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Sandra Diamond Fox

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sfox@dailyvoice.com

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Sandra Diamond Fox has been a journalist since 2005, working for The News-Times and The Redding Pilot prior to coming to the Daily Voice. She has a bachelor's degree in English from Stony Brook University and a Master's degree in publishing from Pace University. She married with four teenage children and is a competitive runner and avid exerciser.

Sandra was formerly a reporter at Daily Voice.

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Sports
Westport Police Athletic League Adds Rugby For New Season, Stages Clinic Westport Police Athletic League Adds Rugby For New Season, Stages Clinic
Westport Police Athletic League Adds Rugby For New Season, Stages Clinic WESTPORT, Conn. -- The Westport Police Athletic League (P.A.L.) added rugby as a new youth sport this month and hosted its first ever Youth Rugby Clinic at P.J. Romano Field. Thirty three boys in grades 5-8 participated in drills led by the Staples High School staff and team as well as the Fairfield Rugby Club.  The Westport PAL is a nonprofit youth organization run by both active and retired police officers, and volunteers from the community. For more information on the Westport Police Athletic League, click here.

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Schools
Seniors At Sacred Heart Greenwich Honored For Primate Research At Bronx Zoo Seniors At Sacred Heart Greenwich Honored For Primate Research At Bronx Zoo
Seniors At Sacred Heart Greenwich Honored For Primate Research At Bronx Zoo GREENWICH, Conn. -- Two Sacred Heart Greenwich seniors -- one from Greenwich and the other from Rye -- were honored for their inspirational scientific research into primates at the Bronx Zoo. Seniors Kelly Heinzerling of Greenwich and Grace Passannante of Rye were recognized as this year’s winners of the Acorda Scientific Excellence Award at a recent ceremony held at the office of Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino in White Plains, N.Y. The students plan to continue their research after they graduate and head to college. Kelly will attend the University of Pennsylvania and Grace will…

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Neighbors
Sports Medicine Specialist Joins Staff At Danbury Orthopedics Sports Medicine Specialist Joins Staff At Danbury Orthopedics
Sports Medicine Specialist Joins Staff At Danbury Orthopedics DANBURY, Conn. -- J. Albert Diaz, M.D., has joined the practice of Danbury Orthopedics.A specialist in the field of sports medicine, minimally invasive arthroscopic shoulder and knee surgery, Diaz completed his orthopedic residency training at The Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City and his sports medicine fellowship at the Minneapolis Sports Medicine Center, where he served as assistant team physician to the NFL's Minnesota Vikings and NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves.  He attended Dartmouth College and the Tulane University School of Medicine and currently serves as team physician fo…

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Neighbors
Darien Art Center Play Receives 5 Nominations For On Stage Critics Awards Darien Art Center Play Receives 5 Nominations For On Stage Critics Awards
Darien Art Center Play Receives 5 Nominations For On Stage Critics Awards DARIEN, Conn. -- The Darien Art Center Stage production of "You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown," the community theatre group of the Darien Arts Center, has received five nominations for the 2016 On Stage Critics Awards. They include Outstanding Musical, Outstanding Principal Cast in a Musical (Matthew Casey, Jenifer Condon, Chris Meindl, Billy Shubeck, Ben Noam Yakir and Melinda Zupaniotis,), Outstanding Director of a Musical (Peter Green), Outstanding Actor in a Musical (Billy Shubeck), and Outstanding Music Direction (Dwayne Condon).  The public may vote for their choices until Jun…

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Events
Danbury Music Centre Celebrates 80 Years With POPs Concert Danbury Music Centre Celebrates 80 Years With POPs Concert
Danbury Music Centre Celebrates 80 Years With POPs Concert DANBURY, Conn. -- The Danbury Music Centre is celebrating 80 years with a POPs concert on June 18 at CityCenter Green in Danbury, beginning at 4 p.m.There will be performances by the Danbury Preparatory Symphony Orchestra, DMC Madrigals, DMC’s Big Band and the Danbury Symphony Orchestra, who will perform the POPs concert.  The event will start off with a string quartet performance at 4 p.m. and there will be an Alumni of the Summer Strings program at 4:30 p.m., along with the DMC Madrigal singers singing between both performances.  The DPSO will perform at 5:30 p.m., the Big Band at 6 p.m. …

