Update 2/4/10:  Change in date to Saturday, March 27 at 11 AM

Following four successful years, BlackRock Rocks will present their biggest Mardi Gras event to date, featuring, from New Orleans, Delfeayo Marsalis.  BlackRock Rocks Mardi Gras will take place from 2:30 pm until last call on Saturday, February 13 at three venues in the heart of Black Rock: Acoustic Café, Black Rock Tavern and Lady Luck. The event will benefit Marsalis’ Uptown Music Theatre & Swinging with the Cool School, a New Orleans children’s program whose mission is to “promote comm

Stop & Shop donates money to local public and private schools based on dollars spent by shoppers and schools registered under its A+ plan.

Families For Excellence, Black Rock Home School coordinators, neighbors, and I are advocating for Black Rock School (public, ID# 06755) and St. Ann's (private, ID# 07518).  You can choose up to three schools.

You do not need to have children in school to participate.

Two ways to register:

The Black Rock Community Council is sponsoring Black Rock Day on Sunday, June 13.  There will be a Road Race at 9 AM followed by a Parade at noon and a Festival right after the noon parade.  More details will be announced later.  For more information contact the Black Rock Community Council (click on their name on the Blogroll on the left sidebar).

Ash Creek has become a designated water trail in the Connecticut Water Trails program.  For more information visit their website at www.connecticutwatertrails.com

ConsumerReports.org — the largest paid-publication subscription-based website in the world — is available at no charge to Bridgeport Public Library Card holders from EBSCO Publishing.

Job Search on the Internet is a tedious, time consuming and often a frustrating experience. SkillPROOF Inc., a leading job market research firm presents a streamlined, yet enhanced job search process that saves time while significantly improving the search experience. This job search process has three parts all of which will be discussed on Tuesday, February 9 from 5:30 PM  to 7 PM.  Please see attached flyer for more details.

Black Rock Branch Library

At the January 25th Black Rock NRZ meeting, the Black Rock Garden Club revealed plans to create outdoor reading areas in gardens behind the Black Rock Library.  Still in the design stage and in need of funding, the concept consists of ecologically friendly pavers flanked by a bamboo fence to screen off the chain link fence, a Shakespeare garden with boxwood hedges, a Garden Reading Room with golden privet and European hornbeams, and a second Garden Reading Room with emerald green arborvitae hedges.  There will also be hydranga bushes and ot