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Friday, April 18, 2008

04/18/08 - The Greenwich Roundup For Friday


Featured Greenwich News Reports:

Greenwich native to sing for pope
Greenwich Time

By Barbara A. Heins

Greenwich native Kelly Levesque has performed for all sorts of audiences in her singing career. The biggest audience she'll face will be ...

Out with the old: Storied mansions fall in Greenwich
Journal Record (subscription) - Oklahoma City,OK

by The Wall Street Journal

GREENWICH, Conn. (WSJ) – Col. Raynal Bolling, an architect of American air power in World War I, died of a German bullet in 1918. ...

The NY Tax Proposal: Pushing More Hedgies to Greenwich?
Wall Street Journal Blogs - New York,NY

But New York already has some of the highest tax rates in the country for private-sector businesses–one reason many hedge funds call Greenwich and other ...

Russian Billionaire Valery Kogan Outrages Greenwich, CT With ...
Huffington Post - New York,NY

Greenwich, CT is in an uproar over a mysterious Russian billionaire's proposal to buy an $18M home, tear it down, and build what would be the biggest home ...

Fed no-show at Greenwich meeting fuels fight against FAA
Greenwich Post

Christopher Shays of District 4, which includes Greenwich. He said he supports it 100%. "We need to deal with this on all fronts. ...

Our Towns Hints of Fear in the Land of Mansions
New York Times - United States

By PETER APPLEBOME

Chris Fountain, a Greenwich real estate agent, in front of a house he helped to sell. First listed at $11.5 million, it finally went for ...

Cuts may trim pay for Greenwich teachers' aides
Greenwich Post

Educational assistants in Greenwich have declared an impasse in their contract negotiations with the Board of Education, which could affect the level of ...

Featured Greenwich Blog Posts

Fairfield Greenwich Group hires Graystone co-founder

David Horn joins the New York-based fund manager as chief global strategist.
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Protesters greet McCain during Greenwich visit


He hangs around with the hedge fund people here but he wont meet with the people who cant afford to live in Greenwich and have to live in the Bronx and cant afford to pay for the gas to drive here. ...
Michael Moore - This Just In - http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/

The Raw Greenwich News And Business Feed

  1. US carriers seek cash options

    Jane's Information Group

    ... of jet fuel they would be in big trouble right now," says Jeffrey Craine, managing director of Skyworks Capital in Greenwich, Connecticut. It is testament to their abilities that the US carriers have been able to restructure operations and deal with ...

  2. Hoop is Cool, But Golf Fits Me to a Tee

    Greenwich Citizen

    The following is the first in a new weekly feature of student-athlete diaries written by rotating high school athletes for the Greenwich Citizen.

  3. GTC Has Kids on the Run-

    Greenwich Citizen

    ... volleyball, football and soccer camps. So if running is your game, why not learn how from a young age? Enter the Greenwich Track Club (GTC). In its second season, GTC has introduced track training for children in grades 2-8. After two years, the GTC ...

  4. A Baby Daughter: Boundless Opportunities Await

    Greenwich Citizen

    ... Maybe even the roadmaps. But, as with all of them, it'll be her car to drive.

  5. Identity Systems to be acquired by Informatica

    WebWire

    Nokia and Informatica have signed an agreement for Informatica to acquire Identity Systems, headquartered in Greenwich, CT.

  6. Connecticut man killed in Westchester crash

    Mid-Hudson News

    ... all three lanes to the opposite side and struck a concrete wall, where it came to rest. Milo was transported to Greenwich, CT Hospital where he was pronounced dead. The cause of the accident is still under investigation....

  7. Protestors Criticize Sturgell's No-Show At Connecticut Meeting

    Aero-News Network

    ... those communities weren't as charitable. Sturgell was invited to be a guest at Monday night's meeting in Greenwich. It was in no way an FAA public hearing. Still, the Greenwich Post reports the perceived snub further inflamed area lawmakers ...

  8. Stone Point Capital: Philip V. Moyles, Jr. Becomes a Senior Advisor to Stone Point Capital

    Market Wire

    ... I am very excited to be working with them." Stone Point Capital LLC is a global private equity firm based in Greenwich, Connecticut. Stone Point Capital, the manager of the Trident Funds, has raised more than $10 billion in committed capital to make ...

  9. Osetra opens in SoNo

    Thehour.com

    ... the City" list. Nevins opened Osetra with his brother, Douglas, and father, Bruce. His father owns Wine Wise in Greenwich and Grand Harvest Wines in Manhattan. Doug also specializes in wines. The Nevins are from Ridgefield. "He's more of the ...

