08/20/10 BRIDGEPORT BRIEFING: Barber celebrates 50 years of style

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Barber celebrates 50 years of style (Connecticut Post)

July marked a half-century of cutting hair in Bridgeport for Thomas Benedetto . The third in his family to practice the art of barbering, Benedetto, 71, followed in footsteps of his father, who opened his first shop in 1924.

Go Hawaiian with pineapple-themed recipes (Connecticut Post)

Pineapple seems to be a favorite tropical fruit, as we see by the good response to our call-out for pineapple recipes.

Unkempt property cleaned up! (blog.ctnews)

Steven Auerbach, the Glendale Avenue resident who complained about the unkempt property across the street, reports the lawn has finally been mowed and the windows have been closed.A The garbage is still there but I'm assuming that will be taken out when the Sacred Heart students arrive for the year, which should be any day now.

A city industrial icon faces the wreckers (Connecticut Post)

Her eyes hidden behind sun glasses, Nancy Yanosy surveyed the shattered concrete blocks, twisted rebar and stacks of I-beams torn from the old Bridgeport Machines' building.

Police Blotter for Aug. 19: $2,800 Worth of Bras Stolen from Victoria's Secret (Fairfield Patch)

Police said the bras had been in a front display case and that employees reported an unidentified man with a large shopping bag in the store before the bras were stolen.

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Amtrak service restored in Connecticut (KXMB-TV Bismarck)

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Train Service Resumes On Metro North, Amtrak (WTIC-TV Hartford)

Metro-North and Amtrak rail services have been restored in southwestern Connecticut but delays are being reported after an Amtrak train got entangled in overhead wires and forced the shutdown of all tracks near Bridgeport.

School Chiefs Urged To Update Crisis Plans (The Hartford Courant)

Pointing to tornadoes that have touched down in Bridgeport and Wethersfield as well as the Manchester shooting rampage earlier this month, the state's public safety commissioner Wednesday urged school superintendents to update their disaster plans and hold school crisis drills.

School Enrollment Projected to Decrease by 21- to 31-Percent in a Decade (Newtown Patch)

School enrollment can be expected to decrease by about 21- to 31-percent in the next decade depending on what projection approach is used, a consultant told the Board of Education Tuesday night at the Municipal Center.