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	<description>Brian Koonz on life in Greater Danbury</description>
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		<title>Danbury&#8217;s ACE of hearts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Koonz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone, For 15 years, Joe Pepin taught with the best of them at Danbury High School. He made numbers meaningful for kids by subtracting the mystery from math. But something was missing, Pepin will tell you. He could feel it in his belly and his briefcase. Every day, after the last bell rang, Pepin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newtown man smiles through Lou Gehrig&#8217;s disease</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/takeonlife/2012/02/13/newtown-man-smiles-through-lou-gehrigs-disease/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Koonz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone, The irrepressible smile gets you the moment you walk into Bobby Murray’s room at Bethel Health Care. Not the fancy, high-tech wheelchair that resembles the flight deck of the Space Shuttle. Not the affable therapy tech stretching and kneading Murray’s arms and legs while she breaks down Super Bowl XLVI in her commemorative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Danbury students take a bite out of energy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Koonz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone, I never knew there was a vampire in my house until I met Tania Bonacci’s precocious fifth-graders Thursday at South Street School in Danbury. “It’s called ‘vampire energy,’ and it means you’re using electricity even if something is turned off,” Lauren Pudelka politely told the man with the pen and pad. “Even if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soul food: One layer at a time at Danbury church</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Koonz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone, Once a month, from September through May, the King Street United Church of Christ serves generous portions of homemade lasagna under its Danbury steeple. For the folks who share in this gift — some from outside the congregation, but most from within — the dinner is nothing short of soul food, the sort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The venerable &#8216;Judge&#8217; of Danbury</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Koonz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone, For some, Black History Month in Danbury consists of two words: Marian Anderson. But long before Anderson established herself as the best contralto in the world, the stirring vocalist who broke the color barrier at The Metropolitan Opera in 1955, there was Homer Peters, better known as Judge Peters to his 19th-century friends. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The true story of the Lauf brothers of Davis Street</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Koonz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone, It didn’t take long for the Lauf boys — Bill, Jack, Bob and Walt — to stake claim to one of the greatest dominions Danbury has ever known. From the moment the family moved into its two-story house at 14 Davis St. in 1924, the Lauf boys became the youthful proprietors of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A fresh start in downtown Danbury</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/takeonlife/2012/01/27/a-fresh-start-in-downtown-danbury-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Koonz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone, Don’t be fooled by the matrix of scaffolding in front of The Salvation Army thrift store on Main Street and the ghost-town appearance of the first floor. The Danbury landmark is still open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. But it’s hardly business as usual. The thrift store, in true Phoenix-like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old Twinkies never die, they just fade away</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/takeonlife/2012/01/19/old-twinkies-never-die-they-just-fade-away/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Koonz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone, It didn’t take very long, maybe a second or two, before Daniela Macia’s 10-year-old eyes spotted one of the brass rings of childhood in Danbury — a big red button to push with no waiting. I suppose it doesn’t get much better than that for a kid at Stew Leonard’s, the grocery store [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greater Danbury downtowns: Walk this way</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/takeonlife/2012/01/13/greater-danbury-downtowns-walk-this-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Koonz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone, When was the last time you parked your car and ran several errands at once? Last week? Last year? Never? And, for the record, a trip to the mall doesn’t count, at least not in this context. In some local downtowns — Ridgefield, Danbury, New Milford and Bethel, for example — it’s pretty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sonic boom or Sonic bust in Danbury?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/takeonlife/2012/01/12/sonic-boom-or-sonic-bust-in-danbury/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/takeonlife/2012/01/12/sonic-boom-or-sonic-bust-in-danbury/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Koonz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone, Editor&#8217;s Note: This column first appeared in the Dec. 30, 2011, print edition of The News-Times. If you’ve been craving a burger and a cherry limeade from a Sonic restaurant in Danbury, don’t expect to place your order anytime soon. At least not until the spring or summer, anyway. After nearly 18 months [...]]]></description>
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