03/13/08 - Greenwich Newswire - Local News From The Greenwich Time

Rotarian Charlie Jensen, left, shakes hands with Stanley Wort of Greenwich, right. Wort spoke to the Greenwich Rotary Club at Polpo restaurant yesterday...
(Bob Luckey Jr./Staff photo)

Former POW says 'will to live' helped him survive experience

Surviving in a Japanese prison camp, overtaken by disease and malnutrition, Stanley Wort thought the only thing keeping him alive was his will to live.

Teachers may still get day care

A proposal for a child-care center for teachers, turned down by town budget officials last month, may have new life as a child-care center for all town employees, according to town officials.

Court asked to dismiss beach lawsuit

With a trial slated for next month, the town has asked a federal court to throw out a Stamford bicyclist's lawsuit, arguing he hasn't shown that Greenwich's beach-access fees for out-of-towners deprived him of his free-speech rights.

Ex-ambassador says focus must remain on Afghanistan, Iraq

A former ambassador to Afghanistan told World Affairs Forum members yesterday that stability could be achieved in Afghanistan and Iraq, but that would mean long-term commitment from the United States.

Blumenthal wonders if he knew Spitzer

While New York Gov. and ex-state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer was announcing his resignation yesterday, Connecticut's top litigator was on Capitol Hill taking on one of his former colleague's favorite targets -- Wall Street.

Committee passes 'blocking the box' bill

A Stamford-led bill that would make "blocking the box" a statewide infraction took a major step toward becoming law yesterday when the state legislature's Judiciary Committee passed it unanimously.

Cheshire victims' family wants three-strikes law

Legislators renewed debate yesterday over a so-called three strikes law after emotional testimony from the sister of the Cheshire doctor whose wife and three daughters were killed during a home invasion in July.

Police seek suspect in bank robbery

A man walked into the TD Banknorth branch on Post Road East yesterday afternoon, handed a teller a plastic bag and demanded cash before strolling away behind a neighboring office building, police said.

Crash kills GHS grad in Alabama

Stephen Catanzaro, a 2006 Greenwich High School graduate, died yesterday when he lost control of his car on an Alabama highway and crashed into a dump truck, police and family said.

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I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land . . .
- Harriet Tubman,
In "Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People," by Sarah H. Bradford, 1886.