·Pleasure Beach·Sam Tedesco
State Bond Commission Sends Bucks To Bridgeport, Banshee Steps Up For Beardsley Zoo
June 22nd, 2013 · 13 Comments · News and Events
Bridgeport on Friday had a good day courtesy of the State Bond Commission chaired by Governor Dan Malloy. Among the items awarded to Bridgeport:
Tags: Auden Grogins·Beardsley Zoo·Dan Malloy·Housatonic Community College
James Gandolfini Dies, Sopranos Snake Scene At Beardsley Zoo A Classic
June 20th, 2013 · 2 Comments · News and Events
James Gandolfini, who played shrink-dependent mobster Tony Soprano, died Wednesday in Italy of an apparent heart attack. So many memorable scenes and lines from The Sopranos that aired on HBO from 1999 to 2007. Close to home, a scene filmed in the Rain Forest exhibit at Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo appeared in a Soprano’s episode featuring […]
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Fairchild Wheeler Interdistrict Magnet High School Campus
June 17th, 2013 · 5 Comments · Education
This video, from the city’s website, provides a virtual tour of the $87 million, 250,000-square-foot Fairchild Interdistrict Magnet High School Campus scheduled to open for the upcoming school year. It’s three high schools in one, visible from the Route 25-8 Connector, with 1,500 students from the Bridgeport region grades 9 – 12.
Tags: Beardsley Zoo
Timpanelli: Transform The Barnum Festival Into An Economic Driver
October 18th, 2013 · 8 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Best of Bridgeport, News and Events
His initials are P.T. just like the legendary Phineas Taylor Barnum, and on Thursday Paul Timpanelli, who has served for 25 years as president of the Bridgeport Regional Business Council, was introduced as the 2014 Barnum Festival ringmaster at Sacred Heart University where he graduated, and followed up with a teaching profession, election as Trumbull’s […]
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Tags: Barnum Festival·Beardsley Zoo·Bill Finch·Dennis Murphy·John Stafstrom·Klein Memorial Auditorium·Paul Timpanelli·Sacred Heart University·Seaside Park·Tim Herbst