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• Editor's notebook / Metro Center lamentations

  Yes, the soil on the soon-to-be Fairfield Metro Center site is contaminated -- mostly with casting sand used by the Bullard Foundry, when the town still had an industrial tax base and the costs of dumping toxins remained relatively... more »

  1 month ago

  litigation | trials

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  Train station draws attention

  The station, built with $5.2 million from Wittek Development, $19.4 million bonded by the state and $5 million from the town, will cover 33 acres and have 1,500 parking spaces, a commuter footbridge and access road. Called the Fairfield Metro... more »

  Michael C. Juliano, Staff Writer 1 month ago

• Letters to the editor

  Despite the current economy and the dismal unemployment numbers, our town leaders see fit to bundle a $400,000 ball field into a school building project and the Board of Education feels it is necessary (for our children's education) to spend more... more »

  4 months ago

  budgets and budgeting | accomplishment | construction and property | accounting and audit | company information

• The truth about the Metro Center

  Last week the Connecticut Post cleaned up a couple of press releases from Ken Flatto and Jodi Rell on the Fairfield Metro Center bailout and then published a front-page story. Since both Rell and Flatto are responsible for this disastrous... more »

  4 months ago

  government departments | civil and public service

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  Fairfield Metro Center back on track

  With the developer kicking in $5.2 million, state and local officials announced Thursday that construction of a 1,500-car parking lot and access road at the town's third train station on lower Black Rock Turnpike will move forward. The Metro... more »

  Genevieve Reilly, staff writer 4 months ago

  housing and urban planning | government departments | civil and public service | accident (general)

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  Officials hail new deal to finish town's third RR station

  With a private developer kicking in $5.2 million, state and local officials announced Thursday a deal to keep construction of the town's third railroad station on track, with financing to ensure completion within 15 months of a 1,500-car commuter... more »

  Genevieve Reilly, greilly@ctpost.com 4 months ago

  civil and public service | wetlands

• Russo to announce he won't seek 4th District seat

  Rob Russo, a former state senator from Bridgeport and aide to former U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays, plans to announce Thursday morning that he is abandoning his bid for the Republican nomination, sources said. Russo, a real estate attorney who... more »

  Noelle Framptonand Ken Dixon, STAFF WRITERS 4 months ago

  election | primary

• Letters to the editor April 2

  When I was painting the fire hydrants as British Redcoats for the bicentennial, the local paint stores, Class Printing and many other establishments were there to help in a variety of ways. On the Post Road in our center of town you can: have... more »

  5 months ago

  parties and movements | children | family | crime

• Stratford hiring never a secret

  The construction manager for the animal control facility was hired as part of a mayoral initiative to enhance efficiencies and eliminate waste in managing public facility construction projects. There were multiple public meetings that were... more »

  6 months ago

  animal | heavy construction | election

• RTM hears Metro Center update, rejects study group resolution

  First Selectman Ken Flatto gave the Representative Town Meeting (RTM) an hour-long update on the Fairfield Metro Center project Monday night, clicking through a slideshow that included a timeline reaching back into the 1980s; excerpts from the... more »

  By Tim Loh, tloh@bcnnew.com 6 months ago

  housing and urban planning | government departments | civil and public service | traffic