Billi Kid's sticker graffiti illustration of Sarah Palin is seen last week on the wall of the former Yale & Towne lock factory on Henry Street in Stamford.
(Chris Preovolos/Stamford Advocate photo)
Palin likeness appears on wallSTAMFORD - A tongue-in-cheek illustration of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin has popped up in, of all places, the South End.
It is a rare sighting of sticker graffiti, a form of street art that uses adhesive paper to print images or messages.
In Stamford, the drawing was stuck on the brick facade of the old Yale & Towne factory on Henry Street. It depicts Palin in a blue bikini and heels, muscled and grinning, saying, "Take That Billi Kid!"
Billi Kid is the artist's pseudonym. Last month, Blog Stamford linked to the Palin caricature and other samples of Billi Kid's work that have appeared in public spaces around the world. He also was featured in galleries and street art exhibits....
Elizabeth Migliore, 41, of 28 Sherman Ave., was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and threatening following vandalism of a motor vehicle on Sherman Avenue on Thursday night, police said.
The car's owner told police that he believed one of his tenants had scratched the right side of his car, police said. Police questioned Migliore, who denied vandalizing the car and yelled a threat to the car's owner, according to the report.
Migliore was placed under arrest and taken to police headquarters, police said. She was released on a $250 bond and is scheduled to appear in state Superior Court in Stamford on Nov. 14.
Big turnout expected Tuesday
NORWALK -Will Greenwich get swept up by the prevailing political winds of change or will it buck the trend and deliver for Republicans as it has so many times in the past?
The Rev. Lindsay Curtis, president of the Norwalk branch of the NAACP, said voters have enough time during regular polling hours, 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.
"I do think that there is some responsibility on the voter to be at the polls by 8 p.m.," Curtis said.
His said his concern is for voters who may be stuck in line outside a polling station.
"If they are in the lineup at 7:59:59, they should be allowed to vote, even if they only get to vote at 10 p.m.," Curtis said.
....Art Scialabba, chairman of Norwalk's Republican Town Committee, said he expects the system to run smoothly Tuesday, in part because there aren't as many people to vote for as there were in the 2007 municipal election.
"Last election, it was a much larger ballot. We were voting for mayor and school board; it was two pages long," Scialabba said. "Tuesday, you have to choose five names and answer two questions. It will only take a second to insert (the ballot) and then you are out the door."
Gail Wall, chairwoman of Norwalk's Democratic Town Committee, said Bysiewicz has been preparing for a large turnout.
"She has been working very hard for the last few months to make sure everything will work well," Wall said.
Former critics now praise state voter systemKaren Lyons has not been the biggest booster of Connecticut's new centralized voter system, a database accessible to registrars statewide to help them prevent voter fraud.
Lyons, Norwalk's Republican registrar of voters, and her Democratic counterpart defied a requirement a few years ago to participate in the system, saying it was unreliable.
But the kinks have been worked out, Lyons said.
"They're smokin' now," she said.
It's the kind of response Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz, a Democrat, wants to hear.
Bysiewicz's office and the state Information Technology Department have been working for the past few months to upgrade the system.
Society hosts mineralogical show at Civic CenterMarley Cadigan, 10 and his brother Isaac Cadigan, 7, often spend hours digging for items like gold or crystal in their backyard.
Collecting pieces, whether it is from their backyard, outdoors, or at stores, has become a hobby that both have cultivated.
So attending the Stamford Mineralogical Society gems and minerals show ......
.....Hundreds of people came out for the two day event.
"It's a perfect time of year, right before the holidays to pick up some gifts," said Rye, N.Y. resident Kim Pollard, 29.
Steve Haire of Terrestrial Treasures, based out of Grand Junction, CO, uses a miniature jack hammer and miniature sand blaster to create his fossil sculptures, which ranged in price from $125 to $600. He had turtles and a pipefish as well as an ancient keichousaura lizard from China.
There were also several booths dedicated to jewelry, including necklaces, earrings, rings and bracelets made from jade and turquoise to peridot and crystal.
Terry Burtzlaff, of the New York based, Museum Style Bases, was selling rare pieces of minerals from all over the world, including a piece of blue azurite from Arizona, costing $125 and another piece that was crystallized, from Namibia which cost $450......
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