Fairfield Morning Briefing: Monday, Feb. 11, 2013

Today is Monday, Feb. 11, 2013. On this day in 1990, Nelson Mandela, leader of the movement to end South African apartheid, was released from prison after 27 years.

Famous birthdays include Thomas Edison – 1847; Bobby Boris Pickett – 1938; Sheryl Crow – 1962; Jennifer Aniston – 1969.

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HEADLINES

• PHOTOS: Scenes from a Snowbound Fairfield
• Fairfield 'Random Acts of Kindness Week' Starts Today
• Newtown News Center
• Police Blotter
• Local Voices

COMMUNITY SPORTS GALLERY

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EVENTS & REMINDERS

See the Events Calendar for Monday, Feb. 11. Events may have been cancelled due to this weekend's blizzard.  

FAIRFIELD CINEMAS AT BULLARD SQUARE SHOWTIMES

• The Impossible ­– 4:25 p.m., 7:05 p.m. (1 hr., 47 min.) – IMDb – Rotten Tomatoes ­– Trailer
• Les Miserables –3:45 p.m. – (2 hrs., 37 min.) ­– IMDb – Rotten Tomatoes – Trailer
• Lincoln – 4:30 p.m., 7:50 p.m. ­– (2 hrs., 30 min.) – IMDb – Rotten Tomatoes – Trailer
• Parental Guidance – 7 p.m. (1 hr., 44 min.) – IMDb – Rotten Tomatoes – Trailer
• Quartet ­­– 5:20 p.m., 7:45 p.m. – (1 hr., 37 min.) – IMDb – Rotten Tomatoes ­– Trailer
• Side Effects – 4:45 p.m., 7:20 p.m. – (1 hr., 46 min.) – IMDB – Rotten Tomatoes – Trailer
• Silver Linings Playbook – 3:55 p.m., 6:40 p.m. (2 hrs.) – IMDb – Rotten Tomatoes – Trailer
• Stand Up Guys – 5:05 p.m., 7:30 p.m. (1 hr., 33 min.) – IMDb – Rotten Tomatoes – Trailer
• Zero Dark Thirty – 3:50 p.m., 4:20 p.m., 7:10 p.m., 7:40 p.m. ­(2 hrs., 37 min.) – IMDb – Rotten Tomatoes – Trailer

GOVERNMENT MEETINGS (subject to cancellation due to blizzard cleanup)

• Special Fire Commission: 7 p.m., Sullivan Independence Hall (725 Old Post Road) basement conference room (agenda)
• Board of Health: 7:30 p.m., Sullivan Independence Hall first floor conference room (agenda)
• Golf Commission: 7:30 p.m., Eunice Postol Parks & Recreation Center (75 Mill Plain Road) (agenda)

FORECAST as of 3 p.m. on Sunday:

• Monday: "Snow and freezing rain likely before 10 a.m., then rain. Patchy fog. High near 43. South wind 8 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100 percent. Little or no ice accumulation expected. Little or no snow accumulation expected."
• Monday night: "Rain likely, mainly before 10 p.m. Patchy fog before 10 p.m. Otherwise, cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy, with a low around 33. West wind 8 to 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60 percent. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible."

INTERSTATE TRAFFIC CAMS

See also Fairfield Patch’s "Commute” page.

• Westport: northbound, south of Exit 19 – Maple Lane
• Fairfield: southbound, Exit 19 – Mill Hill Road
• Fairfield: northbound, Exit 21 – North Pine Creek Road
• Fairfield: northbound, Exit 22 – Fairfield Service Plaza
• Fairfield: northbound, Exit 22 – North Benson Road
• Fairfield: southbound, north of Exit 24 – Brentwood Avenue
• Bridgeport: northbound, Exit 26 – Wordin Avenue

TIDES & TIMES

• Low tide: 5:44 a.m.
• Sunrise: 6:52 a.m.
• High tide: 11:46 a.m.
• Sunset: 5:23 p.m.
• Low tide: 6:08 p.m.

Forecast obtained from the National Weather Service; tide information obtained from saltwatertides.com (calibrated to Southport Harbor).