Posted on: January 28, 2023
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, January 28, 2023, Norwalk Mayor Harry Rilling and Norwalk Police Chief James Walsh released a joint statement following the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols.
“Our hearts go out to the family and friends of Tyre Nichols, and th...
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Posted on: January 27, 2023
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, January 27, 2023, the City of Norwalk announced that it has teamed up with SimplifyCT and kicked off its annual no-cost, full-service AARP/VITA/IRS Volunteer Tax Assistance Program. Through IRS-certified volunteer...
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Posted on: January 23, 2023
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, January 23, 2023, Mayor Rilling congratulated Norwalk Police Chief James Walsh and Deputy Chief Terrence Blake on their new leadership appointments at this afternoon’s Norwalk Police Commission Meeting.  ...
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Posted on: January 19, 2023
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, January 19, 2023, the City of Norwalk and Norwalk Redevelopment Agency announced that the new Norwalk Business Development Center located at 3 Belden Avenue will be hosting a series of free professional development worksho...
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Posted on: January 9, 2023
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, January 9, 2023, the City’s Tax Assessor’s Department announced that Norwalk’s 2023 Revaluation Project will begin this week. A revaluation will determine the fair market value of every proper...
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Posted on: January 20, 2023
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, January 20, 2023, Mayor Rilling announced that the City has unlocked funding for the final phase of its COVID-19 Small Business Grant Program. Since the onset of the pandemic, the City has granted $520,000 to small businesses throu...
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Posted on: January 6, 2023
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, January 6, 2023, the City of Norwalk announced that there has been a date change to the 2023 Mayor's Ball and that it is now scheduled for Friday, April 21, 2023.
In November, Mayor Rilling announced that...
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Posted on: December 30, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, December 30, 2022, the City of Norwalk's Tax Collector's Office announced that residents’ regular second installment tax bills from the October 2021, Grand List were mailed out...
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Posted on: December 21, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, December 21, 2022, Mayor Rilling announced the appointment of Deputy Chief James Walsh to serve as Interim Chief of the Norwalk Police Department, effective immediately, following the retirement of Chief Thomas Kulhawik.
A...
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Posted on: December 21, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, December 21, 2022, Mayor Rilling announced that a winter storm is expected to bring a mix of conditions to the area beginning Thursday evening, December 22. The conditions could potentially impact the area ahead of the hol...
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Posted on: December 20, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, December 20, 2022, Mayor Rilling announced the retirement of Norwalk Police Chief Thomas E. Kulhawik after nearly 40 years of service to the Norwalk Police Department and ten years as Chief.
Chief Kulhawik was app...
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Posted on: December 13, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, December 13, Mayor Rilling announced that he is lifting the Water Emergency for the City of Norwalk, effective immediately. Mayor Rilling declared the Water Emergency on October 7, 2022, due to historically low levels of r...
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Posted on: December 13, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, December 13, Mayor Rilling thanked and acknowledged Governor Lamont and the Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) for awarding Norwalk with $2 million as part of their funding for the Brownfield Municipa...
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Posted on: December 8, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, December 8, 2022, Mayor Rilling was joined by Live Green CT, JuiceBar, Eversource, and federal, state and local leaders at Fodor Farm to Celebrate Norwalk’s First Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Station on City Pr...
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Posted on: November 10, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, November 10, 2022, Mayor Rilling announced that the City of Norwalk hired its first Embedded Clinician to work alongside the Police Department in partnership with the Recovery Network of Programs (RNP). T...
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Posted on: November 8, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, November 8, 2022, Mayor Rilling appointed Vanessa Nobre Valadares as the City of Norwalk's Chief of Operations and Public Works during the Common Council meeting.
"Vanessa has served and excelled in every posi...
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Posted on: November 3, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) – Today, November 3, 2022, federal, state, local and community leaders joined Mayor Rilling to celebrate the grand opening of the City of Norwalk's Business Development Center on 3 Belden Avenue. This week also...
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Posted on: November 2, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, November 2, 2022, Mayor Rilling announced that LaToya Fernandez joined Norwalk as the City's first Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Officer. November 1 was her first day with the City of Norwalk.
"As a City, we ar...
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Posted on: November 2, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, November 2, 2022, Mayor Rilling announced that LaToya Fernandez joined Norwalk as the City's first Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Officer. November 1 was her first day with the City of Norwalk.
"As a City, we ar...
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Posted on: October 28, 2022
(Norwalk, CT) – Mayor Rilling released the following statement regarding the importance of workforce development following today’s ribbon cutting ceremony for the Workforce Training Center. The Workforce Training Center is a vocational...
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Posted on: October 13, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, October 13, 2022, Governor Ned Lamont announced that he is directing U.S. and state flags in Connecticut lowered to half-staff in honor of two officers from the Bristol Police Department who were shot and killed in the lin...
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Posted on: October 12, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) – Today, October 12, 2022, Governor Ned Lamont announced that he approved $2 million in grant funding for the Pinnacle Transit-Oriented Development Infrastructure Project. The funding will be used primarily to repair si...
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Posted on: October 5, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, Mayor Rilling announced that he is declaring a Water Emergency for the City of Norwalk, effective Friday, October 7, 2022, at noon, due to ongoing drought conditions. This calendar year, Norwalk received historically low l...
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Posted on: September 19, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, September 19, 2022, the City of Norwalk announced that after more than 100 years since the adoption of its Charter, a comprehensive revision is underway, beginning this week.
In August, the Norwalk Common Council formally e...
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Posted on: August 26, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, August 26, 2022, Norwalk Mayor Harry Rilling announced the launch of the City’s first-ever Kiva Hub through its partnership with Kiva. Kiva is a global nonprofit organization that provi...
