That's the number of Fairfield residents -- one of the state's larger towns with total population over 56,000 -- who showed up for the Constituents' Concerns Day that First Selectman Ken Flatto hosted ...

FAIRFIELD -- The man who served as Fairfield's top elected official longer than anyone else in the last three decades is now a resident of Bridgeport. And he also will be making another career change.

Shmuel Flatto-Sharon, a former businessman who fled to Israel and joined the Knesset to escape a French jail sentence, died early Friday morning. He was 88. Flatto-Sharon had been hospitalized near ...