Take a tour of the Osborne Homestead in Derby

DERBY - My daughter Allegra and I enjoyed our visit to the beautifully decorated Osborne Homestead Museum last Friday when it opened for tours for the season.

As is tradition, area garden clubs decorated the house, which was the lifelong home of Frances Osborne Kellogg. 
This year the decorations followed the theme of "Holiday at the Symphony." 

Members of the Derby Garden Society, Garden Club of Orange, Long Hill Garden Club, Naugatuck Garden Club, Olde Ripton Garden Club of Shelton, Oxford Garden Club, Pomperaug Valley Garden Club of Woodbury, Roxbury/Bridgewater Garden Club, Women Redefining Retirement, and Ye Olde Kellogg Garden Club brought the musical theme to life.

Kellogg, a businesswoman, civic leader, conservationist, and philanthropist, died in 1956 at age 80. 

The house at 500 Hawthorne Ave. is operated by the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.

Holiday hours are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays through Dec. 20.

Holiday Twilight Tours will be held Fridays from 4-6:30 p.m. on Dec. 5 (tomorrow), 12, and 19.

Admission is free; donations are gratefully accepted.

Please enjoy the slideshow my husband Ralph created using photos I took. 

Griffin Hospital in Derby names medical director, chief of surgery

Frederick Browne, M.D.

Richard Salzano, M.D.

DERBY - Griffin Hospital today announced the appointment of new medical staff leaders.

Dr. Frederick Browne of Oxford, was named Medical Director and Vice President of Medical Affairs, and Dr. Richard Salzano, of Guilford, was named chairman of the Department of Surgery.

Browne is a board certified internist and infectious disease specialist.

He is an experienced physician executive having served as Vice President of Medical Affairs at New Milford and South County hospitals.

Browne will also serve as President of the Griffin Faculty Practice Plan.
He replaces Dr. Kenneth V. Schwartz, who retired as the hospital medical director after 25 years of service, but continues to serve as chief of Cardiology and practices with Griffin Faculty Physicians.

In his role, Browne will manage and oversee credentialing of Griffin Hospital medical staff, lead the hospital's Medical Executive Committee and the Medical Performance Improvement Committee.

He will also staff and assist medical staff involved in programs and services offered by Griffin Hospital Health Services.

Dr. Salzano, a board-certified general and thoracic surgeon and member of Griffin Faculty Physicians with offices in Derby and New Haven, will oversee the hospital’s expanding Surgical Services Department.

Griffin Hospital offers a wide range of general and specialized surgeries, including thoracic and vascular, bariatric, breast, orthopedic, plastic, podiatric, neurosurgery and colon and rectal.



This is a press release from Griffin Hospital. 

Culture commission to sponsor Christmas concert in Seymour

Naugatuck Community Band to perform

* This information is taken from the Office of the Seymour First Selectman Facebook page. 

Church in Ansonia dedicates expanded food bank, clothes closet

Bishop also rededicates pulpit, lectern

Here's a link to my story in the Valley Independent Sentinel on the dedication of the food bank and clothes closet last week at Christ Episcopal Church in Ansonia. 

The Rt. Rev. Dr. Ian T. Douglas, Bishop Diocesan, The Episcopal Church in Connecticut, blesses Debbie's Closet last week in the basement of Christ Episcopal Church in Ansonia.

Clergy also rededicated the renovated and relocated pulpit and lectern. See photo below:

The Rt. Rev. Dr. Ian T. Douglas, Bishop Diocesan, The Episcopal Church in Connecticut, center, rededicates the pulpit and lectern in the sanctuary at Christ Episcopal Church in Ansonia Tuesday. With him are the Rev. Richard E. Beattie, priest, left, and Liturgical Assistant Fred Jenks, at right.

Nonprofit in Seymour to hold fundraiser at cinemas

Special screening of 'The Polar Express'