(Bob Luckey Jr./Greenwich Time photo)
America's Cup boat docks at Delamar
For Ben Millard, 17, the opportunity to sail an historic 12-meter yacht is a once-in-a-lifetime event.
"This is a dream come true," he said.
Millard, a competitive sailor since the age of 7, is spending the summer as an intern aboard the America II US 42, a 70-foot America's Cup yacht that recently docked at the Delamar Hotel in Greenwich Harbor.
The historic vessel helped the United States regain the sport's most prestigious honor, the America's Cup trophy, from Australiain 1987, after losing it in 1983, according Patrick Sikorski, trustee of the 12m Yacht Development Foundation, a Greenwich-based nonprofit group dedicated to the acquisition, restoration and preservation of these boats.
"It's a national historic treasure," he said...
STAMFORD - Four Greenwich teenagers were arrested early yesterday after officers found two stolen flat-screen televisions in two cars, city police said.
The Transportation Association of Greenwich has barely made it through the past six months.
Splashing slowly through Greenwich Harbor, Sound Beach volunteer firefighters yesterday took turns checking out a luminous red, blue and yellow image of the seabed of the channel on-screen.
TRUMBULL - Greenwich's 13-year-old Babe Ruth team moved to within one win of capturing the state title and moving on to the regional tournament with an impressive 7-0 win over Newtown under the lights at Unity Field on Tuesday night.
There's at least one pretty obvious conclusion we can draw from the bit of good news announced by Gov.
The Board of Education has whittled down its options from six to three this week, as it races to find the most viable contingency plan if the Hamilton Avenue School reconstruction project doesn't finish on time.
School officials confirmed yesterday that they were giving strongest consideration to two options that would place uprooted students into temporary modular units and Glenville School...
....school officials are considering shifting Hamilton Avenue students to Glenville School, while Glenville students would take the temporary modulars from which Hamilton Avenue students were evacuated last school year after mold was discovered in the ceiling panels....
Please see related Greenwich Roundup articles:
07/02/08 The Greenwich BOE Is A Total Mess !!!
07/08/08 - Hamilton Avenue Project Manager Gerard Adam,"Let's not keep repeating the same mistakes
07/09/08 Surprise!!! - "A lot of it wasn't ready," Town Building Official Bill Marr said, "Most of these areas will need a re-inspection."
07/09/08 Reader Submitted Comments About Glenville School -
07/10/08 You Wont See This In The Greenwich Time - Failed Board Of Education Gives Our Children Facilities Like This - Glenville School Pics
07/10/08 Parents are sending e-mails and letters. They are organizing and trying to get community leaders to stop the failed Board Of Educations latest plan.
07/11/08 Reader Submitted Comments - The BOE Needs To Be More Transparent - They Should Either Confirm Or Deny The Hamilton Avenue School Rumors
Dear Members of the Board, etc.
There is a very solid rumor circulating that under current consideration is moving Hamilton Avenue School students to the Glenville School and moving Glenville School students to the modulars because the construction will not be complete on the new Hamilton Avenue School building.
To remind everyone,
Glenville School has been found to be educationally unsound with poor air quality by TWO Boards of Education and TWO superintendents;
At a meeting of the current Board of Education, this option was removed from the list of options devised by the "facilities" committee that was formed to look into options;
At a meeting of the Board of Education, a member stated that it would be unfair to have Glenville staff move more than once in a given year, yet for the second year in a row, it is again an "option" for Hamilton Avenue Staff.
This Board needs to listen to the community, in total, not just those that will agree with them. There are many parents of Hamilton Avenue students that DO NOT AGREE with this option.
Not only is Glenville School educationally unsound, it has leaked, unchecked, for years, thereby a virtual petri dish for mold. Our children and staff and parents have had to contend with mold for far too long. It is criminal to expect them to do so yet again.
Put more effort into getting our new school completed and Glenville construction started. Do WHATEVER it takes to get this done, but DO NOT put our children in a building that has been deemed educationally unsound.
Laura J. DiBella
06/05/08 Are Hamilton Avenue School Parents Getting Screwed By The Greenwich Board Of Education
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