Sharon

SHARON — While the name day care imparts a custodial mission, Sharon Day Care (SDC) also prides itself on being a very active learning center for its students.
It’s a place where the children’s curriculum is just as vital as it is in elementary or high schools. And a new one has just been put in place.
Roz Goldfarb, executive director of the day care, said, “One of the benefits of the new curriculum is it offers a great assessment program, which is critical in early childhood development.”

Women’s Support Services of Sharon held its annual candlelight vigil to end domestic violence Tuesday, Oct. 4, in Cornwall Bridge. Along with the reading of the names of victims of domestic violence, the Rev. Richard Taber of Salisbury said a special prayer for survivors and children. WSS held the event in recognition of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. It was attended by about 60 people. The office number for WSS is 860-364-1080; its 24-hour hotline is 860-364-1900.

Autumn is here and winter is coming — which means that many roadside postal boxes could soon be waylaid by heavy snow flying off the ends of snowplows. Their plainness is in no way indicative of the array of family letters, postcards, catalogs, packages, invoices, advertisers or greeting cards they may hold.

SHARON — “I wasn’t here in 1909 when Sharon Hospital was created,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal at last Thursday’s opening ceremony for the hospital’s new wound center (Sept. 29). “But I was here when the hospital almost closed, when it was struggling to stay open.”
Blumenthal was Connecticut’s attorney general in 2002, when the small rural facility converted from a nonprofit to a for-profit, under the ownership of Essent Healthcare in Nashville, Tenn.