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Posted on: August 16, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, August 16, 2022, Norwalk Mayor Harry Rilling announced that the City of Norwalk received confirmation that all three major rating agencies, Moody's Investors Service, S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Rati...
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Posted on: August 5, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, August 5, 2022, Mayor Rilling announced that the City of Norwalk will transition from its Bi-weekly COVID Reports to a virtual COVID Data Hub format that is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
“We want to ...
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Posted on: August 2, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, August 2, 2022, Norwalk's Health Department shared critical preventive health care information and local resources to help mitigate the spread of monkeypox.
Monkeypox is a rare disease caused by infection ...
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Posted on: July 26, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, July 26, 2022, Mayor Rilling announced that he is directing flags in the City of Norwalk to be lowered to half-staff in honor of Mayor Bill Collins, who passed away on July 21 in an automobile accident in...
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Posted on: July 26, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, July 26, 2022, Norwalk's Fire Marshal's Office announced the outcome of the joint investigation of the Nelson Avenue house fire that occurred on May 14, 2022, and led to the tragic fatality of 7-year-old Summer Fa...
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Posted on: July 15, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, July 15, 2022, Mayor Rilling issued a Drought Advisory for the City of Norwalk in partnership with the First District Water Department and the South Norwalk Electric and Water Company (SNEW). This announcement follows Gove...
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Posted on: July 6, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, July 6, 2022, the City of Norwalk announced that residents will have until Monday, August 1, 2022, to pay their property tax bills and sewer use charges. Property tax bills include real estate, motor vehicles and business personal ...
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Posted on: July 1, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, July 1, 2022, Mayor Rilling announced that the Rowayton Avenue Bridge has been paved and reopened to two-way traffic just in time for the Fourth of July holiday weekend.
“Since Tropical Storm Elsa caused damage to the Rowa...
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Posted on: July 1, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, July 1, 2022, the City of Norwalk offers fireworks and grilling safety tips ahead of the Fourth of July holiday weekend. Fireworks can be dangerous and the City asks residents to please leave them to the professionals. The safest w...
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Posted on: June 24, 2022
"It is a sad moment for our nation and infuriating that the U.S. Supreme Court has moved to overturn Roe v. Wade, which has been the law of the land for nearly 50 years. In 1973, Roe granted women across our nation the right to make personal...
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Posted on: June 17, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, June 17, 2022, Mayor Rilling announced that the City of Norwalk recognizes Juneteenth as a holiday and will be closed on Monday, June 20, 2022, in its honor.
Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day or Eman...
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Posted on: June 1, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, June 1, 2022, is the official start of hurricane season and the City of Norwalk urges residents to get prepared now. The City announced several ways residents can prepare for unpredictable severe summer weather an...
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Posted on: June 1, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, May 31, 2022, the Norwalk Town Clerk’s Office announced that 2022 dog license renewals will be available beginning tomorrow, Wednesday, June 1, 2022. State law mandates that all dogs o...
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Posted on: May 26, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, May 26, 2022, the City of Norwalk announced several upcoming events to honor our veterans during and following Memorial Day Weekend. Beginning Monday, May 30 at 10:00 AM, Norwalk will host its annual Memo...
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Posted on: May 26, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, May 26, 2022, Mayor Rilling announced that after more than 40 years, students in the South Norwalk community will finally have a neighborhood school. The City, through friendly negotiation, has reached an agreement in principle to ...
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Posted on: May 16, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, Monday, May 16, 2022, Mayor Rilling announced the local nonprofit organization recipients selected to receive one-time grant funds from the Norwalk Community Recovery Fund Program. The City of Norwalk created this program...
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Posted on: May 12, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, May 12, 2022, Mayor Rilling issued a proclamation designating May as Mental Health Awareness Month in Norwalk. He was joined by Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff, Dr. Thomas McBryde, Norwalk Deputy Superintendent of Excellence, Equit...
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Posted on: May 5, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, Mayor Rilling announced that the City of Norwalk was selected as a 2022 Gold Level Certified Community in Best Practices in Economic Development & Land Use Planning on behalf of the Connecticut Economic Development Association ...
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Posted on: April 29, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) Today, April 29th, city and community leaders joined Principal Jane Wilkins and students of Naramake Elementary School to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of Arbor Day. Arbor Day is led by the Arbor Day Foundation, which ...
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Posted on: April 28, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) Yesterday, April 27th, the City of Norwalk announced the small business lottery winners for the first phase of the COVID-19 Small Business Assistance Program. The program allocates nearly $800,000 in grant funding of the City&...
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Posted on: April 18, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) – Today, April 18th, Mayor Rilling announced that its COVID-19 community testing location will move from Shady Beach to the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion lower parking lot (295 West Avenue) starting today. Testing at this si...
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Posted on: April 8, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) – Today, April 8th, the City of Norwalk announced that it's offering an added layer of security for property protection that Norwalk's Town Clerk, Richard McQuaid will manage. The service is free and w...
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Posted on: March 28, 2022
The Yard Waste Site, located at 15 South Smith Street, will be OPEN for the Spring, Summer, and Fall Seasons on Monday, March 28, 2022. The Site will be open on Saturday, April 2.
During the Season (April – December); the hours of opera...
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Posted on: March 22, 2022
(Norwalk, Conn.) – Today, March 22nd, Mayor Harry Rilling announced the completion of the comprehensive Efficiency Study of the City and Norwalk Public Schools that he and the Common Council initiated in February of 2020. Mayor Rilling&...
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