Sharon Recreation and Youth will hold the 53rd annual Sharon on the Green Arts and Crafts Fair on Saturday, Aug. 4. This event features more than 80 artists and craftspersons from all of New England. The show runs rain or shine from 10am-5pm on the historic Sharon town green, at the corners of Routes 4 and 41. There is no admission to the show and food services are available. Please call 860-364-1400 for further information.

(Press Release)

The Foundation for Community Health in Sharon has appointed Dr. Eugene Chin to its Board of Directors.

Dr. Chin is currently the president of Sharon Emergency Medicine, the emergency physician group that staffs Sharon Hospital in Connecticut. He has been an emergency physician at Sharon Hospital since he moved to Salisbury with his wife and three children in 1999.  He served for eight years as the chief of emergency medicine and medical director of the Sharon Hospital Emergency Department and as the medical director for the local EMS squads that care for patients who live in the Sharon Hospital service area in New York and Connecticut. 

Before moving to Salisbury, Dr. Chin worked in the Emergency Department of the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage, Alaska.  He tries to return to Alaska annually to continue working part-time for the Indian Health Service.  His professional background also includes a strong interest and training in public health.  He was a public health practitioner and member of the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 1997-1999 serving in the Oregon State Health Department.

Dr. Chin completed his residency at Yale New Haven Hospital in 1994.  He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1991 and from Brown University in 1986 with an ScB in Engineering.