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Karen Tensa

Managing Editor, Connecticut

ktensa@dailyvoice.com

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Karen has lived and worked in Connecticut for more than two decades. Her professional experience includes more than a decade of work as the news editor at The Advocate in Stamford and reporting and editing stints on the staff of The Hartford Courant, among others. She is dedicated to writing local news, enjoying winter sports and reading nonfiction books.

Karen was formerly a managing editor at Daily Voice.

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Obituaries

Services Set For Saul Haffner, 87, Westport Resident And SHU Professor WESTPORT, Conn. — Services have been set for Saul Haffner, a longtime Westport resident and SHU professor, who died Monday after a brief illness. He was 87. His family said Saul Haffner was a "professor, photographer, lifetime learner and mensch." Haffner was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., to Anna and Irving Haffner. He received a bachelor of science in physics from Brooklyn Polytechnic University in 1952 and an MBA from Hofstra University in 1960. He served in the U.S. Army from 1954 to 1956, working at Picatinny Arsenal, the New Jersey research and development center. For over 20 ye…

by Daily Voice

11/29/2017

Sports

Check The Score: High School Football Quarterfinals Kick Off In Connecticut FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Conn. — The 2017 statewide football championships are underway, with a number of Fairfield County high schools taking part in quarterfinal games on Tuesday night. Here are the scores from local games, as reported by the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference. CLASS LL Top-ranked Greenwich beat No. 8 Fairfield Prep, 27-6, at home. Greenwich will next play at 12:30 p.m. Dec. 3 against No. 4 South Windsor. In another game, No. 3 Darien easily topped No. 6 East Hartford, 30-10. This was a return to wining form for Darien, which was upset on Thanksgiving by rival…

by Daily Voice

11/29/2017

Police & Fire

Shelton Firefighters Knock Down Blaze At Hotel SHELTON, Conn. — A three-story hotel in Shelton was briefly evacuated Tuesday night as firefighters knocked down a small fire on an outside wall, according to the Valley Independent Sentinel. No injuries were reported in the 9 p.m. blaze at the Extended Stay America hotel at 945 Bridgeport Ave., the Valley Independent Sentinel said. The guests were allowed to return to their rooms at about 9:45 p.m. after smoke was cleared from the interior of the hotel, the Valley Independent Sentinel said. The cause of the fire was under invesigation. Click here for the story at the Valley Independent…

by Daily Voice

11/29/2017

Police & Fire

Do You Know Him? Milford Police Looking To ID Suspect In Theft At Sock Hop MILFORD, Conn. — Milford police are asking for the public's help in identifying the suspect who broke into the office at the Sock Hop Laundromat and stole a computer. The incident occurred at about 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 23, at the Sock Hop Laundromat, located at 548 Naugatuck Ave., Milford, during regular business hours. The suspect forced open the office door and stole a computer monitor and a tool box with miscellaneous tools inside, police said. The Milford Police Department is looking to identify this suspect. Anyone who has information on the identity of this suspect is asked to cont…

by Daily Voice

11/28/2017

Traffic

Parking Alert Issued For Darien Vs. East Hartford Football Game Tonight DARIEN, Conn. — Big crowds are expected at the Tuesday night football game at Darien High, as the Blue Wave take on East Hartford in the state Class LL quarterfinal. The Darien Police Department issue a traffic advisory, warning that it will enforce all traffic regulations and monitor security for the game, which will be played under the lights at Darien High. Kickoff is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. for the Blue Wave, who are top-ranked in the state but only No. 3 in the tournament. East Hartford is ranked No. 6. All traffic must enter the DHS campus from Noroton Avenue, police said. High Sch…

by Daily Voice

11/28/2017

Police & Fire

Firefighters Respond To Structure Fire In Greenwich GREENWICH, Conn — Units from the Greenwich Fire Department were operating at a structure fire on Parsonage Road on Tuesday afternoon, according to a Tweet from the department. Firefighters were on the scene of the blaze, which broke out at about 12: 30 p.m. Tuesday. No further details were available.

by Daily Voice

11/28/2017

News

Staples Graduate Scores 2 Grammy Nods For 'Dear Evan Hansen' & 'La La Land' WESTPORT, Conn. — It's been a big year already for Staples High School grad Justin Paul and his writing partner, Benj Pasek. The two were nominated Tuesday for two Grammy Awards: Best Musical Theater album for the Broadway smash hit "Dear Evan Hansen." Best Song Written For Visual Media for the song "City of Stars" from the soundtrack of the Oscar-winning movie "La La Land." Other nominees for Best Musical Theater Album are "Come From Away" and "Hello, Dolly!" In the category of Best Song Written For Visual Media, the other nominees…

by Daily Voice

11/28/2017

Police & Fire

Stamford Police Hand Out TIckets In 'Click It' Campaign STAMFORD, Conn. — For a week, the Stamford police took part in the Click It or Ticket campaign to promote seat belt usage. Officers increased enforcement and set up short daily checkpoints of vehicles. On the last day of the campaign, Monday, Nov. 27, Stamford officers had a checkpoint in the morning at East Main Street and Courtland Avenue. There, they handed out 14 failure to wear seatbelt tickets, four distracted driving (cellphone) tickets, two operating under suspension tickets and one operating without a driver's license ticket. In the afternoon, officers set up at Atlantic Street…

by Daily Voice

11/28/2017

News

Woman Who Tried To 'Sting' The Washington Post Lives In Stamford A woman who was the face of a botched effort to apparently discredit The Washington Post by lying to a reporter is from Stamford and appears to work with a Westchester group that targets the media and left-leaning groups through undercover operations. In a lengthy story posted online, The Washington Post detailed the fake story fed to them by Jaime T. Phillips, 41. She met with Post reporters over the course of two weeks in off-the-record interviews. Phillips told them that Republican U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore of Alabama impregnated her back in 1992 when she was a teenager and that s…

by Daily Voice

11/28/2017

Politics

GOP Lawmaker Offers A Tour Of Norwalk To Exec From 'American Housewife' NORWALK, Conn. — State Rep. Fred Wilms is offering to give the president of the ABC Entertainment Group a tour of his hometown of Norwalk to persuade her to "stop making demeaning remarks about Norwalk" on the television show "American Housewife." In a letter to top network exec Channing Dungey, the Republican lawmaker, "It saddens me that your program, 'American Housewife,' pejoratively references students in my hometown of Norwalk." Momentum against the show has been building in Norwalk after lifelong resident Andy Ross launched a petition drive that calls on…

by Daily Voice

11/28/2017

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