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Carolyn Mueller

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cmueller@dailyvoice.com

A writer and reporter from Fairfield County, Carolyn Mueller has a bachelor's degree from Fairfield University. She loves local news and live music.

Carolyn was formerly a reporter at Daily Voice.

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Neighbors

Trumbull Girl Puts Health Message To Music By Co-Writing 'Boob Song' TRUMBULL, Conn. – Two Connecticut high school girls found a fun and memorable way to communicate a serious message for Breast Cancer Awareness Month with their music video called “The Boob Song.” The students at Lauralton Hall in Milford sing, “God gave you these gifts, you should give them a test, to make sure they remain at their very best, because you’re blessed to have breasts.” Elizabeth Garfield of Milford and Milly Koch of Trumbull are both 15. “We wanted the song and video to be funny so that kids would be interested and pay attention,” said Koch. “We certainly got a lot of atte…

by Carolyn Mueller

10/27/2016

Neighbors

Blumenthal Honors 94-Year-Old Veteran Who Took Part In D-Day NORWALK, Conn. — It was not what 94-year-old John Boboc expected when he arrived at the AAA Northeast Senior Policy Summit at the Norwalk Inn & Conference Center on Wednesday morning. Boboc regularly attends AAA defensive driver training courses to keep up with the latest technology and to qualify for a discount on his car insurance. Knowing of his interests, Fran Mayko of AAA Northeast invited Boboc to the conference. And when U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a member of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, took to the podium to give the opening remarks, Boboc didn't realize that …

by Carolyn Mueller

10/27/2016

Lifestyle

Parade Of Pups Lines Up As Danbury Officially Opens New Bark Park DANBURY, Conn. — With his beloved pup Ellie as his side, Mayor Mark Boughton kicked off the ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday for Danbury's new dog park with a few puns. "You've barked at me for years about getting a dog park," Boughton said. "I'm glad I can finally shed the complaints about Danbury not having one now." He welcomed a crowd of canines and their people to the official opening of the dog park on Miry Brook Road and noted it is the largest one in Western Connecticut that is fully enclosed. Although Southbury has a large dog park, it has a river as one of its …

by Carolyn Mueller

10/24/2016

Business

Bethel Couple Puts Laser Focus On New Chocolate Business BETHEL, Conn. — For Michael Sauvageau, a day's work is child's play. And he aims to keep it that way at Noteworthy Chocolates, a new venture he and his wife, Jennifer, have brought to 213 Greenwood Ave., just upstairs from Molten Java. The Sauvageaus already have experience with making work about play, from the 15 years that they ran Tryout Toys Entertainment. Michael said they spent a lot of time on the road with that business. "We were all over the country in a bus," he said. "Jennifer and I like to keep life interesting, on our own terms." Michael grew up in Danbury…

by Carolyn Mueller

10/24/2016

Neighbors

Norwalk Radiology Helps Warm Shelter Residents With Coat Drive NORWALK, Conn. — Kelly Turnage and Jessica Solano wrestled five bags of donated coats through the entrance of The Open Door Shelter in Norwalk on Friday morning. The women, who work at Norwalk Radiology, came up with the idea of holding a coat drive after a food drive last year. "We started a quarterly newsletter, and were looking for content to put in it," Turnage said. "Last year, we had a food drive." "All these ideas started coming up," Solano said. They considered several philanthropic projects before settling on a coat drive. One Warm Coat provided the…

by Carolyn Mueller

10/23/2016

Neighbors

'Sketch And Release' Adds Under-The-Sea Fun At Norwalk's Maritime Aquarium NORWALK, Conn. — Young and young-at-heart visitors to the Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk are unleashing their creativity on a 9-by-32-foot video wall that shows 50 sea creatures swimming around an animated 3D shipwreck. Kiosks in front of the new Sketch and Release interactive board allow users to choose a digital animal — either a seal, shark, squid, bass, flounder or sea turtle — and color it as they like. Once they're done coloring, they can name their creature and send it off to swim with the rest of the animals gliding past the wreck of the "Long Island Lucy." They also can se…

by Carolyn Mueller

10/23/2016

Lifestyle

Alex Prud'homme Cooks Up Tales About Julia Child With New Bio In Westport WESTPORT, Conn. — Alex Prud'homme spent about an hour tantalizing fans of his great aunt, Julia Child, with tales of her later years during an author talk held at Westport Library on Wednesday night. His latest book, "The French Chef in America: Julia Child's Second Act," is a biography of Child's life after the publication of her masterpiece: "Mastering the Art of French Cooking." It has been referred to as a sort of sequel to the memoir Prud'homme co-authored with Child, "My Life in France," which provided inspiration for the 2009 movie, "Julie and Julia.…

by Carolyn Mueller

10/21/2016

News

Manresa Association Hits Halfway Point To Fund Study Of Plant's Future NORWALK, Conn. – The Manresa Association has taken a big step toward finding a new use for the dormant NRG power plant that looms over Norwalk Harbor — but it needs a bit more money. The community organization has raised over half of the funds needed to co-fund a $150,000 economic impact analysis of the property. Mayor Harry Rilling has agreed to provide matching funds from the City of Norwalk. “The metrics provided by the economic impact analysis will be used to apprise the public and city officials of the financial, social and economic implications of the various possible uses for this la…

by Carolyn Mueller

10/21/2016

Politics

Westport Voters Take Up The Debate At Clinton-Trump Viewing Party WESTPORT, Conn. — For the third presidential debate, Westport voters had a chance to get in on the act and have their say on the candidates as they met up at a viewing party Wednesday evening. After the contentious televised debate, author and journalist Eric Burns moderated a discussion at the event, sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Westport and the Westport Library. "As you know, several people left during the debate," Burns said of those who left the library early. "I guess that was their way of casting a vote." Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hill…

by Carolyn Mueller

10/20/2016

News

Pitch Your Peers Takes It To A Vote To Help A Greenwich Nonprofit GREENWICH, Conn. — Although the fate of the nation isn’t hanging on this vote, the 30 women of Pitch Your Peers in Greenwich now have a difficult choice to make. They were recently presented with four compelling cases and must now select only one nonprofit organization to receive the $30,000 grant they have funded. But no matter which organization wins this vote, the end result will be good. The women gathered in the Fellowship Hall of First Presbyterian Church for PYP’s first-ever Pitch Night recently. The $1,000 dues paid by each member in the first quarter of 2016 make up the $30,000 g…

by Carolyn Mueller

10/19/2016

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