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Then-Norwalk Recreation and Parks Department Director Mike Mocciae, center, shows off the second floor of the Fodor Farm main house to Common Council Recreation, Parks and Cultural Affairs Committee members in 2016. (Archive photo) NORWALK, Conn. — It’s ridiculous to take credit for great things going on in Norwalk parks, developments that were years and even decades in the making, and then claim the Recreation and Parks Department was mismanaged before the latest director came in, Mike Mocciae said. Mocciae, speaking recently to NancyOnNorwalk from his retirement enclave in South Carolin...

Credit: Photo by: Helen Norman, Styling by: Rebecca Omweg Patricia had the refrigerator custom paneled in chalkboard—clever and hardworking! “The second I run out of Earl Grey tea, I write it down,” she says, “and there the grocery list is in my face.” The cabinetry color (gray with a slight brown wash) reads differently as the light changes throughout the day, ranging from light gray to green to sky blue. Source Guide Refrigerator: 36" French Door Freestanding Bottom Freezer; dacor.com. Cabinetry paint: cu...

Photos taken by John Flynn recently in Oyster Shell Park. (Contributed) NORWALK, Conn. — Dead fish collecting along Norwalk waters may be connected to climate change, a Save the Sound expert said.  “Basically, we had a gigantic number of Menhaden in Long Island Sound this fall.  One theory is that many of the fish missed a migration cue, which may have been due to warmer temperatures,” wrote Bill Lucey, Long Island Soundkeeper for the environmental watchdog organization. NancyOnNorwalk was alerted to the fish kill by South Norwalk resident John Flynn, who reported “rainbow slime” ...

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>> nothing like a louisiana oyster. they are great. >> it's impossible to imagine new orleans without all kinds of oysters on the menu. >> this is the grand isle shoreline protection oyster restoration project. >> around the world, oysters have declined 85%. it's the most imperil marine ecosystem in the world. >> the goal of the project is to install artificial oyster reefs along particularly vulnerable marsh shorelines. >> the structures of vertical oyster reef, a metal frame with bags filled with recycled oyster shell. >> baby oysters, it will settle on adult oysters and settling on shells. ...