Middlesex Middle School hosted its first Quiz Bowl tournament called the Charter Oak Scholastic Open Sunday Jan. 29. The National Quiz Bowl questions range over the entire spectrum of middle school curriculum as well as special events, sports, and popular culture.

The music is probably the most difficult in the opera repertory, requiring an enormous orchestra and singers with both staying power and voices opulent enough to get through the orchestral curtain of sound. The only caveat is Robert LePage's enormous, heavy, very expensive set, which consists of a row of steel see-saws that bend, ascend and descend and eventually create illusions of scenery, mainly because of the stunning lighting designed by Etienne Boucher. Being able to occasionally hear the computer-generated beeps as the planks moved during the longish interludes, wasn't exactly intrusive, but, oh, never mind. The Rhinemaidens, yearning for the rightful return of their gold, slid around those steel planks and still managed to tease, cosset and try to con Siegfried into to giving them the cursed Ring on which the story turns. Running a gamut of emotion from passionate love to desperate rage, grief and finally, fiery triumph in her Immolation Scene, when she literally brings about, the end of all things from the gods on down. Both she and Morris paced these three acts expertly, partly due to the superb conducting and support of Fabio Luisi, but also by their own musicality, vocal intelligence and sounds.

A judge sentenced a 26-year-old Hartford woman to six years in prison Wednesday for a drunk-driving crash that killed a pregnant teenager and a truck driver last May on Interstate 95 in Darien. The fatal crash occurred around 6 a.m. on May 7 when Torres, a mother of four children, was driving back from an alcohol-fueled birthday celebration at a Manhattan nightclub when she hit a tractor-trailer, causing it to overturn and burst into flames. During the sentencing hearing, the prosecutor, Assistant State's Attorney David Applegate, argued for a prison sentence that was less than the eight-year maximum but more than the five-year minimum, according to the plea agreement. Ehring said his client accepted responsibility for the fatal crash right away and suffered several emotional episodes in the months following the accident that required medical attention.

A Stamford resident reported $450 in cash was stolen from his wallet Feb. 16 while he was at the Darien YMCA. The wallet was in a jacket which was placed in an unlocked locker at 5:30 p.m. He returned to the locker at 6:45 p.m. but didn't discover the cash was missing until he went to pay for an item at a supermarket, police said.

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The memorial program will feature music by soloist Crystal Colbert, accompanied by Chaplain Carol Bauer and flutist Karen Prescott, all of Norwalk Hospital. The department of spiritual care includes members of many faith traditions who minister across religious boundaries with all people.