Community Corner
Tuesday, April 26: Calling All Bloggers!
Do you write or blog and want to expand your audience?
- Would you like to blog for Shelton.Patch.com? Or maybe you already have a blog and would like to increase your readership. We are offering a chance to be seen on one of the city's only online news sources. I'll have more details later, but am trying to gauge interest. Email Leah.Salomoni@Patch.com with questions. Looking for creativity, quality and readability.
- Hooray for warmer weather! Definitely am a big fan of Spring...not too hot, and not cold. The National Weather Service gives the following report for today: Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 73. South wind between 6 and 10 mph. At night, patchy fog. Otherwise, cloudy, with a low around 61 degrees.
- The Board of Aldermen will meet in the auditorium starting at 7 p.m. for three back-to-back sessions. The first is a public hearing on the 2011-2012 fiscal year budget. The second is a public hearing on ordinances, and the last is a budget workshop in conjunction with the Board of Apportionment & Taxation. If you have any questions about the budget, pop into the meeting to speak with your city officials. You can also read about the Board's first budget discussion session .
- "" is a series of free seminars presented by award-winning author Bob Smith who will explore, line-by-line, the works of Shakespeare - from its history to characters and relationships. Also, each seminar session will include visual art throughout the reading of the play. Tonight's particular seminar, starting at 7 p.m. at 3 Corporate Drive, will feature the play "Richard III." Seating is limited and is available on a 'first-come' basis. Each participant receives a free copy of the play to follow during each session.
- This day in history: In 1865, John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln’s assassin, was surrounded by federal troops in a barn in Virginia. He was shot and killed, either by the soldiers or by his own hand. In 1986, The worst nuclear power plant accident in history occurred at Chernobyl, near Kiev, U.S.S.R. And in 2000, Vermont Governor Howard Dean signed the nation's first bill allowing same-sex couples to form civil unions.
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