I’m not sure the people of Bridgeport realize the outstanding contribution Jack made to the city’s children. No one was more responsible for the success of the high school magnet program than Jack. In year one,

Superintendent Michael Testani has tapped a former Ridgefield school chief who resigned after she was accused of plagiarism to be the district’s new deputy superintendent. Testani extended an employment offer this week to Karen Baldwin,

Elijah would help anybody,” Littleberry said. “It doesn't matter who you were: big, little or smaller. If he saw that you had a need, he was going to try his best to help you meet that need.” Now, in an effort to honor and celebrate Page’s memory,

I said, ‘That’s the only thing I could do.’” So he invested in a food truck, dubbed “Father Murray’s Kitchen,” his nickname playing cricket. Reid’s Jamaican fare will be available this weekend to visitors to Seaside Park as part of the city’s just-launched pilot effort to open the attraction to food trucks.

Bridgeport’s Joanna Vincenzo, one of three teachers selected nationwide for recognition and a $5,000 grant, will have some new tools to help educate students with special needs next year. The other two teachers chosen out of 150 nominees are based in Arkansas and Minnesota.