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Shakespeare Troupe Returns To Stratford Library To Perform 'Richard II' Shakespeare Troupe Returns To Stratford Library To Perform 'Richard II'
Shakespeare Troupe Returns To Stratford Library To Perform 'Richard II' STRATFORD, Conn. -- The Hudson Shakespeare Company of New Jersey will perform "Richard II" -- the first of three fully-staged and costumed performances -- at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 25 at the Stratford Library.Performed outside in the library’s amphitheater, all three performances are free.  In "Richard II," Richard II rules his kingdom without any regard for his subjects except for those sycophants he personally chooses for his inner circle.  While Richard lords over his country with reckless abandon, the seeds of civil war are being sown as the recently banished Henry Bo…

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Neighbors
Greenwich Hospital Celebration Pays Tribute To Cancer Survivors Greenwich Hospital Celebration Pays Tribute To Cancer Survivors
Greenwich Hospital Celebration Pays Tribute To Cancer Survivors GREENWICH, Conn. -- Greenwich Hospital’s “Sailing into Survivorship” celebration brought together close to 130 former patients, volunteers and oncology staff to pay tribute to cancer survivors from throughout the area. “We are doing a much better job of treating cancer and turning cancer into a chronic illness,” said Norman Roth, president of Greenwich Hospital, noting that 15.5 million Americans are cancer survivors.  Barbara Ward, M.D., medical director of the Breast Center, presented the Greenwich Hospital Breast Center Award to the entire Radiation Oncology staff. “Not only do our patien…

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Schools
Wilton Students Graduate From Wooster School In Danbury Wilton Students Graduate From Wooster School In Danbury
Wilton Students Graduate From Wooster School In Danbury WILTON, Conn. -- Two Wilton students graduated from Wooster School in Danbury on Friday, June 10.Here are the Wooster graduates from Wilton: Kai Aronson, who received the Faculty Scholarship in recognition of superior academic achievement, leadership accomplishment, participation in school activities and community service Charles Corper These seniors join more than 3,000 alumni who have graduated since Wooster's founding in 1926. Wooster's commencement exercises for its graduating class of 2016 featured a number of speakers, and the awarding of prizes and diplomas. President of the Wooste…

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Events
Norwalk Library Features 'Whimsical' Art Work Of Mary Backer Norwalk Library Features 'Whimsical' Art Work Of Mary Backer
Norwalk Library Features 'Whimsical' Art Work Of Mary Backer NORWALK, Conn. -- The Norwalk Public Library is featuring the art work of Mary Backer for the rest of the month of June in the main reading area. There will be an artist’s reception at 3 p.m. Saturday, June 25. Backer characterizes her acrylic paintings as whimsical. She has learned to look at her environment with a different perspective, seeing landscapes in layers, with details never noticed before suddenly in the forefront.  “I’m more aware of the colors of a sunset, or the different shades of green in the grass, or the blue in the water, even the black of night is different now,” Backer…

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Lifestyle
Author To Give Talk On 'The Rules Of Love & Grammar' At Fairfield Bookstore Author To Give Talk On 'The Rules Of Love & Grammar' At Fairfield Bookstore
Author To Give Talk On 'The Rules Of Love & Grammar' At Fairfield Bookstore FAIRFIELD, Conn. -- Author Mary Simses will be at the downtown Fairfield University Bookstore to discuss her new novel, "The Rules of Love & Grammar," on Thursday, June 16, at 7 p.m.This event is free and open to the public.  The book is about a woman who finds love and closure, and rediscovers herself, when she returns to her roots. Copies of "The Rules of Love & Grammar" will be available for purchase and signing at the downtown bookstore event. Simses grew up in Connecticut and spent many years in New England working in magazine publishing and later as a corp…

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