  10. Unemployment hits 4-year high

    The Boston Globe

    ... job losses, but not a big collapse in the economy," said Michael Darda, chief economist at MKM Partners in Greenwich, Conn. The Conference Board's gauge increased 0.1 percent, as forecast, after falling 0.3 percent in February, the New York-based ...


More News Links From The Greenwich Citizen:


Showing he's not "joined at the hip" to President George W. Bush, as his Democratic opponent for Congress, Jim Himes, claims, U.
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Energized citizenry and elected officials gathered in Greenwich's Town Hall Monday night were palpable in their spoken witness to challenge the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) plan to reroute and increase air traffic - which would, they say, negatively affect their quality of life.
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First Selectman Peter Tesei and Town Planner Diane Fox reached celebrity status last Friday when a record-setting crowd attended a Chamber of Commerce luncheon to hear them speak.
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Mountain climber and former U.S. Army medic Greg Mortenson may not have reached his goal in 1993 to scale K2, the world's second-highest summit located in Pakistan's isolated Karakoram mountain range.
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It's been said that if the walls of our homes could talk they would tell the story of our lives.

Consider trees the walls of our community. Oh, if trees could talk, the stories they would tell.

The oak may speak of the sweet young couple that had their first kiss in secret under its foliage, or the fun that neighborhood children had playing on a tire swing strung from one of its limbs. The pine, with its numerous low-lying branches, would recall those climbing adventures that left hands with a sweet-smelling stickiness. And the maple, planted when your child was born, grew to be a part of the family, with its own special place in the yard. Naturally, the trees would also fondly recall the generations of birds, raccoons, squirrels and other animals that have called them home.

"Everyone has a tree story," said Denise Savageau, director of conservation for the Town of Greenwich....

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Instructional Assistants Key GHS Component

To the Editor:

Instructional assistants at Greenwich High School are absolutely vital to the high quality of education that the Greenwich system delivers....
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What is truth? - John 18:38 I'd be lying if I told you I had an answer to Pontius Pilate's poignant question of Jesus.
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More News Links From The Greenwich Post

New fines in town not considered garbage

People traveling through Greenwich to make the Holly Hill Resource Recovery Facility their personal dumping grounds for their trash will be looking at higher fines and increased enforcement if the Department of Public Works and Board of Estimate and Taxation (BET) have their way.

Apple gala helps education

Greenwich residents Bea and Peter Crumbine and Diana and Jim Higgins are among the members of the Red Apple committee helping to plan for this year’s Red Apple Awards Dinner at the Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk.

Cookies for sale

Greenwich Girl Scouts are selling cookies at Splash Car Wash at 625 West Putnam Ave. every Saturday this month. For information, call Caitlin Robinson at 324-5400, ext. 22.

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Drug policy group opposes tougher three-strikes law

A report released yesterday urged officials to invest in treating drug offenders and keeping the mentally ill out of prison, instead of adopting harsher measures in the wake of last year's Cheshire home invasion murders.
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HARTFORD -- More than a year ago, Gov. M. Jodi Rell -- who has pleaded ignorance to the rising costs of the New Haven Rail Yard project -- attended a ribbon-cutting event where a high-level transportation employee said the project's price tag had escalated to about $800 million.
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HARTFORD -- Gov. M. Jodi Rell said yesterday she has chosen a new commissioner of transportation. "I have made an offer to one of the candidates and am waiting to hear back," Rell said. Full Story

Legislators OK restrictions on teen drivers

HARTFORD -- The Senate approved regulations Wednesday intended to further restrict teenage drivers and hopefully prevent accidents.
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Mansion won't be saved, after all

An effort to turn a soon-to-be-demolished Belle Haven home into a nationally recognized historic house has fizzled.
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Senior Center officials are questioning whether a proposal to move them into the Havemeyer Building on Greenwich Avenue would be the right fit for the proposed multipurpose and expanded center.
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Beach-fee battle hits court

BRIDGEPORT -- With beach season approaching, a federal judge yesterday questioned lawyers for Greenwich and a Stamford bicyclist about whether the town's beach-access fees for nonresidents unlawfully restrict free-speech rights.
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Faced with the possible closing of a popular Old Greenwich hang out, a local comedian is rallying the community to save it.
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Pesticide ban has parks dept. eyeing options

The Department of Parks and Recreation is scrambling to come up with a plan to properly treat the town's athletic fields following a ban on pesticides instituted last week.
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There's a famous quote that says, "The end is only just the beginning" and this phrase has never rang truer than for Clay Blackiston.
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Roundup: CSH lacrosse wins big

As the seconds ticked by the goals mounted for the Convent of the Sacred Heart lacrosse team in its game against Rye Country Day School yesterday.
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With Chris Kono consistently throwing strikes and the lineup pounding out hits each inning, everything was in working order for the Brunswick School baseball team yesterday.
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