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To celebrate National Night Out and help people beat the heat, the City of Derby says you can swim for free at Rock River Rapids from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday. 

Two community donors, Real Men Real Heroes and Skaer Veterinary clinic, are helping fund free swimming lessons at McAfee Pool this summer.

Win Great Prizes and Raise Money to Fund Cancer Research for Kids. Hundreds, possibly thousands of dragons will race the Lazy River at Rock River Rapids in Derby on Sunday August 8th! Each dragon will be individually numbered. Purchase your entries, and you will be randomly assigned a dragon.  If it wins, you win! First duck across the finish line wins $1000 cash! Prices vary from $10 for one dragon entry to as low as $5 each when you buy thirty. Entries may be purchased up until Midnight on Friday 8/6/2021. What are you waiting for? Go to the top of the page to purchase entries, event ticke...

Back in February, city staff in Derby started taking notice of the COVID-19 outbreak happening globally so that when it hit home in March they had a jumpstart preparing to overcome the obstacles presented in 2020. While Derby has not been alone in facing those obstacles, City Manager Kathy Sexton noted there have been elements of the pandemic the city has had to approach in a different way. “Just the sheer volume of information I think is something probably everybody is dealing with, but in government I think we probably see it with different eyes,” Sexton said. ‘We see not onl...